Competences
I am a PhD research fellow with a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Bergen. In my doctoral work, using a field-analytical approach, I study service organisation, patient experiences, treatment, and follow-up for people with co-occurring substance use and mental health problems. The dissertation is disciplinarily grounded in medical sociology, the sociology of mental health, and the sociology of diagnosis. It explores how relations of power and domination are partly (re)produced, partly obscured, and partly contested through symbolic struggles in the subfield of mental health. The aim is to highlight the implications of different epistemic cultures and power dynamics that may contribute to the marginalisation of people with co-occurring substance use and mental health problems.
The project is part of the ROMEO project, "Substance Use and Mental Health, the Organisation of Elderly Care”, Project No. 286611) at the Centre for Care Research South, and the ISP project “The politics of a changing institutional ecology: coordinating and prioritizing healthcare and welfare services in the municipal landscape” (Project No. 296728) at the Centre for Care Research West.
Publications
Naug, O. W. (2025). Etterlengtet, men uønsket: en medisinsk-sosiologisk analyse av diagnosens dobbelthet i psykisk helsevern. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift, 9(5), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.18261/nost.9.5.3
Naug, O. W. (2025). The logics of self-responsibility and moral selection: Neoliberal (mis)framing as symbolic violence in Norwegian municipal mental healthcare. SSM - Mental Health, 8, 100546. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100546