[RESEARCH]
Medical
emergency call centres
Research on medical emergency
call centres (AMK centres) has been one of my main
interests since 1995 when this unit of the health sector by
coincidence ended up being my main empirical base for my
doctoral degree (dr.polit 1997). Later I have done some
follow-up work financed by KoKom (AMK-forskning
2000). I
am still doing a lot of writing on the topic and several
publications are in review.
Electronic
health records, health informatics and
telemedicine
At NTNU, we have been developing
interdisciplinary research about EPR in the projects
KVALIS and MOBEL
and has been
rewarded with a national research centre for EPR at the
university: NSEP. NSEP will run from 2004 until
2009 and is mainly aimed at advanced research within health
informatics, as well as core academic fields such as
informatics, sociology and medicine, to make possible
better electronic patient records. I am also involved in
more telemedicine-related projects by my engagement as an
Adjunct Associate Professor at the National Centre for
Telemedicine in Tromsų.
The patient
role in the 'technologicalised' health
services
This research interest is related to medical sociology, as
a critical perspective on medicine and health. Questions
include the potential of medicalisation because of use of
new technologies, the new 'digital patient' role, the
technological momentum in medicine, the development
of bioethics,
and so on. As basically a more theoretical interest, it is
aimed at developing reflections on the topic. I am working
on a edited book in Norwegian on this topic.
Music
technologies
As a musician and composer, as well as a sociologist, I
have developed a research project a few years ago aiming at
a better understanding of the influence of technology in
music-making. Based on perspectives from science and
technology studies, I am developing some perspectives that
make sense both within sociology and musicology (fairly
ambitious, OK, but at least there are publications in
review). Included in this interest is a project on music
technology and social work among youth, together
with
ISAK.
Urban
sociology
Very much in favor of ethnographic research methods and
influenced by thoughts from the Chicago
School of Sociology, I am have since 2005 been
developing research on urban life. In the first instance it
is concentrated around student housing, experimental
dwelling, perspectives on community and neighbourhood, and
domestication of public and semipublic spaces. Within this
research topic I collaborate with the Department of
Architectural Design NTNU and the Housing Section of
Trondheim Municipality.