Researchers at PANSOC have been studying pandemic planning for decades. COVID-19 has thrust their work into the spotlight.
Research groups
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Work, health and inclusion
This research group is a department of the Work Research Institute (AFI), it's transdisciplinary and focuses on the causes and consequences of work participation.
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Organization of the Welfare State
This research group is a department of the Work Research Institute (AFI) and aims to bring forward evidence-based knowledge on change and development in public sector management.
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Innovation and Enterprise Development
This research group is a department of the Work Research Institute (AFI) and focuses on collaborative innovation in businesses, networks, clusters and regions.
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Work, Management and Mastery
This research group is a department of the Work Research Institute (AFI) and combines expertise on work life in general, work organisations, work environment, occupational health and safety research, restructuring processes and conflict resolution.
A selection of ongoing AFI projects
- Empowering youth and co-creating social innovations and policymaking through youth-focused citizen social science (YouCount)
- Socioeconomic risk groups, vaccination and pandemic influenza (PANRISK)
- Flex-IT – A mixed-method study of cross-domain information technology use in everyday life
- NEET: Preventing sick leave and marginalization in young adults
- Early COVID-19 wave in Norway: Social inequality in morbidity, compliance to non-pharmaceutical interventions and labour marked consequences (CorRisk)
- Crossbow: Crossing and Managing Boundaries between Work and Non-Work – Co-creating Healthy Teleworking
Recent publications from AFI researchers
Reichborn-Kjennerud, Kristin; Ruano De La Fuente, José Manuel; Sorando, Daniel. Ways to gain influence for residents in two gentrifying neighbourhoods: a comparison between Tøyen in Oslo and Lavapiés in Madrid. Papeles de Población, [S.l.], v. 27, n. 110, p. 109-137, mar. 2022.
Kuldova, T. Ø. 2022. "Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits and Prayaag Akbar’s Leila" Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Malmberg-Heimonen, I., & Tøge, A. (2022). Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study. Social Policy and Society, 1-16.
Talieh Sadeghi & Lars Inge Terum (2022): Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context, European Journal of Social Work
