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Dr Ida Marie Lyså

Ida Marie

Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Email: ida.marie.lysa@ntnu.no

Profile

Ida Marie Lyså is Associate Professor in Childhood Studies at the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has a PhD in interdisciplinary child research (NTNU) and MA in social anthropology (UiB). Lyså has conducted qualitative research and long-term ethnographic fieldwork in diverse cultural contexts, such as Argentina, China, Ghana and Norway, on various topics related to the everyday life experiences of children and youth. She teaches children’s rights in BA and MA levels and is interested in the cultural interpretations of research participation and research ethics and the intersection between children’s rights and research methodology. She is editor in the Nordic journal BARN.

Research

Publications

Abebe, Dar & Lyså (2022) Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies. Childhood. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09075682221111690

Ursin, Langfeldt & Lyså (2022) Relational rights and interdependent well-being: Exploring the experience of an ethnic minority girl with the Norwegian Child Welfare service. Global Studies of Childhood, 12(1):27-39.

Lyså (2020) Managing Risk and Balancing Minds: Transforming the Next Generation through ’Frustration Education’. In (eds. Ødegaard & Borgen) Childhood Cultures in Transformation: 30 Years of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child in Action towards Sustainability. Brill Sense publishing.

Lyså (2020) Embodying discipline: Remembering bodies and cultural values in Chinese Kindergartens. In (eds. Alasuutari, Mustola & Rutanen) Exploring Materiality in Childhood. Body Relations and Space. Routledge.

Lyså & Ursin (2019) Migration and Mobility in Childhood (Norway). Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies

Ursin & Lyså (2019) Agency and Rights in Childhood (Norway). Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies

Lyså (2018) Duties and Privileges: an Ethnographic study of Discipline as Relational Practice in two urban Chinese Kindergartens. Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Dissertation. (Available at: https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/handle/11250/2504687)

Expertise

Children's rights, culture, anthropology, qualitative research methodology and ethics, child mobility and migration
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