Liza Reisel’s research interests include topics such as inequality in education and the transition to work, gender-segregated educational choices and the gender-segregated labour market, and multidimensional equality legislation. Many of her projects are comparative, based on large datasets or document analyses. She currently leads the project Gender Segregated Educational Choices, Skill Gaps and Early Career Opportunities (GENDERSKILLS), funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Reisel is a member of the Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research (Kif) for the period 2026–2029 and has been appointed to the ERA Forum sub-group on inclusive gender equality as a representative for the institute sector in Europe (EARTO). She served on the Men’s Equality Committee from 2022 to 2024, and was a member of the #UngIDag committee, which produced a Norwegian Official Report on Gender Equality Challenges among Children and Young People in 2019.
She has edited two books on gender equality issues: Gender Segregation and Ethnic Divisions in the Labour Market (2014) and Gender Segregation in Vocational Education (2015). Reisel is a member of the editorial boards of Comparative Social Research and the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies.
Reisel holds a PhD in sociology from the City University of New York. In her doctoral dissertation, she compared educational inequality in the United States and Norway. She has a master’s degree in Migration and Ethnic Studies from the University of Amsterdam.