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 with ethical, legal and societal aspects (ELSI) in the EU project Joint Action PreventNCDs (2024-2025) where I am investigating people's perceptions on the use of risk information for preventing cancer and other non-communicable diseases including mental health conditions.
During the last 5 years I have worked in several large research projects, both with 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 biobank research (Biobank Norge 3, 2023), and patient perspectives on participation in clinical trials (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/