About
Åsmund Hermansen has a bachelor and master’s degree in political science from the University of Oslo (2009) and a PhD in social work and social policy from Oslo and Akershus University College (2016). Hermansen teaches research methods and statistical analysis and was awarded the award «Teacher of the Year» by the Student Parliament In 2018 following student nominations. Hermansen is especially interested in using digital dissemination channels to further develop and make teaching in research methods and statistical analysis available.
Hermansen is involved in several research projects that involve analyses of register data and has a special expertise in register-based analyses.
Research interests: Including working life, municipal nursing and care services, retirement, Active Aging, the welfare state's income security schemes, social inequality in health, work exposures, health literacy, statistical modeling.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Social sciences Sociology Political science and organisational theory
Subject areas
Social Politics Retirement Inclusion in the Labour Market The care sector Active ageing Interaction reform Eldre arbeidstakere Life Cycle Analyzes Work environment and health Psychosocial work environment Welfare policy
Research projects
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Do you want to participate in an interview about how it is to receive social assistance?
We are looking for participants to a study about how it is to receive social assistance. Your contribution is important for us to understand how it is to live on social assistance.
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Hand hygiene, infections prevention, and antibiotic use in nursing homes
The purpose of this study is to organize and test methods to bring about a change in behavior over time, in order to achieve the main goals of increasing adherence with hand hygiene, contributing to the reduction of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and reducing the use of antibiotics in nursing homes.
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Welfare State Life Courses: Social Inequalities in the Co-evolution of Employment, Health and Critical Life Events (WELLIFE).
This project is a multidisciplinary Nordic collaboration researching inequalities in health and opportunities in the Nordic welfare states, and how they unfold over individuals life courses.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Le, Giang Huong; Hermansen, Åsmund; Dahl, Espen (2023). Constructing and validating an Occupational Job Strain Index based on five Norwegian nationwide Surveys of Living Conditions on work environment. BMC Public Health .
Wahl, Astrid Klopstad; Hermansen, Åsmund; Tschamper, Merete Kristin; Osborne, Richard H.; Helseth, Sølvi; Jakobsen, Rita; Larsen, Marie Hamilton
(2022).
The Parent Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ-Parent). Adaptation and validity testing with parents of children with epilepsy.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28335
Klinte, Mathilde; Hermansen, Åsmund; Anne-Marie, Nybo Andersen; Stine, Kjær Urhøj (2022). Joint exposure to parental cancer and income loss during childhood and the child’s socioeconomic position in early adulthood: a Danish and Norwegian register-based cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health .
Hermansen, Åsmund; Dahl, Espen (2022). Constructing and validating an Occupational Mechanical Job Exposure Index based on five Norwegian nationwide Surveys of Living Conditions on work environment. BMC Public Health . Vol. 22.
Hermansen, Åsmund; Saltkjel, Therese (2022). Doing it step by step: a flipped classroom approach to teaching statistical analysis in social work. Social Work Education .
Wondemu, Michael Yisfashewa; Joranger, Pål; Hermansen, Åsmund; Brekke, Idunn (2022). Impact of child disability on parental employment and labour income: a quasi-experimental study of parents of children with disabilities in Norway. 11 p. BMC Public Health . Vol. 22.
Dahl, Espen; Hermansen, Åsmund (2022). Livsløpsperspektiv som teoretisk og metodologisk tilnærming. Saltkjel, Therese; Rønningstad, Chris Andre; Sønderskov, Mette (Ed.). Samhandling og inkludering i arbeidslivet. 3. p. 72-94. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Hermansen, Åsmund; Dahl, Espen (2022). Unge på arbeidsavklaringspenger: «tung bagasje», sen avklaring og lite arbeid. Saltkjel, Therese; Rønningstad, Chris Andre; Sønderskov, Mette (Ed.). Samhandling og inkludering i arbeidslivet. 4. p. 97-118. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Tschamper, Merete Kristin; Wahl, Astrid Klopstad; Hermansen, Åsmund; Jakobsen, Rita; Larsen, Marie Hamilton
(2022).
Parents of children with epilepsy: Characteristics associated with high and low levels of health literacy.
Epilepsy & Behavior
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Vol. 130.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/94893
Sandbekken, Ida Hellum; Hermansen, Åsmund; Utne, Inger; Grov, Ellen Karine; Løyland, Borghild (2022). Students’ observations of hand hygiene adherence in 20 nursing home wards, during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Infectious Diseases . Vol. 22.
