Rebecca Bruu Carver
Senior Communications Adviser
Responsibilities
I work broadly with both science communication and internal communication, and write news articles for both fhi.no and our intranet. I am also a qualified qualitative and quantitative researcher (with experience in conducting public surveys and interviews). I am currently working in the EU project Joint Action PreventNCDs (2024-2025) where I am investigating society's attitudes to the concept of risk and risk stratification for the prevention of cancer and non-communicable diseases.
During the last 5 years, I have worked in several large research projects with both communication and research tasks, within the topics of brain health (the LIFEBRAIN project at the Department of Psychology, UiO, 2019-22), the ethical and societal aspects of a general consent to medical research (Biobank Norge 3, 2023), and patient perspectives on participation in clinical studies for rare diseases (DECODE 2023-2024, EraPerMED). I have interdisciplinary expertise that I can quickly transfer to new projects.
My background: I have an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London. March 2013 I completed a PhD about media framing and genetics from the University of Oslo, entitled Framing the Gene - A science communication study of how newspapers frame different meanings of the gene concept, with applications for science education. My interests and competencies lie within the areas: Science Communication, Health Communication, Brain health, Music and health, Science education, Scientific literacy, Genetics and genomics, Biobank research, Public engagement with science, Patient and public Involvement in research, Media studies and Public understanding of science, public surveys, scientific and popular science writing. During 2014-2015 I was a postdoc at the University of Bahia, Brazil, conducing research in the public understanding and attitudes towards modern genetics and genomics. I am currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Science Communication: http://jcom.sissa.it/