Welfare and Inequality – Research – Department of Sociology and Political Science
Welfare and Inequality
Our Department has an acknowledged research community in this field and our research examine how resources and opportunities are distributed in society, both locally and globally. Our studies of welfare and inequality generally relate to health, but also to work, income, education, gender, family relationships and/or general participation in society.
Research Groups/Projects
- CHAIN - Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research - Coordinator: Professor Terje Andreas Eikemo
- The Sustainability of the Nordic Model - coordinator Brita Bungum
- Childhood, School and Inequality in the Nordic Countries (Unequal Childhood) (2019-)- Professor Håkon Leiulfsrud
- Health Inequalities in European Welfare States (2015-) Professor Terje Andreas Eikemo
- Trade, Labour Markets and Health (2018-2022) - Senior Research Fellow Courtney McNamara
- New Theoretical Perspectives on the Nordic Model of work-family reconcilations (2013-2016). Professor Elin Kvande and Professor Emerita Berit Brandth
Publications
This is some recent publications in English. Please see the researchers' NTNU-profiles for more.
- Ronald Labonté, Eric Crosbie, Deborah Gleeson and Courtney McNamara (2019): USMCA (NAFTA 2.0): tightening the constraints on the right to regulate for public health. Globalization and Health.
- Oda Norheim and Pål Erling Martinussen (2019): Happiness and the role of social protection: how types of social spending affected individuals’ life satisfaction in OECD countries, 1980–2012. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.
- Courtney McNamara, Marlen Toch-Marquardt, Erlend Løvø Fjær, Per Stornes, Mirza Balaj, Terje Andreas Eikemo (2017): Social Inequalities in Health and their Determinants. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 2017/27 - Supplement 1.
- Terje Eikemo,Tim Huijts, Clare Bambra, Courtney McNamara, Per Stornes and Mirza Balaj (2016): Social Inequalities in Health and their Determinants: Topline Results from Round 7 of the European Social Survey ;(2016). European Social Survey.
- Terje Eikemo, Clare Bambra, Tim Huijts and Rory Fitzgerald (2016): The First Pan-European Sociological Health Inequalities Survey of the General Population: The European Social Survey Rotating Module on the Social. European Sociological Review.
- Beckfield, Jason; Bambra, Clare; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Huijts, Tim; McNamara, Courtney L.; Wendt, Claus (2015): An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health. Social Theory and Health.
- Courtney McNamara (2015): Trade liberalization, social policies and health: an empirical case study. Globalization and Health.
- Vera Skalicka, Kristen Ringdal and Margot I. Witvliet (2015): Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and repeated measurement of explanatory risk factors in a 25 Years follow-up. PLOS ONE.
Courses Education
Courses offered at the Department:
Bachelor level:
- SOS1000 Introduction to Sociology
- SOS1016 Sociology and Society
- SOS2010 Inequality and Welfare
- SOS2021 Social Inequalities in Health (New course - more information will be available later)
Master level:
- SOS3608 Social Inequalities in Health
- SOS3519 International Perspectives on Work and Welfare State (New course, more information will be available later)
- SOS3521 Inqeualities, Welfare and Integration (new course, more information will be available later)
PhD:
Researchers
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Mirza Balaj, CHAIN Research coordinator
+47 73591716 mirza.balaj@ntnu.no -
Elodie Besnier, PhD Candidate
elodie.besnier@ntnu.no -
Berit Brandth, Professor Emeritus
+47 73592285 +47 91682706 berit.brandth@ntnu.no -
Brita Bungum, Associate professor
+47 73590440 +47 40875826 brita.bungum@ntnu.no -
Ibrahima Amadou Dia, Postdoctoral Fellow
+47 73559879 ibrahima.dia@ntnu.no -
Terje Andreas Eikemo, Professor, Leader of CHAIN
terje.eikemo@ntnu.no -
Erlend Løvø Fjær, Affiliated
+47 73598122 erlend.fjar@ntnu.no -
Kristian Heggebø, Postdoctoral Fellow
+47 92892449 kristian.heggebo@ntnu.no -
Jorid Hovden, Professor
+47 73591769 +47 91582171 jorid.hovden@ntnu.no -
Elin Kvande, Professor
+47 73591924 +47 48226998 elin.kvande@ntnu.no -
Håkon Leiulfsrud, Professor
+47 95404299 hakon.leiulfsrud@ntnu.no -
Pål Erling Martinussen, Professor
+47 73591649 +47 93093211 pal.e.martinussen@ntnu.no -
Courtney L. McNamara, Senior Research Fellow
+47 73592040 +47 45396272 courtney.mcnamara@ntnu.no -
Oda Nordheim, PhD Candidate
+47 98830531 oda.nordheim@ntnu.no -
Kam Sripada, Postdoctoral Fellow
+47 73413097 kam.sripada@ntnu.no -
Per Stornes, PhD Candidate
+47 73590798 per.stornes@ntnu.no -
Ingvill Stuvøy, Postdoctoral Fellow
+47 73590673 ingvill.stuvoy@ntnu.no -
Emil Øversveen, Postdoctoral Fellow
+47 73590856 emil.oversveen@ntnu.no