Meet our team

CEDIC Directors and Administration

Rune Halvorsen

Sociology Professor at the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, and co-director of CEDIC and the Norwegian Research School on Digitalisation, Culture and Society

Halvorsen’s main interests are European and comparative welfare policy, social citizenship, EU social policy, and citizenship movements. His central concern is to contribute new knowledge for the future social Europe. He has contributed to theorisation of changes in social citizenship, welfare governance and structure/agency dynamics in mature welfare states. Read more >>

Marit Haldar

Sociology Professor at the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, and the Norwegian Research School on Digitalization, Culture and Society (DIGIT)

Important themes in Haldar’s research are childhood, the elderly, gender, family, social inequality, social isolation, and tele-presence. Equality and vulnerable subjects in the welfare state and health care system are primary concerns of her research. Haldar has developed a novel methodological approach to qualitative research which is acclaimed in international methodology literature. Read more >>

Tina Svingerud

Adviser at the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, and coordinator for CEDIC and the Norwegian Research School on Digitalization, Culture and Society (DIGIT)

Svingerud is the administrative coordinator for CEDIC Research Center and DIGIT Research School. She holds a PhD in molecular biology and has prior research experience in immunology, cancer research, and bacteriology. Since 2019, she has been working in administrative roles and project coordination and facilitation. Read more >>

Research Group Leaders & Affiliated Researchers

Nan Zou Bakkeli

Postdoctoral Fellow at CEDIC and senior researcher at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), OsloMet

Bakkeli’s research fields are social inequality, medical sociology, social epidemiology, health studies, comparative welfare studies and statistics. Her postdoctor research project at CEDIC is about exploring digital gaps and its consequences on socioeconomic inequalities at both individual and household level. Read more >>

Arne Dulsrud

Research Professor at the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research (SVA), OsloMet, and leader of research group The Platform Economy and Sustainable welfare

Dulsrud has a PhD in sociology. His research areas include marketing, food consumption, and consumer markets. Read more >>

Tore Gulden

Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, and leader of the research group Digitalization and Everyday Life

Gulden is a professor in industrial design with a main interest in game dynamics and systemic design. His research areas include game theory, design methodology, and sustainable design. Read more >>

Gemma Hughes

Professor at the University of Leicester

Hughes is a social scientist concerned with the intersections between organisational practices, health and social care policy and people’s experiences. In her research, she seeks to brings social theory to bear on complex health and social care questions, such as why integrated care does not always work, how technologies are adopted in health and social settings and how decision-making is shaped by clinical and organisational contexts. Read more >>

Julia Köhler-Olsen

Professor of Law at the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, and Leader of research group Digitalization, Law, and Governance

Köhler-Olsen is head of the research project «Trustworthy Welfare Administration». The project explores legal and organizational questions related to the digitalization of public administration of welfare benefits and services according to the National Insurance Act by the Norwegian Work and Welfare Administration (NAV). Read more >>

Henry Nsaidzeka Mainsah

Research Professor at the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research (SVA), OsloMet, and leader of the research group Digitalization and Everyday Life

Mainsah holds a PhD in Media and Communication. His research covers topics such as digitization, digital literacy, youth culture, smart living, creative research methods, and participatory design. Read more >>

Jaqueline O’Reilly

Professor at the University of Sussex

O’Reilly’s research interests are in the field of economic sociology and the digital transformation of work. Her research focuses on international comparisons of gender and labour market transitions across the life cycle for youth, parents and older workers using qualitative and quantitative methods. Read more >>

Mi Ah Schøyen

Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) center, OsloMet

Schøyen holds a PhD in political and social sciences. Her interests include the welfare mix, the politics and social consequences of welfare state reforms, intergenerational solidarity and the interplay between climate and social policy. Read more >>

Gunn Astrid Baugerud

Associate professor at at the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy

Baugerud is an associate professor at the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare, and Social Policy. Read more >>

Cathrine Egeland

Research Professor the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research (SVA), OsloMet, and leader of research group Digitalization, Law, and Governance

Egeland has a PhD in philosophy and gender studies. Her research areas include theory of science, feminist theory, and working life. Read more >>

Erika Gubrium

Professor at the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, OsloMet

Gubrium’s work is interdisciplinary across the fields of social work, sociology, social policy, history, geography, and psychology, and employs qualitative methodologies. Her recent work has focused on the social-psychological impact of anti-poverty welfare measures on welfare system claimants, the socio-historical analysis of social welfare movements, as well as embodied place-attachment (including through digital “spaces”), mobility and belonging amongst adult immigrants to Norway. Read more >>

Lars E. F. Johannessen

Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Professions, OsloMet, and leader of research group Digitalization, Innovation, and Implementation

Johannessen’s main areas of research are cultural sociology, medical sociology, digital culture and science and technology studies. He received his PhD from Oslo Metropolitan University in 2018 and has published articles in journals such as New Media & Society, Sociology of Health & Illness, Symbolic Interaction, Social Science & Medicine, and European Societies. Read more >>

Tereza Østbø Kuldova

Research Professor at the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research (SVA), OsloMet

Kuldova leads and participates in several FRIPRO projects funded by The Research Council of Norway which critically investigate the intersection of algorithmic governance and society: from a comparative qualitative research on predictive policing, intelligence and national security, via research on ‘regulatory technologies’ and their role in anti-corruption, crime-fighting and global and transnational governance of crime, explorations of the impact of digitalization on the world of work and labour relations, to investigations into questions of ethics and morality in contemporary capitalism refracted through the lens of digitalization and the rise of AI. Read more >>

Alejandro Miranda Nieto

Postdoctoral Fellow at CEDIC

Nieto is a sociologist. His current research deals with homemaking, dwelling and migration among IT professionals living in Oslo, and has written about mobilities, home, migration, music and ethnography. He often uses theories of practice, and is interested in developing comparative approaches that draw from different disciplines, such as geography, anthropology, sociology and social policy. Read more >>

Erik B. Rasmussen

Researcher and leader of the research group Digitalization, Innovation, and Implementation

Rasmussen explores the development, implementation and uses of social technologies and so-called ‘welfare technologies’ more broadly, and on the conditions for public-private collaboration in innovation in municipal health and social care. Read more >>

Dag Slettemeås

Researcher at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), OsloMet

Slettemås has more than 20 years of research experience in fields such as digitalisation, consumption, and new media technologies. Topics of research relate to digital innovation, Internet of things, digital competence, children and commercial exposure, social media, surveillance economy and the sharing economy. Read more >>

Alban Davesne

Researcher at the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy

Davesne’s research focuses on European integration, Nordic co-operation, and Europeanization of health policies in a comparative perspective. His field of interests includes the incorporation of e-health in cross-border projects. With the project HARBOR, he launched the first comparative study of cross-border interactions and their impact on access to healthcare in rural and disadvantaged border areas in Europe. Read more >>

Joakim Finne

Senior researcher at the Work Research Institute (AFI), OsloMet

Finne focuses on the development of evidence-based interventions within the health and welfare field through the use of randomized controlled studies. Lately, he has been researching digitalization within NAV. Read more >>

Jo Erskine Hannay

Research Professor/Chief Scientist at Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering AS (SimulaMet), and leader of the research group The Digitalization Process and AI Adoption in the Public Sector

Hannay’s research interests includes digitalization from a system lifecycle perspective with a focus on benefits and disbenefits. He also researches simulation-based training for healthcare collaboration under suboptimal conditions, machine reasoning, and machine learning. Hannay is connected to the Center for Effective Digitalization of the Public Sector at SimulaMet. Read more >>

Yuri Kasahara

Senior researcher, leader of the Digital Social Sciences group at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), OsloMet, and leader of the research group Data Science Methods in Social Research

Kasahara’s main research areas are the analysis of policy development and implementation, as well its political consequences. Lately he has been exploring the potential applications of data science and machine learning for social science research. Read more >>

Mikko Laamanen

Senior Researcher at the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research (SVA), OsloMet

Senior Researcher with the Technology and Sustainability research group at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO). Laamanen’s research programme is situated at the intersection of sociologies of consumption, organization and social movements. He is expert in the everyday politics of technology, inclusion and social change. Read more >>

Maja Nordtug

Postdoctoral Fellow at CEDIC and Media and Technology Researcher

Nordtug has a PhD in media studies from University of Southern Denmark. She has published research on topics such as media engagement in relation to vaccines, digital consultations including e-mail consultations and video consultations, and methodological approaches. Nordtug is currently studying the telepresence technology AV1 at Oslo Metropolitan University, and is also affiliated with University of Oslo where she researches platformed families. Read more >>

Michael Riegler

Research Professor at Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering AS (SimulaMet) and leader of the research group The Digitalization Process and AI Adoption in the Public Sector

Riegler’s research interests includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, and medical multimedia. Read more >>

Ardis Storm-Mathisen

Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education and leader of the research group Digitization and Everyday Life

Storm-Mathisen’s research areas include new media, gender, emerging technologies, and digital vulnerabilities. Read more >>

Roger Andre Søraa

Associate Professor at NTNU

Søraa is Associate professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (KULT) in Studies of Technology and Society (STS). His research focus is on automation, robotization, and the digitalization of society – how humans and technology relate to each other. Dr. Søraa is especially interested in the social domestication of technology, see e.g. his research on hospital robots and gerontechnologies of the home. Read more >>

Kristian Tronstad

Head of research at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), OsloMet

Tronstad has background from political science and organisational theory. His research area includes migration, mobility, and active labour market. Read more >>

Randi Wærdahl

Professor of sociology at the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy

Wærdahl teaches on topics related to family, gender, generation, health, and social policy as well as research methodologies. Her research has an everyday perspective on transitions and trajectories in childhood and of families, in times of social and economic change, and in changing contexts due to migration and transnationality. She is currently supervising students and conducting her studies under the umbrella of Digital Family Practices. Read more >>

PhD candidates and researchers

Sehrish Akhtar

PhD candidate at CEDIC and the Faculty of Social Sciences, OsloMet. Her research focuses on the use of technology to facilitate communication and reduce social isolation among older nursing home residents.

Clemet Askheim

PhD candidate at CEDIC and the Faculty of Social Sciences, OsloMet. Askheim is currently writing his phd about the concept of sustainability. His educational background is in philosophy and his project is affiliated with the NFR project «Virtual Presence».

Siri Frisli

MPhil in sociology from the University of Oslo and PhD candidate at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), OsloMet. Her research is about information dissemination on social media, and the spread of misinformation. Her interest lies particulary in the use of machine learning/AI for text analysis.

Biao He

PhD candidate at the Johan Skytte Institute, University of Tartu

Biao He contributes to the research team ECePS ERA Chair in e-Governance and Digital Public Services funded by the EU Horizon 2020. His research interests include e-government, digital accessibility, Chinese local governance, disability policy, public administration and governance. His PhD dissertation discusses how Chinese municipal governments create and provide accessible and age-friendly e-service website portals following the national policy requirements, and what mechanisms facilitate the implementation process and outcome.

Elian Eve Jentoft

PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education and International Studies and CEDIC. In recent years several nations have developed loneliness reduction policy. Elian studies this new policy field engaging in a cross-cultural exploration of loneliness policy from Norway and the United Kingdom. Their work places a particular focus on how technology and modernity are problematized in relation to loneliness and public health.

Karolin Elisabeth Moberg

PhD candidate in social sciences at CEDIC. Her ongoing PhD project explores the potential of computer games as an inclusive arena in youth, within the framework of Norwegian youth clubs.

Belma Sehic

PhD candidate in Social Sciences at CEDIC. Her ongoing PhD-project explores how digitalization and different ICTs are affecting direct social work practice in the Norwegian Welfare and Labour Administration (NAV).

Eia Elena Skjønsberg

PhD candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Helene Maria Fiane Teigen

PhD candidate at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO) and CEDIC. Her ongoing PhD project explores everyday life with internet-connected household appliances, such as smart assistants, light bulbs, heaters, vacuums, and so on. Her research interests include human-technology relations, digital vulnerability, privacy, and digital literacy and competencies.

Anniken Fleisje

Researcher at CEDIC. She has a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Professions, OsloMet. Her research areas include philosophy, medical ethics, and health communication.

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