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Bilde av Blix, Bodil Hansen
Bilde av Blix, Bodil Hansen
Professor Department of Health and Care Sciences bodil.hansen.blix@uit.no +4777660682 971 63 652 Tromsø You can find me here

Bodil Hansen Blix

Job description

Professor at the Department of health and care sciences

Head of the Master's degree program in aging and geriatric healthcare

Chair of the research group Centre for care research north

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Research interests

I am a registered nurse, Master of health sciences and PhD of health sciences. I currently work as  professor in the Department of health and care sciences. I am chair of the Master's degree program in ageing and geriatric health care. I am chair of the research group Centre for care research north. My research interests are in the intersections of critical gerontology, narrative gerontology, and healthcare service research, and I have a special interest for inequities in health and health care. I am interested in the lives and well-being of older adults in general, and indigenous Sami older adults in particular. My methodological expertise is in qualitative research and narrative studies.

I'm professor II at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Editorial board member Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning [Journal of care research]

Editorial board member Journal of Aging Studies

Member of operating board for the national researcher school MUNI-HEALTH-CARE

Member of the PhD board for nursing and health care sciences, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland

Columnist in Tidsskriftet Sykepleien

Researcher profile in Cristin
Registrations in Munin

Member of research group

Forskningsgruppen Senter for omsorgsforskning Nord   Norsk innhold Research Group Centre for Care Research North   English content

Member of project

Stormottakere av spesialisthelsetjenester    Norsk innhold Theoretical and conceptual development of narrative inquiry and narrative care (for older adults) Imagining age-friendly communities within communities Skrøpelig og gammel. Hver dag? Skills4 Health Literacy (Skills4HL) Queer Perspectives in Health and Social Care Education    English content Older adults with high utilization of somatic hospital services    English content Public dementia care in terms of equal services    English content Offentlig demensomsorg    Norsk innhold Skeive perspektiver i helse- og sosialfagutdanningene    Norsk innhold Old and Frail. Every day? Critical gerontology and critical health care policy research Kritisk gerontologi og helsetjenesteforskning Prioritering og tildeling av Langtidsopphold I Sykehjem: En studie av kommunal forvaltningspraksis (PLIS) Prioritization and Allocation of Long-Term Care in Nursing Homes: A study of Municipal Administrative Practices (PLIS)