Areas of responsibility
Educated at University of Agder in with BA and MA in history, also educated as a high school teacher in history and religion. I have worked with communications, lately at Vest-Agder-museet where I worked with the exhibition "Summer Memories from Sørlandet" as well as writing a chapter in their publication "... at maatte erholde en liden Hjelp" - about poverty in the southern part of Norway.
Have experience from other fields such as politics, NGOs and unionwork.
Research
- Poison and the history of poison
- Social history
- History of psychiatry
- History of medicine
Selected publications
Between 1845 and 1967 deadly poison was often used to kill and eradicate unwanted wild animals in the Norwegian fauna. The major targets of these poison practices were rats, predators and crows. This article presents the main types of poisons used, the main methods of poison administration and the legislation covering the poisoning-practices in regards to the various species, as well as negotiations over the killing methods and wildlife eradication programmes