Margunn Bjørnholt facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Professor Margunn Bjørnholt
Margunn Bjørnholt in 2014
Born	9 October 1958 (1958-10-09) (age 66) Bø, Telemark, Norway
Awards	Article of the Year (2021) Rights Prize (2023)
Scientific career
Fields	Sociology, economics
Institutions	Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, University of Oslo, University of Bergen

Margunn Bjørnholt (born 9 October 1958) is a smart Norwegian expert who studies people and how money works. She is a professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and the University of Bergen. Margunn studies important topics like how banks work, how people manage their jobs, and how to make things fair for everyone. She also looks into why people move to new countries and how to stop violence. She has helped the European Commission and led groups that support women's rights.

Margunn's Education and Career Journey

Margunn Bjørnholt has studied many different subjects. She learned about how countries plan for the future, how politics works, and important moments in history.

Early Studies and Degrees

She earned her first degree from the University of Tromsø in 1981. After that, she studied European economics at the College of Europe in 1982. Later, she got her PhD in economic sociology from the University of Oslo in 1995. Her research then was about banks that help people with small loans and banks that don't charge interest.

She also earned another PhD in 2014 from Örebro University. This time, she studied how men's roles change over time. Her work looked at how ideas and behaviors are passed down through families and how society changes. By 2015, she was recognized as a full professor.

Working Life and Research Roles

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Margunn helped businesses grow and supported women who wanted to start their own companies. She worked for groups like the Regional Development Fund and the National Institute of Technology.

Since 1993, she has been involved in research at the University of Oslo. From 1997, she worked as a researcher and professor at several places, including the Work Research Institute. In 2016, she became a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS). In 2021, she also became a professor of sociology at the University of Bergen.

Helping Others and International Work

Margunn has shared her knowledge with many groups. She has been an expert for the European Commission, advising them on making things fair for everyone. She has also visited universities in the US and UK to share her ideas. She is part of a group that helps rethink how economics is taught in Norway. She has taught students about sociology, psychology, and how to solve conflicts peacefully.

What Margunn Researches

Margunn's main work is in sociology, which is the study of how people live together in groups. But she also looks at topics related to money, laws, and politics.

Changing Focus of Her Studies

Over time, her research has changed. At first, she looked at banks and how companies are managed. Later, she focused on making things fair for everyone (gender equality), why people move from one country to another, and how to stop violence. She has written over 50 research papers and three books.

In the 1990s, she studied banks that focused on doing good for society. She also looked at how money systems work. Later, she researched how public organizations change and become more flexible. Her work on working life led her to study how men balance their jobs and family life. She also researched how Polish people who moved to Norway adapted to their new home.

Research on Violence and Justice

In 2015, the Norwegian government asked her to start a research program on violence. This program looks at how violence affects different groups, especially women. She has led projects on violence against refugees and migrants. She also studied violence in Indigenous Sámi communities and immigrant communities.

Since 2019, she has led a project funded by the European Union about violence against women who are migrants or refugees. This project has helped create new ideas to protect women from violence.

Margunn also works on ideas about fairness and how economics can be more just. She has worked with famous thinkers like Martha Albertson Fineman and Marilyn Waring. In 2014, she helped edit a book about new ideas in feminist economics. She has also written about different ways to do research.

Margunn's Public and Political Work

Margunn Bjørnholt has been active in many public roles.

Advocacy for Women's Rights

In the early 1980s, she worked as a journalist for a feminist radio station called radiOrakel. She was the president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 2013 to 2016. She also led the Norwegian Women's Lobby and was on the board of the International Alliance of Women.

The Norwegian government chose her to be part of Norway's team at the UN Commission on the Status of Women meetings in 2015 and 2016. She also ran for the Green Party in the local elections in 2015.

Awards and Recognition

• Article of the Year (2021): This award is given for an excellent academic paper.
• Rights Prize (2023): This award recognizes her work in human rights.