About the project
The literature on the macro level changes within academia and higher education is extensive, and report about new responsibility conditions for academic institutions. There is however few empirical studies exploring what these new responsibility conditions actually mean for the inner life of academia. Literature on responsibility on the other hand, tend to take an individualized perspective, focusing on personal moral motivation and judgment. In this project I aim at bridging this gap between the macro level studies of changing knowledge landscapes and the person centered studies of responsibility. I do this by using the conceptual framework of epistemic living spaces, which brings together the institutional, the collective and the individual. The study can contribute to our understanding of what responsibility towards the public means for those living and working in academic institutions.
Category
Basic research
Financing
The Ethics Programme at the University of Oslo