Job description

Aure is professor in gender in sociology at the Department of Social Sciences. Her research interest encompasses national and international migration, mobility, integration, regional development, the development of just places, coastal communities, blue economy, sustainable equal development, aquaculture, gender, masculinity,  labor markets, emotions, postcolonial theories, and relatioins between material, nature, and sociocultural processes, etc. She wrote her PhD about Labor Migration from Teriberka, Russia, to Båtsfjord, Norway 1998-2002.

She was the primary investigator in Cit-egration an participatory action- and cocreational research: ’Sustainable Diverse Cities: Innovation in Integration’ (2017-2022 NRC). Practitioners and researcher in the project published their experiences and findings from a broad range of activities in the book Retten til byen - kraften i krysskulturelle møter (in Norwegian, also open access)  

Marit cooperated with colleagues in the project "Inequalities of Mobility: Relatedness and Belonging of Transnational Families in the Nordic Migration Space" (TRANSLINES). With Darius Dauksas, she wrote about  Lithuanian in Norway and "fear of the Barnevernet" (Child Welfare Services). The project published the book Migration and Families in East and North Europe Translocal Lifelines .

Aure is now directing her interest to ocean, fisheries, aquaculture and sustainable coastal communities in the international project BluePlaces: Building Resilient Blue Places? The importance of Equity and Blue Space in Assembling a Blue Economy in the context of Climate Change, 

She continues her regional research interrest in the project "Immigrant strategy" with the county administration and municipalities.

She publishes and edits publications in national and international scientific journals and books, serves as a peer-reviewer, and internal, and external examinator, and opponent at all levels. 

She served as the head of department from 2022-2024.

Aure teaches and supervices at all levels, especially within qualitative methods, labor migration and diverse communities. She writes feature articles, presents at seminars, and in radio and tv.