Helena Margrethe Strandli Schmidt

Postdoctoral Fellow - Fagseksjonen
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Visiting address Blindernveien 9 Domus Theologica 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1023 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic Interests

Radical Citizenship Studies, Decolonial Studies, Diaconal Studies, Professional Ethics, Critical Meal Studies, Feminist Studies, Performativity, Embodiment, Mobility 

Teaching

Spring 2023 REDI4001 Religion and Migration 

Spring 2022 REDI4001 Religion and Migration 

Fall 2021 TFEXFAC 

Fall 2021 TFF1002 Levd Religion i Norge 

Academic background

Ph.D. Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, 2022: Dissertation titled: Eating No-Bodies: The paradox of disembodied hospitality. Looking through the meal lens at diaconal hospitality and embodied citizenship in Oslo

  • Master’s degree in Professional Ethics and Science of Diaconia, Faculty of Theology, 2013
  • Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics with clinical postgraduate certification, Oslo (2009)

Relevant professional background

  • 2022: Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Department of Early Childhood Education, OsloMet
  • 2014-2017: Team leader and job counsellor, Unikum, Kampen Omsorg +, Kirkens Bymisjon: Working with marginalisation and belonging, work-training focusing on practical abilities, language training and qualifications combined with health- and social evaluation and guidance
  • 2011-2013: Project Assistant for HEROS, Heterotopic Hospitality - Spaces of Others, Faculty of Theology
  • 2004 - 2010: Health- and social work, Oslo Kommune

PhD dissertation  

 

Tags: Systematic Theology, Diaconal Science, Ethics, Migration

Publications

  • Schmidt, Helena (2022). Mat og motmakt . In Lid, Inger Marie & Wyller, Trygve (Ed.), Makt, motmakt og praksis. Bidrag til kritisk refleksjon innen diakoni og velferd. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202765309. p. 239–261. doi: https:/doi.org/10.23865/noasp.167.
  • Schmidt, Helena M. Strandli (2019). What about no-bodies? Embodied belonging, unspecific strangers, and religious hospitality in Norway. In Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad & Wyller, Trygve (Ed.), Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration: Religious and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region. Routledge. ISSN 978-0-367-22210-9. doi: 10.4324/9780429273773.

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