I am concerned with how we can continue to live together as if there were a future and a hope, as the Danish poet Ivan
Malinowski wrote in 1968.

I trying to figure out how we, in different ways, learn to find our way, alone, and not least together. How we can learn to
listen, taste, and move through the world.
For many years, I have had a research focus on small and overlooked places, on pocket ethnography, on doing ‘nothing,’
being without goal and means. I am interested in horizontal perspectives, life histories, and memories.

Home, family, siblings, belonging, materiality, mobility, spaces & places. Methodology and visual anthropology.  
I am engaged with slow pedagogy, and for a number of years I have written about:  
* ‘nothingness,’ that is, what happens when one simply potters 

• lingers, fiddles with a fire, or watches snails 
• the many practices, tasks, and banalities of everyday life
• siblingship and family life
• home, which is not the same as feeling at home or trying to make oneself at home
• Forcefull communities and social force (a book project I will be working on in the autumn of 2026 and spring of
  2027)
• sensory and material methods, and how we must practice listening, tasting, and smelling when working ethnographically
• places and memory                                                                     
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• I am interested in the Kven minority and have conducted fieldwork in the North Calotte (North Norway)
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• I have produced ethnographic films about siblings, about children’s lives, about children’s experiences of the school
  reform, and about sensory loss among the elderly.
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• And now I am in the process of producing a podcast series titled “Voices from West Jutland,” which will hopefully become
  a chorus of many voices from this region in Denmark, and which I hope will go on air in the summer of 2026.

I have produced ethnographic films about siblings, about children’s lives, about children’s experiences of the school reform, and about sensory loss among the elderly.

And now I am in the process of producing a podcast series titled “Voices from West Jutland,” which will hopefully become a chorus of many voices from this region, and which I hope will go on air in the summer of 2026.

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I 2024 efter at jeg stoppede som afdelingsleder fik jeg et AUFF mobilitetsstipendium og var på forskningsophold i både Tromsø og Bergen. Mit job som højskoleforstander betød at jeg måtte afbryde mine ophold, men de er heldigvis blevet skubbet, så pt. er jeg ved at planlægge hvordan jeg bedst muligt får projektet i hus.  

International Relations 

Trond Waage (N), Christoffer Voigt (N), Sara Eldén (SE), Laura Merla (BE), Orvar Löfgren (SE), Jonas Frykman (SE), Carol Smart (GB), Daniel Miller (GB), Lisbeth Holtendal (N), 

Keynotes: 

2026              Trondheim in november (Norge)

2024              Tromsø (Norge)

2022              Trondheim (Norge), Namur (Belgium)

2018              Jyvaskyla (Finland), 2017 Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium)

2016              Aalborg (Denmark), Linköping (Sweden)

2015              Lund (Sweden)

2013, 2012     Tromsø (Norway)  2012    DPU (Denmark).

Networks: 

2017-2018      ‘Significant others’ (Nordic Network family Research)

2012-             ‘Member of network for Nordic Childhood Research’ 

2009-2014      ‘Nordic Network for Digital Visuality’ (NNDV) 2009-   ‘Nordic Anthropological Film Association’ (NAFA)

Travel grants:  

2024-2026     AUFF sabatical travel grants (Tromsø, Bergen, Oslo, Mexico)  

2014              Madrid (Spain).

2012              Erasmus mobility Grant: Tromsø (Norway)

2001              Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (USA).