Rebecca Bruu Carver
Senior Communications Adviser
Responsibilities
(2023): I am temporarily being "borrowed" as a researcher in the Department of Food Safety at the Institute of Public Health. I am working on the ELSI-work packages in Biobank Norway 3, and the DECODE project, investigating patient's views regarding broader consent for using data in medical research, and participation in clinical trials for personalized medicine.
My main role is in communications, where I write news articles and produce information materials about public health topics, making it accessible to relevant audiences (primarily health professionals and members of the publics).
In my portfolio I have been responsible for communications in several large scale projects and thematic areas: for the EU-funded project Lifebrain at UiO/FHI (2019-2022), for the division of global health at FHI (2022), and MoBa.
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, Science education, Scientific literacy, Genetics and genomics, Media studies and Public understanding of science.
During 2014-2015 I spent a year at the University of Bahia, Brazil, to conduct research in the public understanding and attitudes towards modern genetics and genomics.
I also have expertise in questionnaire design and write scientific articles related to public understanding of science. I am a reviewer for science communication journals and am currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Science Communication: http://jcom.sissa.it/