Melania Borit
Job description
Professor of Knowledge Integration / Methodologies for Interdisciplinary Research
- Leader of the Research Group CRAFT - Knowledge Integration and Blue Futures.
- Coordinator: AFO-JIGG - Service design thinking to improve welfare and product quality in the Norwegian small-scale fishing fleet (NFR project number 302635).
- Coordinator: FUTURES4Fish - Adaptive socio-technological solutions for Norwegian fisheries and aquaculture (NFR project number 325814).
- Coordinator: PULLMATE - Prompt engineering for self-reflective use of Large Language Models as intelligent tutoring systems in higher educaton (Program for utdanningskvalitet PUK-UiT)
- Main Coordinator: Qual2Rule - Using Qualitative Data to Inform Behavioural Rules in Agent-Based Modelling (Special Interest Group @ European Social Simulation Association).
- Co-coordinator: SSG - Social Simulation and Games (Special Interest Group @ European Social Simulation Association).
- Co-coordinator: MOOD - Models of Human Decision (Special Interest Group @ European Social Simulation Association).
- Secretary: ESSA - European Social Simulation Association.
Loïs Charles Bernard Cornil Vanhèe,
Melania Borit,
Siebers, Peer-Olaf,
Cremades, Roger,
Frantz, Christopher,
Gürcan, Önder
et al.:
Large Language Models for Agent-Based Modelling: Current and Possible Uses Across the Modelling Cycle
Loïs Charles Bernard Cornil Vanhèe,
Melania Borit
:
RAINO: Anchoring Agents in Reality A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework for Realism in Agent-Based Modelling | Springer Nature Link
Polhill, Gary,
Melania Borit,
Elsenbroich, Corinna,
Verhagen, Harko,
Wijermans, Nanda
:
Ethical Dimensions to Empirical Applications of Agent-Based Social Simulation | Springer Nature Link
Vanhée, Loïs,
Melania Borit
:
How Interdisciplinary are Agent Based Models in General and Those of Human Decision in Particular? A Bibliometric Analysis | Springer Nature Link
Theodora Sam,
Melania Borit
:
Conceptualizing fishery systems: An analysis of definitions
Loïs Vanhée,
Karin Danielsson,
Lena Enqvist,
Kalle Grill,
Melania Borit
:
Hack it with EDUCHIC! educational hackathons and interdisciplinary challenges—Definitions, principles, and pedagogical guidelines
Francesca Giardini,
Melania Borit,
Harko Verhagen,
Nanda Wijermans
:
Modeling Realistic Human Behavior in Disasters. A Rapid Literature Review of Agent-Based Models Reviews
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Thirty Years of Sense and Sensibility in Agent-Based Models: A Bibliometric Analysis
Sebastian Achter,
Melania Borit,
Clémentine Cottineau,
Matthias Meyer,
J. Gareth Polhill,
Viktoriia Radchuk
:
How to conduct more systematic reviews of agent-based models and foster theory development - Taking stock and looking ahead
Rana Tallal Javed,
Osama Nasir,
Melania Borit,
Loïs Vanhée,
Elias Zea,
Shivam Gupta
et al.:
Get Out of the BAG! Silos in AI Ethics Education: Unsupervised Topic Modeling Analysis of Global AI Curricula (Extended Abstract)
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Ethical By Designer - How to Grow Ethical Designers of Artificial Intelligence (Extended Abstract)
Melania Borit,
Bruce Edmonds,
Guri Kristin Hjallen Eriksen,
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Krisztina Jonas,
Zoheb Mashiur
et al.:
Anticipating autonomous fishing futures: A socio-technical perspective on Norwegian small-scale fisheries
2026 ARKIV
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Foresight for sustainable co-existence
Jorge Santos,
Lilli Mittner,
Melania Borit,
Kate Maxwell
:
Cultural Management of Fish Resources: Diversity for the Future
2026 ARKIV
Jorge Santos,
Melania Borit,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Lilli Mittner
:
Living with the Ocean Arctic Frontiers 2026
2026 ARKIV
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
From Fisheries 0.0 to 5.0: Imagining the future of fishing technologies
18. August 2026 ARKIV
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Economic Impact Assessment of Marine Autonomous Operations: A Methodological Framework
27. Mai 2026 ARKIV
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Economic Impact Assessment of Marine Autonomous Operations: A Review of Methodologies
30. Januar 2026 ARKIV
Marianna Osokina,
Melania Borit,
Roger B. Larsen,
Holger Pötzsch,
Jorge Santos
:
Imagining “technology for tomorrow”: Futures of technology design in the fisheries sector
30. Januar 2026 ARKIV
Melania Borit,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Holly Molander,
Guri Kristin Hjallen Eriksen,
Bruce Edmonds,
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege
et al.:
Anticipatory Governance of Autonomous Natural Resource Extraction
09. September 2026 ARKIV
Melania Borit,
Holly Molander,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Guri Kristin Hjallen Eriksen,
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Lilli Mittner
et al.:
Living with the Ocean (Exhibition and Guided Walk)
09. September 2026 ARKIV
Zoheb Mashiur,
Anneliese Furlong-Muir,
Melania Borit,
Holger Pötzsch
:
What is an Ecorevolutionary TTRPG?
Marianna Osokina,
Melania Borit,
Roger B. Larsen,
Holger Pötzsch,
Jorge Santos
:
(Co)Designing future fisheries: A study of fishers and fishing technology designers
2026 ARKIV
Andreas Altenburger,
Melania Borit,
Maxime Geoffroy,
Karine Nigar Aarskog,
Ekaterina Mikhailova
:
Arctic Future Pathfinders course report
Zoheb Mashiur,
Holger Pötzsch,
Melania Borit,
Therese Holt Hansen
:
The Read/Play/Write Method: Using TTRPGs in the Teaching of Literature
04. Juni 2026 ARKIV
Bruce Edmonds,
Melania Borit
:
Walking towards a cliff edge: Can a combination of participatory futures and agent-based modelling approaches help make SES tipping-points feel real?
Knutsen, Johanne Irene,
Timo Szczepanska,
Melania Borit,
Marianna Osokina
:
Young Voices in Norwegian Aquaculture: Exploring Future Visions of Leadership and Organizational Structures
UiT Norges arktiske universitet 15. Mai 2025 ARKIV
Martin Engelsen Oddekalv,
Melania Borit,
Jaran Rauø,
Robert McDonald
:
Potensiell bruk av kjernekraft i den havgående norske trålerflåten – Interessenter og deres meninger
Universitetet i Tromsø 15. Mai 2025 ARKIV
Vegard Syrstad Esp,
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Hvordan brukes kunstig intelligens i norsk havbruksnæring? En analyse av dagens praksis og fremtidige muligheter
Universitetet i Tromsø 15. Mai 2025 ARKIV
Jorge Santos,
Lilli Mittner,
Melania Borit,
Andreia Conceição,
Zoheb Mashiur
:
Of Fish and People: Can Art Bridge Sciences?
Kavin Preethi Narasimhan,
Amel Bennaceur,
Melania Borit,
Bruce Edmonds,
Isabel Florence Franke,
Alison Heppenstall
et al.:
Computationally Simulated Future Societies: Using Social Simulation Models for Futures Studies
2025 ARKIV
Krisztina Jonas,
Melania Borit
:
Creative futuring of socio-technical transformations through Embodied Transformation Theatre
11. Juni 2025 ARKIV
Marianna Osokina,
Melania Borit,
Roger B. Larsen,
Holger Pötzsch,
Jorge Santos
:
Imagining “Technology for tomorrow”: (Co)shaping next-generation technology for marine resource extraction
2025 ARKIV
Eva Christina Makaria Lentz,
Melania Borit,
Holger Pötzsch
:
Kritisk KI-literacy i lærerutdanning og videreutdanning
2025 ARKIV
Timo Szczepanska,
Melania Borit,
Zoheb Mashiur
:
Combining Worldbuilding, Game Design, and Creative Writing for Eliciting Rich Descriptions of Technological Futures in Interdisciplinary Teams
10. Juni 2025 ARKIV
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Autonomous Technologies and the Futures of Fisheries: A Comprehensive Impact Assessment with a Focus on Economic Viability
2025 ARKIV
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches on broadening the perspectives on Emotion Sensitive Artificial Intelligence
2025 ARKIV
Jorge Santos,
Melania Borit,
Jonas Ragnhildstveit
:
Hvordan brukes kunstig intelligens (KI) i oppdrettsnæringen for laks?
En analyse av produksjonskjeden fra egg til salg
UiT Norges arktiske universitet 15. Mai 2024 ARKIV
Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos,
Melania Borit,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Lilli Mittner,
Andreia Conceicao,
Rui Dias
:
Living With the Ocean: An Outdoor ArtScience Exhibition. Sesimbra Maritime Museum, Portugal (April 2024).
2024 ARKIV
Zoheb Mashiur,
Melania Borit
:
Ecological Crisis and Misanthropy in Video Games: Beyond Extractivism and Extinction
2024 ARKIV
Zoheb Mashiur,
Melania Borit,
Marianna Osokina,
Lilli Mittner,
Andreia Conceição,
Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos
:
Pasts and Futures of the Seas and Coasts: An Art-Based Educational Intervention
2024 ARKIV
Holger Pötzsch,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Melania Borit,
Cornel Borit
:
Between ‘Stochastic Parrots’ and ‘Skynet’: Imaginaries of Data in Films on AI and Autonomous Technologies
2024 ARKIV
Christina Lentz,
Holger Pötzsch,
Melania Borit
:
Kritisk KI-literacy i lærerutdanning og videreutdanning
2024 ARKIV
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Artificial Intelligence for Anxiety: Pathways for Transdisciplinary Research on Anxiety Sensitive Artificial Intelligence
2024 ARKIV
Holger Pötzsch,
Melania Borit
:
Kritisk KI-literacy i lærerutdanning og videreutdanning
2024 ARKIV
Timo Szczepanska,
Melania Borit
:
Foundations of GAM Research. Methodological Guidelines for Designing and Conducting Research that Combines Games and Agent-based Models
UiT Norges arktiske universitet 04. Dezember 2023 ARKIV
Krisztina Jonas,
Melania Borit
:
Whose voice is heard? Ethics for safeguarding just and sustainable Arctic marine social-ecological futures
2023 ARKIV
Zoheb Mashiur,
Melania Borit,
Riyan J. G. van den Born,
Bernadette F. van Heel,
Krisztina Jonas,
Max Priebe
et al.:
FLOW D1.1 Open Access Transdisciplinary Dataset FLOW Encyclopædia
Melania Borit,
Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos
:
Reise til fremtiden(e) Sommerlyst [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
2023 ARKIV
Jorge Santos,
Melania Borit
:
Reise til fremtiden(e) Kvaløya VGS II [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
2023 ARKIV
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Research interests
- social simulation, agent-based modelling, design of autonomous social agents, autonomous systems;
- evidence synthesis / knowledge integration;
- critical futures studies, science and technology studies;
- pedagogy and didactics in higher education, student active learning, game-based learning;
- traceability, certification, standardisation; risk communication;
- fisheries / natural resource management, IUU fishing; fisheries as socio-ecological complex adaptive systems;
- related legislation;
- culture and trust.
External collaborations:
Teaching
- Course coordinator (2025): MNF-3001/8001 Arctic Future Pathfinders. A journey through the Northwest Passage
- Course coordinator (2022-2025): FSK-3014 Project organisation and collaboration
- Course coordinator (from 2028): SVF-3404 Ocean Futures
Member of research group / centre
CV
- 2022 Professor of knowledge integration / methodologies for interdisciplinary research, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- 2016 Associate professor of modelling and simulation of social processes and game-based learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- 2014 PhD in Resource Management - Social Science, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Norway (Thesis title: Trust and traceability. Using culturally tailored environmental risk communication and transparency as trust-building tools)
- 2014 Accredited Lecturer in Intercultural Management, The Hofstede Centre, Finland
- 2013 Accredited Lecturer in Organisational Culture and Change, The Hofstede Centre, Finland
- 2010 UniPed (Teacher Training in Higher Education), University of Tromsø, Norway
- 2009 Master of Science in International Fisheries Management, Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Norway
- 2005 Master of Laws in Maritime Law, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, Norway
- 2003 Bachelor of Laws, Faculty of Law, "Ovidius" University, Constanta, Romania
- 2003 Teachers' Training Program, "Ovidius" University, Constanta, Romania