Research group
Aging, Care and Welfare (ALOVE)
An aging population challenges the health and welfare sector to rethink how good quality care can be provided in a sustainable way. The interdisciplinary research group ALOVE is concerned with regional, national and international issues related to ageing, care, welfare and innovation.
Particular focus is directed towards finding best practice within innovation and collaboration in the health and care sector, and how best to drive learning and competence development within health professions in education and working life. The research group also focuses on the implications of changed family and working life for caring relationships, the role of civil society and how aging and migration affect care needs and practices.
The research group's members represent subjects such as sociology, anthropology, organization, political science and gender studies. The research group collaborates with other faculties at Nord, Nordland Research Institute, several national and international research environments. The research group also works together with national, regional and local stakeholders from the field of practice.
Objectives of the research group:
1) to strengthen the group's research and dissemination activities
2) to stimulate the recruitment of researchers in the field and to develop research collaboration across research groups at Nord University
3) to promote national and international cooperation around the topic
4) to be a resource for the actors in the field of practice, and to strengthen and develop collaborative relationships with them
Research leader: Cecilie Høj Anvik
Scientists:From Faculty of Social Sciences:
- Cecilie Høj Anvik
- Jill Beth Otterlei
- Gry Brandser
- Trude Gjernes
- Esben Olesen
- Guro Wisth Øydgard
- Yan Zhao
- Tesfahun Terrefe
- Nadji Aissa Khefif
- Asgeir Solstad
- Gry Brandser
- Øystein Henriksen
From Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences
- Rita Solbakken
External members:
- Mia Vabø (OsloMet, Norway)
- Charlotte Wegener (Aalborg University, Denmark)
- Learning across boundaries in elderly care (LABCare): Enabling expansive learning in and across vocational education and workplace practices (2023-2028), funded by the Norwegian Research Council, Nord University, OsloMet, Aalborg University. Rita Solbakken, FSH, Yan Zhao, Guro Wisth Øydgard, Trude Gjernes, Esben Olesen, Cecilie Høj Anvik (project manager), FSV Nord University
Completed projects:
- Migrating elder parents and family-based care arrangements among Chinese families abroad (2021-2023), Yan Zhao, FSV, Nord University
- Innovation practice in northern Norwegian nursing homes (2019-2022), RFF Nord. Nordland Research Institute, Nord University, Aalborg University. Cecilie Høj Anvik, FSV, Nord University
- "Elder care the overlooked wicket research field" (2022-2024) funded by the Independent Research Fund, Denmark, (collaboration with Aalborg University, Aarhus University, Danish Pedagogical university, Jönköping University). Rita Solbakken FSH and Cecilie Høj Anvik FSV, Nord University
- Establishment of a knowledge-based continuous leadership development program in the health service in a district municipality through recognized organizational development (2022-2024), Rita Solbakken (co-researcher), FSH, Nord University
- Students' motivation for special master's education (2022-2024)
- BeProf: Becoming a professional nurse, A mentor program for newly qualified nurses in Nordland and Västerbotten (Rita Solbakken co-researcher, 2020-2022)
- Aging in Sami population areas (Trude Gjernes in collaboration with UiT, 2020-2021)
- The welfare research program "Condition and sustainability in the Nordic welfare model" (Jill Beth Otterlei, 2018-2020)
- Chinese migrant elder parents and the intergenerational care arrangements in the context of internal migration (Yan Zhao, In collaboration with a researcher in China, 2018-2020)
- Collaboration systems in the protection of citizenship for persons with dementia (Trude Gjernes, 2013-2018)
- Negotiations in care. An institutional ethnography about relatives' care work and access to health and care services, Doctoral project (Guro Wisth Øydgard, 2013-2018)
