Tenna Jensen

Short presentation

Associate professor in historical/ethnological research on health and ageing at the Copenhagen Center for Health Research in the Humanities(core.ku.dk).CoRe is a research center at the SAXO-Institute that unites several projects working with cultural analytical and historical perspectives on health, body and ageing

I am PI on the project Ageing in the Arctic. Well-being, quality of life and health promotion among older people in Greenland (AgeArc). The project is a combined research and development project. The participating partners include the greenlandic municipalities, Ilisimatusarfik ( University of Greenland), Professionshøjskolen UCC, University of Southern Denmarj ( SDU) and the Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI). The project is funded by VELUX FONDEN and the EGV foundation.

Moreover I have previously been part of the Center for Healthy Ageing (healthyaging.ku.dk) and the CALM project (Counteracting age related loss of skeletal muscle-mass in the elderly), one of the University of Copenhagen Programmes of Excellence (calm.ku.dk).

Research interests:

Conditions of ageing, life and health in 20th and 21st century Denmark and Greenland. My primary work consists of studies of;

• Changes and differences in health and food practices of older people in Denmark and Greenland past and present.
• Perceptions of ageing in Denmark and Greenland and interrelations between ageing- and health- science, -policy and -practices.
• Past and present food policies, habits and preferences of elderly in Denmark.
• Changes and continuities in the national, socio-geographical consumption of food and food quality in Denmark in a Scandinavian context past and present.
• Skin disease and conditions in old age.

I am furthermore affiliated researcher at Greenland Center for Health Rersearch (GCS), Institute of Nursing and Health Science, University of Greenland

My PhD project on food consumption in 20th century Denmark was part of the mulitidiscoplinary research center Danish Obesity Research Center (DanOrc).

Teaching

• Cultural history and analysis of health in Denmark (1850- )
• Percpetions of health and body 1850-
• Historical and ethnological perspectives on food policy and science
• Contemporary and historical projects on ageing policies, science and practices

CV

Academic employments

1/10 2016- Associate professor in historical/ethnological ageing and health research, Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities (CoRe), SAXO-Instituttet, Københavns Universitet.

1/4 2013-30/9 2016 Post.doc. on the interdisciplinary project Counteracting Age-Related Loss of Skeletal Muscle Mass: an Interdisciplinary Innovation Project on Making Lifestyle Changes through Exercise and Diet(CALM)

15/7 2012-15/11 2012 Administrative post.doc., work task; to apply for funding of the interdisciplinary project Counteracting Age-Related Loss of Skeletal Muscle Mass: an Interdisciplinary Innovation Project on Making Lifestyle Changes through Exercise and Diet(CALM)

1/9 2011- 15/7 2012 Part time lecturer in history, SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen

11/6 2011-30/11 2011 Scientific assistant, University of Copenhagen

Oct. 2007-Feb 2011 Ph.D. student at SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen

Affiliation

2011-  Affiliated researcher at the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnology, University of Oxford.

Other positions

2015:    Project manager at Appetite for life, a practice/research project on appetite among frail elderly with the Municipality of Copenhagen.

2015- :  Board member and secretary DSAF (Dansk Selskab for Adipoditasforskning)

2015- :  Member of the steering committee for ICREFH (International commission for Research into European Food History).

2013- :  Executive board member CALM.

2013- :  Member of the editorial board Akademisk Kvarter.

2013-2015: Post.doc representative in the Institute council, SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen.

2008-09: Deputy chairman of the Council for Education of Researchers (KUFUR), University of Copenhagen, Deputy chairman of the Ph.D. council, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. 

Latest grants

2016: DKK 75.000 2015: DKK. 282.300; 2014: DKK. 120.000; 2013: DKK. 19.610.000 ( co-applicant); 2012: DKK. 200.000;

Skill raising courses

2015: Prince 2 Project manager Foundation and Practitioner

2014:  University of Copenhagen pre-management course Karriere – Kvinder -KU

2013-14: Postgraduate teacher training for university teachers.

Recent invited talks

2017: University of Warwick

2016: Invited speaker at UBVO, University of Oxford,

2016: The Catedràtic d'Història de la Ciència, Universitat de València

2016: Bergen Universitet.