Selected ongoing projects

• Ethnographic research in control rooms and centers of coordination (e.g. emergency call centrals, and space operations), as well as in other industrial contexts (Petter Grytten Almklov)
• State-society relations from a comparative perspective. Her research projects involved ethnographic field work in in China, Germany and the UK (Katja Levy).
• Ethnography and social practice art: Multimodal attentions and art-anthropology collaborative experiments for social change (Emil A. Røyrvik)
• Organizing otherwise: Ethnography of alternativity and possibility in the age of polycrisis (Emil A. Røyrvik)
• Suffering and suspense among Roma in Bulgaria: Extended liminality and specters of expulsion (Emil A. Røyrvik) 
• Height, speed, reach – Airpower caught between administration and defense
  • This project investigates organizational restructuring and change in the Norwegian Air Force. It develops new knowledge of why the need for change arises, which assessments initiate the restructuring processes and which organizational ideas (or concepts) are chosen and why. A central question is in what ways the organizational changes that are being made in the Norwegian Air Force are characterized by global organizational ideas and how they are adopted and translated locally. (Gunhild Foss Heggem, PhD project)
• Gender, leadership and governance in sport organizations (Lucy Piggott)
• Borderlands, mobility and the war. Exploring how the everyday aspects of mobility in borderlands regions in Northern Norway and Eastern Poland are affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine. (Jakub Stachowski)
  • The project examines the perspectives of both long-term and relatively newly-arrived local residents and considers such elements as changing relationships between people on different sides of national borders, negotiations of local identities and role of collective memory 
• Social life in the city.
  • The PhD project is part of the interdisciplinary project Mobility Lab Stor-Trondheim, which searches for innovative solutions for sustainable urban space and mobility. Ethnographic research is conducted both through (1) the experiences of those who live, travel and work there, and (2) the processes linked to how the social city is planned and negotiated between politics, public administration and private development. 
     

Selected publications

Here are some selected publications. Please see the researchers' NTNU-profiles for more. 

• Almklov, P. G., Halvorsen, K., & Johansen, J. P. (2020). Accountability on the Fly-Accounting for Trouble in Space Operations. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 29, 191-226.
• Blom Brodersen, M. and E.A. Røyrvik. 2021. “The stable stranger. Constructing the Roma within the European neoliberal culture complex.” Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 92: 98-111.
• Dahl, J. Y. og Tjora, A. (2021) ‘Riding shotgun – Front-seat research and the socio-material considerations of ethnography on the move’, Qualitative Research. 0(0).
• Forseth, Ulla and Ognedal, Maja Joner. 2023 “Employing emotions and judicial macro narratives: An ethnography of criminal court cases”. 9th International ethnography and qualitative research conference, June 7-10, Trento, Italy.
• Heggem, Gunhild Foss og Kvande, Elin (2017): Nordic work-family regulations exported to a liberal context. I: Work-Family Dynamics: Competing logics of regulation, economy and morals. Routledge. 
• Levy, Katja, and Knut Benjamin Pissler. 2020. Charity with Chinese Characteristics. Chinese Charitable Foundations between the Party-State and Society. Cheltenham UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Piggott, L., & Pike, E. 2020. 'CEO Equals Man': Gender and Informal Organisational Practices in English Sport Governance. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 55(7), 1009-1025.
• Røyrvik, E.A. 2023. “Traveling, translation, transformation: On social responsibility and the Nordic model in China. In Knudsen, S (Ed.) Corporate social responsibility and the paradoxes of state capitalism: Ethnographies of Norwegian energy and extraction businesses abroad, pp. 137-162. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
• Stachowski, Jakub. (2020) Positioning in ‘relational claustrophobia’- ethical reflections on researching small international migrant communities in rural areas. Journal of Rural Studies. Vol. 78, p. 176-184.
• Tjora, A. (2021) Kvalitative forskningsmetoder i praksis. 4. utgave. Oslo: Gyldendal akademisk.