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
- Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL)
- Digital Prism and the Nordic Model of Workplace Democracy under Pressure (DigiWORK)
- Empowering youth and co-creating social innovations and policymaking through youth-focused citizen social science (YouCount)
- Flex-IT – A mixed-method study of cross-domain information technology use in everyday life
- Socioeconomic risk groups, vaccination and pandemic influenza (PANRISK)
- NEET: Preventing sick leave and marginalization in young adults
- Crossbow: Crossing and Managing Boundaries between Work and Non-Work – Co-creating Healthy Teleworking
Recent publications from AFI researchers
Kjersti Sagstad, Emilie Isager Howe, Silje C. Fure, Marianne Løvstad, Heidi Enerhaug, Helene Ugestad, Marte Feiring, Nada Andelic og Unni Sveen (2022) Transition back to work after mild TBI: a qualitative study, Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
Sadeghi, T., Wiers-Jenssen, J., & Thørrisen, M. M. (2022). International student mobility and labour market outcomes: The role of personality dimensions. Research in Comparative and International Education
Paul Horton & Selma Therese Lyng (2022) Qualitative Methods in School Bullying and Cyberbullying Research: An Introduction to the Special Issue, International Journal of Bullying Prevention
Jannicke Gottschalk Ballo, Mari Amdahl Heglum, Wendy Nilsen og Vilde Hoff Bernstrøm (2022) Can adolescent work experience protect vulnerable youth? A population wide longitudinal study of young adults not in education, employment or training (NEET), Journal of Education and Work Volume 35 2022, Issue 5
Vidar Bakkeli (2022): Evidence-based activation work and service individualisation: client and frontline worker experiences with a standardised intervention, European Journal of Social Work
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.
