Working as a Gender Specialist with the United Nations (UNOPS)

I’m Sarah and I currently work as Gender Specialist with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Operational Hub in Amman, Jordan that covers UNOPS projects implemented in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Djibouti. I graduated from the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Århus in 2008.

Find din niche: Seniorkonsulent i energisektoren

Jeg er ansat som seniorkonsulent i en rådgivningsvirksomhed, der primært rådgiver inden for energisektoren. Jeg fik min nuværende titel for et par år siden på et afdelingsmøde om nyt design på vores visitkort (det var lige så spændende, som det lyder😊). Mit visitkort var på projektoren og på det tidspunkt var jeg blot “konsulent”. Min direktør udbryder kækt “I think we can call you senior consultent now with all those grey hair you have” og så var det besluttet!

Der står journalist og tekstforfatter på mit visitkort

Jeg er uddannet cand.comm fra RUC med en BA. i Etnografi og Socialantropologi fra Aarhus Universitet. Min stillingsbetegnelse har ændret sig mange gange gennem mit arbejdsliv, men lige står der journalist og tekstforfatter på mit visitkort. Jeg har valgt at tilføje tekstforfatter, fordi jeg skriver mange tekster, som ikke er journalistiske artikler, fx undervisningsmaterialer. Til tider bruger jeg også titlen antropolog.

Forstander for byhøjskolen

Af Stine Snede Willumsen Hvad er din stillingsbetegnelse? Forstander på Byhøjskolen (Aarhus Kunstskole, Musikskolen Frontsession, Fotografisk Skole og HF MUSIK). Hvordan bruger du antropologi i dit daglige arbejde? Jeg bruger …

Doing Fieldwork at Home: Studying Health in Rural Kenya

As a student, doing fieldwork at home is one of the most puzzling yet gratifying undertakings. From an outsider’s perspective, your identity and sense of belonging presents unadulterated access to local knowledge sources. For insiders, the notion of ethnographic research by one of their own; sons, brother, uncle and/or cousin, is mind-boggling. Claims of identity and belonging presumes that, what you are looking into is obvious; can you not see? Have you not heard? Do you really need to interact at different levels yet all this is common knowledge? Are you a stranger to the prevailing circumstances of the locals? These questions and many more emerge as one tries to gain access to the field at home.

Researcher in the Nordic Co-operation

In 2017 I graduated from Aarhus University and have since then held the proud title of anthropologist. My name is Louise Ormstrup Vestergård and here I will give you a little sneak-peak into my job as a researcher in the Nordic co-operation.