Curriculum vitae

Academic degrees

1999: Dr.philos. My dissertation Iskusstvo videt' prekrasnoe. The Literary Aesthetics of A.Voronskij 1921-28, (463pp), deals with the Russian journalist, editor and literary critic A. Voronsky, a key figure in journalism and literary debates in Soviet Russia of the 1920s.
1995: MA in Russian Studies
1982: MA in Political Science/International Relations

Positions

2000-2012: Associate Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
1989-99: Director of Finance and Adm., Norw. Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo

Assignments, visiting scholar

2009-13: Vice chairman, National Council for Media Studies
2012- : Elected representative of Media and Communication Studies in Advisory Council, Institute of Journalism and Media Studies
2011: Member of organization committee for NordMedia2013
2011 (Sept): Visiting scholar, Dhaka University, Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Bangladesh
2010-: Co-chair of joint working groups for media and press issues in bilateral human rights dialogues with China and Vietnam
2009 (Sep): Visiting scholar, Vietnam Journalist Association, Vietnam
2009 (Apr): Visiting scholar, College of Journalism and Mass Comm., Kathmandu, Nepal
2007-09: Evaluator, FP7-SSH, European Commission, DG Research, Brussels
2008: Ext. examiner, (MA level) Fac. of Journ. and Comm., Addis Ababa Univ., Ethiopia
2007-12: Evaluator, (PhD level) Mass Comm., Univ. of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
2007 (Oct): Vis. scholar, Inst. of Comm. Studies, Univ. of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
2007-12: Ext. examiner, (BA, MA level), Media and Comm. Studies , University of Oslo
2005: Evaluator, FP6 Ethical Review Panel, European Commission, DG Research, Brussels,