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Accumulation and inequality in China: What spaces for inclusion and welfare?
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Cascading Crises: Society in the Age of COVID-19
(American Behavioral Scientist;Volume: 65, issue: 12, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-13)The tsunami of change triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed society in a series of cascading crises. Unlike disasters that are more temporarily and spatially bounded, the pandemic has continued to expand across ... -
Cumulative (Dis)advantage and the Matthew effect in life-course analysis
(PLoS ONE;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)To foster a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind inequality in society, it is crucial to work with well-defined concepts associated with such mechanisms. The aim of this paper is to define cumulative (dis)advantage ... -
Dividing the pie in the eco-social state: Exploring the relationship between public support for environmental and welfare policies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Recent theoretical literature in social policy argued that climate change posed a new risk to the states and called for transformation from a traditional welfare state to an ‘eco’ state. From a theoretical point of view, ... -
Dynamics of the complex food environment underlying dietary intake in low-income groups: a systems map of associations extracted from a systematic umbrella literature review.
(International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity;18, Article number: 96 (2021), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-13)Background: Inequalities in obesity pertain in part to differences in dietary intake in different socioeconomic groups. Examining the economic, social, physical and political food environment of low-income groups as a ... -
eHealth Use Among First-Generation Immigrants From Pakistan in the Oslo Area, Norway, With Focus on Diabetes: Survey Protocol
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-04-25)Background: A variety of eHealth services are available and commonly used by the general public. eHealth has the potential to eng age and empo wer people with managing their ... -
From International Plans to National Practice: How are Issues of Inequality Addressed in Education for Sustainable Development in Teacher Training? A case study research on how issues of inequality are addressed through Education for Sustainable Development in teacher training in Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe
(Master thesis, 2021)Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.7 on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an international goal, which needs to be implemented nationally to be achieved. By using theories on globalization and coloniality, ... -
Health and economic scarcity: Measuring scarcity through consumption, income and home ownership indicators in Norway
(SSM - Population Health;Volume 11, August 2020, 100582, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-14)It is widely recognised that income alone may not accurately reflect people’s economic circumstances. In recent years, there has been increasing focus on multidimensional measures of economic scarcity. This study employs ... -
Health trends in the wake of the financial crisis—increasing inequalities?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Aim: The financial crisis that hit Europe in 2007–2008 and the corresponding austerity policies have generated concern about increasing health inequalities, although impacts have been less salient than initially expected. ... -
Health, work, and contributing factors on life satisfaction: A study in Norway before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
(SSM - Population Health;Volume 14, June 2021, 100804, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-08)Background: The COVID-19 outbreak has posed considerable challenges for people’s health, work situations and life satisfaction. This article reports on a study of the relationship between self-reported health and life ... -
Inequalities in the making: The role of young people’s relational resources through the Covid-19 lockdown
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, youth researchers have reported increased inequalities between young people, but the social processes that drive these changes are not well understood. In this paper, we draw ... -
Lower attendance rates in immigrant versus non-immigrant women in the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Programme
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objective The Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Programme invites women aged 50-69 to biennial mammographic screening. Although 84% of invited women have attended at least once, attendance rates vary across the country. ... -
Occupational Closure and Wages in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Recent literature has pointed to occupational closure in order to explain wage inequality between occupations. The basic argument of occupational closure is that average occupational wages are higher in closed occupations ... -
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits and Prayaag Akbar’s Leila
(Journal of Postcolonial Writing;Volume 58, 2022 - Issue 2: Special Issue: Fractured Identities, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-04-01)Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of technocratic near-real-time data-driven governance, in that new rules, measures, and prohibitions have been introduced and revoked in response to predictive ... -
The Timing and Strength of Inequality Concerns in the UK Public Debate: Google Trends, Elections and the Macroeconomy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Inequality among people has several unwanted effects, in humanistic, social and economic contexts. Several studies address distributional preferences among groups, but little is known about when inequality issues are focused ... -
Young people looking forward: imagined future and normative tensions in urban Norway
(Children & Society;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-26)We explore the meaning‐making practices of ‘little personal stories’ and ‘big societal stories’ in the imagined futures of 12‐ and 13‐year‐olds within Norway, known for its egalitarian ideals and welfare society. Using the ...