Professor Karin Widerberg
Professor Karin Widerberg
(PhD) is responsible for the Graduate program in the Department of Sociology
and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway, and has held
positions as a full professor in different disciplines and faculties:
Sociology of Law (Law Faculty); Sociology (Faculty of Social Science);
Women’s Research (Interdisciplinary). She has also conducted courses on
Discourse Analysis; Memory work; Qualitative interviews; Research designs
etc in Oslo and other Scandinavian universities. Explorative methods
and qualitative research, alongside gender issues, are areas of major
academic concern and interest to Professor Widerberg, who was the first Head
of Research at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Women’s Research in Oslo
(1988 – 1990).
Professor Widerberg has
published ten books and over one hundred articles on issues regarding
qualitative research; theory of science; gender; sexuality; time; work; and
the body and was recently involved in a three-generational project entitled
‘Home Sweet Home’, which involved the exploration of a wide variety of
qualitative approaches. Her most recent publication, The history of a
Qualitative Research Project, was published in Norwegian in 2001 and in
Swedish in 2002.
