Researcher studying gender, knowledge and education
Runa Brandal Myklebust holds a PhD in Studies of professions from OsloMet (2020). Her thesis concerns gender non-traditional choices of education and investigates both the male and the female minority position in two gender-typed study fields.
Her research focuses on inequality within the labour market and education system. She is among other things interested in how different types of knowledge, skills and qualities are assigned value and further how this intersects with perceptions of gender, ethnicity and social class. She applies both sociological and anthropological perspectives in her research. Myklebust has experience with a variety of qualitative methods, and especially in-depth interviews and participant observation.
Myklebust is currently the PI of Missing Men, funded by the Research Council of Norway. Missing Men will gain new insights into the barriers and opportunities specific to men's entry into female-dominated fields of study, concentrating on the potential for change in perceptions of gender-typed education and work.
Myklebust is editor for the Norwegian Journal of Working Life studies.
