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:

SOS8529 Social Inequalities in Health