Siv Elén Årskog Vedvik

Siv Elén Årskog Vedvik is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law. Her main research field is public law in land and ocean management. She started her career working as an attorney, before returning to the faculty to write a doctoral thesis on the relationship between local self-government and national control in Norwegian land-use planning. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is part of the interdisciplinary research project ImpactWind SørVest, which is funded by the Research Council. In this project, Vedvik works with various legal issues related to public law regulation of offshore wind development.

Vedvik’s research has the Norwegian legal system as its primary research object, but both in her work with the doctoral thesis and in the postdoctoral project, comparative research on other countries’ solutions and international conventions and agreements, is also an important part of the method. Another important aspect of her research is the focus on legal issues that are considered important in society and by those who are affected by the legal framework. Keeping contact with authorities and industry, as well as other science disciplines, is therefore also an important part of her work.