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Nina Heidenstrøm

Nina Heidenstrøm

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

Sociology

Subject areas

Consumption   Energy use   Sustainable consumption   Emergency preparedness   Matsvinn

Research projects

Ongoing research projects

  • 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.

  • Wasted Textiles

    The primary objective of this project is to reduce the use of synthetic textiles and the amount that goes to waste.

Completed research projects

Scientific publications

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 (2024). Green marketing in the fashion industry: a critical analysis of sustainability narratives. Consumption Markets & Culture.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2024.2440557

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





These publications are obtained from Cristin. The list may be incomplete