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, and doing ‘nothing,’
being without goal and means. I am interested in horizontal perspectives, life histories, and memories.

I'm interested in different kinds of hood and scapes: landscapes, schoolscapes, siblinghood, sisterhood, childhood .... 

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
• Space & places, and place as gramma   
• Memory and becomming
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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.

Se mine forskningsfilm på: 

https://dpu.au.dk/viden/video/etnografiske-forskningsfilm

I 2024 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.  

Internationale relationer 

Trond Waage (N), Christoffer Voigt (N), Sara Eldén (SE), Katherine Davis (GB), Helene Aarseth (N), Laura Merla (BE), Orvar Löfgren (SE), Jonas Frykman (SE), Sofie Woodward (GB), Daniel Miller (GB), Lisbeth Holtendal (N), Liselott Aarsand (N), Pål Aarsand (N), Anna-Maija Castrén (Fin).