Kjersti Alsaker

Title: Post doctor

Phone: +47 55 58 61 10

E-mail: Kjersti.Alsaker@isf.uib.no

Visiting address: Kalfarveien 31

Intimate partner violence, quality of life and health and work

Publications in Cristin

Work and violence

Summary of the “Work and Violence” project description

2008- 2012

 

Norway as a nation is working towards a “more inclusive work life”. Emphasis is put on adapting the workplace to the individual, even where health problems and other circumstances exist. According to literature from abroad, women who experience sexual violence from a partner have problems coping with work.

Using three different research methods we wish to obtain information as to whether violence that occurs in the home is hampering women's efforts to prevent exclusion from work.

1) Using qualitative in-depth interviews with women at a selection of crisis centres in Norway in both urban and more rural areas, we would like to get answers to a number of important questions relating to experiences of physical and mental abuse from a close relative and the significance of this on ones’s work.

2) Focus group interviews based on the research question: How has the experience of living in a violent relationship affected your work?

3) Questionnaire survey: The qualitative in-depth interviews and focus group interviews will form the basis of the design of a questionnaire to a large number of women at selected representative crisis centres in Norway.We want to include women of foreign origin and will therefore supply the questionnaire in both English and Norwegian as the number of women of foreign origin was more than 50% in 2005. We will also send questionnaires to a control group from the general population.

 

 

Senior Researcher, RN, PhD