• feminist theories, especially feminist new materialism
• feminist pedagogy
• artistic research
• inequality
• places
• sound/music
• artificial intelligence

PI of Arctic Auditories - Hydrospheres of the High North (NFR 325506, 2021-25)

member of the advisory board of WoVen (NFR 2021-26, PI: Melania Bucciarelli, NTNU)

co-editor of the European Journal of Musicology

Networks: the Sustainability Academic Network (SUSAN), Nordic Soundscape Research Network (NSRN)

In my work, I explore ways we can live together despite differences in age, gender, ability, nationality, ethnicity, and / or other differentiating mechanisms. Questions about how we can promote interaction and integration in society without standardizing ways of living are central. These are issues that are particularly urgent for individuals and groups of people who do not have or will not be able to live up to a given standard. 

In my current research, I focus on people who have developed brain failure in adulthood, often in the form of a dementia disease, and ask how everyday life can be organized to ensure that their potential contributions to social development are actualized and their citizenship maintained. I do this by investigating inter-action and intra-action through creative processes and artistic activity. The methodological approach is qualitative, while I theoretically apply material feminist theory and citizenship theory. 

I research the gendered dimensions of human thinking, acting, creating and relations. Situated art intervention is my principal research method. I also work with archival studies, multimodal and diffractive analysis, discourse and policy analysis, interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, and I collaborate across disciplines and transdisciplinarily with artists, social scientists and natural scientists.

Creative methods run through every phase of my projects: in designing the study, in generating and analysing the material, and in communicating the findings. This matters because knowledge is always situated: who asks, from where, with which body and which history, and who listens, shapes what we are able to know. By working across art and science, I explore how materiality, meaning and power are entangled.

Co-creation, citizen science and posthumanist feminist theory are the organising principles of this work. Research designed together with participants makes research ethics a question of relation and consent throughout the whole project. The same commitment runs through my work with open publishing, exhibitions, and public events, because who can contribute to knowledge is a question of equality.

I am specifically interested in:

• Ageing, dementia and creativity: Rethinking ageing and dementia through what happens between people, feminist care as a shared practice, and growth and a good life as something made together.
• Planetary health and coastal cultures: How gender, labour and knowledge are organised along coastlines, and what feminist and Indigenous perspectives contribute to understanding ocean pasts and futures.
• Feminist intervention and performative historiography: Recovering and re-performing the histories of women's cultural work, and treating historiography itself as a performative act that makes certain pasts possible.
• Co-creativity as a rigorous concept: Testing where shared authorship of knowledge begins and participation ends, with shared responsibility and distributed achievement as the measure: who carries the risk of the questions asked, and whose names are attached to the results.

 Expertise

• Ageing and Dementia
• Citizen Science
• Coastal Cultures
• Co-creativity
• Creative Methods
• Gender and Gender Equality
• Historiography and Storytelling
• Open Research
• Research Communication
• Research Ethics
• Sound and Music

Member

• UArctic Thematic Network on Gender in Arctic Knowledge Production
• UArctic Thematic Network on Environmental Humanities
• International Research Network Arts & Dementia