About
Borch was educated sociologist at the University of Oslo and took her Ph.D. degree at the University of Helsinki on gambling and gambling problems in households. Today, Borch holds a position as Research Professor at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO) at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). She leads the NCR-financed project “Practices and Policies of Belonging among Minority and Majority Children of Low-Income Families” (BELONG, 2021-2025), and writes a book about literature reviews for social scientists to be published by Cappelen Damm Akademiske in Summer 2024. Borch has worked at SIFO since 1994 and has throughout her career studied several subjects, such as obesity, food insecurity, environmental sustainability, responsible research and innovation (RRI), Christmas gift giving, digital media, children and youths’ consumer literacy and relation to lootboxes in online games and TV-commercials.
Research groups
Research projects
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Practices and policies of belonging among minority and majority children of low-income families (BELONG)
This project seeks to increase current knowledge of the practices causing marginalization and social exclusion of minority and majority children of low-income families.