About
Ola Røed Bilgrei is Research Professor at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO) and associated with the research group for Consumption Policy and Economy. He has a PhD in sociology from the University of Oslo (2019).
Bilgrei mainly uses cultural and qualitative perspectives in studies of legal and illegal drug use. Among other things, his research examines how such consumption practices can be related to wider societal conditions such as digitalisation, identity work, youth cultures, symbolic consumption and marginalized street life. This work typically draws on large, qualitative data sets that include individual and group interviews, longitudinal studies, textual analysis, and online ethnography.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Qualitative methods Drugs Youth culture Sub-culture Digital Culture Consumption Research
Research projects
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Changing Drug Use and Drug Policy
The project aims to provide new insights into young people's patterns of alcohol and illegal drug use, the social meaning of drugs, and the consequences of drug-related sanctions.
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DISCo: Digital infrastructures for sustainable consumption: Redirecting, reorganizing, reducing and reimaging consumption
DISCo aims to produce knowledge on how consumption can move in a more sustainable direction by applying digital technologies.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Bilgrei, Ola Røed ; Scheffels, Janne; Buvik, Kristin; Tokle, Rikke (2024). The green shift? Narratives of changing cannabis policies and identity-work among Norwegian adolescents. Wanke, Michał; Sandberg, Sveinung; Macit, Ruken; Gulerce, Hakan (Ed.). Cannabis: Cultures and Markets. p. 39-48. Taylor & Francis.
Bilgrei, Ola Røed
; Hanoa, Kristin; Buvik, Kristin
(2024).
“You have to be street smart”: Street capital and the social organisation of risk among people who inject drugs in Norway.
16 p.
Health, Risk and Society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2024.2318548
Scheffels, Janne; Brunborg, Geir Scott;
Bilgrei, Ola Røed
;
Tokle, Rikke
; Burdzovic Andreas, Jasmina; Buvik, Kristin
(2023).
Ambivalence in Adolescents’ Alcohol Expectancies: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study Among 12-to-18-Year-Olds.
Journal of Adolescent Research.
https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584221150909
Hanoa, Kristin;
Bilgrei, Ola Røed
; Buvik, Kristin
(2023).
Injecting Alone: The Importance of Perceived Safety, Stigma and Pleasure for Solitary Injecting.
Journal of Drug Issues (JDI).
Vol. 54.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00220426231151377
Bilgrei, Ola Røed
; Scheffels, Janne; Buvik, Kristin;
Tokle, Rikke
(2022).
The green shift? Narratives of changing cannabis policies and identity-work among Norwegian adolescents.
Drugs: education prevention and policy.
Vol. 29.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.2023468
Hanoa, Kristin;
Bilgrei, Ola Røed
; Buvik, Kristin; Gjersing, Linn
(2021).
“Hooked on the needle”: Exploring the paradoxical attractions towards injecting drug use.
8 p.
Drugs: education prevention and policy.
Vol. 29.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1955829
Buvik, Kristin;
Tokle, Rikke
;
Bilgrei, Ola Røed
; Scheffels, Janne
(2021).
Alcohol use in adolescence: a qualitative longitudinal study of mediators for drinking and non-drinking.
Drugs: education prevention and policy.
Vol. 29.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1952931
Bilgrei, Ola Røed
; Buvik, Kristin;
Tokle, Rikke
; Scheffels, Janne
(2021).
Cannabis, youth and social identity: the evolving meaning of cannabis use in adolescence.
16 p.
Journal of Youth Studies.
Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.1948513
Bilgrei, Ola Røed
;
Bakken, Anders
;
Pedersen, Willy
(2021).
Når ungdom ruser seg.
Ødegård, Guro; Pedersen, Willy (Ed.).
UNGDOMMEN. p. 255-274.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2838822
Bilgrei, Ola Røed
(2019).
Community-consumerism: negotiating risk in online drug communities.
Sociology of Health and Illness.
Vol. 41.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12864
