Emily Oswald

Postdoctoral Fellow - Institutt for pedagogikk
Image of Emily Oswald
Norwegian version of this page
Phone +47 22858111
Room 569
Available hours By appointment
Username
Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 7 Helga Engs hus 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1092 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Academic Interests

  • Participatory design, co-design and design-based research
  • Socio-scientific issues and sustainability
  • Interaction analysis
  • Sociocultural perspectives
  • Participation and digital cultural heritage in museums and archives

PhD Project

In 2021, I defended my doctoral dissertation, Pa-KOW! Doing Participatory Knowledge Work in Museums and Archives, conducted at the University of Oslo’s Department of Education. The project involved research-practice partnerships with Norwegian museums and archives.

I conducted empirical studies of digital technologies and interactions with publics, focusing on Facebook users and historical photographs at the Oslo Museum, citizen scientists and herbarium sheets at the Natural History Museum, and youth meme researchers at the Norwegian Folklore Archives.

Background

2023–present: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Education, University of Oslo

2021–2022: IDEA coordinator, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo

2016–2021: PhD fellow, Department of Education, University of Oslo

2010–2013: Master of Arts, History and Public History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2008–2010: Grant Writer, Facing History and Ourselves

2002–2006: Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, Loyola University Maryland

Tags: Design-based research, Museums, Participatory design

Publications

  • Oswald, Emily Christine; Esborg, Line & Pierroux, Palmyre (2022). Memes, youth and memory institutions. Information, Communication & Society. ISSN 1369-118X. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2131363. Full text in Research Archive
  • Oswald, Emily Christine (2020). Getting to Know Other Ways of Knowing: Boundary Experiences in Citizen Science. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. ISSN 2057-4991. 5(1), p. 1–15. doi: 10.5334/cstp.310. Full text in Research Archive
  • Oswald, Emily (2020). Remembering in Public: A Case Study of Museum-User Communication on Facebook. In Hetland, Per; Pierroux, Palmyre & Esborg, Line (Ed.), A History of Participation in Museums and Archives. Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities. Routledge. ISSN 9780367186715. p. 147–167.
  • Oswald, Emily (2006). Imagining Race: Illustrating the Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Book History. ISSN 1098-7371. 9, p. 213–233.

View all works in Cristin

  • Oswald, Emily; Esborg, Line & Pierroux, Palmyre (2023). Memes in memory institutions: Youth interests and literacies as encountered disruption in design-based cultural heritage work.
  • Oswald, Emily Christine & Pierroux, Palmyre (2020). Democratization in Cultural Heritage Research.
  • Oswald, Emily Christine (2020). Reciprocity in Citizen Science? Getting to Know Other Ways of Knowing.
  • Oswald, Emily Christine & Pierroux, Palmyre (2020). Memes and Critical Thinking: From cultural heritage research to classroom learning.
  • Oswald, Emily Christine (2019). Cat Memes and the Kardashians: Can Internet Culture Support Authentic Disciplinary Learning? .
  • Oswald, Emily Christine (2019). When “Camilla” remembers on Facebook, do we need consent to study her comment? Ethical considerations for research about heritage on social media.
  • Oswald, Emily & Pierroux, Palmyre (2019). Constructing Reciprocity and Negotiating Collaboration in Citizen Science Projects.
  • Oswald, Emily Christine (2018). ‘See where this is?’ A local history museum’s Facebook concept and the use of historical photographs for reminiscing on social media.
  • Oswald, Emily Christine (2017). Understanding Volunteers’ Interests in Virtual Citizen Science: Following a Collaboration between a Natural History Museum and a Local Botanical Organization.
  • Esborg, Line & Oswald, Emily (2017). New Voices in the Archive. Collaborating with Youth to Collect New Folklore Material.
  • Oswald, Emily; Svindseth, Christian; Løfall, Bjørn Petter; Endresen, Dag Terje Filip & Hetland, Per (2017). Citizen science dugnadsportal for Telemark Botanisk Forening.
  • Endresen, Dag Terje Filip; Oswald, Emily; Svindseth, Christian; Bjørn Petter, Løfall & Hetland, Per (2017). Citizen Science dugnadsportal for Telemark Botanisk Forening.
  • Oswald, Emily Christine (2016). Informal Learning and Cultural Heritage: How (Young) People Access and Make Sense of Museum and Archival Collections .

View all works in Cristin

Published Mar. 3, 2016 12:00 PM - Last modified Jan. 26, 2023 2:07 PM