Anette Fagertun

Anette Fagertun is a Professor in Social Anthropology at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, affiliated with the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Department of Welfare and Participation. She holds a PhD from the University of Bergen (2009) and specializes in ethnographic research across Europe and Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia and Norway.

• Education: PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (2009)

Research Interests span work, gender, and class; neoliberal capitalism; social inequality; welfare state policies; municipal healthcare services; and women's health. Her work emphasizes comparative institutional analysis and the social implications of healthcare reforms.

Publications from 2024 focus on institutional ecology, service coordination in municipal welfare systems, gendered labor dynamics, and precarity in care work. These explore intersections of neoliberalism, migration, and welfare regimes through ethnographic case studies.

Scientific Awards include the 2024 Research and Innovation Prize for the INCA project. She leads a NFR-funded strategic research project (2019-2025) on municipal healthcare coordination and contributes to research groups like Tjenesteforsk and Omsorgens grunnlag.