• Sosialantropologi

• Kjønns- og familieproblematikk

• Utvikling
• Øst-Europa-studier, postkommunistisk samfunnstransformasjon
• Mat og risiko
• Ungdom og familiestudier
• Reproduksjon og reproduktive rettar 

• Current and recent research projects

  2007- 2012 NUFU project: Gender, generation and social mobilisation: Challenges of reproductive health and rights among vulnerable groups in Ethiopia, Sudan and Tanzania, headed by Astrid Blystad, UiB

  2007- 2013 Project leader of the research project Growing up Global? A comparative study of belonging, gendered identities and imagined futures in The Czech Republic, Norway and Tunisia. (With Marit Tjomsland and Gry Heggli)

  2009-2013 Project leader of the research project Gender in poverty reduction. Critical Explorations of Norwegian Aid Policy on Gender Equality and Women’s Rights. (Financed by NFR, Poverty and Peace, start-up date 01.07.20092014- Youth and the future in times of crises; gendered life visions, work and vulnerabilities

2016-2020 Competing discourses on fertility control impacting girl's and women's rights. Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia (NFR-Norglobal project,  Centre for International Health, UiB)

2021-2026: Reporting in context: An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania (Financed by NRC, headed by Astrid Blystad, University of Bergen)

abortion in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia (Forskerprosjekt - NORGLOBAL)