Ira Malmberg-Heimonen
Present position:
Associate Professor
Project manager of RCT-project at GIV
Contact information:
Telephone:+47 22 45 36 46.
Mobile: +47 93 63 32 83
Fax: +47 22 45 36 00
Office: PE631
Address: Pilestredet 35, 0167 Oslo
E-mail: Ira.Malmberg-Heimonen@sam.hio.no
Ira Malmberg-Heimonen graduated as a social worker from the University of Helsinki in 1995, and has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from 1997. She has a Ph.D. in Social Work from 2005.
Ira Malmberg-Heimonen worked as a researcher in the Nordic project, ”Arbetslöshet bland unga i Norden",in the period 1995-1997 and later in the project ”Youth unemployment and social exclusion in Europe” in the periode 1998-2003.
In 1998 she worked as a researcher at the City of Helsinki Urban Facts. She worked as a researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in the period 1998-2000, and in the period 2001-2005 she worked as an assistant in Social Policy at the University of Helsinki, at the Swedish School of Social Science. In this period of time Ira Malmberg-Heimonen also completed her doctorate. From 2005 she worked as a senior lecturer at the Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki, before joining Oslo University College in the summer of 2006.
Main areas of research and fields of interests:
Re-employment and mental health effects of labour policies; unemployment, evaluation research (RCT), labour market transitions.