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Background and Research Interests
Dr Line Nyhagen Predelli was a Research Fellow at CRSP from 2003 to September 2007. She is now a Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. Line joined CRSP from the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, where she had been a Senior Researcher from 1998. Trained as both a sociologist and a political scientist, her experience includes both qualitative and quantitative research conducted for research councils and government departments.
Line has a PhD in sociology from the University of Southern California, and an MA in political science from the University of Bergen.
Line’s research interests are ethnic minorities and political participation, gender and citizenship, gender and religion, poverty and social exclusion.
Over the past years Line has initiated, worked on and led several projects that have investigated the experiences of ethnic minorities, including Muslim women and men, ethnic minority women’s organisations, and immigrant organisations more generally. Line has recently studied immigrant organisations in Norway with a view to their involvement in political decision-making processes. This study is based on a survey questionnaire of all immigrant organisations in Norway and on in-depth interviews with leaders of immigrant organisations, and is sponsored by the Research Council of Norway. The project follows her previous research on the political influence of ethnic minority women’s organisations, which was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Research Programme on Power and Democracy and the Norwegian Ministry of Children and Family Affairs. This study included interviews with civil servants at the state level, members of parliament, and representatives of voluntary organisations working to promote the interests of ethnic minority women. In the field of immigration and ethnic relations, Line has also studied the views and practices of Muslim women and men in relation to gender roles, which involved in-depth interviews with Muslims of Pakistani and Moroccan backgrounds. In February 2007 Line began research on “Multicultural citizenship”, a study that is part of the EU-funded project “Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women’s movements”.
see www.femcit.org
Line has also built up considerable experience in the evaluation of public policy, both in the UK and in Scandinavia. In the UK, her experience includes a project that explores the contribution of the Social Fund to reducing poverty and exclusion through the use of focus groups (commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation), an evaluation of the effectiveness of the School Sports Coordinator Programme based on interviews with school representatives (commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills), and a study of the effectiveness of partnership working in various Jobcentre Plus districts based on interviews with major stakeholders (commissioned by the Department of Work and Pensions). In Scandinavia, her experience includes a project evaluating the Swedish state-funded ‘Foundation Culture of the Future’, where she worked on a joint Norwegian-Swedish research team. Line had the main responsibility for designing, administering and analysing data from two sets of survey questionnaires to the Foundation’s clients. She also conducted and analysed in-depth interviews with current and past members of the Swedish cabinet and civil servants.
Line led the evaluation of the Contact Committee for Immigrants and the Authorities in Norway, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. In this project, she used in-depth interview techniques to explore perceptions about the committee among parliamentary politicians, cabinet members, civil servants and voluntary ethnic minority organisations. Line has also carried out an evaluation of the Centre for Nature, Culture and Health, a private foundation in Norway, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Health. The project was based on in-depth interviews with members of the Centre’s management team and clients of the Centre.
Line has, in addition to these projects, been involved in research on local housing policy, on health promotion and sickness prevention, and on environmental and religious voluntary organisations.
Current Projects
Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements (FEMCIT)
This project, sponsored by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 7, commenced on 1st February 2007 and will complete in January 2011.
The project includes 10 Work Packages. Line is leading Work Package 4, 'Ethnic and Religious Citizenships, Intersections between feminism, ethnic identity and religion in a multicultural Europe'. Each Work Package will gather new empirical data from three or four EU member states and aims to develop new theoretical knowledge about contemporary gendered citizenship in a multicultural context.
Sponsor:
European Commission
Risk Perceptions and Responses and Transitions in the Life-course
This is part of the ESRC-funded research network, Social Contexts and Responses to Risk (SCARR). A major theme in contemporary social theory is that society is becoming increasingly risk-oriented, resulting in inter-generational discontinuities in how people think about and deal with risk in their everyday lives. The first phase of the project involved a national survey of the perceptions and experiences of risk of 1400 respondents. The second phase involves biographical and longitudinal qualitative research, including interviews with parents and their adult children, exploring participants'; decisions about life changes and events and the consequences of those decisions.
Sponsor: Economic and Social Research Council
Selected Publications
Predelli, L. N., France, A. and Dearden, C. (2008) Introduction: The Poverty of Policy? Gaps in Anti-Poverty Policy for Children and Young People in Social Policy and Society, Volume 7, Issue 4, pp.471-477.
"Interpreting gender in Islam: A case study of immigrant Muslim women in Oslo, Norway", Gender & Society vol. 18, no. 4, 2004.
"Issues of Gender, Race, and Class in the Norwegian Missionary Society in Nineteeth-Century Madagascar", Studies in History of Missions, No. 24, Mellen Press, 2003.
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