I have been employed since January 2005 as Associate Professor in work, society and
learning at the Faculty of Education, Institute for Educational research (Pedagogisk
forskningsinstitutt). Previously employed at the Centre for technology, innovation and culture
1995-2004, Work Research Institute (WRI) and Norwegian University of Science and
Technology Japan Programme (part time).
My educational background is Cand.Mag., which is more or less equivalent to B.A. (1984)
from University of Oslo with the subjects Spanish, Japanese and Social Anthropology.
Received M.A. (1989) and Ph.D. (1992) from Ritsumeikan University, Japan, in applied
sociology.
Keeper of dogs (one tibetan terrier and two pulik) and catcher (sometimes) of fish (pike).