Assignments

Vice chairman, National Council for Media Studies (2009-12)
Appointed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs to head working groups for media and press issues in bilateral human rights dialogues with China, Vietnam (2010)
Editorial board, Journal of Media Studies (ISSN 1812-7592) (Pakistan) (2010-)
Editorial board, Intercultural Communication Studies (ISSN 1057-7769) (USA) (2008-)
External examiner (MA level) at several Norwegian universities (2007-2010)
External evaluator (PhD level), University of the Punjab, Lahore (2007-2010)
Advisory board, IAICS - Int. Ass. for Intercultural Studies (2007-)
Evaluator, FP7-SSH, European Commission, DG Research (2007-09)
Evaluator, FP6 Ethical Review Panel, European Commission, DG Research (2005)
Faculty R&D co-ordinator (2001-) and Faculty International co-ordinator (2004-09)
Member and faculty representative, OUC R&D advisory committee (2002-07)
Member of OUC doctoral stipend committee (2005)
Member and faculty representative, OUC internationalization committee (2004)
Member, Norwegian Council of Higher Education committee mandated to develop a new national documentation system for scholarly publishing (2003-04)
Vice Chairman, Norw. Library Ass. advisory comm. on multicultural services (2004-05)
Member, Norwegian Council of Higher Education committee mandated to revise Norwegian scientific discipline classification system (2003)
Chairman, working group appointed by Norwegian National Office for Research and Special Libraries to create ethical guidelines for research librarians (2002)
Member of editorial board, Zoologica Scripta, Blackwell, Oxford, publ. for Norw. Acad. of Science and Letters & Royal Swedish Acad. of Sciences (1994-98)
Vice Chairman, Norwegian-British Business Forum (1987)