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Introduction
My research interests include social welfare, social policy, social inequalities and marginalisation, child poverty, and professions of the welfare state, relations between street level bureaucracies and processes of digitalisation.
In much of my work I am inspired by sociological perspectives on agency, structure, power and interaction, including institutional ethnography.
Currently I do research on a) family poverty, b) work inclusion and activation programs, and c) welfare stigma.
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Employment services are repeatedly criticised for building barriers to service user participation and decent employment due to combinations of conditionality, bureaucratic logics, high caseloads and scarce resources. However, a range of newer service approaches recognise some of these shortcomings, and aim for personalisation, service coordination,...
This article contributes to the growing research field investigating intensive intervention programmes aimed at families with complex needs, focusing on the experiences of long-term poor families in Norway. There is a growing public concern about social inequalities in Norway, especially regarding child poverty and the negative effects of social an...
The aim of this article is to investigate how welfare stigma is produced and counteracted in the public sphere in a social democratic welfare regime. The Norwegian case represents a generous welfare state that historically has been thought to lessen and avoid stigma connected to welfare benefits. While studies have identified a hardening anti-welfa...
This article explores the accountability experiences and orientations of frontline workers implementing personalised activation services in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV). The study draws on observations and interviews (2021), with three teams of employment specialists using Supported Employment as an approach to personalised...
Artikkelen stiller spørsmål om hvilke forståelser som ligger til grunn for myndighetenes problembeskrivelser og løsningsforslag på arbeid-helsefeltet. Den tar utgangspunkt i en pågående satsing mellom Helsedirektoratet og Arbeids- og velferdsdirektoratet om styrket samarbeid mellom helse- og velferdssektoren. Med utgangspunkt i Carol Bacchis «what...
Background:
Child poverty rates are rising in Norway with potential negative consequences for children. Services for families with low income are often fragmented and poorly integrated, and few coordinated initiatives have been implemented and evaluated in Norway.
Aims:
The aim of the current study is to evaluate how integrated and coordinated s...
“Scandinavian neo-institutionalism” (SNIT) is an influential school within organisational research and institutional theory in the Nordic research context and beyond. As a social constructivist tradition in organisational research, it has contributed to the international research on loose couplings and translation of ideas. Although influential, we...
Forms and documents play significant roles in the context of care work for older people. One type of form that care workers use on a daily basis is individual care descriptions (ICDs). An ICD is a text that is written on a piece of paper or on a computer, and specifies the care tasks to be carried out. How do ICDs operate in local settings of care...
Økt tilstrømming av mennesker med flukt- og innvandringsbakgrunn har aktualisert behovet for kunnskap om virkningsfulle
integreringstiltak. I de senere årene har bruk av ordinært arbeidsliv fått økt oppmerksomhet innen integreringsfeltet. Tiltak som
bruker ordinær arbeidsplass som opplærings- og kvalifiseringsarena er imidlertid svært forskjellige,...
Safety, dignity and autonomy are keywords in care work for older people. Dementia, however, complicates the relationship between care workers and care receivers, in part because it affects memory, thought, perception, reasoning and speech. Thus it potentially influences the voice and consent competence of the individual. In such contexts, care work...
Welfare recipients are continuously subjected to media debates and governmental campaigns drawing on images and symbols encouraging improved work ethic and individual responsibility. Only few studies, however, have analysed how welfare recipients as ‘othered’ citizens react to these often stereotypical symbols and images targeting them. In this stu...
Background: In qualitative research, the relation between the researcher and the informants requires reflection. This is particularly important where researchers and fields are closely linked, e.g. through professional education or work experience. Aim: To examine how qualitative nursing researchers reflect upon their membership in the groups or ar...
Welfare recipients are continuously subjected to media debates and governmental campaigns drawing on images and symbols encouraging improved work ethic and individual responsibility. Only few studies, however, have analysed how welfare recipients as ‘othered’ citizens react to these often stereotypical symbols and images targeting them. In this stu...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide a sociological analysis of everyday interaction on the physical front line of the Norwegian welfare state.
Design/methodology/approach
– The data are from a short-term ethnographic study in the reception/waiting rooms of three local welfare offices. These are important sites for access to benefits...
At the core of this article is neo-institutional theory’s dominance in contemporary
organizational research. This theory has, among other things,
contributed to the understanding of symbolic and cultural aspects of organizations
and their surroundings, and how ideas and concepts travel and
translate. At the same time, the theory has been criticized...
