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Kristin Jesnes

Researcher

Kristin Jesnes is a researcher at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research in Norway. Her main areas of expertise are non-standard forms of work (including platform work) and industrial relations.

She defended her PhD with the title “Power relations in app-based food delivery in Norway" in February 2025 from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Her research on platform work has been published in the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, A Modern Guide to Labour and the Platform Economy (Edward Elgar), The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work and New Technology, Work and Employment.

Since 2022, Jesnes has been a member of the Steering Committee of IWPLMS (The International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation).

Education

PhD. from Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg 

Master in International Security, Institute d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). PhD student at the University of Gothenburg.

Area of work


Publications

Fafo's Publications

Scientific publishing

Research communication

Op-eds and commentaries | 5. September 2025
Interviews | 29. August 2025
Op-eds and commentaries | 19. June 2025
Op-eds and commentaries | 5. May 2025
Forskernytt | 17. February 2025
Op-eds and commentaries | 25. September 2017
Op-eds and commentaries | 25. September 2017
Op-eds and commentaries | 2. December 2015

Completed projects

Mapping of the home delivery industry
This project combines quantitative and qualitative methods to map the home delivery industry. We will prepare an overview of the largest companies, the use of self-employed and employees, and wages and working conditions.
Risk and working environment challenges in digitalized work

The working environment of the future: Risk and working environment challenges in digitalized work arrangements across different forms of employment. A conceptual framework of the Nordic labour inspection authorities

Freelancers, independent contractors and the organization of work
On behalf of The Research Council of Norway, Fafo, in collaboration with SNF (Centre for Applied research at Norwegian School of Economics - NHH) and Linköping University, will investigate the organization of the work for freelancers and independent contractors.
Study on organisations within the art and cultural sector

Creative professions and professions within arts and culture are a rapidly growing part of the international labor markets.

Digital platforms - new ways of organising work and novel opportunities for economic growth

In this project, Fafo and Samfunnsøkonomisk analyse (SØA) will identify bottlenecks, possible solutions and opportunities for growth and innovation of the platform economy.

LO's youth initiative

Does LO's youth initiative lead to active members and union representatives?

The future of work

Major changes in technology, economic contexts, workforces, and the institutions of work have come in ebb and flow since well before the first industrial revolution in the 18th century. Yet, many argue that the changes we are currently facing are different, and that the rise of digitalized production will entirely transform our ways and views of work.

Actors in the sharing economy

This project aims to identify and analyze players in sharing economy in Norway, and will focus particularly on the services which involves provision of labour.

Temporary employment

The aim of this comparative project is to study how temporary employment influences people’s employment careers and their chances of achieving a permanent establishment in the labour market.