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Åse Berit Grødeland

Research Professor

    Åse B. Grødeland is a political scientist/specialist on post-communist states. She holds an M.A. (mixed degree) from Oslo University, an M.Phil. in Soviet and East European Studies and a PhD from University of Glasgow.

    Her PhD focused on the emergence and development of the Green Movement in Ukraine.

    Grødeland has previously held research positions at University of Glasgow, NIBR and CMI. She has directed several international research projects on low-level corruption, informal practice, and legal culture in the Former Soviet Union, East Central Europe, South East Europe and the West Balkans. Grødeland’s research is methodologically innovative in that it combines qualitative and quantitative methods in an unusually integrated manner.

    She also has extensive non-academic work-experience from countries in the Former Soviet Union – as a tour-leader to the USSR and as international expert on long-term media monitoring missions to several post-communist states. More recently, she spent a year in Central Asia working as Senior Analyst for The International Crisis Group (ICG) – covering Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Grødeland has published extensively – including several policy reports and analytical reports on countries in Eurasia.

    She speaks fluent Russian and reads/understands Ukrainian.

    Education

    PhD in Russian and East European Studies, University of Glasgow

    Area of work

    Legal culture, corruption and anti-corruption reform, informal practice, civil society.

    Current projects

    Other publications

    Completed projects

    Norwegian UN junior professionals

    Commissioned by Norec, this project examines factors that can induce a higher proportion of Norwegian Junior Professional Officers (JPOs) to remain employed in the UN when their JPO assignments end. The project builds mainly on information from 7 key informants, in-depth interviews with 11 former and 2 current JPOs, and a questionnaire survey disseminated to 127 former and current JPOs. Data were collected in the second half of 2022. The project resulted in a Fafo report and a Fafo paper, which summarises the findings of the report.

    Legal Culture, Corruption and Law Enforcement: The Russian Case

    The project aims to provide a "thick description" of Russian legal culture - incl. local understandings of the term corruption - and its impact on law-enforcement in Russia.

    Legal Culture and Anti-Corruption Reform: the Case of the West Balkans (2010-14)

    While quite a lot is known about corruption and anti-corruption efforts in post-communist states, we know less about the impact of anti-corruption reform.