– We lack knowledge about animal abuse and human violence, argues Research Professor Margunn Bjørnholt from NKVTS and ORES in an article in Dagsavisen. In 2013 she carried out the first study in Norway on the connection between animal abuse and human violence on behalf of the the Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance.
Category Archives: Margunn Bjørnholt
Journal article: Same but different: Polish and Norwegian parents’ work–family adaptations in Norway
Margunn Bjørnholt and Kari Stefansen have published a new article in the Journal of European Social Policy.
Research Professor Margunn Bjørnholt spoke on prevention of violence against women in the Nordic countries
Research Professor Margunn Bjørnholt from NKVTS and ORES spoke on “Gender-blind or gender-based prevention” at the Nordic conference “Preventing violence against women in the Nordic countries” on 8 March 2018. The conference was hosted by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security and the Ministry of Children and Equality and marked the conclusion of the Norwegian presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2017. Read more on Regjeringen.no.
Book chapter: On the move: Transnational family practices among Polish parents working and caring for children in Norway
Margunn Bjørnholt and Kari Stefansen have published a book chapter in a new book on transnational Polish families in Norway.
Research Professor Margunn Bjørnholt joins advisory board of Rethinking Economics
Research Professor Margunn Bjørnholt was appointed as a member of the advisory board of Rethinking Economics.
Journal article: The Role of Family Policy Regimes in Work–Family Adaptations: Polish Parents in Norway and Poland
As part of the Polish–Norwegian research project EFFECT, Margunn Bjørnholt, Kari Stefansen, Agata Wężyk and Dorota Merecz-Kot have published a new article in Central and Eastern European Migration Review.
Book chapter: Balancing acts: Policy frameworks and family care strategies in Norway
Margunn Bjørnholt, Kari Stefansen, Liridona Gashi and Marie Louise Seeberg have published a chapter in the book Understanding Care Policies in Changing Times: Experiences and Lessons from the Czech Republic and Norway.
Margunn Bjørnholt joins the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies
Margunn Bjørnholt joins the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) as a research professor from 1 January 2016. She will head a 3-year research project on intimate partner violence, with particular emphasis on gender, gender equality and power relations. The project is funded by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.
Margunn Bjørnholt evaluated as professor competent
Senior Researcher Margunn Bjørnholt has been awarded competence as a (full) professor in gender studies by an evaluation committee appointed by the University of Stavanger. The committee consisted of Nina Lykke (Linköping University), May-Len Skilbrei (University of Oslo Faculty of Law) and Oluf Langhelle (University of Stavanger).
Cross-national Polish–Norwegian project on work–life balance
A kick-off meeting held in Łódź in October 2013 marked the start of the project EFFECT.
Counting on Marilyn Waring
ORES Director Margunn Bjørnholt and Professor of Economics Ailsa McKay have edited a new anthology on feminist economics.
Retfærd special issue on legal theorist Martha Fineman
ORES Director Margunn Bjørnholt is guest editor of an issue of the journal Retfærd: Nordic Journal of Law and Justice, that explores the relevance and possible uses of the American legal theorist Martha Albertson Fineman’s vulnerability approach in a Nordic context.