Irene Bisasso Hoem is a Phd candidate with research and teaching responsibilities at the department of Education and Lifelong Learning(NTNU). She has an interdisciplinary education background from both the global South and global North in geography, education, childhoodstudies and development studies. She holds a masters degree from Norwegian University of Science and Technology(NTNU), a post graduate diploma in education and a bachelor degree from Makerere university in Uganda.
Since Autumn 2021, she is teaching and working as the coursecordinator in BARN2001 Children's Rights in a Global Perspective and BARN 2003 Introduction to Childhood Studies.
Also a guest lecturer in other courses;Master's Program in Childhood Studies level and examines master theses.
Her PhD research project is about transformative learning among children and youths, towards appreciation of diversity and inclusion in Norway. The project is inspired by transformative learning theory and her long-lived experiences of U(O)buntu (The African philosophy).
Her master thesis from NTNU focused on children and women as internally displaced persons in urban areas in Uganda, her bachelor dissertation from Makererer University, focused on urban displacement and slum upgrading transformations in Uganda.
Bisasso Hoem's research interests and experience includes children, youth, family and their lived experiences, transformative learning processes, diversity, inclusion, sense of belonging, representation and othering, health inequalities and mental health, forced migration, humanitarianism in local and global settings. She is familiar with different discourses including among others within children's rights(UNCRC and the African charter), childhood studies, decolonisation , humanitarian work and global health.
She is a member of a research group WorldViews , member of Norwegian Research School of Global Health(NRSGH ) where she worked as a research and administrative assistant before embarking on her doctoral studies. She also networks and collaborate with Makerere University, Uganda, and Yale University, The USA
Her past work experiences in Uganda and Norway includes Research, Teaching, Administration, Advocacy, working in NGOs, Private and Public sectors, Universities and Research schools.
