Charlotte Baarts

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Born: September 12th 1969

Education:

2004: Ph.D. in anthropology, University of Copenhagen
1998: Msc in anthropology , University of Copenhagen

Employment:

Head of Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (2012 -  )
Associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (2009 - )
Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (2005-2009)
Researcher, National Research Centre for the Working Environment(NRCWE)(2004-2005)
Ph.d.student, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen and NRCWE (2001-2004)
Research assistent, NRCWE (1999-2001)
External lecturer, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen (2000-2005)
Research assistant, Department of General Medicine, University of Copenhagen (1999) 

Research activities:

• Research-based education (2014 -  )
• Occupational health among migrant workers in the construction industry and agriculture (2011-2012) 
• Clients' bodily experiences with complementary and alternative medicine, Department of sociology, University of Copenhagen (2006 - )
• Workpleasure and worklife (NRCWE) (2004-2005)
• Workplace safety in the construction industry (Ph.d.project) (2001-2004)
• Experiences and coping with stress, Department of General Practice, University of Copenhagen (1999)
• Communication between patients and doctors/nurses (1998)

Research grants:

• 2016 grant for education, University og Copenhagen
• The Danish Working Environment Authority (2011.2012)
• The research council for Society and Innovation (2009-2012)
• The Health Foundation (2008-2011)
• Danielsens Foundation (2008)
• Knowledge center for Research in Alternative Therapies (2006-2008)
• The Danish Working Environment Authority (post.doc) (2005-2008)
• The Danish Working Environment Authority (Ph.D.) (2001-2004)

Teaching activities:

• Qualitative methods (Ph.D.-level)
• Focus Groups and participant observation (Ph.D.-level)
• Producing sociological texts (MA-level)
• Qualitative struggles (MA-level)
• Autoethnography (BA/MA-level)
• Knowledge, agency and new technologies (MA-level)
• Anthropology of work (MA-level)
• Advanced qualitative methods (MA-level)
• Generel sociology (BA-level)

Participation in courses:

• Research ethics (2015)
• Leadership, Head of Studies, University of Copenhagen (2014)
• Leadership and Career (2012)
• Leadership? (2011)
• Supervising Ph.D. students (2008)
• Academic supervision (2006)
• Adjunktpædagogikum (2006)
• Academic Writing (2006)
• Voice use (2005)
• Academic communication (2001)
• Epidemiology (2000)

Editorial and referee positions:

• Editor Jordens Folk (1999-2003)
• Guest editor Tidsskriftet Antropologi, special issue: Work (2005)
• Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory (2007 - )
• Reviewer for Human Relations, Sociology of Health and Illness, Construction Management and Economics, Tidsskriftet Antropologi

Short presentation

• Associate professor and Head of Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
• Member of research group Knowledge, Organisation and Politics

Primary fields of research

My research interests particularly concern the relationship between the construction and practicing of knowledge. My research engages in this relationship through theoretically and empirically informed analyses of the relation between bodily knowledge and linguistic knowledge, cultural knowledge and cultural practice and through the investigations of conceptions of risk, trust and regulation. 

My research involves empircal fields such as 'workplace safety in the construction industry', complementary and alternative therapies' and 'research-based eduation'.  

Moreover, my research engages in qualitative methods, in particular ethnography and autoethnography.

Current research

Educational Sociology, particularly Research-based education.

My present research is based on a qualitative study among researchers and students at the University of Copenhagen. In cooperation with research fellow, Lina Katan, I investigate reading - , thinking - and writing practices among students and researchers. The research is based on the assumption that reading, thinking and writing are core research acitivities within the humanities and social sciences, although reading, thinking and writing are rarely touched upon in the scientific literature on research methods. Knowledge of these practices and their relationship to understandings and conceptions of research among respectively students and researchers/teachers will inform critical discussions of contemporary understandings of research-based learning and education, and moreover, contribute to the development of teaching in higher education in Denmark.