KAREN EXPLORES THE POTENTIAL FOR QUANTUM SOCIAL CHANGE.

Karen is a professor in the department of sociology and human geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is also co-founder of cCHANGE, a company that supports transformation in a changing climate.

With 30 years of research experience, she currently focuses on the relationship between climate change adaptation and transformations to sustainability, with an emphasis on the role of creativity, collaboration, empowerment, and narratives. She is particularly interested in the role of beliefs, values, world views, and paradigms in generating conscious social change, and this includes an exploration of the potential for “quantum social change.”

She has participated in four reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and as part of the IPCC was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2019 she was named by Web of Science as one of the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade.