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Ragnhild Holmen Bjørnsen

Førsteamanuensis

Researcher

E-post: ragnhild.bjornsen@inn.no
Mobilnummer: +47 93 61 20 09

Fakultet for helse- og sosialvitenskap
Seksjon for master i sosialfaglig arbeid
Studiested Lillehammer

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Current research project:

"Next stop: Svalbard - hypermobility and youth's mental health in Longyearbyen"

Ragnhild Bjørnsen is an associate professor in childhood studies at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. Her work centers around children living in hypermobility ("Third Culture Kids"). Through a lens of Psychological Anthropology, she unravels interrelationships of childhood, life-course, and dominant narratives within parents' employer organisations. Her case studies include the Norwegian Foreign Service and the transient Norwegian settlement on the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. These studies also reveal how children's rights become constrained by geo-political interests. Ragnhild applies narrative methodology, combining autobiography with participant observation and creative workshops.

Publications:

- A privileged childhood? : Autobiographies of growing up in the Norwegian Foreign Service

https://brage.inn.no/inn-xmlui/handle/11250/2775421

- "The assumption of privilege? Expectations on emotions when growing up in the Norwegian Foreign Service"

https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZGCK7A2H6XTTPV5EN9JG/full

- "Invisible children, untouchable cases? States’ legal obligation to protect diplomat children"

https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/30168

- "There's no place like campus - Students’ Need for Social Connectedness in a Post-Pandemic Learning Environment"

https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/seminar/article/view/5506

Prosjekter

ERAPAN: Utdanning av flyktninger og asylsøkere i de nordiske landene under og etter pandemien

Forskergrupper

Bjørnsen, Ragnhild Holmen; Myklebø, Sigrid; Olsson, Maria Ingrid Teresa & Tveita, Thale (2023). “There’s no place like campus”: Students’ need for social connectedness in a post-pandemic learning environment. Seminar.net - Media, technology and lifelong learning. ISSN 1504-4831. 19(2). doi: 10.7577/seminar.5506.
Bjørnsen, Ragnhild; Köhler-Olsen, Julia; Fauske, Halvor & Fadnes, Jan (2022). Invisible children, untouchable cases? States’ legal obligation to protect diplomat children. Child and Family Law Quarterly. ISSN 1358-8184. 34(6). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
This article discusses the scope of legal obligation for contracting states to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to realise children’s right to protection from all forms of violence in diplomat families, while simultaneously acknowledging diplomatic immunity. Based on an in-depth, qualitative study consisting of 43 written and oral accounts of former Norwegian Foreign Services children from 2015 to 2019, we show that children growing up in diplomat families experience infringement of their rights with little attention being paid to their situation by public authorities, neither in a receiving nor a sending state. The effect of being invisible to the authorities of either state is intensified by the legal framework of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations granting diplomat families and their children immunity from jurisdiction in a receiving state. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, however, requires that measures are taken by contracting states. We suggest certain types of actions by the receiving and sending state that are in line with the legal status of immunity of diplomat families while still supporting the realisation of human rights of diplomat children.
Bjørnsen, Ragnhild (2020). The assumption of privilege? Expectations on emotions when growing up in the Norwegian Foreign Service. Childhood. ISSN 0907-5682. 27(1), s. 120–133. doi: 10.1177/0907568219885377.

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Weihe, Hans-Jørgen Wallin; Lien, Lars & Bjørnsen, Ragnhild Holmen (2024). "Hva skjer med synet vårt på illegale stoffer når de brukes i behandling?". Dagens medisin. ISSN 1501-4290.
Olsen, Julia; Meyer, Alexandra; Iversen, Lisbeth; Hovelsrud , Grete K. ; Schildberg, Ulrich & Bjørnsen, Ragnhild Holmen (2023). Building transdisciplinary bridges for sustainable Svalbard and Arctic development.
Broch, Tuva Beyer; Bjørnsen, Ragnhild Holmen; Thoresen, Wenche; Bjerke, Victoria Rustad; Myklebø, Sigrid & Søderstrøm, Kerstin [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Lågendeltaet naturreservat og kommende generasjoner. GD Gudbrandsølen Dagningen.
Bjørnsen, Ragnhild Holmen; Broch, Tuva Beyer; Thoresen, Wenche; Stryken Solberg, Ida-Sofie; Søderstrøm, Kerstin & Blom, Tine [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Lågen-bedraget. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
Bjerke, Victora Helen Rustad; Myklebø, Sigrid; Olsson, Maria Ingrid Teresa; Tveita, Thale & Bjørnsen, Ragnhild Holmen (2023). Post pandemi-studentene tror faktisk at de duger. Og de er opptatt av mer enn bare karakterer. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.

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Høgskolen i Innlandet
Postboks 400 Vestad
2418 Elverum