Johanna Adolfsson

Academic Interests

My research interests include the intersection of psychology and development policy and practice, neoliberal subjectivities, gender-relations, power structures, knowledge production, language and discursive negotiations. My specific research focus on promoting an understanding of how maternal and reproductive health policies transfer between the global-, national- and local levels, and how these alterations have consequences for people subjected to and dependent on these policies. The regional focus of the study is Malawi.

• Norm-critical approaches to psychology
• Sexual, reproductive and maternal health
• Language, gender relations and power structures
• Global health policy making
• Interdisciplinary research

Background

• Administrative and Scientific Coordinator, LEVE – Livelihoods in Developing Countries, University of Oslo
• Research Assistant, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo
• Research Assistant, LEVE – Livelihoods in Developing Countries, University of Oslo
• Master degree in Cultural- and Societal Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
• LEVE-fellow, Centre for Development and the Environment
• Bachelor in Culture and Communication, University of Oslo
• Exchange student, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina