Experience

UiO

• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Professor

  • Apr 2017 - Present



University of Oslo (UiO)

• Norway
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Department

  • Jan 2018 - Present



University of Oslo (UiO)

• Norway
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor

  • Nov 2007 - Apr 2017

  My main research interests are social and cultural aspects of health and illness, gender theorising, medicalization, critical narrative approaches in health sciences and medicine as well as working life research. My work is characterized by broadness in the fields she has studied, including experiences of chronic illness and rehabilitation, gender and health, somatic hospital as well as studies on the training and social integration of health professionals such as nurses and physiotherapists. International Relations: University of York, Department of Health Sciences Jagellionen University, Institute of Sociology Positions of trust: 2016- Head of Board, Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo 2014- Head of the research group Society, Health and Power 2014-2016 Board member The Norwegian Association of Researchers at UiO 2014 Research Leadership Programme, UiO 2012-2015 President of the Norwegian Association for Gender Research Background: 2015- Visiting Reasercher University of York. Dep of Health Sciences 2007- Associate Professor in Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UiO 2009-2011 Part-time researcher, Institute of Social Sciences, Oslo 2003-2006 Lecturer, Dep. for Health Sciences, UiO 2005-2006 Senior Adviser, The Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions 2002 Visiting Scholar, University of Berkeley 2000-2005 PhD-student, Centre for Gender Research, UiO 1999 Researcher, Work Research Institute, Oslo 1995-1998 Project Manager, Centre for Gender Research Show less



Institute of Health and Society

• Oslo Area, Norway

• Associate Professor

  • Sep 2007 - Nov 2012

  The Institute of Health and Society (Helsam) considers health and well-being to be influenced by the culture and society we live in. The Institute of Health and Society (Helsam) considers health and well-being to be influenced by the culture and society we live in.