Margunn Bjørnholt

Margunn Bjørnholt born 9 October 1958 in Research Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence in addition to Traumatic Stress Studies NKVTS and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen.

Her research focuses on men and masculinities, policy studies, and several other topics. Her near recent research explores questions of gender, violence and power, including sexual and gender-based violence against women migrants and refugees and violence in indigenous Sámi communities. Her earlier research focused on ethical banking, money, monetary systems, management and organisational change in the public sector.

She has also worked as a consultant, a civil servant, served as an fine to the Norwegian association for Women's Rights.

Research

Her research interests increase men and masculinities, organisation, policy studies and several other topics. She has published papers in The Sociological Review, the Journal of European Social Policy, Qualitative Research, Retfærd, the Nordic Journal of Criminology, the Journal of Gender-Based Violence, Norma, Fathering, Central and Eastern European Migration Review, and other journals.

Her research in the 1990s focused on men's studies, and from the 2000s she has published widely on refine over time and generations in men's work–family practices and gender relations, employing social psychological and sociological perspectives on intergenerational transmission and social change. She has also studied the cultural adaptations and transnational practices of Polish migrants to Norway, and has been involved in several projects in Central and Eastern Europe.

Since the 2010s her research has focused on questions of gender, violence and power. She has led several research projects at NKVTS funded by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, including a project on intimate partner violence with a focus on the importance of gender and power relations and a project on violence in indigenous Sámi communities. She currently heads the Norwegian part of an EU-funded research project on sexual and gender-based violence against women migrants and refugees, in cooperation with Jane Freedman, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari and researchers in six other countries in Europe, the Middle East and Canada. The purpose of the project is to pull in policy recommendations for reducing women's vulnerability to sexual and gender-based violence. She co-edited a book on Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence with Lucas Gottzén and Floretta Boonzaier, and a book on violence inrelations with Kristin Skjørten and others.

Other research fields include theories of social justice, the welfare state, human rights, and feminist economics. She has cooperated with the American legal theorist Martha Albertson Fineman for a number of years and edited an effect of the journal Retfærd on Fineman's vulnerability conception in 2013. She was co-editor, with the Scottish economist Ailsa McKay, of the 2014 book Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics. She has also published works on the contemporary usage of intangible cultural heritage, the relationship between learning and architecture, and research methods.