Academic interests
My research focuses on exploring the narratives of young adult cancer survivors. This is primarily situated in disability studies, and draws on perspectives from the medical humanities and medical sociology. The research addresses both the educational experiences and everyday experiences of young adult cancer survivors. My current work is on the project: Narratives of young cancer survival. An exploration of experiences related to surviving cancer while also being young.
Substantive focus:
Lived experience
Voiced experience
Disease, illness and disability
Methodological focus:
Semi-structured to unstructured interviewing
Co-constructive grounded theory
Meta-ethnography
Auto-ethnography
Main supervisor:
Jan Grue, Department of Sociology and Human Geography (UiO)
Co-supervisors:
Hilde Bondevik, Department for Interdisciplinary Health Sciences (UiO)
Luca, Tateo, Department of Special Needs Education (UiO)
Background:
2018 - Doctoral Research Fellow, UiO
2015 - 2018 Educational / Psychological Counselor, Oslo PPT
2014 - 2015 Clinical educator, BUP Nord
Education:
MA, Special Needs Education, University of Oslo (2014).
Thesis: Grief in times of illness. Young cancer survivors’ stories of the loss of a friend with the same disease as themselves. http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-45283