Job description

 I love exploring and understanding how people live and how society operates. I focus on how aspects of power, gender, ability, ethnicity, identity, etc. influence how we live together. The promotion of social justice, peace, and equity especially for marginalized groups of people dominates my thoughts and academic effort. My research interests are:

• Gender and diversity research
• Social policy and social stratification
• Diversity in academia
• Qualitative and post-colonial research methodologies.

My academic work is connected to both Africa and Norway where I have lived since 2015. I studied a bachelor’s degree in social sciences at Makerere University Uganda, a master’s degree in Indigenous Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and a second master’s degree in Global Development-theory and practice at the University of Bergen Norway. I am currently doing PhD at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

My current research endeavor focuses on Gender, Equality, and Diversity (DEI) seen from the perspective of politics, teaching, and learning in higher education. I investigate how institutional policy problematizes DEI, how educators enact DEI through academic practices, and how students experience DEI in learning. I apply feminist and post-structural theoretical perspectives, such as feminist pedagogy and ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR), while the methodological approach is ethnographic and qualitative including methods like ethnographic fieldwork, policy discourse analysis, observation, and qualitative interviews.