Visiting Scholar
Sigurd Eid Jacobsen is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Sciences at OsloMet. He is member of the research group Health and Welfare Studies at Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) and a collaborator on the project: Socio-spatial Inequality among Families with Children with Disabilities who are Entitled to Cash Benefits and Welfare Services (UPTAKE). Jacobsen is working on his PhD project, “Social Class, Institutional Navigation, and Disability in the Welfare State,” exploring how social inequalities frame how families with disabled children experience the social institutions in the welfare state. Jacobsen holds a MA in sociology (2019) from the University of Oslo, where he also was employed as a research assistant on several projects. After finishing his MA and until 2021, he was a part of the Section for Youth Research at NOVA where he worked with the Ungdata surveys and was particularly interested in social inequality in youth participation in organized leisure time activities. While a visiting scholar at CISS, he will work most closely with Dr, Nazli Kibria, a professor of sociology and member of the CISS Steering Committee.