Prof. Marit Sundet
Nord University, Norway
Professor (Cultural Anthropology)
Member of the Academic Leadership Team of UArctic (ALT of UArctic)
- For many years, Sundet has done research on stigmatized groups of people and how different communities define normality in different ways
- Institutionalization, meaning formation, and changes in institutions, have been central themes
- In the last 15 years, her main scholarly interest is international cooperation between higher educational institutions (HEIs)
- Her empirical studies of international cooperation between HEIs has been published in journals such as Globalizations, Societies and Education, revealing that such cooperation is rooted in very different political, social, economic and cultural conditions and that these conditions are prerequisites for the individuals’ participating in international networks.