Specialist fields:
Work and welfare:
- Profession-related sociology: Per Mangset
- The new workplace: Sigrid Røyseng, Åsne W. Haugsevje
- Welfare policies: Nils Asle Bergsgard
- Organizational and institutional sociology: Nils Asle Bergsgard, Sigrid Røyseng
Outdoor life:
- Uses of outdoor life from a health perspective: Annette Bischoff
- Outdoor life: Annette Bischoff, Bjørn Tordsson
- Phenomenology of outdoor life: Bjørn Tordsson
- Outdoor life and society: Bjørn Tordsson
- Pedagogy of outdoor life: Bjørn Tordsson
- Nature experience and nature understanding: Bjørn Tordsson
- Adolescence and personal development: Annette Bischoff
- Facilitation for outdoor life: Annette Bischoff
History:
- Sports history: Gerd von der Lippe, Jan Ove Tangen, Sture E. Kvarv
Sports and media:
- Sports and media: Gerd von der Lippe
Sports facilities:
- Sports facilities and sports participation: Jan Ove Tangen
Sports as a social system:
- Sports as a social system: Jan Ove Tangen
- Pathological features in sports: Jan Ove Tangen
- Inclusion and exclusion mechanisms in sports: Jan Ove Tangen
Sports policies:
- Sports policies: Atle Ørbeck Hansen, Nils Asle Bergsgard, Per Mangset, Sture E. Kvarv,
Sports sociology:
- Doping: Atle Ørbeck Hansen, Nils Asle Bergsgard
- Top-level sports: Atle Ørbeck Hansen
- Sports sociology: Pål Augestad, Gerd von der Lippe, Jan Ove Tangen, Nils Asle Bergsgard
Body and gender research:
- Sports and gender: Gerd von der Lippe
- Gender differences in outdoor life: Annette Bischoff
- Body sociology: Pål Augestad
- Music and gender: Anne H. Lorentzen
Cultural research:
- Cultural entrepreneurship: Per Mangset, Sigrid Røyseng, Åsne W. Haugsevje
- Social organization of culture: Anne H. Lorentzen, Per Mangset, Sigrid Røyseng
- Art sociology: Dag Solhjell, Per Mangset, Sigrid Røyseng
- Culture sociology: Pål Augestad, Nils Asle Bergsgard, Anne H. Lorentzen, Per Mangset, Sigrid Røyseng
- Culture administration: Sigrid Røyseng, Sture E. Kvarv
- Mediation of art in theory and practice: Dag Solhjell
Cultural policies:
- Cultural policies: Dag Solhjell, Nils Asle Bergsgard, Per Mangset, Sigrid Røyseng, Sture E. Kvarv
- History of cultural policies: Dag Solhjell, Per Mangset, Sigrid Røyseng, Sture E. Kvarv
- Art policies: Dag Solhjell
- History of art policies: Dag Solhjell
- Sociology and policies of literature: Per Mangset
- Musical and theatrical policies: Sigrid Røyseng
Culture and economics:
- Book trade and theatre: Knut Løyland
- Artists' economy: Dag Solhjell
- Cultural economics: Knut Løyland, Vidar Ringstad
- Econometrical analyses of cultural sectors: Knut Løyland
Planning:
- Social planning and planning theory: Sture E. Kvarv
Religious research:
- Sociology of religion: Pål Augestad
Place and heritage
- Cultural heritage: Åsne W. Haugsevje
- Place, identity, globalization: Åsne W. Haugsevje