I am Professor in Education with a main interest in how identities are formed and changed in and through adult life and in relation to different life settings. I have previously studied how non-traditional students form and transform identities in higher education, non-traditional students employability within the HR sector after higher education, how professional identites are formed in health care services and how new ways of organising work and organisational changes affect the formation of identity.

In a new project 'Spatial pockets of inequalities' young adults in rural and surburb areas that are seen as disadvantaged are studied. In the project we are interested in how social background, geographical and virtual spaces impact on the educational and life careers of young adults.

Theoretically I often take my point of departure from social perspectives such as symbolic interactionism, socio-cultural learning perspectives and new institutionalism concerning issues of learning, organization and identity formation and transformation.

I am also trying to use different methodolgogical approaches such as case studies, biographical research and time geography.