Mikko Rask
Senior Researcher, PhD
Tel. +358 10 605 9027
Fax +358 9 876 4374
e-mail: firstname.lastname@ncrc.fi
Background
I work as a Senior Researcher at the National Consumer Research Centre (NCRC) Finland in the group for Living Environment and Technology, where we explore means of developing sustainable living environments with the help of research, foresight and technology assessment. At NCRC I have worked since 2007. Previously I worked as a researcher and teacher in the Laboratory of Environmental Protection at Helsinki University of Technology (2001-2007) and in the Group for Technology Studies at Technical Research Centre of Finland (1997-2001).
By education I am a Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of Environmental Strategies and Technology Assessment. In my dissertation, Expansion of Expertise in the Governance of Science and Technology, I studied the relationship between policy arenas and the characteristics of expertise in the context of environmental regulation. Thereafter I have continued research on these themes in several national and international deliberation projects, in which the focus has been in the integration of citizen and stakeholder perspectives in different decision processes. At NCRC I coordinate the Climate Arena developmental platform, in which context an international book project about citizens’ role in global environmental decision making was completed. The book, Citizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance, will be published in August 2011 by Earthscan.
Research interests
- Modernization and attitudes to science and technology
- Environmental and technological risks and responsible regulation
- Integration of expert and lay knowledge
- Technology foresight and assessment
- User-driven innovations
- Transnational deliberation processes
Current projects
- In CIVISTI project we study citizens' visions on science, technology and innovations, and develop a new tool for building European S&T agendas from the future visions of the citizens (http://www.civisti.org).
- In MASIS project we compare science in society institutions in 38 countries (http://www.masis.eu/).
- In KUILU project we assess policy instruments supporting climate change mitigation via sustainable consumption.
- In Climate Arena we develop tools supporting citizen participation in decision making and discuss transnational deliberation processes (Ilmastoareena).
Recent publications
- Jacobi A, Andersen I, Rask M, Lanckriet A, Van den Cruyce E, Van Damme L, Warrington B, Damianova Z, Bakonyi E, Sotoudeh M and Peissl W (2011). Citizen visions on science, technology and innovation: D 3.3 Final Project Report. CIVISTI: EU collaborative project on Blue Sky Research on Emerging Issues Affecting European S&T (www.civisti.org)
- Jacobi A, Klüver L and Rask M (2010). Relevant Research in a Knowledge Democracy: Citizens' Participation in Defining Research Agendas for Europe. In: Roeland J. in´t Veld (ed.) Knowledge democracy: Consequences for Science, Politics, and Media, p. 87-98. Berlin: Springer (http://www.springerlink.com/content/u443770r11011824/)
- Rask M (2009) Expansion of Expertise in the Governance of Science and Technology. Lambert Academic Publishing. Köln, Germany. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Expansion-Expertise-Governance-Science-Technology/dp/3838317483/)
- Andersson E, Baraka H, Fixdal J, Kasuga S, Mikami N, Nielsen T H, Radjawali I, Rask M, Sclove R (2009) World Wide Views on Global Warming: from the world's citizens to the climate policy-makers: policy report (eds. Lars Klüver and Bjoern Bedsted). Teknologirådet - The Danish Board of Technology. (http://wwviews.org/files/AUDIO/WWViews%20Policy%20Report%20FINAL%20-%20Web%20version.pdf)
- Rask, M. (2008). Foresight—Balancing between Increasing Variety and Productive Convergence. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 75, Issue 8, p. 1157-1175.
