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Meet NFU: Randi Solhjell

This week we will introduce you to one of our board members and Co-chair of NFU: Randi Solhjell.

Randi has been a part of NFU for 10 years and is a key member in our organization.

Her research area is: Cross-disciplinary social scientists, I have worked on topics including statehood in contested areas (easter DR Congo) and gender-based violence in war and conflict. I am currently finalizing research on the topics on policing hate crime and prevention of violent extremism. In my upcoming position (2023-2027) I will be part of the project “JustExport” led by Prof. Kjersti Lohne at the University of Oslo, Institute of Criminology, focusing on how Scandinavian states engage in penal export internationally.  
And she currently works for the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, the Faculty of Law, The University of Oslo.

She chose her research field because she have always sought perspectives from ‘unkowns’ – people and societies I want to learn more about. It can be both within my home country Norway but also from places more distant from where I am situated (Nepal, Liberia, Chad, DR Congo). This has led me to different topics and societies.   

And she believes that development studies is an important research area because it opens your mind to a world of injustice, difference and new knowledge fields. Knowledge is not taken for granted in a Eurocentric manner but critically explored theoretically and methodologically.  

To access some of her most recent work, please follow the links below:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13624806211009481 https://www.routledge.com/Dimensions-of-African-Statehood-Everyday-Governance-and-Provision-of-Public/Solhjell/p/book/9780367784850


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Seminar: Norwegian aid and trends in the Nordic region – aid cuts and vested interests?

NUPI invites to a breakfast seminar to be held on February 9th at 9:00 about Norwegian aid policies and trends in the Nordics.

The event is being organized in cooperation with the release of a special publication of the journal Forum For Development Studies, which focuses on trends, similarities and differents in Nordic development aid.

There will be speakers from different organizations, such as ReddBarna, NUPI, Norad, CMI, Foreign Affairs Department and Expert Group for Aid Studies, which will provide the perspective from academia, government and NGOs in this important issue.

One of the key themes of the seminar will be the reduced aid from Norway and the use of aid resources being redirected to Ukraine and ukrainians refugees.

The seminar is a hybrid event, registration is required for those attending physically, but not to watch it online. The seminar will be held in Norwegian.

For more information about the event and to register for it, please follow the link below:

https://www.nupi.no/arrangementer/2023/frokostseminar-norsk-bistand-og-trender-i-norden-bistandskutt-og-egeninteresser

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Meet NFU: Arnhild Leer-Helgesen

This week we will introduce you to one of our board members and our current lead Co-chair of NFU: Arnhild Leer-Helgesen.

Arnhild has been involved with NFU for 4 years and has taken the challenge of heading our board in the beggining of 2022.
She joined because NFU is a network of Norwegian scholars working with global development issues, but NFU also works closely with the other Nordic associations for development research and the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). Conferences and different activities help her keep track of ongoing debates, conferences, and publications. There is also a need for an association like NFU to unite researchers in the broader field to be able to advocate for knowledge-based policies and practices.


Her PhD was on religion and development and the role of faith-based institutions in Latin America. And she is currently working in a project on different understandings of gender across contexts, together with colleagues from Makerere University and University of Dar es Salaam.

She chose her research field because she have had an interest in international development, Latin America and religion since the start of her studies. Before her PhD she worked in international development cooperation, and her research interests are results of questions raised during these experiences.

Arnhild believes that development studies is an important field because it is a field where you get to and need to work with colleagues and other people from different contexts and you continuously reflect on power relations and situated knowledge. You meet researchers with an engagement that goes beyond the academic environment.

She currently works at the Department of Global Development and Planning at University of Agder (UiA).

Her current work involves being the project leader of the project “Gender and digitalization across contexts”, where she focus on different ways of understanding and teaching gender. She is also initiating research much closer to home, looking into how perspectives of global inequality are communicated in kindergartens.

To access some of her recent work, please follow the link below:

https://www.routledge.com/Negotiating-Religion-and-Development-Identity-Construction-and-Contention/Leer-Helgesen/p/book/9780367786090

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Meet NFU: Student Coordinator

This week we would like to introduce our student coordinator Julia Baldanza. Julia has been working with us at NFU since the beggining of September 2022.

She joined NFU because she believes that having a strong network connecting people working in development is important to allow them to share experiences and enrich the field and she wanted to contribute to making that happen.

Her main tasks are providing support for our board and being in charge of the social media accounts, as well as serving as a point of contact for those who wish to publice upcoming events, courses, conferences and workshops. If you would like to have NFU publicize your event, please reach out to her through nfucoordinator@gmail.com .

She is currently a master’s students in Global Development at the University of Agder and is writing her thesis with a focus on gender and health. Her main topics of interest are gender and politics.

Coming from South America, she believes that the development field is important because it can be essential in changing our world and that the latests changes in the field allowing for more perspectives from the global South to be heard show how much the field has to grow.

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Open Position: Researcher at OsloMet

There is an open position at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) at OsloMet for a researcher.

The position has a requirement of a completed or near completed PhD and norwegian language at a level C1.

Deadline to apply for it is on January 23rd, 2023.

To learn more and apply, follow the link below:

https://www.oslomet.no/om/ledige-stillinger/nibr-soeker-forskere

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Open Call: Call For Panels NALAS Conference 2023

The Nalas Conference 2023 has an open call for panel proposals. The Conference has an overall theme of “Islands, borders, archipelagos”.

The Conference will be held in Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge, Campus Drammen in June 15-16th of 2023 and is the Norwegian Associations of Latin American Studies (NALAS) in collaboration with the University of South-Eastern Norway.

Deadline to submit proposals is on December 31st of 2022.

For more information, follow the link below:

https://www.nalas.org/conference-2023

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Open Position: PhD candidates at Universitet i Agder

There are two open positions for PhD candidates at Universitet i Agder in connection with the FGS project.

The project focuses on: “Dual screening by Spectral Artificial Visual Examination for Female Genital Schistosomiasis and cervical cancer” 

The deadline to apply is December 31st of 2022.

More information about the positions and project can be found on the link below:

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/236443/phd-research-fellow-in-healthcare-provider-and-patient-perspectives-on-the-multi-spectral-diagnostic-tool-for-fgs-and-cervical-cancer-screening

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Seminar: Economics for Sustainability

Noragric would like to invite all for the seminar: Economics for Sustainability. The event is open for all that want to join, but registration is required, with a deadline on December 12th.

This is a very intersting and important subject as understanding how economics and sustainability can work together is the way to the future. We encourage all that are able to attend and participate.

The seminar will take place on December 14th, from 13:30 until 16:00.

The location is at:
NMBU Clock Building (room U120, ground floor) in Ås.

More information can be found on the link below:

https://www.nmbu.no/en/faculty/landsam/department/noragric/research/seminars/node/46393

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Open Positions: PhD candidates at Noragric

Two positions for PhD candidates are open within the Noragric – ERP project at NMBU. The positions are within international environment and development studies.

One position is focused on migration from West Africa and the other is focused on violent resistance and land governance in the Sahel region.

Both positions have a deadline on November 30th of 2022.

For more information on the positions, please follow the links below:

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/234930/phd-within-international-environment-and-development-studies-violent-resistance-and-land-governance-in-the-sahel

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/234936/phd-scholarship-within-international-environment-and-development-studies-migration-from-west-africa


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Open Call: NorDev2023 – Panel Proposal and Themes for Workshops

The Nordic Development Conference 2023 has an open call for suggestions of panel proposals and themes for workshops. The Conference has an overall theme of “Co-creation for a just transition towards a sustainable society”.

The Conference will be held in Uppsala University in Sweden from August 21st to August 23rd of 2023 and is being organized by Uppsala University and the Swedish Development Research Organization (SweDev).

Deadline to submit proposals is on December 20th of 2022.

More information regarding the submission process can be found on the link below:

https://www.nordev2023.se/call-for-papers/

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