Academic interests
Aina Landsverk Hagen is a social anthropologist with extensive experience with and interest in experimentation with social science methods, ethnography, science dissemination and co-creation. Hagen has done action research on digital and social transformation in private and public organizations, developed citizen social science and participatory peer-to-peer methodology with youth and students in local communities and higher education. She is currently leading a new research venture, on young people’s practices of hope in super-diverse cities in the Nordic countries.
Courses taught
Background
Aina Landsverk Hagen is a Research Professor with a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oslo, on collaborative creativity among architects in Oslo and New York. Her MA was based on ethnographic fieldwork in Iran, researching feminists, women’s journals, freedom of speech and youth agency in Teheran’s urban spaces. She was among the co-founders of the Norwegian feminist journal Fett while working in several media outlets as a desk journalist and copy editor, before moving on to become a social scientist – currently at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University. She is also Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo (part time). The past years she has followed Iranian feminist activists in exile in Europe and USA.
Partners
Hagen is currently collaborating with University of Malmö, University College Copenhagen, and Ungdom og Fritid.