Astrid Pernille Jespersen

Current research

Leder af Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities (CoRe) (core.ku.dk)

Temaleder i Center for Sund Aldring (http://ceha.saxo.ku.dk/)

PI på det KU-finansierede, tværfakultære 2016-projekt CALM: Counteracting Age-Related
Loss of Skeletal Muscle Mass: an Interdisciplinary Innovation Project on Making
Lifestyle Changes through Exercise and Diet (calm.ku.dk)

PI på det KU-finansierede, tværfakultære 2016-projekt GO: Governing Obesity (go.ku.dk)

Afsluttede projekter:

FINE - Tværvidenskabeligt projekt om overvægt og fysisk aktivitet. Samarbejde med Unik: Food, Fitness and Pharma og del af Center for Sund Aldring (Bevilling fra Nordeafonden).

Speciallægeuddannelsen i kirurgi. En kvalitativ undersøgelse af uddannelsesforløb, evalueringsredskaber og hverdagspraksis på Hillerød og Helsingør Sygehus. Projekt i Center for Kulturanalyse (CKA). Ekstern financiering

Fremtidens interaktive dagligvarehandel. EBST-projekt i samarbejde med Instituttet for Fremtidsforskning, COOP-Nettorvet og Art of Crime.

Impact

Det Humanistiske Fakultet bruger min forskning som eksempel på den impact, humanistiske forskere har i samfundet.
Læs casen: Etnologisk forskning fører til sundhedsanbefalinger i hverdagslivet.

Primary fields of research

Ethnology

Cultural theory and cultural analysis

Humanistic health research

Lifestyle and lifestyle changes

Obesity

Ageing studies

Interdisciplinary and public/private publications

Impact

At the Faculty of Humanities my research is used as an example of the impact the humanities researchers have on society.
Read the case: From ethnological research to everyday health recommendations.

CV

CV for Astrid Pernille Jespersen,  Associate professor, MA, PhD

Education and Training:

1999:             MA, European Ethnology. Awarded Gold medal of the University of Copenhagen

2008:             PhD from the University of Copenhagen: Ph.D. dissertation on General Practice, the Consultation process and the Concept of Commitment

Parental leave:

May 1^st 2002 – January 24^th 2003; September 5^th 2005 – September 1^st 2006

Academic Positions:

2013- :          Head of Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities at the Saxo-institute, UCPH

2011- :          Associate professor (tenure), the Ethnology Department, Saxo-institute, UCPH

2009-2011:   Assistant professor, the Ethnology Department, Saxo-institute, UCPH

2008:             Assistant professor at the Centre for Design Research and The Danish Design School on the project: Mediating Fashion (5½ months full time)

Funding:

2017:             Det gode seniorliv. 200.000 DKK, Esbjerg Kommune.

2017:             Grant for housing visiting, adjunct professor Stanley Ulijaszek, University of Oxford. Nordea-fonden.

2016-2017:   Brudflader og samspil. 80.000 DKK, Ishøj Kommune.

2016-2018:   Food Waste in Denmark and Sweden, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Individual Fellowships, Sebastian Abrahamsson. Supervisor: Astrid Jespersen. 212.000 Euro

2015- :          WP-leader and member of the steering committee in COUNTERSTRIKE, funded by the Innovation-Fund Denmark 15,6 mil. dkr. (2,1 mil. Euro)

2015:             Appetit på maden. 250.000 DKK, Københavns Kommune.

2013-2018:   PI/Theme leader in the cross-disciplinary and cross-faculty Center for Healthy Aging, funded by Nordea-fonden (2009-2018), 300 mil. dkr. (40,2 mil. Euro). Member of the steering committee

2013-2017:   UCPH 2016-funding for the interdisciplinary and interfaculty project GO: Governing Obesity, 33 mil. dkr. (4,42 mil. Euro). WP-leader and member of the steering committee.

2013-2017:   PI of the UCPH 2016-funding for the interdisciplinary and interfaculty project CALM: Counteracting Age-related loss of Muscle Mass, 19,6 mil. dkr. (2,63 mil. Euro).

Selected Activities:

2018- :          Chair of the scientific advisory board at the Velux Foundation funded project AgeArc.

2017-2021:   HumanImpact. Senior researcher and post.doc.-host, funded by Industriens Fond,

2017:             Visiting Research Fellow at Institute Paul Bocuse, Lyon, France

2016:             Research Management at UCPH – A leadership course

2014- :          Appointed member of the steering committee at the interfaculty UCPH platform on Lifestyle, Obesity and Metabolism

2014- :          Reviewer: the Faeroese Research Council; Journals: Social Science and Medicine; Sociology of Health and Illness Kulturstudier; Køn & Kultur; Ethnologia Scandinavica 

2012-:            Appointed member of the research committee at the Saxo-Institute

2012:             Research Management Course at CBS-SIMI Executive

2011:             Visiting Research Fellow at CRESC, Open University, UK

2010- :          Research participant in the research alliance Performing temporary spaces for user driven innovation (TempoS) funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council

2009-2013:   Research participant in the Centre for Healthy Aging (CEHA) and the UNIK initiative on a multidisciplinary project on obesity and exercise (FINE)

Teaching and Supervision:

Teaching experience on all levels from BA to PhD, both in Danish and English. Primarily Theoretical, Methodological and Cultural Analytical courses, but also courses on health related issues as well as courses in Museology. Teaching experience from the University of Copenhagen (Ethnology and Public Health) and Aarhus University (Museology and Master of Humanity and Health).

Supervision of bachelor and master theses. Experience with PhD supervision (1 ongoing, 3 completed) and mentoring of postdocs (9 in total).

Editorial Experiences:

2017:             Guest Editor on a special issue of Academic Quarter: Network

2017:             Editor of Kulturvidenskab som refleksiv praksis – etnologiske perspektiver på individ og fællesskab, kultur og historie, Hans Reitzels Forlag

2012:             Editor on a special issue of Kulturstudier (2012/2): Skrald

2011:             Editor on a special issue of Kulturstudier (2011/2): KrObjekt. Temanummer af Kulturstudier om krop, sundhed og sygdom

2012:             Guest Editor on a special issue of Science & Technology Studies: Cultural Analysis as Intervention

2010 - 2013: Member of the editorial board of Kulturstudier (International, peer-reviewed journal)

2010:             Editor of Kulturelle processer i Europa, Museum Tusculanums Forlag

2006:             Editor of Verden Over. En introduktion til stats- og livsformsteorien og dens aktuelle anvendelse i etnologien, Museum Tusculanums Forlag

Network:

Member of the Mandag Morgen network: Nye veje i forebyggelse. Member of the management committee in COST Action: Personalized Nutrition in aging society: redox control of major age-related diseases; Member of the Health, Humanity & Culture Group at Aarhus University, Denmark; Member of the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies; Member of EASST (European Association for Science and Technology Studies); Member of SIEF (Societé International Ethnologie et Folkloristique)

Short presentation

My main scientific expertise is on cultural analysis and humanistic health research with special attention to health in everyday life, lifestyle changes, obesity, ageing, physical activity and interdisciplinary collaboration. I am head of the Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities (CoRe) at the Saxo-Institute, UCPH, theme-leader in the interdisciplinary research center, Center for Healthy Aging, and PI and co-PI in two UCPH excellence programmes for interdisciplinary research: Counteracting Age related loss of Muscle Mass (CALM) and Governing Obesity (GO)