Berit Irene Vannebo has a bachelor and master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Oslo, and a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA. She has been a lecturer at Northwestern University and Lake Forest College in the US, and has worked as an Associate Professor at Nord-Trøndelag College prior to joining the Faculty of Social Science at Nord University in 2016. During her time at Nord University, she has contributed to the PhD program in Sociology at the Faculty of Social Science, and has held the position as Program Director for the PhD program in Trøndelag since 2020. Her research examines public sector reform, social entrepreneurial initiatives, and innovation in welfare service delivery. She has also published on intersectoral collaboration and the negotiation of professional boundaries, with a particular focus on the organization of welfare services aimed at work inclusion and services for refugees.
Om forelesningen: The Profession of Boundaries
In her work, Vannebo has sought to bridge insights from various fields in Sociology. In this lecture Vannebo will present ideas generated through various research projects she has been involved with which highlight the importance of bringing insights from various fields to the study of boundary work among professionals. She will present the different mechanisms involved in boundary work, various strategies of boundary work found among professionals, and efforts to resist the reification and solidification of boundaries in professional collaborations. Boundary work not only involves struggles over jurisdictional boundaries, but also negotiations over how to define and represent policy problems as well as negotiations over who owns a policy problem. In the lecture Vannebo will discuss how different interpretations of shared policy goals instigate boundary work amongst welfare service professionals, and examine how policy goals effectively function as boundary objects, allowing professionals to negotiate and redefine professional boundaries and domains of expertise.
Etter forelesningen serveres det aperitiff, kaffe og kake.
Professorinnsettelse – den nye professoren deler av sin kunnskap
Når studentene fullfører en bachelor- eller mastergrad feirer vi de årene med kunnskapsutvikling med en markering. Det er viktig både for enkeltindividet og for oss som institusjon. Når noen blir professor er det et resultat av 15-25 år med kunnskapsutvikling. Det feirer vi med en «professorforelesning»; den nye professoren får dele noe av sin kunnskap med sine kollegaer, studenter og allmenheten. Slik feirer vi at universitetet – og fakultetet har en person som er vurdert av «likemenn» til å ha toppkompetanse på sitt særskilte kunnskapsfelt.