Ingrid Birce Müftüoglu

Ingrid Birce Müftüoglu works as a researcher on the project ENERGETHICS (2015-2019). The project explores Norwegian energy companies' corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies in their investments abroad  and examines which difference it makes whether the corporate ethics of a company is framed in relation to a corporatist state and based on a 'Nordic model of CSR'. Together with the projects PI, Ståle Knudsen,  Müftüoglu will focus on Statskraft’s head office in Oslo, on the country office in Istanbul, their subsidiary office in Ankara and on the company’s ongoing CSR work in the communities affected by the 470 GWH Kargı dam in Çorum in the Black Sea region. 

Müftüoglu holds a PhD in Ethnology (UiB) and has been doing research within various fields, such as the Women's movement in Norway and Atatürk's monuments in Ankara and Istanbul, as well as working as a senior advisor at the analysis department at The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU). Her research interests include new social movements, the interaction between politics and aesthetic and CSR.