Faglige interesser/Research interests
Digitalisation and the labour market, the green economy, the Nordic/Norwegian model and gender.
Undervisning/Teaching
- PHDDS91623 Work in the Digital Age
- ØKA300 Bacheloroppgave
- SFB34420 Bacheloroppgave
- SFB11820 Foretaksstrategi og innovasjon (Business strategy and innovation)
- European Economic Integration, master level, Bifrost University
- Macroeconomics, bachelor level, Bifrost University
- Globalisation, bachelor level, University of Iceland
- Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, bachelor level, Reykjavík University
- Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, bachelor level, University of Akureyri
Ekstern finansiering av prosjekter/External financing of projects
- The Research Council of Norway: Part-time careers in Norway
- EU's research programme: Employment and gender mainstreaming in the Knowledge-Based Society
- European Trade Union Institute: Thee European Social Model, Gender mainstreaming European labour markets
- The Research Council of Iceland: The Icelandic labour market
- The Nordic Council: Evaluting equal pay in the Nordic countries
Veiledning/Supervision
- Ph.D. thesis
- Master's theses
- Bachelor's theses
Background
- 2020- Full-time professor at Østfold University College
- 2018-2020 Part-time professor at Østfold University College
- 2015-2020 Senior policy advicer at the Association of Social Scientists (Samfunnsviterne), Norway
- 2013-2016 Senior researcher at Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Norway
- 2009-2013 Member of Parliament (Althingi) in Iceland
- 2008 Research manager at the University of Iceland
- 2002-2008 Senior lecturer and professor (2003) at Bifröst University, Iceland
- 2000-2002 Lecturer at Reykjavik University, Iceland
Utdanning/Education
- 1993-1999 Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil) from the University of Manchester, Management School in Institute of Technology (UMIST), Manchester, England.
- 1987-1988 Master of Arts (MA) in Development Economics from The Department for Economics at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England.
- 1986-1987 Pedagogic at the University of Marburg, Germany
- 1982-1984 Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the Business College at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, U.S.A.
Verv/Member of committees and boards
- 2018-2020 Leader of the working committee developing a new master programme in management focusing on the challenges of digitalisation and sustainability.
- 2015-2020 Member and vice-member of the committee for the self-employed who are members of the Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations (Akademikerne)
- 2009-2013 Vice-chairman and a member of the Committee on Economy and Taxation, The Icelandic Parliament
- 2009-2011 Chairman of the Committee on trade and the financial market, The Icelandic Parliament
- 2010 Vice president of the Council of Europe.
- 2009-2011 Chairman of the Icelandic delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg during 2009-2011. The vice president of the Council of Europe 2010.
- 2008-2013 Member of the board of Nordregio, Stockholm.
- 2003-2004 Member of the board of the fishery company Guðmundur Runólfsson hf
- 2003-2008 Co-advisor of Ph.D. thesis at University of Tampere, Finnland.
- 1997-2009 Member of the Group of Scientific Experts on Gender and Employment for the European Commission
- 2004-2006 External evaluator in EU´s sixth research framework program
- 2003-2004 Member of the Evaluation Committee for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Icelandic Research Council on Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2002-2005 Scientific, administrative and financial coordinator of the EU funded research project on the Knowledge Baseed Society