About
Aina Landsverk Hagen is a Research Professor with a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oslo, on collaborative creativity among architects in Oslo and New York. Her MA was based on ethnographic fieldwork in Iran, researching feminists, women’s journals, freedom of speech and youth agency in Teheran’s urban spaces. She was among the co-founders of the Norwegian feminist journal Fett while working in several media outlets as a desk journalist and copy editor, before moving on to become a social scientist – currently at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University. Hagen has done action research on digital and social transformation in private and public organizations, developed citizen social science and participatory peer-to-peer methodology with youth and students in local communities and higher education. She has extensive experience with and interest in experimentation with social science methods, ethnography, science dissemination and co-creation. The past years she has followed Iranian feminist activists in exile in Europe and USA. She is currently leading a new research venture, on young people’s practices of hope in super-diverse cities in the Nordic countries.
Field of study
Innovation Working life research Childhood and youth Feminism Creativity Knowledge organizations Digitalization Ytringsfrihet Media innovation Architect work Urban development Folkeforskning Social sustainability Participation
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
-
A Boost for Youth Clubs – A Research Project for Better Youth Services
How can youth clubs be strengthened to provide better services for young people? From 2025, we will follow the five-year initiative "A Boost for Youth Clubs" to develop knowledge about quality, framework conditions, and the club’s role in the local community.
-
Exploring Relationships of Trust and Distrust Between Youth Populations and Public Services in Vulnerable Areas (Ungtillit)
The project will contribute to gathering and developing knowledge about what young people's trust and distrust of public helpers is about, an how we can strengthen the relationships.
-
Involving young people in research and development of services, with the school health service as an example (UngPuls)
UngPuls will test knowledge-based methods for youth participation in research and service design.
-
YouHope: Practicing hope
In YouHope we will challenge myths and stereotypes of integration issues concerning youth citizens in super-diverse urban communities.
Completed research projects
-
Empowering youth and co-creating social innovations and policymaking through youth-focused citizen social science (YouCount)
YouCount will, through co-creative youth citizen social science (Y-CSS), with youth aged 15 to 29 years as citizen scientists, produce new knowledge of positive drivers for social inclusion of youth at risk of exclusion, as well as create innovation and new policies.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Rudningen, Gudrun;
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
;
Hansen, Per Bonde
(2025).
Situasjonell kreativitet: Hva kan papirdesken som forsvant, lære oss om kreativt arbeid?.
Mediehistorisk tidsskrift.
Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/https://medietidsskrift.no/wp-cont
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Lorenzen, Sara Berge
(2024).
Chasing balloons as scientific practice: On transformative cocreation and epistemic ethics of care in the emerging field of youth citizen social science.
International Journal of Action Research.
Vol. 20.
https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v20i1.06
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
; Engerbakk, Bjørk;
Lorenzen, Sara Berge
;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
(2024).
Rebels in their own job: How digging into a municipal mystery turned invited youth participation in an urban planning process into uninvited activism.
Children & society.
https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12820
Alves, Daniele Evelin ; Lorenzen, Sara Berge ; Hagen, Aina Landsverk ; Murray, Ane Evenstad; Aschehoug, Erik; Abildsnes, Miriam; Juul, Cathrine (2023). Hva med sklier i stedet for trapper? Elevers medvirkning ved byggeprosjekter i nabolaget. Bedre Skole. Vol. 2023.
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
;
Lorenzen, Sara Berge
(2022).
Pandemi som mulighetsrom for digital transformasjon.
Eliassen, Knut Ove; Ogundipe, Anne; Prytz, Øyvind (Ed.).
Estetiske praksiser i den digitale produksjonens tidsalder. p. 463-494.
Fagbokforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.55669/oa140513
Thorstensen, Erik;
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Brattbakk, Ingar
(2021).
Images of Place, Secularity and Gentrification: On Urban Religious Belonging in an Inner City Neighbourhood in Oslo.
Secularism and Nonreligion.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.5334/SNR.144
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
;
Bygdås, Arne
(2021).
“Magic through many minor measures”: How introducing a flowline production mode in six steps enables journalist team autonomy in local news organizations.
AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication.
https://doi.org/10.1007/S00146-021-01176-2
Hagen, Aina Landsverk ; Andersen, Bengt (2021). Ung medvirkning: Kreativitet og konflikt i planlegging. ISBN: 9788202748821. 311 p. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Andersen, Bengt
(2021).
Introduksjon til ung medvirkning, kreativitet og konflikt i
planlegging.
Hagen, Aina Landsverk; Andersen, Bengt (Ed.).
p. 11-41.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.150.ch1
Alves, Daniele Evelin
;
Lorenzen, Sara Berge
;
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
(2021).
Skolefag som kanal for ungdomsmedvirkning
i lokale utviklingsprosjekter.
Hagen, Aina Landsverk; Andersen, Bengt (Ed.).
p. 87-114.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.150.ch4
