Nina Høy-Petersen

About:
Nina Høy-Petersen is a Ph.D. researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism (UiO). Her project (submitted in late 2021) combines qualitative interviews with quantitative surveys to explore entanglements of racism and cosmopolitan attitudes in the white majority population of Norway. Being an inter-disciplinary sociologist, Nina's work is heavily influenced by theories of culture and cognition, and perspectives from psychology in particular.
Additional core research interests include hate crime, phenomenology, embodiment, and gender.
Awards
2014: Awarded Goldsmith’s ‘Sociology Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement’ for having the best overall degree results, MA Social Research of graduating year.
2012: Awarded Griffith University’s |University Medal for Outstanding Academic Excellence’ for having the best degree results among all students of the graduating year.
2012: Battle of the Arts, Best Project Griffith University BA Program.
2012: Griffith Award for Academic Excellence
2010: Griffith Award for Academic Excellence
2009: Griffith Award for Academic Excellence
Positions held
Ph.D. Researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism.
Publications
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Høy-Petersen, Nina (2021). Ambivalent perceptions of the Other: Towards a dual-process sociology of intercultural relations. Acta Sociologica. ISSN 0001-6993. doi: 10.1177/00016993211028885. Full text in Research Archive
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Høy-Petersen, Nina (2021). Civility and Rejection: The Contextuality of Cosmopolitan and Racist Behaviours. Sociology. ISSN 0038-0385. 55(6), p. 1191–1210. doi: 10.1177/00380385211011570. Full text in Research Archive
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Høy-Petersen, Nina & Woodward, Ian (2018). Working with difference: Cognitive schemas, ethical cosmopolitanism and negotiating cultural diversity. International Sociology. ISSN 0268-5809. p. 1–19. doi: 10.1177/0268580918792782.
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Høy-Petersen, Nina & Fangen, Katrine (2018). Hate Crime Policy: Global Controversies and the Norwegian Approach. In Øverland, Gwynyth; Andersen, Arnfinn J.; Førde, Kristin Engh; Grødum, Kjetil & Salomonsen, Joseph (Ed.), Violent Extremism in the 21st Century: International Perspectives . Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 1-5275-1580-X. p. 244–270. Full text in Research Archive
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Høy-Petersen, Nina; Woodward, Ian & Skrbis, Zlatko (2016). Gender performance and cosmopolitan practice: exploring gendered frames of openness and hospitality. Sociological Review. ISSN 0038-0261. 64(4), p. 970–986. doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12390.
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Solhjell, Randi; Høy-Petersen, Nina & Haanshuus, Birgitte P. (2020). What is hate crime? Universitet i Oslo.