My research is concerned with how one through historical and epistemological analysis can reveal how culture and lived experiences push us to think along certain lines when it comes to health, politic, human rights and science. It demonstrates that the biggest threat to truth and a sustainable future, is to acknowledge one single science or one single worldview..
My research encourages openness toward health and human rights by identifying and putting aside theoretical and ideological prejudgments. In particular, it encourages an ethical recognition of the idea that the fundamental characteristic of being human is to be responsible for oneself and others.
My philosophical and historical focus on global health and human rights bridges the intellectual thought in contemporary global health, cultural and community psychology, and critical epistemology.
Currently I am working on a scientific monograph for Routledge: "Fear and Care in a Pandemic: New Interpersonal Relationships with the Other, Oneself and the World". Previous publications for Routledge are: "An interdisciplinary Approach to the Human Mind: Subjectivity, Science and Experiences in Change (Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation)". Routledge 2018/2019.
I am a member of the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REK).
Responsibilities
- Program director of the international study Global Health – Healthy Relationships.
- Ethic and Ethical Dilemmas in Health and Social Work
- Democracy and Justice
- Theory and Philosophy of Science (p.hd cours)
- Sosiopsycholgical Work with Children, Youth and Grownups.
- Supervision; bachelor, master, phd
- Research
Competences
- Global Health
- Critical Epistemology and the Production of Knowledge
- Democracy and Justice
- Ethics
- Critical thinking
- Human Right and the Power of Language and Culture
- Culture- and Community Psychology
- Wellbeing; Children, Youth and Grownups
CV
- Ph.D in Cultral- and Community Psychology. University of Oslo (2015). Thesis: Subjectivity as Science and Experience.
- Ph.D Candidate. Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo (2008-2012). Thesis: Mental Illness and Existence. Foucault's 1954 Philosophy and Psychopathology.
- Master. Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo (2006). Thesis: Machiavelli’s Medical Metaphors. An ABC for sick states.
- Advanced study. Public Relations, Leadership, and Applied Communication, Lillehammer University College (2000-2002).
- Master. Department of Local Planning (Political Science), Lillehammer University College (1996). Thesis: Individual Freedom and Knowledge in Modern Democracies.
- Bachelor. Department of Political Science and Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, and Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo (1993).PhD candidate in Philosophy and Intellectual History. University of Oslo (2008-2012).
Publications
Currently I am working on the Routledge book: "Fear and Care in a Pandemic: New Interpersonal Relationships with the Other, Oneself and the World".
I am the author of the book: "An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Human Mind: Subjectivity, Science and Experiences in Change (Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation)". Routledge 2018.