• 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

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 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: 

• SOS8529 Social Inequalities in Health