Project participants

Principal Investigator Susanne Bygnes

Susanne Bygnes is principal investigator for IMEX and an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology. She coordinates the Diversity, extremism and human rights research group at The Norwegian Citizen Panel, DIGSSCORE and is a board member of the interdisciplinary research unit on migration...

Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Scientific Director DIGSSCORE

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. She is the principal investigator of the Digital Social Science Core Facility (DIGSSCORE) and the Norwegian Citizen Panel at the University of Bergen.

Associate professor Hege Høivik Bye

Hege Høivik Bye is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychosocial Science and a member of the Citizen lab comittee of the Norwegian Citizen Panel. Høivik Bye plays a key role in shaping questions and analyzing the quantitative panel data we draw on in IMEX and has been central on project...

Researcher Mette Strømsø

Mette Strømsø is a researcher for IMEX at the Department of Sociology. In the project, she will contribute with analysis on the majority population—understood as residents in Norwegian local communities—and their attitudes, perceptions and experiences of immigration and integration after the ...

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Researcher Lise Lund Bjånesøy

Lise Lund Bjånesøy is a researcher at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory. She has published the article "Effects of the Refugee Crisis on Perceptions of Asylum Seekers in Recipient Populations" as a part of the IMEX project.

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Researcher Åsta Dyrnes Nordø

Åsta Dyrnes Nordø is a researcher at NORCE. She has published the article "The scope of exclusionary public response to the European refugee crisis" with Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, as a part of the IMEX project.

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PhD-fellow Amany Selim

Amany Selim is a PhD-fellow at the Department of Sociology. She will do a PhD on transnational political engagement among Syrians in Oslo and Berlin (workpackage 1). Amany holds a Master’s degree in Migration Studies and Euro-Mediterranean Relations, as part of a mobility program. Her master’s...

Research assistant: Melody Helén Bartlett Larsen

Melody Larsen is a research assistant in the project, working on a scoping review on the Syrian diaspora in Europe.

Advisory board

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Ilse van Liempt, Paul Statham and Eva Østergaard-Nielsen form the advisory board of the IMEX project. You can read more about the advisory board here.

Master student Nikolai Bogre

Nikolai Bogre has written a master thesis in Sociology at the University of Bergen. His thesis focuses on two events of counter-mobilization against the policy and rhetoric of former Minister of Immigration Sylvi Listhaug,taking two cycles of mobilization which quickly raised support and large scale...

Master student 2017: Evelyn Myrå Holmøy

Evelyn Myrå Holmøy was a master student in Sociology at the University of Bergen. Her thesis concerned the campaign group "Refugees Welcome to the Arctic" in Kirkenes, Norway. Susanne Bygnes was the second supervisor of the master project, Ann Elise Widding Isaksen was the main supervisor.

Master student 2017: Kristine Elholm Wenaas

Kristine Elholm Wenaas was a master student in sociology at the University of Bergen. She participated in the project and wrote a thesis based on issues related to the project description. Susanne Bygnes was supervisor of the master project.