I research the gendered dimensions of human thinking, acting and creating. I am particularly interested in how different people and forms of knowledge can work together, and how this collaboration can be made visible. The question of who can contribute to knowledge is also a question of equality, because knowledge is always situated: who is asking, from where, with which body and which history, and who is listening, shapes what we can know. In my work, I combine archival research, discourse and policy analysis, and ethnographic fieldwork with situated art interventions. I often collaborate across disciplines and with partners beyond academia.
I am specifically interested in:
- Ageing, dementia and creativity. I lead the Artful Dementia Research Lab (ADLab), where we explore feminist care as a shared practice and a good life as something we create together.
- Environmental humanities and coastal cultures. I explore how gender, planetary health and local knowledge are lived in coastal communities, and what these experiences can add to our understanding of coastal cultures. One example is the travelling ArtScience exhibition Living with the Ocean. I’m also vice-lead of the UArctic thematic network on Environmental Humanities.
- Music, gender and performative historgraphy. I work on recovering women’s cultural work, building on my research on women composers in 19th-century Norway.
Expertise
- Ageing and Dementia
- Citizen Science
- Coastal Cultures
- Co-creativity
- Creative Methods
- Gender and Gender Equality
- Historiography and Storytelling
- Open Research
- Research Communication
- Research Ethics
- Sound and Music
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