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Academic interests
My research interests are within professions and professionalism, with a particular focus on knowledge, discretion, and ethical considerations in the performance of professional work. My Ph.d-project explored knowledge in use in expert clinical nursing.
Among the overall topics studied are the opportunities and challenges of increased standardisation and digitalisation in the organisation of health and welfare services. I am interested in how knowledge evolves in collaborative practices between professionals, patients and service-receivers, and in human interactions with technologies and tools. Furthermore, my research is concerned with subjective experience and embodied ways of knowing in multicultural, knowledge-intensive and technology-driven societal contexts.
In my research, I apply and explore various qualitative methods, with a particular focus on ethnographic and phenomenological approaches.
Teaching and course coordination
- Kvalitative metoder med fokus på feltarbeid og deltagende observasjon, SPS, OsloMet
- Masterstudium i samordning av helse- og velferdstjenester, HiØ
- Kunnskapsbasert praksis i spenning mellom individ og samfunn - Tema A: Forskningsmetode, HiØ
- Digital opportunities in health and welfare, HiØ
Background
Education
- Ph.d. in The Study of Professions, OsloMet/Østfold University College (2016-2022)
- Cand.Polit. in Social Anthropology, UiB (2000-2006)
- Development Studies (Global forståelse I), HiO (2000)
- Work and organisational psychology, subsidiary studies, UiB (1999)
- Study of Religions, subsidiary subject, UiB (1999)
- Cand.Mag.: Social Anthropology, Study of Religions and Psychology, UiB (1995-1998)
Work
- PhD at Faculty of Health, Welfare and Organisation, HiØ (2016-2020)
- Adviser of Quality Assurance at HiØ (2011-2016)
- Adviser at Centre for Development and the Environment, UiO (2008-2011)
- Adviser at Department of Social Anthropology, UiB (2006-2007)
Networks and academic development work
- Member of the program committee for Forum for Qualitative Methods, OsloMet
- Member of the research network 'Policy, Knowledge and Practice', University of Edinburgh
- Member of Kvinnforsk, HiØ
- Member of the working group for the application for accreditation of the PhD programme 'Digitalisation and Society', HiØ