Job description

I work as a researcher at the Center for Sami Health Research. I am working with part 1 in SAMINOR 3; "Stories about health - A qualitative interview survey. Part of  SAMINOR – The Population-based Study on Health and Living Conditions in Regions with Sami and Norwegian Populations". I have been project manager for planning and carrying out the study. The interview study explores what the population themselves believe is relevant in terms of health and living conditions, and which they believe a health survey in their residential areas should therefore focus on. The results from the interview study have been used to create new and more relevant questions for the questionnaire in SAMINOR 3. In this way, the population themselves has had a hand in defining which research questions should be emphasized. In addition, the interview material is used for qualitative research, to contribute to knowledge about the multi-ethnic population's views on health and living conditions-related topics, as told by them themselves. I now mainly work with data management of the interview material and write articles based on these interviews. In my doctoral degree, investigated how Sami language and culture are made (or not made) relevant in outpatient mental health care for Sami patients.