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Karen Christensen (born 1959) is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen. On a thesis: Care and Work. A Sociological Study about Changes in Norwegian Home Based Care Services she became Dr. Polit. of Sociology in 1997 at the University of Bergen. She has since made research in several projects about social care and services to the elderly and disabled people of the Norwegian welfare state. Among several articles she has been a co-author of a status report on Norwegian care services. At present she is editor of the Norwegian Journal of Sociology. Her central interests are social care and services, social policy, the challenges of the welfare state and qualitative methodology.
Hanne Marlene Dahl (born 1963) is an Associate Professor at Roskilde University, where she teaches and researches in the field of feminist social and political theory, feminist ethics, care, the welfare state professions and the Danish welfare state including (feminist) discourse analysis. She has studied in the USA and Great Britain, and has an MA in Political Theory (Essex) and a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from rhus University. She has published extensively in Danish and English in journals such as Acta Sociologica, The European Journal of Women's Studies, The International Journal of Feminist Politics (forthcoming, 2005) and in various edited works such as a contribution to the Danish commission on Power, and is currently the co-editor of the Danish feminist journal Kvinder, Kn & Forskning. Her current research is about caregiving work in the state, and theories of justice.
Rannveig Dahle (born 1940) is Dr. Philos. and senior research fellow at NOVA (Norwegian Social Research). Her research interests are in the field of gender, professions and health care organizations. Her publications include being co-editor of a forthcoming book on Welfare Services in Transition (2004) in a Norwegian context and several other papers on these issues. She is currently conducting research on flexibilization of professional work and temporary health care providers in medical institutions, and also doing research on the health sector as a multicultural arena, focusing at gender, ethnicity and class.
Betina Dybbroe (born 1952) is an Associate Professor, Ph.D. at the Department of Educational Research, University of Roskilde in Denmark. Her research includes qualification studies and the learning in care in work as well as in education, in a gender perspective. Additionally institutional analyses of the welfare state specifically regarding the caring professions and health sector, and changes in working identities and working comunities in relation to modernization of the public sector. For five years she has been part of the Life History Research Project of her department, funded by the research council of the humanities. Here she is focusing on methodological questions concerning psychoanalytical and socializational approaches in lifehistory research, in combination with biographical and narrative approaches.
Tine Rask Eriksen (born 1945) is an Associate Professor, Ph.D. at the Department of Education, Philosophy and Rhetoric University of Copenhagen. Head of the Master of Education and Professional Development Programme. Her research interests include questions related to nurses' and students' care socialization in the meeting with a female care education 1987-1991. 1991-1996 she developed a theory on how the sick handle life with cancer and the care relations they established with professionals. The project was supported by the Danish Cancer Association. Presently she is exploring the skills of practical professions and how they fare when they are rendered academic. She has published three books and several articles from 1979 in the Nordic countries.
Lea Henriksson (born 1954), Ph.D., Docent in Social Policy, works at Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, where she has held university positions as a researcher and a teacher in sociology and health research. Her doctoral thesis, published in 1998, was entitled Women's Heath Work and the Politics of Professionalisation (in Finnish). She has led an Academy of Finland research project on Service Professions in Transition (2000-2003) and is currently leading an Academy of Finland research project entitled The Politics of Recruitment.
Karen Jensen (born 1952) is Professor at the Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo. She is also Joint Professor at the Centre for the Study of Professions, Oslo University College. Her research interests include questions related to professional identity and learning, value commitments, transitions from school to working life, as well as to the more overall challenges related to professional development within a society characterized by rapid institutional and cultural shifts. Jensen is currently scientific leader for two research projects within the field of professional learning. The Desire to do Good - an analysis of moral motivation among health and social care personnel and Professional learning in a changing society. Both projects are supported by the National Council for Research in Norway.
Kristian Larsen (born 1958), nurse, Master of Educational Studies and Ph.D. Associate Professor at The Danish University of Education, Department of Educational Sociology, Denmark. Areas of interest are empirical research based on sociological theory about relations and positions within a medical field (patient, nurses, doctors).
Marta Szebehely (born 1950) is Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University. Her main fields of interest are in gender, social policy and care, especially care for elderly people in Sweden and in Scandinavia. Between 1999 and 2001 she was a member of the Swedish Welfare Commission appointed by the Swedish Government and since 2002 she is holding a six-year fellowship in gender equality studies financed by the Swedish Research Council. Together with Professor Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen at Lund University, she is heading the research programme Care for the elderly: Conditions and everyday realities , financed by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research. Among her recent publications is an edited book in Swedish based on a qualitative comparative study, examining the public home care services for elderly people in four Scandinavian countries.