About
What we eat, and why we eat the way we do, is at the core of Laura Terragni’s work. She is a Professor at OsloMet – the Metropolitan University and leads the research group on Nutrition, combining research, teaching, and close engagement with society. Her research explores how food practices are shaped by migration, culture, everyday life, and social and economic living conditions. A central focus of her work is food security, and how access to healthy and sustainable food is closely linked to health and social inequality. As a teacher, Terragni is responsible for the course Food, Health and Sustainability and also teaches Food and Migration. She is committed to connecting theory with real‑world challenges and encourages students to reflect critically on food systems, inequality, and sustainability from both global and local perspectives. With long experience in academic supervision, she greatly values working closely with students and sees teaching and supervision as collaborative processes. She enjoys engaging in dialogue, supporting students’ intellectual development, and creating learning environments where research, education, and practice inform one another. Terragni participates in and leads both national and Nordic research projects, and she is deeply committed to research and teaching that make a difference. For her, knowledge is most powerful when it is developed in close dialogue with students and the practice field—and when it has the potential to inspire change in policy, practice, and everyday life.
Field of study
Disease prevention Sociology of food Healthcare communication Migration health
Research groups
Research projects
Completed research projects
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Digitalisation of student activity through group work (Digigroups)
In this project, we will study facilitators for successful digital group work.
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Food security among refugees and asylum seekers in Norway
The aim of the project is to investigate the prevalence of food insecurity and factors associated among asylum seekers and refugees in Norway.
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Food2Gather: Exploring foodscapes as public places for integration
FOOD2GATHER investigates the roles food play in creating public spaces, shaping opportunities for communication and relations between places and the peoples that inhabit it.
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Policy Evaluation Network (PEN) – Public policies addressing health-related behaviours in Europe
The Joint Programming Initiative a Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life (JPI HDHL) brings together 26 countries that align research programming and fund new research to prevent or minimise diet-related chronic diseases.
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Pregnant plus
Developement and testing of a mobile application for the management of gestational diabetes.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Løvhaug, Anne Lene; Garnweidner-Holme, Lisa;
Terragni, Laura
; Helleve, Arnfinn
(2025).
Norwegian food system actors’ perspectives on participating in a cross-sector research partnership: a qualitative study.
BMC Nutrition.
Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40795-025-01192-1
Terragni, Laura
; Løvhaug, Anne Lene; Bjørkum, Ellen; Grönberg, Aysha; Bjerkheim, Siri; Lund-Iversen, Kaja;
Morseth, Marianne S.
(2025).
Identifying preferences for sustainability labeling and measures to increase sustainable food consumption among Norwegian consumers.
Food Quality and Preference.
Vol. 134.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105673
Granheim, Sabrina Ionata; Torheim, Liv Elin;
Terragni, Laura
; Thurston, Miranda
(2025).
Conceptualizing the Digital Food Environment: A Framework.
Urban Planning.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.17645/up.10635
Granheim, Sabrina Ionata;
Terragni, Laura
; Torheim, Liv Elin; Thurston, Miranda
(2025).
The digitalization of young women's food environments in Norway.
Health and Place.
Vol. 96.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2025.103552
Roos, Gun
;
Reich, Clara Julia
;
Terragni, Laura
(2025).
Belonging.
Dolphijn, Rick; Polson, Nicholas (Ed.).
Food, Migration and Belonging: A Glossary for Doing Fieldwork in Contemporary Europe. p. 77-84.
Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68445-6_5
Maxson, Stephanie; Ueland, Øydis;
Terragni, Laura
; Grini, Ida Synnøve Bårvåg
(2025).
Vurdering av næringsinntak blant eldre førstegenerasjonsinnvandrere i Oslo: en kvalitativ pilotstudie.
Norsk tidsskrift for ernæring (NTFE).
Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.18261/ntfe.23.4.2
Løvhaug, Anne Lene; Garnweidner-Holme, Lisa; Abel, Marianne Hope; Kvalem, Helen Engelstad; Lund-Iversen, Kaja; Meltzer, Helle Margrete; Olsen, Hanne Fjerdingby;
Terragni, Laura
; Helleve, Arnfinn
(2025).
Managing engagement among public, private and civil society actors participating in NewTools: a research partnership on food profiling.
Public Health Nutrition (PHN).
Vol. 28.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980025100621
Sawyer, Alexia D. M.; Lenthe, Frank van; Kamphuis, Carlijn; Bengoechea, Enrique Garcia; Luszczynska, Aleksandra;
Terragni, Laura
; Volf, Kevin;
Roos, Gun
; Woods, Catherine; Forberger, Sarah; Scheidmeir, Marie; Langøien, Lars Jørun; Neumann-Podczaska, Agnieszka; Wieczorowska-Tobis, Katarzyna; Stronks, Karien
(2024).
Hypothetical mechanisms driving physical activity levels in ethnic minority groups living in Europe: a systematically identified evidence-based conceptual systems model.
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.
Vol. 21.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-024-01626-2
Lillekroken, Daniela
;
Bye, Asta
;
Halvorsrud, Liv
;
Terragni, Laura
;
Debesay, Jonas
(2024).
Food for Soul—Older Immigrants’ Food Habits and Meal Preferences After Immigration: A Systematic Literature Review.
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.
Vol. 26.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-023-01571-5
Morseth, Marianne
;
Henjum, Sigrun
;
Terragni, Laura
(2024).
Self-perceived food literacy among staff in Norwegian childcare institutions.
Norsk tidsskrift for ernæring (NTFE).
https://doi.org/10.18261/ntfe.22.2.2
