The PhD project involved fourteen months of anthropological fieldwork, a visiting researcher stay at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Dar es Salaam (2023/24), and a visiting researcher stay at the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health (Department of Anthropology/School of Global Health) at the University of Sussex (2025).

Panel presentation: "Exploring Therapeutic Spaces of Dhikr, a Devotional Sufi Practice, in Southeastern Tanzania", Medical Anthropology Conference (MAEC), Vienna, Austria, 2025.

Panel presentation: "Exploring aspects of care within spirit possession and rituals of healing", European Conference for African Studies (ECAS), Praha, Czech Republic, 2025.

Seminar presentation: "Health, care, and more-than-human relations in Tanzania", Centre for Cultures of Reproduction Technologies and Health (CORTH), University of Sussex, UK, 2025  

Seminar presentation: "Reflections on Social Scientific Approaches to Maternal Health Research in Lindi, Tanzania", Dep. of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2023.

Supervision

• Spring 2021 & 2022: SANT260 (Bachelor's essay)

Lectures

• Autumn 2020, 2021 & 2022: guest lecturer in SANT150
• Autumn 2018: mini lecture in SANT105

Teaching assistant in student workshops

• Autumn 2020 & 2021: SANT150
• Spring 2020: SANT102 and SANT215
• Autumn 2019: SANT104 and SANT100
• Spring 2019: SANT103 and SANT215
• Autumn 2018: SANT100 and SANT105

Skoftedalen, K. (forthcoming). 'Feeding the jinni: Care, healing, and human-spirit relations in southeastern Tanzania'

Skoftedalen, K. (2025) 'Documents, education, and aesthetics: Exploring processes of subjectification among community health workers in Peru', History and Anthropology, 36(2), 285-305. doi: 10.1080/02757206.2024.2319881.

Skoftedalen, K. (2017) 'Governing Rural Health: Making Manageable Citizens in Colca Valley, Peru', Master's thesis at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. 136 pages.

From September 2022: PhD candidate in the research project Reporting in context: An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania (MATRISET), headed by Astrid Blystad.

January 2021-June 2022: Research assistant in the project Environmental Sustainability, Marine Economies and Gendered Socio-Economic Inequalities (ENMARINE): A Norway-Brazil Partnership in Research and Teaching, headed by Iselin Åsedotter Strønen.