Work
Trond is associated professor at VCS and holds a Ph.D in Social Anthropology with specialization in Visual Anthropology. Trond has done research in Northern Norway and Northern Cameroon, where he has explored the themes of youths, urbanisation, ethnicity, gender, religion and visual anthropology.
He defended his PhD thesis on youth culture and urbanisation in the highly heterogeneous town Ngaoundéré in Northern Cameroon in September 2003. In this work Trond has worked intensively with seven different youth milieus, consisting members of eleven ethnic groups, Muslim and Christians, students and illiterates, immigrants and "natives" , all this to identify development of identity and group dynamics in this culturally highly complex setting. All these milieus have been studied through the use of different visual tools.
His Ph.D work includes a thesis consisting of photos from all these milieus, two films and one photo-documentary. The first film is about motorsycletaxidrivers in Ngaoundéré, titled: "Se débroiller dans l' illégalite: Baba Uba un mototaximan". This film is made with Mahmoudou Djingui. The second film is about a schoolteacher working in a village where the population are sceptical and reluctant towards western education, this film is called: "The Master said that" . Thirdly the photo-documentary with a soundtrack that is made together with the unemployed man photographed, titled "Struggle for a living".
Trond has worked at the Department of Social Anthropology and been connected to the milieu that now is called Visual Cultural Studies since 1994, participating in the development of the programme and teaching different subjects.
Projects
Trond has also been participating in the Ngaoundéré-Anthropos project, which is an university collaboration between University of Tromsø and University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.
Trond is also working on an Internet project, which questions the relation between formal education and development in Central-Africa.
Trond developed together with Siren Hope and Reni Wright, former students at VCS a project directed to teenagers in difficult situations. The young people are taught in film-making and film-editing and they make films about their own situation. In this way reflect and find way out
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