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Primary fields of research

I study societal issues in relation to women's everyday life and health - particularly with a focus on emotions, bodies, menopause, time pressure and health promotion. I am theoretically inspired by process sociology, sociology of emotions, sociology of the body and interactionism. I use qualitative methods (individual interviews, focus groups and observation) in my research. My research includes the following topics:

• The significance of menopause for women's bodies and self-presentations.
• Women's emotions and their management in relation to physical activity.     
• Body ideals and embodiment through women's lives.      
• The influence of health-promoting norms for women.
• Time bind and management within women's everyday life

Current research

I am the research group leader for Women's Health and Menopause (WHAM - publichealth.ku.dk/wham), where we are currently running five social science and humanities-based projects that align with our overall vision - to create a research center for menopause - Women in Healthy Transition (KISO):

KISO SURVEY: The challenges of menopause - a nationwide mixed method study. A PhD project that maps Danish women's menopause in relation to symptoms, quality of life and physical activity quantitatively, and qualitatively goes in depth with selected aspects. The project is financed by crowdfunding, Aase and Einar Danielsens Fonden and Absalon Fonden af 1. maj 1978 and caried out by PhD fellow Sigrid Normann Biener. 

KISO COHORT: Women in Healthy Transition. An interdisciplinary research project which examines women's menopause by following women before, during and after menopause. The project is financed by Sygesikring "danmark" (2021-2026) and the Sagitta Charity Foundation (2025–2027), and the sociological component is conducted in collaboration with postdoctoral researcher Ida Friis Thing.

KISO Work Life
A qualitative indepth study examining how work life and menopause influence each other. The project is funded by the VELUX FOUNDATION (2025–2027) and is carried out by PhD student Anna Lyngdal Wulff.

KISO The Interaction at the General Practice
A qualitative anthropological study exploring women's experiences and perceptions of their encounters with doctors regarding menopause. The project is funded by the Sagitta Charity Foundation (2025–2026) and is conducted by postdoctoral researcher Emilie Mølholm Kjærulff.

KISO Body Ideals and Overweight
A qualitative sociological study investigating how societal body ideals and overweight influence women's experience of menopause. The project is funded by the Sagitta Charity Foundation (2025–2028) and is carried out by PhD student Michelle Skov Blagdon.

Teaching

I teach and supervise within the field of social sciences of sport and related topics at bachelor's and master's level. Primarily within the following areas:

• Project management in the Health care system (bachelor course)
• Sport, body and media (bachelor course) which introduces several sociological perspectives, including Elias, Foucault, Goffman and Lupton.
• Microsociology (lectures at master's level)       
• General introductory sports theories with sociological relevance
• Qualitative methods
• Supervision within healthpromotion, women's health and illness.

CV

Employments

2023-: Associate Professor in Section of Social Medicine, Dep. of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

2023-2023: Associate Professor in Sport, Individual and Society, NEXS, University of Copenhagen

2021-2023: Assistant Professor in Sport, Individual and Society, NEXS, University of Copenhagen

2017-2020: Post Doc in Sport, Individual and Society, NEXS, University of Copenhagen

Education

2017: PhD in Sport sociology, NEXS, University of Copenhagen

2012: Cand.scient. Humanities and Social Sport Sciences, IFI, University of Copenhagen