CV Engelsk

Name:

Steinar Stjernø

Office Address:

OsloUniversityCollege

OKS, Pilestredet 56

0167 Oslo, Norway

Telephone:

Internat. + 47 22453500

Telefax:

Internat. + 47 22453005

E-mail:

steinar.stjerno@oks.hio.no

Date of birth:

10 January 1945

Education:

Mag. art. Public Administration and Organizational Theory, University of Bergen 1971.

Teaching Positions:

1971- 1978, 1992 – 1994, 2002 –

Lecturer/associate professor/professor

NorwegianStateCollege of Local

Government Administration and

Social Work

2002 –

Professor of social policy and social

work at the master program at the department of social work, OsloUniversityCollege

Courses taught

Political Science

Social science methods

Social Administration and Planning

Social policy

Comparative social policy

Research positions:

1978 -1980

Research team leader

Project on the organization and work of the social welfare agencies, financed by the Ministry of Social Affairs.

1983 -1988

Associate Professor and research team leader.

Project on change and professional development of social welfare agencies, initiated and financed by the Ministry of

Social Affairs.

Research project on client evaluation of the professional work of social worker, financed by Norwegian Council of Applied Social Research (NORAS).

1987

Professor of social work and social policy

1996 -1997

Project leader Evaluation of Research on Norwegian Social Welfare Agencies, financed by the Norwegian Research Council.

1996

Appointed by the Swedish Council for Social Research to evaluate research on social welfare services in Sweden.

2002

Appointed by the Swedish Council for the social sciences and working life as member of an expert committee to evaluate research in social work

Some leadership positions:

1981 – 1984

Head of Department for social work, Norwegian State College of Local Government Administration and Social Work

1988 - 1992

Dean of faculties

Norwegian State College of Local Government Administration and Social Work.

1991 – 1995

Member and leader of the National Research Programme on Immigration, Migration and Ethnic Minorities, Norwegian Research Council.

1994 - 2000

Rector/president of OsloUniversityCollege

1995 – 2000

Member of the executive committee of the Council of University Colleges in Norway.

1999 – 2004

Leader of the National Research Program on Welfare, Family and Adolescence, established and financed by the Norwegian Research Council.

Publications:

Books and research reports.

In Norwegian (titles in translation):

Social Policy, Bureaucracy, Profession,

Universitetsforlaget, 1981 (180 p).

Care as a Profession. Professional Methods and Roles in the Social Welfare Agency, Universitetsforlaget, 1982, (230 p).

Stress and Burnout. Strains in Working with People, Universitetsforlaget, 1983, (210 p).

Welfare and Need, Pax, 1984,(ed - 180 p).

Thresholds and Barriers in the Social Welfare Agency, NKSH-skriftserie 1984, (160 p) (with S. Hammerqvist).

Modern Poverty. On Economical Scarcity and Humiliation in the 80s, Universitetsforlaget, 1985, (175 p).

Organization and Welfare, Universitetsforlaget, 1987, (150 p).

A Better Social Welfare Agency - for Clients and Employees! (with A. Heszlein and L. Terum, Universitetsforlaget, 1988, (260 p).

The occupational careers of social workers, (with T. Kalve), Nota Bene 1990 (140 p).

Church and Capital. German Welfare Policy – with a Sideglance to British, Swedish and Norwegian Welfare Policy, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1995.

Publications:

In English and other languages:

Social Welfare Practices in Welfare State, in Social Work and the Norwegian Welfare State, (ed Tutvedt & Young), Nota Bene, Oslo 1991 (with M. Seltzer).

The Modern Poverty, in Social Work and the Norwegian Welfare State, (ed Tutvedt & Young), Nota Bene, Oslo 1991

Stress, Burnout and Possibilities for Action? NKSH skriftserie 1986.

Steinar Stjernø (toim): Sosiaalipolitiikka, ohjaus, sosiaalityø, Tamperen yliopisto 1986.

"Armut in Norwegen" Zeitschrift fur Sozialreform, 4 1985, Wiesbaden, 1985.

”The Scandinavian Social Service Model”, in Flösser, G. and Otto, H.-O. Towards More Democracy in the Social Services, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1998.

The Concept of Christian Democratic Solidarity, in Cristen Democratische Verkenningen (CVD) 3-4 2004.

Solidarity in Europe. The History of an Idea. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2004.

Visiting scholar

1991 spring

Centre for Social Policy Research. University of Bremen,Germany

1991 autumn

SocialPolicyResearchCenter, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2001 spring

School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley