Research Groups and Projects

• Migration and Mobility - coordinator Johan Fredrik Rye
• Organization and Society
• Gender, welfare and inequality - coordinator Brita Bungum
• GLARUS: Global Labour in Rural societies (2017-2020). Professor Johan Fredrik Rye
• Registerbaserte mobilitetsstudier (2019-). Professor Arild Blekesaune
• Robust Regulatory Regimes. Defences against major accidents (2014-2018). Professor Ulla Forseth
• New Theoretical Perspectives on the Nordic Model (2013-2016). Professor Elin Kvande og Professor Emerita Berit Brandth

Publications

This is some recent publications in English. Please see the researchers' NTNU-profiles for more. 

• Slettebak, Marie Holm (2020) Labour Migration and increased Inequality in Norway. Acta Sociologica
• Rye, Johan Fredrik, Slettebak, Marie Holm (2020). The new geography of labour migration: EU11 migrants in rural Norway. Journal of Rural Studies, Volume 75, pp. 125-131.
• Rye, J.F. (2019): Transnational spaces of class. Migrants' multiple, inconsistent and instable locations in the class structure. Current Sociology 67(1), pp. 27-46.
• Forseth, Ulla, Stewart Clegg og Emil Røyrvik. 2019: Reactivity and Resistance to Evaluation Devices. Valuation Studies
• Berit Brandt og Elin Kvande (2019): Flexibility: some consequences for fathers’ caregiving i Peter Moss, Ann-Zofie Duvander og Alison Koslowski (red):  Parental Leave and Beyond. Recent International Developments, Current Issues and Future Direction, Political Press. 
• Rye, J.F, M.H. Slettebak and H. Bjørkhaug (2018): From Family to Domestic and Global Labour? A Decade of Proletarisation of Labour in the Norwegian Horticulture Industry. European Countryside, 10(4), s. 528-542
• Elin Kvande og Berit Brandt (2018): Workplace support of father's parental leave use in Norway.Community, Work and Family.
• Berit Brandt (2018): Farmers framing fatherhood: everyday life and rural change. Agriculture and Human Values
• Berit Brandth og Elin Kvande (2018): Fathers’ sense of entitlement to ear-marked and shared parental leave. The Sociological Review.
• Rye, Johan Fredrik (2018): Labour migrants and rural change: The "mobility transformation" of Hitra/Frøya, Norway, 2005-2015. Journal of Rural Studies. 
• Berit Brandth, Sigtona Halrynjo og Elin Kvande (2017). Work-Family Dynamics. Competing Logics of Regulation. Economy and Morals.
• Rye, Johan Fredrik, og Scott, Sam (2018): International Labour Migration and Food Production in Rural Europe: A Review of the Evidence. Sociologica Ruralis.

Courses and Education

Courses offered at the Department: 

Bachelor level: 

• SOS2006 Work and Organisation 
• SOS2017 Organisation and Safety
• SOS2018 Organizational Theory

Master level: 

• SOS3519 International Perspectives on Work and Welfare State

PhD: 

• SOS8528 International Perspectives on Working Life, Welfare State and Family

Continuing Education: 

• Master of Management