Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund#
| Membership Number: | 5831 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/people/aca/gunnb/index.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6932-6496 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021-2024. Secretary General at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 1999 Professor of Sociology, University of Oslo
- 2013 - 2020 Professor II, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, and The Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden
- 2011 - 2015 Visiting Academic, GEMASS, Université Paris-Sorbonne and CREST, ENSAE, La Grande École de l’Économie, de la Statistique et de la Finance, Paris (several visits)
- 2005 - 2006 Visiting Academic, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford and Nuffield College, UK
- 1993 - 1994 Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, USA
- 1987 (fall) Honorary Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- 1987 - 1997 Associate Professor at Department of Sociology, University of Bergen
Fields of Scholarship
- Demography
- Labor market studies
- Gender inequalities
- Segregation dynamics
- Ethnic inequalities
- Sociological theory
- Analytical sociology
- Socio-economic inequalities
Honours and Awards
- 2018 - 2020 Vice-President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Member of the Board, and Head of the Section of Humanities and Social Science. http://www.dnva.no
- 2018 - 2020 Member of the Robert K. Merton Award committee, International Network of Analytical Sociologists
- 2017 - 2022 Member of the Raymond Boudon award committee, European Academy of Sociology
- 2012 Fellow at the European Academy of Sociology (EAS). Member of the EAS Council (2017 - present) http://www.european-academy-sociology.eu
- 2010 Member and co-founder of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists https://analyticalsociology.com
- 2010 Elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
- 1997 - 2016 Chair (and founder) of The Honorary Prize committee, Norwegian Sociological Association
- 1997 - 1999 President, Norwegian Sociological Association.
- Professional associations
- Member of American Sociological Association, sub-committees: Rationality & Society; Organizations, Occupations & Work; Inequality, Poverty & Mobility
- International Sociological Association - Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility
- Population Association of America
- Norsk Demografisk forening
- Member and former President of Norsk sosiologforening
