Professor Mette Halskov Hansen was appointed Vice-Rector for Climate & the Environment and Cross-Disciplinarity from August 2021-2025.
Background
- Born 1962 in Copenhagen
- Education in China studies, anthropology, literary science from Aarhus University, Shandong University, China (1986-1988), School of Oriental and Asian Studies, (1991)
- Phd with thesis about ethnic relations and minority education in China, Aarhus University, 1996
- Postdoctoral fellow, Centre for Development and the Environment, UiO, 1996-1999
- From 2000, associate professor, Department of East European and Oriental Studies (I?O), UiO
- Professor since 2003
- Head of Department I?O, 2003-2004
- Head of Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), 2005-2006
- Dean of Research, Faculty of Humanities, UiO 2007-2010.
- Honorary visiting professor, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011-2012
- Visiting professor Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2015
- Foreign professor, Zhejiang University, 2015-2018
- PI of Airborne project, Centre for Advanced Studies, 2016-2017
- Spent more 6+ years as student and researcher in China and Taiwan since 1986
Research Areas
- Ethnic relations and minority policy in China
- Minority education and rural education in China
- Processes of individualisation in China
- Han Chinese migrations to Tibetan and other minority areas
- Air pollution and environment in China: policy making and popular engagement
- Spiritually inspired environmental movements in China, Taiwan, India and Vietnam (Transsustain 2020-2027, Research Council of Norway)
Services to the profession
- 2015-2023, member of the main board of the Research Council of Norway
- Previous examples of board positions include, for instance, external board member in the Faculty of Humanities, UiB; Centre for East and South East Asian Studies, Lund University; Peace Research Institute of Oslo; Fridtjof Nansen Institute; Division of Science, NFR
Teaching
- Subjects related to China's society, politics, history and culture at all levels
- Supervisor for a large number of MA and PhD students
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