- E-maileli.melby@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 24 61
- Visitor AddressRosenbergsgaten 395015 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78025020 Bergen
Key words: Political sociology, social movements, gender, political organizing and participation, political claims-making, activism during the covid-19 pandemic, French politics
Eli Melby is PhD Fellow in sociology at the University of Bergen in Norway. Her main research topics include political participation and organizing, gender and social movements. Her doctoral project deals with the role of gender in new class-based movements, with a case study of grassroots organizing in the Yellow vest movement in France. Methodologically Melby draws mainly on in-depth qualitative interviews, participant observation and archive data.
Melby has been visiting researcher at Centre for European Studies (CEE), Sciences Po Paris April to July 2021, and at CRAPUL Research Centre for Political Action, University of Lausanne September to December 2021.
- (2019). Flergifte. Kunnskapsstatus om polygami, migrasjon og kvinners situasjon. .
- (2018). Sårbarhet og styrke. Barnevernets møte med minoritetsjenter utsatt for vold og sterk kontroll. 9. 9. .
- (2024). Sosiale bevegelser og sted - Fra Gule Vester til russiske fredsaktivister.
- (2023). Mobilizing women’s grievances.
- (2022). “We can have order without power.” How horizontality creates gendered leadership.
- (2022). Multi-sited pitfalls in the ethnographic study of a radical right/left social movement.
- (2018). Queer seminars: Identity Struggles: LGBT Activism in Morocco.
- (2017). Kjenner rasismen ingen grenser?
- (2023). Pushed out by politics. Sociological Review Magazine.
- (2019). Education for Environmental Citizenship in Norway: A SWOT Analysis . 216-224. In:
- (2019). ENEC Cost Action Report — European SWOT Analysis on Education for Environmental Citizenship. .
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Research consultant, ARENA Centre for European studies, University of Oslo, 2019-2020
University lecturer, Center for gender research, University of Oslo, 2019
Research assistant, Norwegian social research - NOVA, OsloMet, 2017-2019
Master's degree in sociology, Department of sociology, University of Oslo, 2017
Bachelor's degree in social sciences, Université Paris Descartes, 2014