Beate Lie Sverre

Beate Lie Sverre

Associate professor

Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
Department of Nursing and Health Sciences
Campus Drammen (4212)
+47 31 00 87 76 / +47 908 86 797
My name is Beate Lie Sverre. I am an anthropologist and a registered nurse, and I work as a assistant professor at University of SouthEast-Norway, USN. My professional interests are mainly into the diciplines of Migration-health and Ethnic diversity in higher eduacation. Other topics that I am enganged in are healthpromoting and public health, welfare-policy, professional healthcare, interdiciplinarity and healthcare-services and health-reltaed transitions among old people. I participate in the researchgroup ELDREFORSK, which focus on health-reltaed transitions among older people, and I function as a researchgroup-contact at campus Drammen. I'm a projectleader for the actionresearch-project "Academic café for culturally and linguistically diverse students".

Responsibilities

Competences

  • Migration-health
  • Culturesensitive healthcare
  • Ethnic diversity in higher education
  • Healthpromotion and public health
  • Health- and welfare-policy 
  • Theory of proffessions and interdiciplinarity
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Qualitative research; narraive ethnography, participant observation, actionresearch
  • Philosophy of science 

CV

 Education:

  • Nurse - RN
  • Social anthropologist  - Cand Polit (UiO)
  • Ph.D. (UiO)

Researchprojects:

  • Projectleader: "Academic café for culturally and linguistically diverse students" - An actionresearch project. (USN, des.-17- des.19)

  • Prosject (HELSEVEL/NFR): "Does the structural organisation of care affect pathways in municipal services for older people with mental health/substance use disorders?" (USN/UIA). Projectleader: "What are the implications of GP and municipal services on the structural vulnerabilities of older immigrants with MH/SUD?" PhD-project, sept 2019-aug 2021

  • Ph.D. project: Migrasjon og helse - En etnografisk studie av eldre pakistanske kvinner i det norske samfunnet. PhD avhandling UiO. (2009-1016)
  • Evaluationproject EVASAM: "Evaluation of "Samhandlingsreformen - St. meld. nr 49" and its effects on the municipality as a healthpromoting and sicknesspreventive actor - The organisation of public health in general and specifically in municipalities with numerous immigrants."  (NIBR/HBV [NFR]) (2013-2015)

Publications

  • Sverre, B. L. (2018). "Integrasjon som helsefremmende prosesser" ("Integration as healthpromotion"). In: Debesay, J. and Tschudi-Madsen, C. Migrasjon, helse og profesjon (Migration, health and profession). Chapter 4, p. 60-77. Oslo: Gyldendal.

  • Hougen, Martinsen, Ssanova, Sverre. (2018). Kronikk: "God helse for alle er et felles ansvar. Vi må legge til rette for gode fellesskap, også for eldre immigranter." Forskning.no 31.05.18. https://forskning.no/meninger/kronikk/2018/05/god-helse-alle-er-et-felles-ansvar-eldre-immigranter-innvandrere

  • Sverre, Beate Lie. (2016). Migrasjon og helse - En etnografisk studie av eldre pakistanske kvinner i det norske samfunnet. (Migration and health - An ethnographic study of elderly Pakistani women in the norwegian society). PhD. Oslo: University of Oslo.

  • Sverre, Beate Lie, Solbrække, Kari Nyheim, Eilertsen, Grethe (2014). Stories of pain and health by elderly Pakistani women in Norway. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 42, 15. P.96-97.

  • Poster presentation and abstract. Stories of pain and health. “7th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference”. HiVe, Norway. 17/06/2013 - 19/06/2013.

  • Oral presentation and abstract: Doing Health– Toward a Narrative Ethnography of Experiences among Elderly, Pakistani Women with Muscular-skeletal Pain in Norway. ”Norsk Antropologisk Forenings Årskonferanse Oslo 2011”. 07.-08.05-2011.

  • Oral presentation and abstract: Living In-between and Doing Health – Elderly Pakistani Women in Norway.”21st Nordic Congress of Gerontology – Dilemmas in Aging Societies”. 10.06-13.06.2012.

  • Oral presentation: Living in-between and Doing health - Elderly Pakistani Women. NAKMI 18.09.2012.

  • Sverre, Beate Lie. (2005). Disiplinering til et kall? Et antropologisk blikk på sykepleierutdanningen i den norske velferdsstaten. Hovedfagsoppgave. Oslo: Universitetet i Oslo.

  • Oral presentation: Relasjonen minoritetsstudent og lærer i en høgskolekontekst. Rekruttering til og tilrettelegging for minoritetsspråklige til høyere utdanning. HiBU