PhD Candidate Researching Young People's Educational Choices and Aspirations
Thora Bjørke Sandberg is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Social Research (ISF) and an externally funded doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Oslo.
Sandberg holds a master's degree in sociology from the University of Oslo (2023) and has previous experience as a research assistant and university lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography (ISS) at UiO, as well as a research assistant at the Fafo Research Foundation. She is affiliated with the project Missing Men: New conceptual understandings of gendered educational choices, and researches how gender and social inequality shape young people's educational choices, aspirations, and pathways into higher education. Sandberg employs qualitative methods in her research.
Sandberg is editorial secretary of the international journal Comparative Social Research and an editorial board member of Sosiologen.no.