Experience

Kristiania University College

• Norway
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Professor

  • Apr 2022 - Present

• Associate Professor

  • Jan 2018 - Apr 2022

  I am at the Department of Leadership and Organization where I lecture and do research on sport management, especially good governance and human rights.



Westerdals Oslo ACT

• Norway
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Adviser

  • Feb 2015 - Jan 2018

  At Westerdals Oslo ACT I work with the development, implementation, management and evaluation of strategies for research and artistic work. At Westerdals Oslo ACT I work with the development, implementation, management and evaluation of strategies for research and artistic work.



Freelance

• Independent Researcher and Writer

  • Jul 2014 - Feb 2015

  I have written more than 80 columns, essays and book reviews in various magazines and newspapers like Minerva, Ny tid, Dagbladet, Aftenposten, Bokvennen and Samtiden. Currently I contribute regularly to the motorsport magazine Rally Emotion. I have written more than 80 columns, essays and book reviews in various magazines and newspapers like Minerva, Ny tid, Dagbladet, Aftenposten, Bokvennen and Samtiden. Currently I contribute regularly to the motorsport magazine Rally Emotion.



University of Oslo (UiO)

• Norway
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Research fellow in sociology

  • Jan 2010 - Jul 2014

  In my doctoral thesis I investigated the promotional qualities of FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) through interviews and fieldwork in Argentina, France and Finland, among other places. I came to the conclusion that commercial forces and sporting identity guardians should treat each other as allies, not enemies, simply because it is profitable from a marketing point of view. A book version was published by Palgrave Macmillan in October 2014. Additional comments about the promotional progress… Show more In my doctoral thesis I investigated the promotional qualities of FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) through interviews and fieldwork in Argentina, France and Finland, among other places. I came to the conclusion that commercial forces and sporting identity guardians should treat each other as allies, not enemies, simply because it is profitable from a marketing point of view. A book version was published by Palgrave Macmillan in October 2014. Additional comments about the promotional progress of the championship are published on my blog: thrillsandskills.wordpress.com From 2010-2014 I was part of Department of Sociology and Human Geography as well as the interdisciplinary research program CULTRANS (Cultural Transformations in the Age of Globalization). Besides doing research for my PhD, in addition to co-organizing an international conference on popular culture and social transformation in 2012, I was teaching and supervising students in sociology, qualitative methods and cultural studies at BA and MA-levels. I also participated in putting together the syllabus in various courses and wrote course descriptions.

• Assistant professor

  • Aug 2009 - Dec 2009

  Teaching and supervising students in sociology, qualitative methods and cultural studies at BA and MA-levels.



Sosiolognytt

• Editor-in-chief

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

  Sosiolognytt is the member magazine of the Norwegian Sociology Association. Sosiolognytt is the member magazine of the Norwegian Sociology Association.



Stiftelsen Fritt Ord - The Freedom of Expression Foundation, Oslo

• Adviser

  • Mar 2008 - Jun 2009

  My task was to analyze the efforts of the European Union in developing a European cultural policy framework. With focus on the ramifications to civil society, key findings were communicated in the book "A New Agenda? The European Union and Cultural Policy" published in 2009. My task was to analyze the efforts of the European Union in developing a European cultural policy framework. With focus on the ramifications to civil society, key findings were communicated in the book "A New Agenda? The European Union and Cultural Policy" published in 2009.



Norsk PEN - Norwegian PEN

• Project Manager

  • Feb 2008 - Apr 2008

  In this temporary position as project manager at Norwegian PEN, the Norwegian Centre of PEN International, I was responsible for the first phase of organizing the Global Forum on the Freedom of Expression (GFFE) which took place in Oslo, 2009. I contacted potential speakers, consulted experts from a variety of fields (arts, law, human rights) on how to compose a program of forum themes and participants, as well as taking care of general preparations. In this temporary position as project manager at Norwegian PEN, the Norwegian Centre of PEN International, I was responsible for the first phase of organizing the Global Forum on the Freedom of Expression (GFFE) which took place in Oslo, 2009. I contacted potential speakers, consulted experts from a variety of fields (arts, law, human rights) on how to compose a program of forum themes and participants, as well as taking care of general preparations.



Argument - student magazine

• Media Production

• Culture editor

  • 2006 - 2008

  Editorial, proofreading and writing Editorial, proofreading and writing