Our team
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Daniele Evelin Alves
Senior researcher at the Work Research Institute
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Ben Schneider
Post-doc at PANSOC
Visit Ben’s profile on oslomet.no
Read more about his Work and Wellbeing in History (google.com) project.
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Vibeke Narverud Nyborg
Associated Professor 2 at PANSOC (research financed by University of South-Eastern Norway)
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Lauren Steele
PhD-candidate at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and guest researcher at PANSOC from September to December 2023.
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Hampton Gaddy
PhD student at the London School of Economics and researcher at PANSOC for 2024.
Affiliated students
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Uddhav Khakurel
Master’s student in International Social Welfare and Health Policy at OsloMet.
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Amal Abdulkadir Hassan
Master’s student in International Social Welfare and Health Policy at OsloMet.
Former Students
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
Research Assistants
Andreas Lillebråten