Field of work
I am a professor at the Department of Welfare and Participation (IVD), primarily teaching at the master's program in Applied Social Sciences (previously Community Work). By training, I am a social anthropologist from the University of Bergen. I currently lead the research group "Community Work" at IVD.
My research interests include mechanisms for inclusion, marginalization and exclusion, participatory processes and methods and the dialectic between public service provision and the civic society. Empirically my research mainly focuses on an ageing population, addressing questions of participation and citizenship in the context of the welfare state
Courses taught
- Social anthropology
- Qualitative methods
- Community Work
- Variation and complexity in care services
- Participation and citizenship
- Social capital
Research areas
- Long-term residential care
- International and comparative welfare services
- Participation and citizenship
- Age-friendly societies
- Ageing and substance use
Research groups
Community Work
- MASO510, Participation and citizenship, Fall 2024, subject responsible
- MASO591, Master's Thesis (45 credits), Spring 2025
- MASO591, Master's Thesis (45 credits), Fall 2024
- MASS520, Community work disciplinary history, theory and practice, Spring 2025
- SAB310, Community Work, Fall 2024
Publications
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‘Mind the gap’: tensions, transitions and tactics in Canadian and Norwegian community services for older adults
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Barriers to healthy transitions between nursing homes and emergency departments
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But where's the body? Bodies, time, money, and the political economy of post-pandemic field research
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Language at Stake in International Research Collaboration— Methodological Reflections on Team-Based and Time-Intensive Ethnography
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Social work and Pierre Bourdieu: relevance for and in a Norwegian welfare state context
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