About
Rikke Tokle (PhD in Sociology) works as a researcher at the the Section for Youth Research at NOVA. Tokle's current research focuses on young people, sexual health, sexual risk, and drug use. Tokle is the project leader of the qualitative NOVA research project Sexual Culture in youth. Her research interests include youth culture, subculture, gender, sexuality, marginalization and the social meaning of alcohol, tobacco and drug use in adolescense. Tokle's previous research includes qualitative and quantitative studies of e-cigarette and alcohol use among young people, the changing tobacco and cannabis landscape, as well as exploratory studies of the evolving vaping (sub)culture.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Sociology of culture Substance use Youth Research Gender and sexuality Sexual violence
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing 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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Inequality in Youth – A Qualitative, Longitudinal Research Database
Inequality in youth is a qualitative, longitudinal research database on youths in Norway, intended to be a parallel to the quantitative Ungdata surveys.
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Sexual Culture in Youth
The project will investigate how young people negotiate, experience and handle issues related to sexuality, sexual health and risk - in light of both contemporary youth culture, and other social and societal conditions.
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The Domestic Violence Research Programme
The programme studies time trends in the prevalence of violence and assault, violence as phenomenon, and how violence is approached by the welfare- and justice systems.
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Youth Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Digital Era (DIGISEX)
The project will shed light on how digital media has created both new opportunities and new forms of risk concerning youth sexuality.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Tokle, Rikke
; Scheffels, Janne
(2025).
Bruk av e-sigaretter som ungdomskultur.
Pedersen, Willy (Ed.).
De rike drikker mest, de fattige rammes hardest: Rus og sosial ulikhet . p. 67-85.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.23865/cdf.233.c
Frøyland, Lars Roar
;
Tokle, Rikke
; Burdzovic Andreas, Jasmina; Brunborg, Geir Scott
(2024).
Sexting and Mental Health in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study.
Journal of Adolescent Health.
Vol. 75.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.04.018
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.
Tokle, Rikke
; Scheffels, Janne
(2024).
Bruk av e-sigaretter som ungdomskultur.
20 p.
Forebygging.no.
Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.21340/x3b6-qc21
Stefansen, Kari
;
Solstad, Gerd Marie
;
Tokle, Rikke
(2023).
What Happened to Me? Ambiguity and Surety in Narratives of Intoxicated Sexual Assault.
Sociology.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231209243
Tokle, Rikke
; Buvik, Kristin;
Stefansen, Kari
;
Solstad, Gerd Marie
(2023).
Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards: adolescents’ narratives of sexualised risk in alcohol intoxication contexts.
16 p.
Journal of Youth Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2174010
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.
Vol. 4.
https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584221150909
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
Scheffels, Janne;
Tokle, Rikke
; Linnansaari, Anu; Rasmussen, Sofie; Charlotta, Pisinger
(2022).
E-cigarette use in global digital youth culture. A qualitative study of the social practices and meaning of vaping among 15–20-year-olds in Denmark, Finland, and Norway.
10 p.
International journal of drug policy.
Vol. 111.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103928
Raitasalo, Kirsimarja; Bye, Elin Kristin; Pisinger, Charlotta; Scheffels, Janne;
Tokle, Rikke
; Kinnunen, Jaana M.; Ollila, Hanna M.; Rimpelä, Arja
(2022).
Single, Dual, and Triple Use of Cigarettes, e-Cigarettes, and Snus among Adolescents in the Nordic Countries.
11 p.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH).
Vol. 19.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020683
