My professional background is social worker with Master's degree in Social Work, NTNU. I have worked in different areas, as for example Day Centre for deaf and deafblind, counselling service office for deaf and deafblind, housing agency - all at Trondheim municipality - but I have also worked at reception centre for refugees, deaf school and governmental centre of competence, and in Dominican Republic at special school and institution for disabled children and youths. Since October 2018 I have been working as PhD candidate at Department for Social Work, NTNU. The theme for the PhD project is Deaf women in Norway and India - work and participation in society.
Professional fields of interest are disability and society, Global South and North, deaf refugees and immigrants, diversity and society, CRPD (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities), inequity and social work.
I am associated member of the research groups Disability and Society (FUNKIS) and (KUPSA).
Publications:
Scientific paper in the trade journal FONTENE 02.11.2018:
https://fontene.no/fagartikler/dove-innvandrere-og-flyktninger-moter-ofte-lite-kunnskap-og-forstaelse-i-helpeapparatet-6.47.582118.c664f386f9
Master's thesis in social work - "Døve innvandrere og flyktninger i møte med offentlige tjenester - Kommunikasjon, trygghet og tillit" (Deaf immigrants and refugees encountering public services - Communication, security and trust") the spring 2017 :
https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/handle/11250/2453678