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Mette Bech Risør is a Professor of Medical Anthropology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working within the Institute of Community Medicine (ISM) and General Medicine Research Unit (AFE). She holds a 20% position focused on research, developing research projects, teaching PhD students, and supervising at both master's and PhD levels.
Her research primarily centers on functional disorders, symptom perception, disease perceptions, health systems, and health behavior in everyday life. Theoretically, she draws from critical theory, phenomenology/lifeworld concepts, and theories about health, disease, and doctor-patient relationships. Her work operationalizes these theories in analyses of knowledge types, disease explanation, and rationality.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals consistent focus on chronic conditions, diagnostic processes, patient experiences, and healthcare systems. Her work spans multiple healthcare settings including primary care, mental health services, cancer care pathways, and chronic pain management. She frequently employs qualitative methodologies to explore the lived experiences of patients and healthcare professionals.
Mette Bech Risør has extensive experience collaborating interdisciplinary with healthcare professionals, with particular focus on methodological development aspects of interdisciplinary work. She has considerable teaching and supervision experience and has initiated/led several major research projects. She was editor-in-chief for 15 years and co-founder of the interdisciplinary journal Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund (Journal of Research in Disease and Society).
She is currently involved in projects including Utsatte barn og samhandling i primærhelsetjenesten (Vulnerable children and collaboration in primary healthcare services) and STUDENTBLIKK på psykisk helse og trivsel (STUDENTVIEW on mental health and wellbeing).
