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Heidi Moen Gjersøe

Heidi Moen Gjersøe

Job title
  • Associate Professor
Visiting address
  • Stensberggata 26, 0170 Oslo
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 35 327
E-mail
  • heidi-moen.gjersoe@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Heidi Moen Gjersøe is Professor of Social Work and affiliated with the Centre for Work Inclusion (KAI) at OsloMet, and VID Specialized University in Oslo.

Gjersøe's research focuses on the frontline implementation of social policy, particularly within public employment services and social assistance, as well as issues related to activation, labour market inclusion, and welfare governance.

Gjersøe has extensive experience from interdisciplinary research projects funded by the Research Council of Norway and public sector agencies, and collaborates closely with practitioners and stakeholders in the field.

She also serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Social Welfare.

Field of study

Public Administration   Social Politics   Qualitative methodologies   Quality of Service   Norwegian Labour and Welfare Offices   User perspective   Young adults   Welfare policy   The Norwegian employment and welfare reform   Autonomy and discretion   Social security   Activation policies   Governance   Reception   NEET

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Leseth, Anne Birgitte (2026). Social investment as reciprocal becoming: Negotiating conditional employment support among young people. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.
https://doi.org/https://www.cambridge.org/core/jou

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Terum, Lars Inge (2026). Flere i jobb, færre på trygd? Arbeidsinkludering i velferdsstatens frontlinje. ISBN: 9788215068121. 290 p. Universitetsforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5524983

Myraunet, Ingunn ; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Strøm, Anita (2026). Professionals’ experiences of facilitating and negotiating user involvement in flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) teams: a qualitative study. Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice. Vol. 21.
https://doi.org/10.1108/jmhtep-02-2025-0019

Myraunet, Ingunn ; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Strøm, Anita (2026). Enacting experiential knowledge in flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) teams – a qualitative study. Journal of Integrated Care.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-04-2025-0033

Nilsen, Michaela ; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Kleppe, Lise Cecilie (2025). ‘The elephant in the room’: when complex service needs are met with avoidance by frontline workers. Nordic Social Work Research. Vol. 15.
https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857x.2025.2599343

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Alecu, Andreea Ioana ; Bråthen, Magne ; Dahl, Espen (2025). Labour Market Programmes, Service Individualisation and Employment Outcomes. Social Policy & Administration. Vol. 60.
https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13132

Nilsen, Michaela ; Kleppe, Lise Cecilie ; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2025). Sosialt arbeid i Nav: Hverdagspraksis og utfordringer i oppfølgingen av utsatt ungdom. Søkelys på arbeidslivet. Vol. 42.
https://doi.org/10.18261/spa.42.3.1

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2025). Profesjoner. Brodtkorb, Elisabeth; Rugkåsa, Marianne (Ed.). Mellom mennesker og samfunn: sosiologi og sosialantropologi for helse- og sosialprofesjonene. p. 39-55. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3906848

Nilsen, Michaela ; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Kleppe, Lise Cecilie (2025). Is it all about the money? - a study of specialized frontline work in the Norwegian social assistance service. Journal of Comparative Social Work. Vol. 19.
https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v19i2.696

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Leseth, Anne Birgitte (2024). Waiting as sociality–relational waithood in Norwegian activation. European Journal of Social Work. Vol. 27.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2024.2315561



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Research reports

Sadeghi, Talieh ; Bakkeli, Vidar ; Bråthen, Magne ; Hansen, Helle Cathrine ; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Köhler-Olsen, Julia Franziska ; Karlsen, Elisabeth ; Ødemark, Ingjerd Legreid ; Thørrisen, Mikkel Magnus (2024). Arbeidsavklaringspenger - en sammenstilling og oppsummering av kunnskap på området. ISBN: 9788276094831. 122 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3129167

Sadeghi, Talieh ; Bråthen, Magne ; Ødemark, Ingjerd Legreid ; Bakkeli, Vidar ; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Hansen, Helle Cathrine ; Köhler-Olsen, Julia ; Karlsen, Elisabeth (2023). Arbeidsavklaringspenger: Protokoll for en oppsummering av kunnskapen på området. 38 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3105474

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2019). Komplekse vurderinger i førstelinjen: Arbeidsevnevurdering som aktiveringspolitisk virkemiddel, i: Alle skal med? Om likhet, arbeidslinje og alles rett til velferd i et samfunn i endring. 35 p. VID vitenskapelige høgskole.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4355139

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2017). Komplekse vurderinger i førstelinjen – en studie av arbeidsevnevurdering som aktiveringspolitisk virkemiddel. ISBN: 9788283640632. 79 p. Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4165233



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Dissemination

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Terum, Lars Inge (2026). Flere i jobb, færre på trygd? Arbeidsinkludering i velferdsstatens frontlinje. Forskningsseminar. Fafo.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5586233

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2026). Å styre et sammenvevd og motsetningsfylt felt: Kunnskap om arbeidsinkludering og inntektssikring i Nav. Med kunnskap skal velferdsstaten bygges (Nav + Akademia = Sant). Universitetet i Oslo.
https://doi.org/https://www.jus.uio.no/forskning/a

Gundersen, Torbjørn; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Lundeberg, Ingrid Rindal (2026). Prosedural rettferdighet for barn og unge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5577005

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Terum, Lars Inge (2026). Færre på trygd betyr ikkje nødvendigvis fleire i jobb.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5560915

Bartoszko, Aleksandra; Godø, Helene Tove; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2026). Arendalsuka | Arrangement: Ung og utenfor: Når barnevern, Nav og….
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5559648

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Godø, Helene Tove; Hagaseth, Ingjerd Thon (2026). Ung og utenfor: Når barnevern, Nav og andre tjenester skal samarbeide. Arendalsuka. Arendal kommune.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5556444

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Terum, Lars Inge (2026). Flere i jobb – men for enhver pris?. Arendalsuka. Arendal kommune.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5556439

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Bråthen, Magne ; Dahl, Espen ; Alecu, Andreea Ioana (2026). Does collaboration between welfare services and employers bring jobless people with complex needs back into work?. 6th Street-Level Bureaucracy conference. Aalborg universitet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5525617

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Strand, Anne Hege Henden (2026). Automating income protection: Reconfiguring caseworker roles in a digitalised Norwegian welfare administration. 6th Street-Level Bureaucracy Conference. Aalborg university.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5524985

Misje, Turid; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen ; Tangen, Janne Kristin (2026). Uncoordinated coordination? Social workers’ struggles with Individual Plans in a fragmented welfare system. The European Social Work Research Association Conference 2026: Social Work and Interdisciplinary Research: researching and facilitating evidence informed practice and policy. . ESWRA - The European Social Work Research Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5508033



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