Helene Nilsen

Guest Researcher

E-mailhelene.nilsen@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 99 15
Visitor Address
Sydnesplassen 12-13

5007 Bergen
Postal Address
Postboks 7805

5020 Bergen

Discursive practices of public health policy and practice

Hvilke problemer løser en livsstilsintervensjon? Op-ed in Norwegian in the journal Fysioterapeuten (The Physiotherapist), 5 May 2021

Show author(s) (2016). Organic food production in Norway: what is it good for? 6 pages.

Show author(s) (2015). Fitness for which purpose? A quality assessment of a Norwegian public health intervention in nursery schools. 6 pages.
Show author(s) (2015). Et løfte om likhet - en vitenskapsteoretisk tilnærming til en folkehelseintervensjon i barnehager i Groruddalen.

Show author(s) (2012). Popular science - Common Ground. A literary critique of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Other publications:

Nilsen, H. (2015). Fitness for which purpose? A quality assessment of a Norwegian public health intervention in nursery schools. (Extended abstract) In Know your food: Food ethics and innovation (p. 449). Wageningen Academic Publishers.

PhD-thesis: Healthism and tensions in humanist public health – a discursive study of public health policy and practice in the Norwegian welfare state

Fields of competence

Discourse analysis

English Language and Literature

Ethics of Public Health

Vitenskapsteori

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Ethical Seafood? - Fisheries and Aquaculture at the Crossroads (ESea)

This projects sought to contribute to the issue of the ethical status of global fisheries and aquaculture, and thus it was based on the introductory question of how ethical our seafood is, or what it would mean to claim that it is ethical.