Associate Professor

Masego Katisi

Department of Welfare and Participation
Masego Katisi
Tel: +47 55 58 71 59
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Bergen
KRONSTAD2, M4-31
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Field of work

Masego Katisi is a Social Work practitioner and a Health Promotion specialist. She holds a Masters Degree in Child Welfare and Applied Childhood Studies from Swansea University, Wales UK and a PhD in Health Promotion and Development from University of Bergen, Norway. Her main theoretical interests are Systemic theories, Resilience, Salutogenesis and other strength-based approaches. Her current research projects are on resilience of marginalized children, families, and adult populations. She is currently doing research on migration in Norway and on orphaned children in Sab Saharan Africa. She is part of several international research networks for refugees in Norway.

Masego has published several peer-reviewed articles including the following: On Health Partnerships: Aspirations and realities in a North-South partnership for health promotion;Tensions between traditional practices and biomedical marketing;Exploring the roots of antagony in health partnerships. On Resilience and Salutogenesis: Fostering resilience in children who have been orphaned; The use of rites of passage in strengthening the psychosocial wellbeing of orphaned children; Drawing as a salutogenic therapy aid for grieving adolescents (upcoming)  Readmore: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Masego_Katisi2/research

Publications

  • Narratives of Symbolic Objects: Exploring Relational Wellbeing of Young Refugees Living in Scotland, Finland, and Norway

    Katisi, Masego, Tonheim, Milfrid, McGregor, Sharon A., Mubeen, Fath E (2024)
    Social Sciences 2024 Volum 13 ;(1)

  • Exploring informal learning processes in mentoring programmes for refugees: a pilot study

    Daniel, Marguerite Lorraine, Hollekim, Ragnhild, Ottemöller, Fungisai Puleng Gwanzura, Katisi, Masego (2023)

  • Art Exhibition Drawing Together

    Fylkesnes, Marte Knag, Katisi, Masego (2022)

  • Musikk som verktøy i psykisk helsearbeid. Kva skjer i eit barnesinn som opplever krig og store traume? Korleis kan musikk brukast som verktøy i psykisk helsearbeid med barn og unge? Musikk som fredsbærar

    Fugle, Gunn Karoline, Katisi, Masego, Refsnes, Siv Førde (2021)

  • Å fortelle gjennom bilder. Erfaringer med kunst og brukerdeltakelse i forskningsprosjektet Kreativ Sammen i Norge

    Fylkesnes, Marte Knag, Katisi, Masego (2021)

  • Intergenerational perspectives on refugee children and youth's adapatation to life in Norway

    Daniel, Marguerite, Gwanzura Ottemöller, Fungisai, Katisi, Masego, Hollekim, Ragnhild, Tesfazghi, Zebib Zemichael (2020)
    Population, Space and Place 2020 Volum 26 ;(6)

  • A Cross-Country Network Analysis of Adolescent Resilience

    Höltge, Jan, Theron, Linda, Cowden, Richard G., Govender, Kaymarlin, Maximo, Sally I., Carranza, Jennifer S., Kapoor, Bhumika, Tomar, Aakanksha, van Rensburg, Angelique, Lu, Shuang, Hu, Hongwei, Cavioni, Valeria, Agliati, Alessia, Grazzani, Ilaria, Smedema, Yoel, Kaur, Gunjanpreet, Hurlington, Kingsley G., Sanders, Jackie, Munford, Robyn, Colomeischi, Aurora A., Panter-Brick, Catherine, Sarathamani, Sinthu, Boratne, Abhijit V., Avudaiappan, Sankaran, Patil, Rajkumar, Borualogo, Ihsana, Katisi, Masego, Jefferies, Philip, Ungar, Michael (2020)
    Journal of Adolescent Health 2020

  • Transdisciplinary processes in research with young refugees in Norway

    Hollekim, Ragnhild, Daniel, Marguerite, Ottemöller, Fungisai Gwanzura, Katisi, Masego (2019)

  • Transdisciplinary processes in research with young refugees in Norway

    Hollekim, Ragnhild, Fungi, Gwanzura-Ottemoller, Marguerite, Daniel, Katisi, Masego (2019)

  • Fostering Resilience in Children Who have been Orphaned: Preliminary Results from the Botswana Balekane EARTH Program

    Katisi, Masego, Jefferies, Philip, Dikolobe, Olebogeng, Moeti, Onkarabile, Brisson, Joshua, Ungar, Michael (2019)
    Child and Youth Care Forum 2019 Volum 48 ;(4)s. 585-601

  • Measuring the value of OVC programming using practices to understand critical moments

    Daniel, Marguerite, Skovdal, Morten, Kellner, Paul, Hutchinson, Eleanor, van Dijk, Diana, Katisi, Masego, van der Brug, Mienke (2018)

  • Exploring the roots of antagony in the safe male circumcision partnership in Botswana

    Katisi, Masego, Daniel, Marguerite (2018)
    PLOS ONE 2018s. 1-21

  • Leader of Symposium: Promoting resilience of refugees as ‘South-in-the-North’ communities

    Daniel, Marguerite, Hollekim, Ragnhild, Ottemöller, Fungisai Gwanzura, Katisi, Masego (2017)

  • Intergenerational perspectives on adaptation by refugee children and youth in Norway

    Daniel, Marguerite, Hollekim, Ragnhild, Ottemöller, Fungisai Gwanzura, Katisi, Masego, Tesfazghi, Zebib Zemichael (2017)

  • Promoting resilience of unaccompanied minors in Norway

    Daniel, Marguerite, Hollekim, Ragnhild, Ottemöller, Fungisai Gwanzura, Katisi, Masego, Tesfazghi, Zebib Zemichael (2017)

  • The impact of boundaries and inequalities on adaptation by refugee children and youth in Norway

    Daniel, Marguerite, Hollekim, Ragnhild, Ottemöller, Fungisai Gwanzura, Katisi, Masego, Tesfazghi, Zebib Zemichael (2017)

  • The power of context in health partnerships. Exploring synergy and antagony between external and internal ideologies in implementing Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) for HIV prevention in Botswana

    Katisi, Masego, Daniel, Marguerite (2017)

  • Aspirations and realities in a North-South partnership for health promotion: Lessons from a program to promote safe male circumcision in Botswana

    Katisi, Masego, Daniel, Marguerite, Mittelmark, Maurice B (2016)
    Globalization and Health 2016

  • Exploring alternative approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of a resilience program in Botswana

    Katisi, Masego, Daniel, Marguerite (2015)

  • Safe male circumcision in Botswana: Tension between traditional practices and biomedical marketing

    Katisi, Masego, Daniel, Marguerite (2015)
    Global Public Health 2015 Volum 10 ;s. 739-756

  • Sexuality, gender dynamics and development goals

    Mjaaland, Thera, Thamuku, Masego, Wubs, Annegreet Gera (2014)

  • Exploring responses to transformative group therapy for orphaned children in the context of mass orphaning in Botswana

    Thamuku, Masego, Daniel, Marguerite (2013)
    Death Studies 2013 Volum 37 ;(5)s. 413-447

  • The use of rites of passage in strengthening the psychosocial well-being of orphaned children in Botswana

    Thamuku, Masego, Daniel, Marguerite (2012)
    African Journal of AIDS Research 2012 Volum 11 ;(3)s. 215-224