I am working on a postdoctoral project about scarce goods for which it is hard or impossible to increase supply, such as pristine nature, urban housing, attractive jobs and high status (i.e. what Fred Hirsch called 'positional goods'), and problems concerning the conflicts of interest over who gets access to such goods.

I also do research on distributive justice in general, the philosophy of work and labour justice, and on methods in normative theory.

Before joining the Department of Philosophy at the Univeresity of Bergen I worked at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, from where I hold my PhD. I have also held a visiting position at the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics at UCLouvain.

Spring term 2025 I am away on a research stay at Oxford University as Associate Member of Nuffield College and Visiting Research Fellow at the Departmet of Politics and International Relations (DPIR).

Autumn 2024

SV-Exphil, Seminar groups 1, 8 and 9.

Spring semester 2024

FIL116 Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy (with Jesse Tomalty og Ane Engelstad)

FIL 249 Political Philosophy (with Jesse Tomalty og Ane Engelstad)

FIL349 Research Theme in Political Philosophy (with Jesse Tomalty og Ane Engelstad)

Journal articles (peer reviewed):

What is work? Engineering a working definition
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, online first. 2025

Good work: The importance of caring about making a social contribution
Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 22(2) , p. 177-196. 2023

Work is Meaningful if There are Good Reasons to do it: A Revisionary Conceptual Analysis of ‘Meaningful Work’
 Journal of Business Ethics, 185, p. 533-544. 2023

The Value of Time Matters for Temporal Justice
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 24(1), p. 183-196. 2021

Encyclopedia article (peer reviewed):

Socialism, with Andreas Albertsen
in Thompson, W.R. (red.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024