Gina Fraas Henrichsen

• Resløkken, Åmund Norum; Henrichsen, Gina Fraas & Ødemark, John (2022). "Once Upon a Time" Fairytales and the Translation of Mindfulness in Whereever you go, There You Are. Ethnologia Scandinavica. A Journal for Nordic Ethnology. ISSN 0348-9698. 52, p. 132–144. Full text in Research Archive
• Andersen, Marit Helen; Urstad, Kristin Hjorthaug; Larsen, Marie Hamilton; Henrichsen, Gina Fraas; Engebretsen, Eivind & Ødemark, John [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2021). Intervening on health literacy by knowledge translation processes in kidney transplantation: A feasibility study. Journal of Renal Care. ISSN 1755-6678. p. 1–9. doi: 10.1111/jorc.12379. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background Patients awaiting kidney transplantation need to be prepared ahead of the upcoming transplantation by developing targeted pre- and post-transplant knowledge. On this background, we designed a new health literacy intervention, including a film and a counselling session, based on motivational interviewing for dialysis patients provided by dialysis nurses. Aim To explore patients' and nurses' experiences of the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention, focusing on the patient as a prepared knowledge actor. Design An explorative qualitative study. Participants and Methods Data included in-depth interviews with nine patients and three nurses who participated in the intervention. The interviews were audiotaped and analysed following Kvale and Brinkmann's method for thematic data analysis. Findings Three main themes were identified: a different kind of health intervention stimulating new insight; a challenging kind of health conversation and changed relationships and increased security. Conclusions Both the patients and the nurses had an overall positive attitude toward the intervention, providing a kind of dialogue to prepare dialysis patients going through kidney transplantation. The nurses found the MI methodology to be challenging. When introducing a comprehensive communication method like MI, potential training and supervision needs for the nurses must be addressed.

• Ødemark, John; Henrichsen, Gina Fraas & Engebretsen, Eivind (2021). Knowledge Translation. In Sebnem, Susan & Spišiaková, Eva (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health. Routledge. ISSN 9781138335349. Full text in Research Archive
• Engebretsen, Eivind; Henrichsen, Gina Fraas & Ødemark, John (2020). Towards a translational medical humanities: introducing the cultural crossings of care. Medical Humanities. ISSN 1468-215X. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011751. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  n this introductory essay, we will present a translational medical humanities approach where the humanities are not only an auxiliary to medical science and practice, but also an interdisciplinary space where both medicine and the humanities mutually challenge and inform each other. First, we explore how medicine’s attempt to tackle the nature–culture divide is emblematically expressed in the concept and practice of knowledge translation (hereinafter KT). Second, we compare and contrast KT as an epistemic ideology and a socio-medical practice, with concepts and practices of translation developed in the human sciences. In particular, we emphasise Derrida’s understanding of translation as inherent in all meaning making, as a fundamentally textual process and as a process necessarily creating difference rather than semantic equivalence. Finally, we analyse a case from clinical medicine showing how a more refined notion of translation can enlighten the interaction between biomedical and cultural factors. Such a translational medical humanities approach also requires a rethinking of the concept of evidence in medicine.

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• Biesta, Gert; Andersen, Anders Johan W.; Bøe, Tore Dag; Eikeland, Randi; Engebretsen, Eivind & Haldar, Marit [Show all 16 contributors for this article] (2026). Mellom tradisjon og fornyelse. Fagbokforlaget. ISBN 9788245062854. 180 p. doi: 10.55669/oa8103. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Universitetene er kontinuerlig i bevegelse, og det samme er rammebetingelsene for vitenskapelig arbeid. I denne boken retter vi oppmerksomheten mot professorene, og vi har invitert utvalgte professorer til å reflektere over eget arbeid i essayformat. Essayene har igjen dannet grunnlag for refleksjoner om universitetenes utvikling i Norge. Boken inngår i debatten om utviklingen av akademisk arbeid i Norge, og gir et bidrag fra et av Norges yngre universiteter.

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• Pedersen, Ann Katrin Blø; Henrichsen, Gina Fraas & Engebretsen, Eivind (2017). Evidensformidling - En tekstanalyse av to nasjonale retningslinjer. Reprosentralen, Universitetet i Olso. Full text in Research Archive

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