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Cathrine Holst

Researcher

Cathrine Holst

Cathrine Holst joined ARENA in 2007. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Bergen (2005) with the thesis Feminism, Epistemology & Morality. Since 2005 she has been Associate Professor in Philosophy of Social Science at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (Senter for vitenskapsteori), University of Bergen. Holst has been employed as Research Assistant by the Centre for Women and Gender Research, University of Bergen, and by the research project ‘Power and Democracy’, University of Oslo/Bergen. She has been Editorial Assistant in Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift.

Projects

Holst contributes to the work packages Theoretical Framework and Gender, Justice and Democracy of the 5-year long ARENA-led and EU Commission funded research project RECON - Reconstituting Democracy in Europe, which has 19 partner universities across Europe.

Holst is partner in the research project Et kritisk blikk på norsk velferdsforskning, chaired by Associate Professor Bent Sofus Tranøy, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.

Selected publications