Ingvild Bergom Lunde

Academic interests

• Female genital cutting
• Ritual circumcision of boys
• Intimate cosmetic surgery
• Genital surgery for intersex infants
• Genital surgery for transpersons
• Genital piercing as part of erotic activity
• National identity
• Global health
• Sexuality
• Minority health
• Stigma and empowerment
• Violence in close relationships
• Kurdistan
• Somaliland

Courses taught

• Modul  5
• Module 6

Background

• Postdoctoral fellow (2020-): Genital cutting: (re)constructing what? Comparing the medicalisation of six different genital cutting practices. Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo. 
• PhD in Medicine and Health (2014-2020): A qualitative study on female genital cutting among Kurdish-Norwegians. Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies/University of Oslo.
• Project coordinator (2019): National guideline for the health care and social services' work on violence in close relationships. Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies. 
• Higher executive officer/Advisor in study- and research administration at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo (2012-2014, 2019-2020).
• MPhil in International Community Health (2010-2012): Eradicating female genital cutting: Understanding reality conceptions : A study on perceptions of female genital cutting in Hargeisa, Somaliland (Somalia). Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo. 
• BA in Anthropology and Development Studies (2008-2010). Victoria University of Wellington, New Zeland.
• Arabic language, 60 ECTS (2007). Centre for Arabic Language and Eastern Studies, Yemen.

Awards

• Nominated for best master thesis of the year with a gender perspetive 2012 Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo.

Partners

• Norwegian Women's Public Health Association