- E-maileli.melby@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 24 61
- Visitor AddressRosenbergsgaten 395015 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78025020 Bergen
My main research interests are political participation and organizing, collective identity, and social movements as gendered institutions. My doctoral project deals with the role of gender in new class-based movements, with a case study of local organizing in the Yellow vest movement in France.
“We are the Despicable Women": Gendered Reformulations of Leadership in the Gilets Jaunes Movement, paper presentation 24 June 2022, Mobilization's 25th Anniversary Conference, San Diego, CA
Multi-sited pitfalls in the ethnographic study of a radical right/left social movement, paper presentation 20 June 2022, NORA Conference, University of Oslo, Norway
- (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. .
- (2018). Queer seminars: Identity Struggles: LGBT Activism in Morocco.
- (2019). Education for Environmental Citizenship in Norway: A SWOT Analysis . 216-224.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
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