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Associate professor Department of Social Education barbara.s.stein@uit.no +4777058347 Harstad You can find me here

Barbara Stein

Job description

I am associate professor at the Department of Social Education. I did my PhD at the same department and in my project I studied volunteerism's role in the integration processes of adult immigrants. I am affiliated with the Arctic Centre for Welfare and Disability Research (ASVF).

Research interests: Issues related to migration, integration, volunteerism, and gender.

Migration seminar: I lead an informal research network which is open to anyone at UiT who is studying migrationrelated issues. Get in touch for more information or to join.

Supervision: I supervise mainly theses related to questions on migration, integration, volunteerism or gender. Currently, I supervise two master theses (Master in Social Innovation and Welfare) and one doctoral project.

Teaching: I teach topics related to the social sciences at the Department of Social Education and its programmes Bachelor in Social Education and Master in Social Innovation and Welfare.

Voluntary engagement: board member and representative for members under 35 in NTL UiT; member of the integration council, Harstad municipality

  • Barbara S. Stein :
    Minoritizing Processes and Power Relations between Volunteers and Immigrant Participants—An Example from Norway
    Nordic Journal of Migration Research 2022 DOI / ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Barbara Stein, Gunn Elin Fedreheim :
    Problematization of integration in Norwegian policymaking–integration through employment or volunteerism?
    Ethnic and Racial Studies 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Barbara Stein, Steffi Gebus :
    Fra barrierer til likeverdige tjenester: Vernepleie i møte med flyktningers behov
    Vernepleier.no 23. June 2026 ARKIV
  • Barbara Stein, Hanne Dreiem :
    Academic reading - a growing need for training in higher education?
    Læring om læring 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Andrea Berg Foss, Ida Martine Pettersen, Barbara Stein :
    KI i vernepleierutdanningen | Vernepleier
    17. June 2025 ARKIV
  • Barbara Stein, Andrea Berg Foss :
    Hva kan vernepleiere bruke KI til? | Vernepleier
    Vernepleier.no 07. October 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Barbara Sophia Stein :
    Constructing volunteering from an immigrant perspective – An example from Norway
    2024 ARKIV
  • Andrea Berg Foss, Barbara Sophia Stein :
    Har kunstig intelligens fordommer mot kjønn?
    2024 ARKIV
  • Barbara Sophia Stein, Andrea Berg Foss :
    Har kunstig intelligens fordommer (mot kjønn)?
    2024 ARKIV
  • Barbara Sophia Stein :
    Frivillighet og integrering - hva vet vi?
    2023 ARKIV
  • Barbara Sophia Stein, Gunn Elin Fedreheim :
    Integration and the Voluntary Sector: An Unfavourable Pairing, or the Perfect Match? - Exploring Integration Processes of Immigrants through and in the Voluntary Sector in Norway
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 09. November 2023 ARKIV
  • Barbara Sophia Stein :
    Paneldebatt - Frivillighetens rolle i integreringsarbeidet
    2023 ARKIV
  • Gunn Elin Fedreheim, Barbara Sophia Stein, Tina Hansen, Stine Dale, Torjar Urdal :
    Forskning MED NAV – en suksesshistorie om et pilotprosjekts bidrag til tjenesteutvikling i NAV
    2023 ARKIV
  • Barbara Stein :
    Frivillighet og integrering
    2022 ARKIV
  • Barbara Stein :
    På labben med integreringsforsker Barbara
    2021 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Barbara Stein :
    Mer mangfold = mer konflikt?
    2021 ARKIV
  • Barbara S. Stein :
    Frivillighet – mål eller middel for integrering?
    05. August 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Barbara S. Stein :
    Det er ingen som kommer og sier 'velkommen' - Frivillighet og integrering
    2020 ARKIV
  • Barbara S. Stein :
    Power-imbalance, intersectionality and processes of integration: Exploring relations between integration of immigrant women and the voluntary sector in Norway
    2019 ARKIV
  • Barbara S. Stein :
    Engaging Women in Integration: Exploring Relations between Integration, Gender and the Voluntary Sector
    2019 ARKIV
  • Barbara S. Stein, Anniken Førde :
    Visions of integration. How immigrants make sense of a new landscape
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 15. May 2017 ARKIV

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    Research interests

    Migration, integration, volunteerism, gender

    Teaching

    Barbara Stein teaches on bachelor's, master's and PhD level at the Department of Social Education, primarily within the fields of social anthropology/sociology, migration/minorities, and gender.

    She is currently supervising two master's theses affiliated with the Master in Social Innovation and Welfare (SSO-3911 Masteroppgave velferdsendring).


    Member of research group / centre

    ASVF   Norsk innhold ASVF   English content Changing Arctic   English content MigraNord   English content

    Member of project

    Prepp Prepare for health - Accompanying research Integrating Economic and Social Sustainability in the Arctic

    CV

    2022 - : Associate Professor at Department of Social Education, UiT Harstad

    2018 - 2023: PhD candidate at Department of Social Education, UiT Harstad
    Thesis: Integration and the Voluntary Sector: An Unfavourable Pairing, or the Perfect Match? - Exploring Integration Processes of Immigrants through and in the Voluntary Sector in Norway
    08/2019 - 02/2020: Research stay at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand

    2015 - 2017: Master of Peace and Conflict Transformation, UiT Tromsø

    2011 - 2015: Bachelor of Arts in Sociocultural Anthropology, LMU Munich, Germany

    Campus Harstad S 225A


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