Førsteamanuensis

Masego Katisi

Arbeids- og kompetanseområde

Masego Katisi

Førsteamanuensis

Institutt for velferd og deltaking

Masego Katisi er sosialarbeider og spesialist i helsefremming. Hun har mastergrad i Barns velferd og anvendt barneforskning fra Swansea University, Wales (UK), og PhD i Helsefremmende arbeid og utvikling fra Universitetet i Bergen. Hennes fremste teoretiske interesser er systemisk teori, resiliens, salutogenese og andre styrkebaserte tilnærminger. Pågående forskningsprosjekter dreier seg om resiliens hos marginaliserte barn, familier og voksne populasjoner. For tiden forsker hun på migrasjon i Norge og foreldreløse barn i Afrika sør for Sahara. Hun deltar i et internasjonalt forskningsnettverk for flyktninger i Norge. Masego har publisert flere fagfellevurderte artikler, inkludert følgende:  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

Underviser i
  • Social Work and Community Work
  • Child Welfare from an International Perspective
  • Child, family and community resilience
Forskar på
  • Relational wellbeing in the lives of young refugees in  Finland, Norway and Scotland

  • Resilience of children and adult populations living under adversity
  • Refugee, migrant youth populations and resilience at individual, family and community level
  • Establishing a national learning and action network for refugees: Promoting inclusion, access to information, and successful transition (PIISTON)
  • Immigrant Health in Norway: The Role of Religious, Traditional, and Cultural Beliefs
Forskargrupper

Publikasjonar

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

    Thamuku, Masego, Daniel, Marguerite (2012)