Job description

Vice-Rector for Dissemination at UiT. Responsible for UiT’s work on research dissemination, international institutional cooperation, cultural and sports events, and Sámi and Kven affairs.

Background as Associate Professor in Political Science. Works mainly with Norwegian and European politics. Has also conducted research on municipal politics and Sámi politics. Teaches statistics and quantitative methods, comparative politics and European Union. He has been part of and published in the major Norwegian election research projects related to parliamentary elections, local and regional elections, and Sámi parliamentary elections.

He has experience as guest researcher at Sciences Po - Paris and University of Melbourne. Has published on political behaviour, political trust and policy analyses in journals like Party Politics, Urban Studies, Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, Regional & Federal Studies, Territory, Politics, Governance, Local Government Studies, Politics & Policy, Norwegian Journal of Political Studies, Swedish Journal of Political Studies, Arctic Review of Law and Politics, and Marine Policy.