About
Nina Heidenstrøm has a PhD in sociology, University of Oslo. She researches sustainable consumption and household preparedness. Common to the two topics is a focus on everyday life, social practices and embodied knowledge. She uses qualitative, ethnographic methods with a particular interest in how material culture can be used to understand the social world.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Consumption Energy use Sustainable consumption Emergency preparedness Matsvinn
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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REDUCE – Rethinking Everyday Plastics
The project will look at plastic in a systems perspective and investigate how the consumption of plastic products in everyday life can be reduced.
Completed research projects
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IMAGINE – Contested Futures of Sustainability
When you think about the future, what do you imagine? Flying cars, tubed food, or high-tech clothing might be among the images that come to mind. IMAGINE sets out to study these images of the future as imaginaries. Imaginaries are the many ways in which we humans think about the future and ways in which they can become possible. Our project looks specifically at how we imagine sustainable futures.
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LASTING: Sustainable prosperity through product durability
How can the lifespans of consumer goods be increased?
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Plateforms: Enabling sustainable food practices through socio-technical innovation
The Research Project PLATEFORMS aims to produce in-depth knowledge on how food practices in the home are affected by innovations in food provisioning platforms.
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Wasted Textiles
The primary objective of this project is to reduce the use of synthetic textiles and the amount that goes to waste.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Heidenstrøm, Nina
(2025).
Green marketing in the fashion industry: a critical analysis of sustainability narratives.
Consumption Markets & Culture.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2024.2440557
Austgulen, Marthe Hårvik
;
Bøyum, Live
; Nessel, Sebastian;
Heidenstrøm, Nina
(2024).
Exploring the nexus of consumer policy and environmental sustainability: A scoping review protocol.
OSF Preprints.
https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/c2vaz
Hebrok, Marie
;
Heidenstrøm, Nina
(2024).
Contested imaginaries of Preferable Food Futures: A Comparative Analysis of the Digital Food Provisioning Platforms ODA and REKO-ringen.
Jacobsen, Eivind; Strandbakken, Pål; Dulsrud, Arne; Skuland, Silje Elisabeth (Ed.).
Consumers and Consumption in Comparison (Volume 37). p. 215-229.
Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1108/S0195-6310
Heidenstrøm, Nina
;
Hebrok, Marie
(2021).
Towards realizing the sustainability potential within digital food provisioning platforms: The case of meal box schemes and online grocery shopping in Norway.
Sustainable Production and Consumption.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.06.030
Heidenstrøm, Nina
;
Hebrok, Marie
(2021).
Fridge studies – Rummage through the fridge to understand food waste.
Appetite.
Vol. 165.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105321
Heidenstrøm, Nina
(2021).
The utility of social practice theory in risk research.
Journal of Risk Research.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2021.1936608
Heidenstrøm, Nina
; Rhiger Hansen, Anders
(2020).
Embodied competences in preparedness for blackouts: Mixed methods insights from rural and urban Norwegian households.
Energy Research & Social Science.
Vol. 66:101498.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101498
Heidenstrøm, Nina
;
Throne-Holst, Harald
(2020).
“Someone will take care of it”. Households' understanding of their responsibility to prepare for and cope with electricity and ICT infrastructure breakdowns.
11 p.
Energy Policy.
Vol. 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111676
Hebrok, Marie
;
Heidenstrøm, Nina
(2019).
Contextualising food waste prevention - Decisive moments within everyday practices.
Journal of Cleaner Production.
Vol. 2010.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.141
Heidenstrøm, Nina
(2019).
Informal household preparedness. Methodological approaches to everyday practices.
Journal of Risk Research.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2019.1569106
