Researchers at PANSOC have been studying pandemic planning for decades. COVID-19 has thrust their work into the spotlight.
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)
- Work in Progress
- Disability and Disease during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Implications for Preparedness Policies
Recent publications from AFI researchers
- Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira; Natland, Sidsel (2021). An FGC evaluation in Adult Contexts-Benefits of a Mixed Methods Study Design. In de Roo, Annie; Jagtenberg, Rob (ed.). Family Group Conference Research, Reflections and ways forward. 4. Eleven International Publishing.
- Tolstad, Ingrid M. (2021). ‘We have no music industry!’ Exploring the context of post-Soviet music making through the lens of contemporary Swedo-Russian collaborations, in Patryk Galuszka (ed.) Easter European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism: From State Control to Free Market. Routledge.
- Mamelund S-E, Dimka J, Bakkeli NZ. (2021) Social Disparities in Adopting Non-pharmaceutical Interventions During COVID-19. Journal of Developing Societies.
- Thorstensen, E., Hagen, A.L. and Brattbakk, I., (2021) Images of Place, Secularity and Gentrification: On Urban Religious Belonging in an Inner City Neighbourhood in Oslo. Secularism and nonreligion10(1)
- Mads Dahl Gjefsen & Knut Jørgen Vie (2021) Propping up interdisciplinarity: responsibility in university flagship research, Journal of Responsible Innovation
- Maria Taivalsaari Røhnebæk & Eric Breit (2021) ‘Damned if you do and damned if you don’t’: a framework for examining double binds in public service organizations, Public Management Review
- Dimka, Jessica, Sattenspiel, Lisa “We didn't get much schooling because we were fishing all the time”: Potential impacts of irregular school attendance on the spread of epidemics. American Journal of Human Biology. 2021.
