Elin Kvande (born 6 December 1951) is a Norwegian sociologist and gender researcher. She has been professor of sociology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 1999. Her research areas are organization and management, new forms of organization and globalization, and welfare state politics. [1] [2]
Kvande took a major in sociology at the University of Trondheim in 1979 and received her doctorate in sociology in 1999. She has been a guest researcher at the University of Warwick, Linköping University, and the London School of Economics. She is a member of the Royal Norwegian Science Society. In June 2015, she was appointed as a member of the public committee who was to assess public support schemes for families with children. The committee was appointed by Minister of Children and Family Affairs, Solveig Horne. [3]
Alf Prøysen was a Norwegian author, poet, playwright, songwriter and musician. Prøysen was one of the most important Norwegian cultural personalities in the second half of the 20th century. He worked in several different media including books, newspapers and records. He also made significant contributions to music as well as to television and radio. He also wrote in the Arbeiderbladet from 1954 until his death.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a Norwegian anthropologist. He is currently a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, as well as the 2015–2016 president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Britt Karin Larsen is a Norwegian poet, author and government scholar. Larsen debuted as a poet in 1978 with 5 mg blues og andre dikt, and has published many poetry collections and novels since. She is best known for her novel trilogy about Norwegian and Swedish Travellers, De som ser etter tegn (1997), De usynliges by (1998) and Sangen om løpende hester (1999). The trilogy has been called a literary monument for Romany people in Norway. Larsen was given the Norsk PEN's highest freedom prize, the Ossietzky-prisen, in 2000.
Eva Lundgren is a Norwegian-Swedish sociologist. She is an expert on violence against women and sexual violence, particularly in religious contexts. She is Professor Emerita of sociology at Uppsala University.
Helga Marie Hernes is a German-born Norwegian political scientist, diplomat, and politician for the Labour Party.
Siri Beate Hatlen is a Norwegian businessperson. A "Sivilingeniør" by education with several years in the petroleum industry, since 1996 she has been an independent consultant. After succeeding in turning operations in various companies in the late 1990s, she has become best known as a health executive. She was the chair of the Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority during its entire existence from 2001 to 2006, later chief executive officer of Oslo University Hospital from 2009 to 2011.
Henrik Grue Bastiansen is a Norwegian historian who specializes in media studies.
Sverre Steen was a Norwegian historian and professor at the University of Oslo from 1938 to 1965. He served as president of the Norwegian Historical Association from 1936 to 1947
Gunnar Bergby is a Norwegian retired former civil servant. He was secretary-general of the Supreme Court of Norway; this is not a judicial office and not the head of the supreme court, but the head of human resources and support services. He served one term on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; his nomination over a more qualified woman and after the Foreign Ministry had ruled out even considering a woman was controversial and was widely condemned by the women's rights movement and the legal community in the Nordic countries as discriminatory towards women in itself, and was described as an example of radical gender quotas which are banned in Norway.
The Norwegian Journal of Sociology is a Norwegian, peer-reviewed academic journal within the field of sociology. It is published by Universitetsforlaget on behalf of all the institutes of sociology at Norway's universities, with support from the Research Council of Norway. The journal is the result of the 2016 merger of the journals, Sosiologi i dag, established in 1971, and Sosiologisk tidsskrift, established in 1993, which were both among the then three leading social science journals in Norway; the journal also obtained its present title at the time of the merger. The journal's joint editors-in-chief are Kari Stefansen, May-Len Skilbrei and Arve Hjelseth.
Jahn Otto Johansen was a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, foreign correspondent and non-fiction writer.
Håkon Andreas Christie was a Norwegian architectural historian, antiquarian and author. Together with his wife, Sigrid Marie Christie he worked from 1950 on the history of Norwegian church architecture, particularly stave churches. Their research resulted in Norges Kirker which consisted of seven major volumes covering churches in Østfold, Akershus and Buskerud.
Gro Steinsland is a Norwegian scholar of medieval studies and history of religion and since August 2009 has been the Scientific Director of the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Lars Borgersrud is a Norwegian military historian and government scholar. His work has largely centered on World War II in Norway.
Ulla-Britt Lilleaas is a Norwegian sociologist. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of Agder and director of its Centre for Gender and Equality. She formerly worked at the University of Oslo Department of Sociology and Human Geography. Her research fields are gender and gender equality, sociology of the body, and sociology of health and illness. She is also noted for works on the sociology of tiredness. The short film "Tempo" was based on her work. She was elected "sociologist of the year" by the Norwegian Sociological Association in 2004.
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen is a Danish philologist and gender studies scholar. She was Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Oslo, and was Director of its Centre for Gender Research from 1993 to 2000 and from 2005 to 2009. Nielsen retired in 2017/2018. Her fields of expertise are gender and identity, subjectivity, gender socialization, and children and youth.
Margunn Bjørnholt is a Norwegian sociologist and economist. She is a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and a professor of sociology at the University of Bergen.
Gunhild Oline Hagestad is a retired Norwegian sociologist and a former assistant professor at Agder University College. Her research interests have focused on the sociology of aging.
Berit Brandth is a Norwegian sociologist and gender researcher.
Njål Høstmælingen is a Norwegian lawyer and law researcher known for his legal and law-related books and publications since 1998.
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