I am employed as an associate professor in the field of cultural studies at the Bø campus. My research interests include, but are not limited to, culture and media politics, cultural sociology, cultural industries, alternative film distribution and dissemination, digitalisation and smaller independent players in the cultural industries, diversity, film and audiovisual media. I am part of the NordMedia Network and the Cultural Policy research group (USN), and have previously been affiliated with research groups in Media Aesthetics (UiO) and Industry Studies within Audiovisual Media (BAM, Innlandet University of Applied Sciences). I teach in the BA Cultural Management and MA Cultural Studies programmes. In collaboration with Telemark Research Institute, I have conducted resarch in the field of film policy/diversity and secured external funding for a research project on diversity in Norwegian film (Assistant project manager).
Competences
- Associate professor at the University of Southeast Norway (USN)
- Affiliated research groups in Cultural Policy (USN), Industry knowledge within audiovisual media (HINN) and the NordMedia Network.
- Research topics: Norwegian film and television industry, diversity, media studies, cultural policy and digitization (PhD, 2020, HINN/NTNU)
- Supervisor and teacher at master's and bachelor's level in Cultural Studies and Cultural Management (USN)
- Writer and/or peer in the scientific journals Nordicom Reveiw, Norsk Medietidsskrift (Journal of Media Science, Norway), Journal of Media Innovations
- Doctoral degree (PhD, 2020) in media studies and audiovisual media. The research project (PhD) received support from the Council for Applied Media Research (RAM), the Norwegian Media Authority in 2020
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