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Nora Louise Ahlberg (born 23 December 1952) is a Norwegian professor (1995-) and research director with her background from several Nordic basic and more applied research units. By education she is a clinical psychologist and historian of religion with her specialisation in anthropology. She also studied psychiatry and sociology. Moreover, she is educated in arts from Fria Målarskolan (1972–1975) in Helsinki and was, due to her exhibited works, invited as a member of the Association of Norwegian Painters (Landsforeningen for Norske Malere) in 1978.
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Career
Ahlberg is attached to the universities of Oslo (1978-) and Helsinki (1991-), and has headed the Norwegian Centre for Minority Research (NAKMI) since its foundation in 2003. Before that she was director of the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees in Oslo and also professor/head of department at the universities of Tromsø (1995–96), Trondheim (NTNU, 1996–2003) and Oslo University College (2003–2004), besides two periods of research leave at the University of Oxford. She has experience from the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as the Medical faculties, as head of several interdisciplinary research umbrellas and has taken part in research planning within the Nordic and European setting, including appointments of several professorships across traditional subject boundaries.
Moreover, she has been active in disseminating minority research to administrative, health- and social subject professionals. Ahlberg is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care and editor of the Norwegian Journal for Migration Research (Norsk Tidsskrift for Migrasjonsforskning).
Private
Ahlberg was born in Helsinki as the daughter of kommerseråd Hugo Wilhelm Ahlberg and Helene Hinnerichsen. In 1978 she moved to Oslo, where she married professor Svein Bjerke and had two children Ernst Hugo (1982) and Mildrid (1986).