Ingvild Bergom Lunde

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Position
Senior Adviser
Contact Study place
Molde
Office nr.
B-109

Areas of Work 

Senior Advisor ensuring strategic flow and strong structure at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Social Care, providing staff with the support they need to have a good day at work:

  • Case managment and follow-up of cases for the department board and other departmental committees
  • Coordination and preparation of statistical overviews, evaluations, and reports
  • Coordination and follow-up of the department’s quality assurance in education
  • Participation in the planning and execution of various events at the department
  • Contribution to the department’s long-term planning, including resource allocation
  • Point of contact for collaboration with students

Background

Committed to making compassion a core value in academia!

I have worked extensively within the university sector across administration, academic positions, and research-political activism since 2011.

Experience:

  • Research-Political Work: Co-founder and current co-driving force of Movement for a Free Academia, as well as an advisory board member and former chair of the Association of Doctoral Organizations in Norway (SiN). Free scientist.
  • Administration: Broad experience from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Oslo within research administration, Ph.D. management, resource mapping, and as a study advisor. Also worked as first secretary at Knutepunktet – International Student Reception / Central Student Information Centre, University of Oslo.
  • Research: Background as a postdoctoral fellow and doctoral fellow (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo and the National Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS). Contributed at NKVTS to developing a national guideline on domestic violence for the Norwegian health and care services.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Medicine and Health, and a Master of Science in International Community Health from the University of Oslo. Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology Development Studies from Victoria University of Wellington. Additionally I have studied Arabic in Yemen and tourism at Nordland Vocational School.

Publications

  • Lunde, Ingvild; Hauge, Mona-Iren; Johansen, R. Elise B & Sagbakken, Mette (2020). ‘Why did I circumcise him?’ Unexpected comparisons to male circumcision in a qualitative study on female genital cutting among Kurdish-Norwegians. Ethnicities. ISSN 1468-7968. p. 1–22. doi: 10.1177/1468796819896089. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild; Johansen, R. Elise B; Hauge, Mona-Iren & Sagbakken, Mette (2020). Sexually destroyed or empowered? Silencing female genital cutting in close relationships. Culture, Health and Sexuality. ISSN 1369-1058. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2020.1738553. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild; Sagbakken, Mette & Johansen, R. Elise B (2019). Negotiating female genital cutting as a difficult characteristic in Kurdish national identity. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. 9(3), p. 363–381. doi: 10.2478/njmr-2019-0011. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom & Sagbakken, Mette (2014). Female genital cutting in Hargeisa, Somaliland: is there a move towards less severe forms? Reproductive Health Matters: An international journal on sexual and reproductive health and rights. ISSN 0968-8080. 22(43), p. 169–177. doi: 10.1016/S0968-8080(14)43759-5. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom & Johnson, Matthew Thomas (2022). Introduction: gender equality in Abrahamic circumcision – why or why not? Global Discourse. ISSN 2326-9995. 12(1), p. 3–7. doi: 10.1332/204378921X16369920470269. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild & Anna, Wahlberg (2018). Moving beyond the dualism? Perceptions on genital cutting of boys and girls among Swedish-Somalis and Norwegian-Kurds. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom (2017). Negotiating female genital cutting in the diasporic imagination of 'Kurdishness'. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom & Ziyada, Mai Mahgoub (2017). Intimkirurgi og kjønnslemlestelse: To sider av samme sak? Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom (2016). Tabu, seksualitet og kjønnslemlestelse blant kurdiske migranter i Norge. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom (2016). Kvinnelig omskjæring med eksempler fra forskning i Somaliland og blant kurdiske migranter i Norge. Full text in Research Archive
  • Johansen, Ragnhild Elise B; Lunde, Ingvild Bergom; Ziyada, Mai Mahgoub & Lien, Inger Lise (2014). Kjønnslemlestelse i Norge - et lite problem? Full text in Research Archive
  • Johansen, Ragnhild Elise B; Lunde, Ingvild Bergom; Lien, Inger-Lise & Ziyada, Mai Mahgoub (2014). Er kjønnslemlestelse et lite problem i Norge? Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom (2014). Female genital mutilation/cutting among Kurdish migrants in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom (2013). Kvinnelig omskjæring i Hargeisa, Somaliland (Somalia). Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom (2012). Er det mulig å utrydde kvinnelig omskjæring i Somaliland? Utfordringer og muligheter. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom (2012). Eradicating female genital cutting: Understanding reality conceptions. A descriptive study on feamle genital cutting in Hargeisa Somaliland (Somalia). Full text in Research Archive
  • Lunde, Ingvild Bergom (2012). Eradicating female genital cutting: Understanding reality conceptions : A study on perceptions of female genital cutting in Hargeisa, Somaliland (Somalia). Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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