Lisa Weldehanna

Academic interests

• Public policy and administration
• Coordination of policy and public sector organizations
• Bureaucratic politics
• Policy implementation
• Street-level bureaucrats
• Organization theory

Courses taught

• STV1010 Politisk analyse 1: Forskningsdesign og kvalitative metoder (Research design and qualitative methods)
• STV1020 Politisk analyse 2: Forskningsdesign og kvantitative metoder (Research design and quantitative methods)
• STV 2220 - Internasjonal politisk økonomi (International political economy)
• STV 2510 - Norsk politikk - aktører, institusjoner og prosesser (Norwegian Politics - actors, institutions and processes)
• STV 2400 - Teorier om offentlig politikk (Theories of public policy)

Background - work

• PhD-fellow, department of political science UIO (2025-2029)
• Research and teaching assistant, department of political science UIO (2024-2025)
• Research assistant for the NFR project Provisions of labour rights to migrant workers (2024-)
• Secretary general of Skeiv Verden - national organization for queer people with minority backgrounds, (2019-2022)
• Organizational adviser of Krisesentersekretariatet, organization for the shelter movement for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking (2016-2019)
• Organizational adviser at the Norwegian Red Cross (2012-2016)

Background - studies

• Master, political Science, UIO (2024)
• Bachelor, Development studies w/specialization in political science, UIO (2021)
• Bachelor Sociology, University of Bergen (2012)

Publications

• Street-level decision-making in inter-agency collaboration: How inspectors of the Norwegian labour inspection authority implement policy to prevent work-related crime (Master thesis)