Our team
Daniele Evelin Alves
Senior researcher at the Work Research Institute
Ben Schneider
Post-doc at PANSOC
Visit Ben’s profile on oslomet.no
Read more about his Work and Wellbeing in History project.
Vibeke Narverud Nyborg
Associated Professor 2 at PANSOC (research financed by University of South-Eastern Norway)
Lauren Steele
PhD-candidate at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and guest researcher at PANSOC from September to December 2023. Centre leader Mamelund is Steele’s second adviser together with Kirsty Short. Steele’s thesis will submitted in September 2025.
Hampton Gaddy
PhD student at the London School of Economics and researcher at PANSOC for 2024.
Affiliated students
Shahadat Hossain
Master’s student in Nordic Social Policy and Global Sustainable Development at OsloMet.
Former Students
Uddhav Khakurel
Master’s student in International Social Welfare and Health Policy at OsloMet.
Amal Hassan – Master’s thesis (2025): Adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). A quantitative study of NPI adherence among immigrants and non-immigrants in Eastern Oslo, Norway, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.
Uddhav Khakurel -Master’s thesis (2024): The Role of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in the 1918-20 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska. A paper based on this thesis is published in Emerging Infectious Diseases: Early Release – Role of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions during 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic, Alaska, USA – Volume 31, Number 7—July 2025 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal – CDC.
Carla Louise Hughes – Master’s thesis (2022): The Association Between the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Suicides in Norway.
Lara Maria Dora Steinmetz – Master’s thesis (2022): COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in eastern Oslo: Addressing sociodemographic determinants and main reasons for vaccine hesitancy. A paper based on this thesis is published in BMC Public Health: Sociodemographic predictors of and main reasons for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in eastern Oslo: a cross-sectional study (springer.com).
Christina Stylegar Torjussen – Master’s thesis (2022): «Døds seileren» – losjiskipet i Horten: En kvalitativ og kvantitativ analyse av årsakene til den høye dødeligheten på MS «Kong Sverre» under spanskesyken i 1918 [“The Death Ship” – the accommodation ship in Horten: A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the reasons for the high mortality on MS “Kong Sverre” during the Spanish flu in 1918].
Advisory Board
Preben Aavitsland, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Kevin Bardosh, University of Washington
Rebecca Jane Cox, University of Bergen
Tamara Giles-Vernick, Institut Pasteur
Jon Henrik Laake, Oslo University Hospital
Santiago Ripoll, Institute of Development Studies
Lone Simonsen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Former Research Assistants
Andreas Lillebråten (2022-2023) – Currently a PhD-student at the Work Research institute, OsloMet.
Uddhav Khakurel (Fall 2023) – part of a course in research training at Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, Oslo Metropolitan University.
Ramila Acharya (Fall 2023) – part of a course in research training at Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, Oslo Metropolitan University.
Lewhat Kifleyesus (Fall 2024) – part of a course in research training at Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, Oslo Metropolitan University.