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Eric Kimathi

 
Office hours:
Office: H 2 008

Eric Kimathi is an assistant professor in the department of Global Development and Planning and a final year Ph.D. Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Agder.

Previous education includes:

  • Bachelor's degree in Early childhood Studies (First Class Honors) from Kenyatta University in Kenya. 
  • Erasmus Joint Masters in Early Childhood Education and Care (IMEC) from Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway), the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), the University of Malta, and Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).
  • Master of Science in International Development Studies from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Research interests

  • Development aid
  • Integration of refugee/migrant families
  • Education.
  • International politics

Courses and teaching

UT-107-4 Power, Resistance, and Development

SV 217 - Childhood Families and Gender

UT 300 - Critical Perspectives and Current Debates in Global Development

ME 107 - Research Methods for bachelor students

UT 201 - Supervision of Bachelor thesis in global development studies 

UT 109 - Field course for bachelor students 

 

Guest lecturer

UT 203 Global Development and regional analysis

 

 

 

 

 

Projects

PhD Project:

An institutional ethnographic study on the role of ECEC centers as arenas for the integration of refugee children and parents in Norway.

 

Selected publications

Kimathi. (2022). construction of a ‘traumatized’ refugee child in need of safety in Norwegian kindergartens. Journal of Comparative Social Work17(2), 53–78. https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v17i2.386

General outreach

Kimathi. (2022). construction of a ‘traumatized’ refugee child in need of safety in Norwegian kindergartens. Journal of Comparative Social Work17(2), 53–78. https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v17i2.386

Scientific publications

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