Anne Ryen

• Ryen, Anne (2025). Research Ethics: Practise, Paradoxes and Power. In Silverman, David (Eds.), Qualitative Research. Sage Publications. ISSN 9781529712971. p. 37–51. doi: https:/uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/qualitative-research/book288407#description. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The chapter addresses how ethical issues arise within qualitative research. This is not about issues sorted out at the outset to be filled into bureaucratic forms, but about emergent ethical dilemmas and difficult issues we must unpick different from images in the dominant "audit culture". By drawing on interview- and ethnographic research the author illustrates the complexity involved in researcher- researchered relationships and moral responsibility in qualitative research

• Reinertsen, Anne Beate & Ryen, Anne (2024). Ethics as a minor form of politics and theory in activist research. Diametros: An Online Journal of Philosophy. 80(21), p. 59–74. doi: 10.33392/diam.1925. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  To do minor activist research is to make use of prompts and displacements to mark and produce new subjectivities, spatialities, and temporalities. To do minor activist research is to unsettle received discourses, narratives, and material social practices of power to develop means of resistance in new and different registers. Training the imagination for a collaboratively accomplished re/presentation of data through creating points of encounters, engendering affirmative perspectivists ethos. Re/presenting data as a space in which own thinking is challenged providing a perspective of the storying practices across participants and across different disciplinary, ideological, or personal boundaries within the researcher´s and the researched specific positioning. It requires getting everyone to participate in the ‘analysis’ of data and then getting everyone ‘inside’ the text: situating data-inquiries in immanence. It therefore demands a liberation from old scripts, and challenges how everyone is transformed into text. A perspectivist ethos being simultaneously means and objective for avoiding reproduction of both old scripts and ethics.

• Ryen, Anne (2023). To Øyeblikk ved dødens sengepost. Empiri som kreativ magi. In Cederholm, Erika Andersson; Jacobsson, Katarina & Wästerfors, David (Ed.), Den empiriska glädjen. En vänbok till Malin Åkerström. Lund University Press. ISSN 9789172674776. p. 337–346. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2022). Ethics and Politics in Qualitative Research. In Tierney, Rob; Rizvi, Fazal & Ercikan, Kadriye (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Education. Elsevier. ISSN 9780128186305. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2021). Research Ethics: Between Care and Control. In Silverman, David (Eds.), Qualitative Research. Sage Publications. ISSN 9781529712971. p. 35–49. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter offers definitions of some classic terms in research ethics such as informed consent, confidentiality and trust. However, the social context of research makes these issues more complex in qualitative research. The chapter illustrates such conumdrums of research ethics including in cross-cultural contexts.

• Ryen, Anne (2019). Indigenous Methods, SAGE Research Methods Foundations. Sage Publications. ISSN 9781473965003. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2018). Fighting the Crocodiles: Immigrant Students and Their Perilous Routes at Campus. Qualitative Inquiry. ISSN 1077-8004. p. 1–10. doi: 10.1177/1077800418806616. Full text in Research Archive
• Kouta, Christiana; Nudelman, Anita & Ryen, Anne (2018). Editorial. Femicide and Culture. Journal of Comparative Social Work. 13(1), p. 1–10. doi: 10.31265/jcsw.v13i1.156. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2018). Categories and orthodoxies in studies on culture and femicide: An ethno-informed route to knowledge. Journal of Comparative Social Work. 13(1), p. 124–143. doi: 10.31265/jcsw.v13i1.162. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article is a methodological discussion, in which I argue that to study complex phenomena such as culture and femicide calls for approaches other than the dominant interview and survey studies. By their focus on the contextual, the interactional and the process itself, and by rejecting language as referential and transparent, ethno-informed approaches better recognize and capture this complexity. This is particularly relevant in cross-cultural studies, in which we can no longer assume that members share such common-sense thinking. This makes activities such as asking questions and filling answers into categories problematic. We need to see how a phenomenon such as femicide, telling stories about it and our representations reflect the diversity of cultural forms. I will draw on secondary data to illustrate my arguments and their relevance.

• Heggenstaller, Alessandra k.; Rau, Asta; Coetzee, Jan k.; Ryen, Anne & Smit, Ria (2018). Reflecting on Female Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and (Dis)Empowerment. Qualitative Sociology Review. XIV(4), p. 48–65. doi: 10.18778/1733-8077.14.4.04. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This project aims to unwrap some of the complexities related to female beauty and the body. It reflects on the second wave radical feminist view that beautifying the female body serves to attract male approval via the male gaze, both of which are deeply entrenched in patriarchal power. This perspective positions cosmetic surgery as a disempowering act for women. In riposte, we turn to third wave liberal feminist ideas to engage with the narratives of ten participants who tell of their personal experiences of, and motivations for, undergoing a cosmetic intervention. We undertake an in-depth exploration of these lifeworld experiences and the interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in the women’s encounters. Findings suggest that a cosmetic intervention is often obtained for the self as opposed to satisfying the “other.” Importantly, cosmetic interventions allow a process to occur in which an individual’s physical body becomes better aligned to her sense of self. From this liberal feminist perspective, cosmetic surgery is positioned as an empowering act.

• Heggenstaller, Alessandra k.; Rau, Asta; Coetzee, Jan k.; Ryen, Anne & Smit, Ria (2018). Beauty and the Cosmetic Secret. Qualitative Sociology Review. XIV(4), p. 66–84. doi: 10.18778/1733-8077.14.4.05. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Cosmetic surgery is often linked to the perception that women who resort to cosmetic interventions to alter their physical appearance are vain, superficial, and narcissistic. Few investigations have acknowledged and explored the individual’s personal motivations and experiences of her action and choice with regards to aesthetic surgery. By focusing on subjective experience, alternative insights can be gained on the cosmetic procedure(s) and on how their reshaped body influences an individual’s lifeworld experience. The article explores the perceived benefits and consequences of reshaping, enhancing, and/or reducing a perceived flaw or shortcoming of the body. From this exploration the focus moves to the individual’s subjective and intersubjective perceptions: how she motivates and justifies her physical transformation whilst keeping private, and at times hiding, her surgical intervention. Drawing on narratives from several women, we attempt to understand how they experience cosmetic surgery in terms of their personal sense of self and their everyday social reality.

• Ndakaitei, Chikonzo; Rau, Asta; Coetzee, Jan k.; Ryen, Anne; Elliker, Florian & hauser, Amanda Young- (2018). A shock to the system: HIV among older African women in Zimbabwe. Qualitative Sociology Review. XIV(4), p. 138–152. doi: 10.18778/1733-8077.14.4.09. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  HIV remains a threat to the ordinary everyday life of older woman in African society. In what can be called “a reality shock,” HIV challenges most of the ordinary everyday endeavors in conservative African societies as it imposes new Western prevention, treatment, and health-management methods over long-held African traditions. The reality of the “Western” HIV epidemic, and its impact on the “African” ordinary everyday life, demands that the infected undergo a paradigm shift in order for them to live harmoniously within their society. This calls for a re-examination of traditional values and a strong sense of responsibility, courage, and determination to remain relevant and not be considered odd in one’s community, especially as one grows old with the virus. The study, which focuses on the experiences of women from the Manicaland Province in Zimbabwe who are aging with HIV, observes that growing old with an HIV infection fosters forms of inner strength and wisdom that enable the infected to disregard some of the unquestioned traditions and employ effective ways of living well with the life-threatening condition.

• Cisneros, César A.; Alatorre, Francisco; Allen, Mitchell; Charmaz, Kathy; Lather, Patti & Ryen, Anne [Show all 30 contributors for this article] (2016). 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 . . . 43: Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa: A Challenge for New Critical Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry. ISSN 1077-8004. 22(6), p. 447–465. doi: 10.1177/1077800415615622. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) 2015 to honor 43 disappeared students from Mexico. This special panel was called upon by César A. Cisneros Puebla to gather reflections during a period of 6 months about the Ayotzinapa massacre. Beginning in the first days of November 2014, an exchange of information and messages began among the colleagues whose reflections are displayed here and others who could not participate for diverse reasons. On Friday May 22, 2015, at 8:00 a.m., these 27 interventions were performed in room Union 314 A of the Illini Union Building at University of Illinois in Urbana– Champaign. Interrogation into a new critical qualitative inquiry provided the backdrop for this exercise of collective participation, one where these qualitative researchers shared their intimate thoughts, feelings, and imagination based on what they had read, watched, and discussed about the news on such a senseless human tragedy. On September 26, 2014, 43 Ayotzinapa teacher education students disappeared in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero and a very sensitive combat for political and social transformation began. César A. Cisneros Puebla is the lead Author of this writing With numerous contributors more than showed here - go to journal. A.Ryen

• Ryen, Anne & Atkinson, Paul (2016). Indigenous Research and Romantic Nationalism. Societies. 6(4). doi: 10.3390/soc6040034. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Abstract: In recent years, “indigenous research” and “indigenous methods” have become prominent themes in the general field of qualitative methodology. These ideas and their implications raise serious questions for the wider conduct of social research. We will outline some of those ideas, subjecting them to scrutiny, and ultimately using them to question the rise of Romanticism in contemporary social methodology. We develop these ideas to question the contemporary emphasis on the personal and the experiential in current methodological commentary.

• Ryen, Anne (2016). Research Ethics and Qualitative Research. In Silverman, David (Eds.), Qualitative Research. Sage. ISSN 9781473916562. p. 31–48. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The chapter deals with research ethics in general, and the complexities in qualitative research, in particular. It also offers a discussion and criticism of the contemporary Research ethical regime and claims that the dominant research ethical guidelines themselves are epistemologically anchored rather than universal as seemingly promoted by institutions. This is the 4th edition of the book now with more Chapters and With all previous Chapters rewritten to fit the New Version.

• Pelt, Inger Sofie van & Ryen, Anne (2015). Self-efficacy in protecting oneself against hiv transmission : a qualitative study of female university students in Malawi. Journal of Comparative Social Work. 10(2), p. 1–29. doi: 10.31265/jcsw.v10i2.130. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). The Qualitative Interview: A Privileged Way to Knowledge? ISSBD Bulletin. ISSN 2040-5235. 2(64), p. 18–21. Full text in Research Archive
• Reinertsen, Anne Beate; Ryen, Anne; Otterstad, Ann Merete & Ben-Horin, Oded (2013). The Inefficiency of Knowledge and the Limits of Explanations; the Necessity of Critique. Qualitative Inquiry. ISSN 1077-8004. 19(3), p. 147–162. doi: 10.1177/1077800412466047. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2012). Assessing the Risk of Being Interviewed. In Gubrium, Jaber F.; Holstein, James A.; Marvasti, Amir B. & McKinney, Karyn D. (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft Second. Sage Publications. ISSN 9781412981644. p. 477–493. doi: 10.4135/9781452218403.n34. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter consists of two main, closely related sections. The first is a review of the new research ethics regime situated within the present transformation of universities. The second section illustrates how this in different ways interferes with qualitative interviewing and constructionist aproaches to explore reality-constituting practices. The risk of hampering knowledge production is inextricibly interwoven with disregarding the intersection of research ethics, epistemology, and methods. I draw on data from my ethnographic research to illustrate my arguments.

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• Ryen, Anne (2024). Culture and Category-work. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The presentation was an ethno-informed approach to culture as an everyday activity and a discussion of the problematic implications of common sense appeals to culture and categories used as analytic explanations. The presentation was for a student audience and practice-oriented towards their BAIL-projects.

• Ryen, Anne (2022). Ethics in research. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2022). Research ethics in the post-VOGONCGB era: The new "42". Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2022). Creative Subversion within Tight Frames. Or simply, walking with Zombies. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2021). Samarbeidet med Rajshahi, Bangladesh. "Langt borte": hvordan ser det ut "herfra"? Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2021). Indigenous Research and Scholarly Conundrums. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In my talk I raised a number of controversial issues related to the analytic quality of some post-qualitative indigenous research by drawing on sociological and anthropological arguments and empirical research. The talk raised the overall question, what counts as qualitative research? Important, the talk also recognised the importance of indigenous research by inviting alternative epistemologies, approaches, and questions.

• Ryen, Anne (2020). Femicide in times of COVID- 19. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne & Rados, Aleksandra (2018). De sa "Vi må bare treffes".Så ble det helt stille. Blikk på hverdagsmøter i det flerkulturelle Kristiansand. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2018). De «andre» kvinnene: Noen refleksjoner om de fremmede. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Dette var et invitert foredrag på et åpent arrangement med fokus på krigserfaringer hos iranske flyktninger i Norge. Arrangementet var åpent og med overvekt fra den iranske diasporaen hovedsakelig fra Agder, men også fra andre regioner.

• Ryen, Anne (2018). Feminisme i identitetspolitikkens tidsalder. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2018). «But you can`t be working all the time?” Sosiologiske refleksjoner rundt å jobbe internasjonalt. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Et arrangement rundt det å jobbe internasjonalt med foredrag av Kristine Lunde-Tellefsen EU consultant at South Norway European Office, Brussels og Geir Askvik Haukum, Daglig Leder / Næringssjef, Business Region Kristiansand og Anne Ryen, prof. i sosiologi ved UiA

• Ryen, Anne (2018). Hvordan lage en problemstilling? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Dette var et metodeforedrag for elever i videregående skole som deltok på Elevdagen på UiA som del av Eilert Sundt-Prisen der de utfører små forskningsprosjekt.

• Kaouta, Christiana; Nudelman, Anita & Ryen, Anne (2018). Femicide and Culture. Journal of Comparative Social Work. 13(1), p. 1-10–1-10. doi: 10.31265/jcsw.v13i1.156. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This special issue offers six articles from various regions across the world. They all deal with femicide and culture in their own ways, and we find an interesting variation in both focus and methods. All co-editors of this special issue of the journal JCSW were members of the COST-ACTION programme on Femicide acoss Europe. However,the work with this special issue started after the Horizon2020 programme closed and received no funding.

• Ryen, Anne (2017). Moderne folkevandringer og transnasjonale perspektiv: Om"de andre" og om identiteter som konstruksjonsarbeid. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne; Rados, Aleksandra & Rustad, Eirik (2017). Culturally Responsive Teaching: Doing Student Outing Performances. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). Femicide across Europe: Om kvinnedrap som globalt problem . Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). Om identitet: Hvem er du – egentlig? Hva kan vi lære av etnografisk forskning i Øst-Afrika? Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). "Den andres perspektiv" - et kritisk pespektiv. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). Om flerkulturell forståelse og flerkulturell kommunikasjon:kultur som kategoriseringsarbeid. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). Research Strategies as cultural artefacts: An ethnographic study of migrating methods. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). Eilert Sundt 200 år - en mann ikke av, men for folket. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). Det kvalitative intervjuet - hva er problemet? Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). Indigenous Methodology. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). The Qualitative Interview - sessions I and II. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). Research Ethics and the Qualitative Interview. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2017). Hvordan utforske lokalkunnskap? Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne & Rados, Aleksandra (2017). «Hvorfor du bør bli med i «Bærplukkerforeningen»: Om tverrkulturell kommunikasjon og sammenvevde liv i små samfunn. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2016). Kulturverdier fra andre kontinent. Om kunnskapshegemoni,kritikk og alternative responser på å gripe lokal kunnskap. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2016). «Kultur, identitet og kommunikasjon". Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2016). Kulturelle møter og læring: Vårt møte med elever med en annen kulturbakgrunn enn majoritetskulturen. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2016). Research Ethics in Qualitative Research. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2016). Kulturelle møter og læring: Vårt møte med elever med en annen kulturbakgrunn enn majoritetskulturen. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2016). BESA: on moral codes and boundary work - public sociology in the lecture hall. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2016). Kulturelle møter og læring: Vårt møte med elever med en annen kulturbakgrunn enn majoritetskulturen. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2016). People, not Numbers -part of the group on "Collaboration Is as Collaboration Does: Initial Musing on Traces Across the Collaborative Sites Network". Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne & Puebla, Cesar Cisneros (2016). Thinking on Critical Qualitative Inquiry in and from the Periphery. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2016). Kulturelle møter og læring: Vårt møte med elever med en annen kulturbakgrunn enn majoritetskulturen. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2015). Arendal 2015. Om kvalitative studier og Eilert Sundt Prisen. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Dette var en ekstra forespørsel for å markedsføre ES-Prisen i Aust-Agder og især for VGS-elevene i Arendal. Lektor Stadheim hadde samarbeidet med øvrige kolleger v/Arendal VGs som samlet ca 110 elever til foredraget. Foredragets variget: 12.00-13.30.

• Ryen, Anne (2015). Book review: Donna M. Mertens, Fiona Cram and Bagele Chilisa (eds), Indigenous Pathways into Social Research: Voices of a New Generation Anne Ryen. Qualitative Research. ISSN 1468-7941. 15(5), p. 662–664. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2015). 2. opponent to Hilde Jakobsen`s Ph.D. The Good beating: Social norms supporting men`s violence in Tanzania. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2015). Norway: Gender-related scores and Femicide statistics. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2015). Edward Said og Orientalismen: Protester og paradokser. 49 år på 45 minutter. Full text in Research Archive
• (Cypros), Chrisiana Kaota; (HumboltTyskland), Ksenia Meshkova & Ryen, Anne (2015). Cultural Issues: a critical assessment of qualitative data on patterns of intimate partner murders and other forms of femicide. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2015). Om kvalitative studier. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2015). Om grenser og det å krysse dem. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne; Kouta, Christiana & Meshkova, Ksenia (2015). Cultural Issues: Qualitative Data on Patterns of Intimate Partner Femicide. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2015). Vi-dem eller oss? Om identiteter i et flerkulturelt samfunn. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2015). Kultur, identitet og tverrkulturell kommunikasjon. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2015). Glimt fra en reise i transnasjonale rom. Full text in Research Archive
• Dale, Kristin & Ryen, Anne (2015). Hvordan gjennomføre undersøkelser? Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2014). Qualitative Research and Research Ethics: Cleaner than life? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  My talk/paper deals with the contemporary tendency to transform qualitative research into an audit model to fit the neoliberal organizational ideal of institutional control and discipline. Despite transatlantic variation the regulatory net has been thrown rather wide. On the practical side research has come to deal with the tedious work of filling in bureaucratic forms. More serious is how this regime interferes with knowledge production as the very pursuit of research. The governance of research ethics has itself become an active participant in constituting qualitative research as a vulnerable field which again provides ethical enthusiasts with their legitimate authority to intervene. Despite appreciation of ethical research, the new ethics regime thus complicates social research and introduces new risks. I will draw on my ethnographic work on Asian business in East-Africa to illustrate the intersection of research ethics and epistemology, the call for contextual reflections and the inherent trap in globalization of research.

• Ryen, Anne (2014). Om å gjøre små kvalitative studier. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Foredrag 11.10-11.45 for VG3 Politikk og religion fra KKG (ca. 50) dvs elever i VG3 (=3.klasse på Videregående skole) om hva som gjør en liten kvalitativ studie til en god studie.

• Ryen, Anne (2014). Om kvalitative studier. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Foredrag kl. 13.00-13.20 for VG2-elever i sosiologi, sosialantropologi og samfunnsgeografi fra KKG, ARENDAL VGS og DROTTNINGBORG VGS. Totalt ca. 110 elever.

• Ryen, Anne (2014). Internationalization of research: Where does Indigenous methodology take us? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Since the turn of the century the “new” Indigenous methodology (IM) has entered the qualitative research arena as a celebrated new way to make up for Europeanism and the legacy of western colonial injustice. This rather new tradition is informed by a critical and feminist epistemology, and aims at social transformation through action and political activity. By seeing knowledge as grounded in experience IM challenges the ideal knower as being portrayed in the criticism of Western universalism and the discussion of the silenced subaltern. To speak not from just an experience, but from my experience, becomes the site and ground from which to speak as Indigenous and to explore ways out of the connection between Indigeneity and marginalization. Despite a need to combat global injustice, I argue that IM feeds on romanticism, sentimental pessimism and the historyless character of indigenous cultures, all vital in the IM narrative of the colonial past which produces victims in need of sympathy. This makes critical voices into a moral rather than a methodological issue which works to uphold the line between insiders and outsiders of the indigenous political movement. The problem then is that methodological questions have become subordinate to ideological and political requirements.

• Ryen, Anne (2014). Dagsseminar om Tverrkulturell forståelse. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Invitasjonen gjaldt et fordrag for UDI ansatte som arbeider i/med/for mottok av asylssøkere og integrering. Søkerne består av en blanding over skalaen fra nylig ankommet til lengeværende. Opplegget besto av forelesninger, gruppearbeid og plenumsdiskusjoner.

• Ryen, Anne (2014). Gender and Methodology: Resource or Topic? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  I discuss the dangers of importing the Explanatory and the Devine Orthodoxies also to gender studies and advocate sequential analysis of in situ data as in ethnomethodology. I illustrate by data extracts from my own research in East-Africa.

• Ryen, Anne (2014). Om kvalitative studier. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Foredrag kl.12.30-13.00 for 1 av 3 elevgrupper samme dag. Her for 160 elerver i VG2 sosiologi og sosialantropologi fra KKG, MANDAL, DROTTNINGB og MØGLESTU VGS. Tema: hvordan lage kvalitativt gode små kvalitative studier.

• Ryen, Anne (2014). "Pre-review" of Malin Åkerström book "Suspicious Gifts. Bribery, Morality and Professional Ethics" (2013). NJ: Transaction Publishers. Printed as part of the marketing text of the book (hard print) along with three others written by high ranked US professors. BOK: 'Suspicious Gifts. Bribery, Morality and Professional Ethics'.. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). Et intervju med Paul Atkinson, en internasjonal topprangert forsker innen kvalitativ metode og Distinguished Professor ved Cardiff University, UK. [Journal]. Sosiolog-nytt. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). Intervju med Pekka Sulkunen, leder av Den European Sociological Association (ESA). [Journal]. Sosiolog-nytt. Full text in Research Archive
• Haaland, Hanne; Ryen, Anne & Wallevik, Hege (2013). My life is part of it: Articulating the silenced work of female ethnographers. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper discusses the complexities and quandaries of ethnographic work when aiming at understanding networks and reciprocity in the South. As always, if we are to understand such relationships from within, there is a need, as researchers, also to get involved and to participate in them. Thus, this paper focuses on the level of involvement and the personal implications of this approach. For decades ethnographers have discussed, worried about as well as indulged into, the interactional issues in the field. However, they have also tended not to articulate how the ethnographers` personal life may co-shape the conduct of research as well as the text. From a feminist perspective we claim that getting immersed also implies challenging the boundaries between the western conception of the private and the public of ethnographic work as reflected in the discussion of contemporary codes of field conduct. We claim that resistances and invitations present stories about the organizations and com munities themselves. Drawing on our cross-cultural ethnographic experiences, we argue that ethnographers should articulate these stories as they expose values and interests of the actors, both ties and conflicts. Our focus is with the first phase when entering the field. We draw on data from our respective projects,- our ways into a small-scale female network for income-generation in Zanzibar Town, the entry into a larger male Asian business network in East-Africa, and third, the entrance into networks and relationships in a Mozambican village context.

• Ryen, Anne; Haaland, Hanne Sortevik & Wallevik, Hege (2013). My life is part of it: Articulating the silenced work of female ethnographers. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). Tale til avgangselevene ved Kristiansand Katedralskole 2013. Del 1: 17.30 for 50% av elevene (bestemte klasser). Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). Internationalisation of research. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). Tale til avgangselevene ved Kristiansand Katedralskole. Del 2: de øvrige avgangsklassene ("akademikerne"). Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). Cross-cultural ethnography: Has ethnomethodology anything to offer? Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). The active interpreter: A dilemma, really? A discussion of "the Interpreter effect" on data. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). The Nordic WElfare Model: A Gender Perspective. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Foredrag for et Prosjekt om e-helse, denne gangen arrangert i LIllesand.

• Ryen, Anne (2013). Interviewing in Inter-cultural settings. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). • TAYJ35 Analysing Interview Data. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2013). Introduction to the Special Issue: What qualitative research makes us see. Journal of Comparative Social Work. 2, p. 1–6. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This special issue consists of six articles most of whch were presented at the midterm conference in the Research Network of Qualitative Research , The European Sociological Association (ESA RN20 QM network) organised at and organised by the RN20QM leadership, at Lund University, Sweden. All aricles have undergone a thorough review process and only the best were accepted. The articles emply different qualitative methods and analytic strategies and thus invite us to see what might otherwise have been hidden. They all illustrate well the potential of QM to describe and grasp social reality. The Issue also offers two book reviews.

• Reinertsen, Anne Beate; Otterstad, Ann Merete; Ben-Horin, Oded; Ryen, Anne; Waade, Roy Aksel & Jørgensen, Marilen Vågan (2013). En artikkel om forskning i et improvisasjonsbasert jazzuttrykk. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2012). The Qualitative Inerview: From Romanticism to Social Enactment. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Seminar i forbindelse med bokutgivelse (se annen referanse)

• Ryen, Anne (2012). Det Kvalitative Intervjuet. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2012). The decline of globalised methodology: Universality or indigeneity? Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2012). Field Methodology in Cross-cultural Contexts. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2012). The Nufu-Programme GGSQ. Rapport fra forskningsaktiviteter og institusjonsbygging i Tanzania. Full text in Research Archive
• Reinertsen, Anne Beate; Ryen, Anne; Ben-Horin, Oded & Otterstad, Ann Merete (2012). The Inefficiancy of knowledge and the limits of explanations; the necessity of critique. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2012). Hvordan kan vi finne ut? Om dagliglivets teknikker i en profesjonell sammenheng. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne (2012). Qualitative Research and Research Ethics. Full text in Research Archive
• Ryen, Anne; Deflem, Mathieu; Johansen, Winni; Nelken, David; Phoenix, Ann & Rasmussen, Terje (2021). External panel report: Gender Studies, Strategic Communcatin, Communication and Media, Sociology of Law, and Sociology. Lund University Open Access. ISSN 9789172674332. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This is Panel II`s evaluation report of the Lund University (LU) Faculty of Social Sciences departments listed above. All panel members were external professors - from US, UK, UK/IT, DK and SW. LU organised the evaluation as a process with close dialogue between the external panels and the departments via documents and zoom meetings. Departments also commented on the panel reports prior to publication. This report is part of a wider evaluation of Lund University. The focus of the assessment is on the preconditions for research quality rather than of research quality, and it has a long-term future-orient approach where activities are assessed in a mutidimensional manner. The very aim is to secure Lund University`s position in the global research system. All reports are published in this book: https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/publications/rq20--lund-universitys-research-quality-evaluation-2020(b4d910c4-860b-4bb0-8c7b-9d823c1a4bb4).html, and available here: https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/files/101791672/210830_RQ20_Lund_University_s_Research_Quality_Evaluation_2020.pdf

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