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Heidi Moen Gjersøe

Heidi Moen Gjersøe

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Stensberggata 26, 0170 Oslo
  • Office number: X674
Phone
  • Office: +47 67 23 53 27
E-mail
  • heidi-moen.gjersoe@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Professor at VID Specialized University, Oslo, and senior researcher at Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, OsloMet. Co-editor for the KAI Chronicle (KAI-kronikken) at the Centre for Work Inclusion.

My research area is within social policy, street-level bureaucracy and welfare conditionality. My PhD was a study of the design and the local implementation of the Work Capability Assessment in the context of activation policies, in Norway and the UK.

Associate editor for International Journal of Social Welfare.

Fields of study

Academic disciplines

Social work   Sociology

Subject areas

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

Countries

Norway

Research groups

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen; Jones, Katy; Leseth, Anne; Scullion, Lisa; Martin, Philip (2023). Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway. European Journal of Social Work.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2212875

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen; Leseth, Anne (2022). Rettigheter, behov og plikter i aktivitetspolitikken: Forståelser av aktivitetsplikt for unge sosialhjelpsmottakere. Kritisk juss. Vol. 48.
https://doi.org/10.18261/kj.48.1.7

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2021). Providing help or restrictions? Frontline workers’ understandings of behavioural conditionality for health-related social insurance and social assistance benefit in a joined-up governance context. 12 p. European Journal of Social Work.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2021.1934412

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen; Strand, Anne Hege Henden (2021). The Street-Level Organisation in-between Employer Needs and Client Needs: Creaming Users by Motivation in the Norwegian Employment and Welfare Service (NAV). 17 p. Journal of Social Policy. Vol. 52.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279421000933

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen; Leseth, Anne (2021). Time to work – opposing political rationality with young peoples’ experiences of working in a mandatory activation context in Norway. 14 p. Journal of Applied Youth Studies (JAYS). Vol. 4.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-021-00031-x

Leseth, Anne; Vilhena, Susana; Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2020). Aktivitetspliktens innside og utside – Unge mottakere av sosialhjelp og deres erfaringer med aktivitetsplikt. Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning. Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.0809-2052-2020-02-04

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2020). Frontline provision of integrated welfare and employment services: Organising for activation competency. International Journal of Social Welfare. Vol. 30.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12464

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2019). Profesjoner. Brodtkorb, Elisabeth; Rugkåsa, Marianne (Ed.). Mellom mennesker og samfunn : sosiologi og sosialantropologi for helse- og sosialprofesjonene. p. 41-61. Gyldendal Akademisk.

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen; Leseth, Anne; Vilhena, Susana (2019). Frontline implementation of welfare conditionality in Norway: A maternalistic practice. Social Policy & Administration. Vol. 54.
https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12567

Gjersøe, Heidi Moen (2016). Vurdering av arbeidsevne i NAV: Et spørsmål om kunnskap?. Sosiologi i dag. Vol. 46.
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2476733



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