Education
Ph.D., 2004, Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University
M.Sc., 1999, Social Anthropology, Göteborg University
B.Sc., 1994, in Social Anthropology, Development Studies and International Relations, Göteborg University
Short Professional description
I hold a MSc. degree in Social Anthropology and a PhD. in Peace and Development Research from Göteborg University. I was a member of the Feminist Research Group (Femfo) at Göteborg University between 1993 and 2001, and I was a founding member of the Centre for Global Gender Studies, Göteborg University, of which I was a board member 2004-2005.
My research interests are sexuality/reproduction, sexualised violence in conflict, HIV/AIDS, masculinity studies, feminism, population and family planning, and environment and conflict. I have conducted research in Zimbabwe since the mid-1990s. In addition, I have also been involved in development aid related activities since 1997.
Between 1998 and 2004 I worked as a doctoral student at Göteborg University (Department for Peace and Development Research/PADRIGU). In 1999 I took initiative to start the Centre for Global Gender Studies (CGGS) at Göteborg University. By 2001 the Centre had been formally established, and in 2003 it received funding from Sida/SAREC for the creation of a Swedish network of researchers involved in gender and development. Since 2004 CGGS is responsile for one half of the Gender Help Desk of Sida, servicing Sida staff on gender issues. As a member of the Help Desk I am involved in various consultative tasks.
After defending my dissertation in 2004 I was employed at Malmö University College as a lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, but was soon also involved in teaching and supervision of Bachelor and Master students in both Human Rights Studies and International Relations. I continued until 2008 to teach Development Studies at Göteborg University at both undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on gender, postcolonial theory and development, both at Museion and at the Department of Peace and Development Research.
I have received financial support for my research from Sida/SAREC, the Nordic Africa Institute, and Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation, and I review articles, reports and book manuscripts for international journals, publishers and research institutes (e.g. the Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, the Nordic Africa Institute, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development), and was in 2012 invited to be part of the editorial board of Umami Produktion AB.
Present work
I am currently working as Senior lecturer of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University College. I supervise and examine students at Bachelor and Master level.
Commission of trust after dissertation
Co-ordinator of Internships for Peace and Conflict Studies Programme students (2008-2009)
Substitute Programme co-ordinator of Peace and Conflict Studies (2008-2009)
Faculty representative in the Board for Gender Equality and Diversity at Malmö University College (2005-2007)
Malmö University College representative in the National Network of Gender and Development Researchers at the Centre for Global Gender Studies, Göteborg University (2004-2010)
Programme co-ordinator of Peace and Conflict Studies (2005-2006)
Board member of the Centre for Global Gender Studies at Göteborg Univerity (2004-2005)
Co-ordinator of the Feminist Research Group, Göteborg University (1999-2000)
Career
Senior lecturer at Malmö University College (including 20% research), November 2004-
Member of the consultative Sida Gender Help Desk (2004- )
Administrator at the Centre for Global Gender Studies, Göteborg University (2004)
Doctoral student at Göteborg University (PADRIGU), 1998-2004
Periods abroad
I have lived most of my life 'abroad'. Since 1991 I have lived in Sweden, but I was born and grew up in Norway, then moved to Denmark in 1985, where I graduated as a baccalaureate in 1989. I have spent one year in the USA (inter alia studying social anthropology at undergraduate level), and six months in Australia where I participated in conferences on feminist and development research. As part of my research I have also spent more than a year in Zimbabwe doing field work and archival research between 1998 and 2003. In addition to my doctoral research, I also spent a few months in Zimbabwe as part of my graduate studies, doing field work for my M.Sc. in 1995-96, as well as a few weeks as part of an evaluation of European Union development aid to African countries (as part of the Zimbabwe team) in 1997.
