Tine Friis

Ph.d.-stipendiat

My work at Medical Museion
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Medical Museion, the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, and also affiliated with The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research. My position involves research, teaching, and museum work.

I am particularly interested in emerging biomedical technologies and research fields, their perceived promissory potentials, and their possible implications for how people understand their bodies, selves, and health. My research interests also evolve around how museum and exhibition practices can facilitate encounters between publics, research participants, and research findings, while also addressing issues of care and ethics in such encounters. I primarily use qualitative methods.
My current project investigates stem cell technologies through the hopes articulated by people participating in clinical trials. This project is part of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW).
My doctoral project (to be defended in 2023) explored the emerging field of microbiome research through personal experiences of how gut and psyche connect. The project also explored the language used to depict promissory potentials of microbiome research. The project is part of the research project Microbes on the Mind, funded by the Velux Foundation.

Research interests
• Subjectivity, health and society
• Social studies of science and technology (STS) and feminist science studies
• Socio-cultural, critical and feminist psychologies, particularly ‘collective memory-work’ as developed by Haug and colleagues
• Medical humanities
• Qualitative research practices, methodologies and ethics, among others in relation to museum and exhibition practice

My background
I am educated as a psychologist from the University of Copenhagen in 2017. Previous to my research at Medical Museion, I have worked as an educational psychologist in the Danish school system and volunteered as a psychological counsellor.

HEARTSPACE – Sound Installation and Research Project

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Heartspace is a performance-based sound installation. The installation originates in the research project The minds of the brain, heart and gut—Productions of the self in stem cell research by Tine Friis, postdoc at Medical Museion. The installation is performed at the Culture Night on October 13th, 2023.

October 11, 2023

Text as technology

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Text as technology for care and understanding is an upcoming PhD course, asking what ‘text’ is, and how and when ‘text’ matters in practices of education, medicine, care, hybrid art, exhibitions and research. To explore these questions and their implications, we bring together interdisciplinary perspectives to problematize text as technology. The PhD course takes place […]

June 23, 2021

Research Invitation: How can we talk about gut and psyche?

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What happens when we talk about the connection between our gut and psyche? How might such ‘articulations’ change the ways we understand the body, self and health? How can writing down personal memories help us experiment with ‘body talk’? Sign-up here before June 2, 2021 to participate in the research project. PhD student Tine Friis […]

May 12, 2021

Tentative potential of performative experimentation: A case of collective memory-work in an exhibition space

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In August 2020, I will be presenting a paper on performative experimentation and collective memory-work at the digital conference Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds. The conference is organized by The European association for the study of science and technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science […]

June 22, 2020

Living with Microbes: Microbes on the Mind co-organizes panel at Chronic Living conference

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Microbes on the Mind co-organizes a panel at the international conference on Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century*. The panel organizers are Adam Bencard and Louise Whiteley from Medical Museion and CMBR, University of Copenhagen and Andrea Butcher, Jose Cañada and Salla Sariola from University of Helsinki. The title of the […]

March 24, 2020

Memory-work in Mind the Gut

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This invitation to my colleagues in Microbes on the Mind kicked off two workshops with the method memory-work. The workshop course was a test-run of the memory-work method, an experiment and an engagement with Medical Museion’s exhibition Mind the Gut.

March 12, 2020

Introducing concepts of ‘our humans’

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Bring your own human. This was the instruction (and name) for our workshop in September 2019. It is a simple, short and sophisticated instruction. As soon as you start thinking more about what to do, several questions quickly loom over you. Are you going to bring a fully-grown human or a human that just started walking on its own? Will you bring an entire human or maybe just a microbe on its pinky finger? Maybe you would rather like to convey a feeling of being human or let your audience become aware of the fact that they are humans experiencing right now.