Helga Eggebø
RESEARCHER I
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Outsideness and inclusion
The welfare society
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Researcher 1 with expertise in qualitative methods, migration and living conditions among queer people
Helga Eggebø (PhD) is one of the country's leading researchers in qualitative methods and has done innovative development work with the popular method collective qualitative analysis . Her empirical research focuses on three main themes: immigration regulation, living conditions among queer people, and aging.
Competence
Helga Eggebø's expertise in qualitative methods is widely used in teaching and research at the country's educational institutions and research institutes. Her article "Collective qualitative analysis" (2020) is widely cited, and she disseminates this work through lectures and workshops. She has also published methodological contributions on research ethics, follow-up research and policy analysis, and writes in Forskerforum and on her blog about what "everyone knows, but no one says loudly in this industry".
Eggebø has over ten years of experience in researching living conditions among queer people in Norway, and has played a central role in a number of research projects in the field. She has, among other things, researched rural queer people, queer people with immigrant backgrounds, and mapped living conditions among different groups of queer people through a national survey.
Eggebø's doctoral dissertation on the regulation of marriage immigration to Norway was one of the first comprehensive research works on this topic in Norway, and her work is widely cited within international migration research. More recently, she has researched the regulation of permanent residence, income requirements in immigration policy, and cuts in social security rights for immigrants.
Eggebø also has research on aging and care, climate and gender equality policy and has extensive expertise in law and policy in the field of gender equality and discrimination.
Education and work experience
Eggebø is a trained sociologist. She received her doctorate from the University of Bergen in 2013 with the thesis "The Regulation of Marriage Migration to Norway" . In addition to research, she has worked in public administration, as a political advisor to the Storting and with advice within equality and non-discrimination. Eggebø has also been a member of the government-appointed Equality Committee which was responsible for the two NOUs "Politics for equality" (2012) and "Struktur for equality" (2011).
Lectures and dissemination
Eggebø is an experienced research communicator with extensive lecturing experience and active participation in public debate. She is a regular writer in Forskerforum, writes on her own blog and has published nearly 80 articles in national and regional media.
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