CSP develops the study of professions as a multidisciplinary field of research emphasising comparative approaches. The goal of CSP is to become a leading research facility within the study of professions in the Nordic countries.

Ongoing projects

2000-2012	StudData – database for studies of recruiting and qualification for professional practice
2005-2009	Occupations of the welfare state: Motivation, qualification and occupational careers
2008-2010	LIKE - Learning trajectories in Knowledge Economies
2003-2008	Studies of Professional Practice/Strategic College Programme
2006-2010	Novice teachers and how they cope (NYMY)

Ph.D. fellowship projects

2005-2009	Asgeir S. Eriksen	Deliberative Trust-Repair. The case of the County Social Welfare Board
2005-2009	André Vågan	Doctors in the making – The development of professional identity among medical students
2006-2010	Joakim Caspersen	Teachers epistemic trajectories from education to work
2006-2010	Hilde Karlsen	Sex-atypical choices of professional studies and professional occupations among men
2006-2010	Jorunn Vindegg	Creating knowledge in the professional practice of Social workers
2007-2011	Marita Nordhaug	Mapping A Normative Terrain Of An Ethics Of Care
2007-2011	Ida Katrine Riksaasen Hatlevik	To what extent does perceived acquired knowledge during initial education influence the experience of connection between theory and practice and professional practice?
2007-2011	Pål Nygaard	Norwegian engineers and professionalization 1945-1975
2007-2011	Anne-Cecilie Larsen	Work strain and burnout in relation oriented professions
2008-2011	Ida Drange
2008-2011	Silje Maria Tellmann	The role of expertise in Norwegian climate policy making