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
- Social anthropology
- Qualitative methods
- Community Work
- Variation and complexity in care services
- Participation and citizenship
- Social capital
- Long-term residential care
- International and comparative welfare services
- Participation and citizenship
- Age-friendly societies
- Ageing and substance use
Community Work
Publications
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How to perform guerrilla warfare in the Nordic welfare state. New approaches when facing a new enemy?
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Velferdsteknologi i Norske hjemmetjenester. En praxeologisk studie om statslige visjoner i møte med markedskrefter og kommunale realiteter
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Language at Stake in International Research Collaboration—Methodical Reflections on a Multi-Sited, Rapid Ethnographic Study
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Migration and health: exploring healthy ageing of immigrants in European societies
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Bringing the outside in and the inside out: the role of institutional boundaries in nursing homes
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Staff perspectives on families’ unpaid work in care homes
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“They make the difference between survival and living”: social activities and social relations in long-term residential care
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Negotiating internal and external boundaries of nursing homes during Covid-19: a case study from Norway
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The turn towards co-creation within the Norwegian welfare state: community work in new clothing?
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Aging Successfully in the Changing Norwegian Welfare State: A Policy Analysis Framed by Critical Gerontology
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"Suksessfull aldring" i en velferdsstat i endring
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Technology as ‘time saver’ and the ‘saviour’ of older adult care: Analysing doxical representations in Norwegian healthcare policies
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Tilnærminger til kollektiv mobilisering innen samfunnsarbeid, sosialt entreprenørskap og folkehelsearbeid
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Kollektiv mobilisering, sosiale bevegelser og den norske velferdsstaten: Medhjelper eller motstander av «det offentlige»?
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Ageing in Space: Remaking Community for Older Adults
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Kollektiv mobilisering: Samfunnsarbeid i teori og praksis
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Symposium: Kollektiv mobilisering og kollektive arbeidsformer. Profesjoner og praksis i møte med nye samfunnsutfordringer.
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The turn towards co-creation within the Norwegian welfare state: community work in new clothing?
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Perspectives on Migrant Care Workers in the Long-Term Care Sector: Identity Politics and Othering
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Rasifierade omsorgsarbetares erfarenheter av rasism i äldreomsorgen ur ettnordisktperspektiv
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Deltakelse og medvirkning i norske offentlige diskurser. Mot et deltakelsestyranni?
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Erfaringer med COVID-19 i norske sykehjem
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The forms of social capital. Theory and practice in community work
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“Mind the Gap”: Community Aged Care Services
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From volunteer work to informal care by stealth: A “new voluntarism” in social democratic health and welfare services for older adults
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Ensuring residents’ health and safety in nursing homes amidst Covid-19: The role of physical environment
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From volunteer work to informal care by stealth: A 'new voluntarism' in social democratic health and welfare services for older adults
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Re-Imagining Participation in Processes of Facilitation: A Case for 'Humble Assertiveness'
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Et aldersvennlig samfunn - et anliggende på tvers av fag og departement
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Social Participation in Long-term Residential Care: Case Studies from Canada, Norway, and Germany
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Accountable For-Profits in Nursing Home Services?
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Kartlegging av medisinskfaglig tilbud i sykehjem og heldøgns omsorgsboliger
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The Growth of the For-Profit Nursing Home Sector in Norway and Sweden: Driving Forces and Resistance.
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Reflections on interviews: Official accounts and social assymmetry
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An International Mapping of Medical Care in Nursing Homes
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The traditional care culture and the Western nursing culture in Cameroon
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Sluttrapport Trygghetsstandard
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Trygghetsstandard kommunevise delrapporter
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Trygghetsstandard sluttrapport, sentrale funn
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Spenningsfeltet mellom standardisering, variasjon og prioritering i norske sykehjem
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Følgeforskning på Trygghetsstandarden - Sluttrapport
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Provosert abort – fra kriminell praksis til en legitimert kvinnerettighet utført av profesjonelle agenter En praxeologisk studie om genese og struktur av provosert abort i Norge i perioden 1902-2018, og oppgaveglidning mellom helsepersonell i feltet.
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Introduction
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Same, same but different: Norwegian nursing homes betwixt equality and autonomy
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The Institutional Practice: On nursing homes and hospitalizations
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Facilitating resident community in nursing homes; a slippery slope? An analysis on collectivistic and individualistic approaches
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Spontaneous Activities
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A Norwegian View on Canadian Long-Term Residential Care
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A critical review of research on hospitalization from nursing homes; what is missing?
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The Institutional Practice. Dynamics of practice at nursing homes: An ethnographic study of variation in hospitalization amidst uncertainty and continuity.Hva kjennetegner sykehjem med høy og lav sykehusinnleggelse?
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The Institutional Practice. Dynamics of practice at nursing homes: An ethnographic study of variation in hospitalization amidst uncertainty and continuity
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Resident community in nursing homes: A promising practice in the era of individualism
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«An introduction to "The Weight of the World" – reflections on methodology
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“What characterizes nursing homes with a high hospitalization frequency, as opposed to those with a low hospitalization frequency”
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“Twinning Population Health and Primary Care”
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“Re-imagining hospitalization from nursing homes in Norway: a shift from a quantitative to a qualitative approach”.