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Jónína Einarsdóttir - Professor Emerita
–
School of Social Sciences
Jónína Einarsdóttir
Íslenska
Professor Emerita
Location
Oddi / O-112
Phone
525 - 4508
Email
je [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics
Website
http://starfsfolk.hi.is/simaskra/303
Published Work
Jónína Einarsdóttir - published work
Curriculum Vitae
Jónína Einarsdóttir - Curriculum Vitae
Consultation hours
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5868-4615
Research portal – Jónína Einarsdóttir
Courses 2024 - 2025
MAN005F - Readings in a specific area
MAN429G - Assignment in anthropology
MAN561L - Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology
MAN429G - Assignment in anthropology
MAN004F - Readings in a specific area
MAN326G - Assignment in anthropology
MAN095F - Globalization
MAN561L - Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology
Collaboration
network European Universities
,
Member of the ERASMUS network European Universities on Professionalization on
,
ERASMUS network European
with Instituto Nacional
,
Collaboration with Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (INEP) in Guinea-Bissau on
,
(INEP) in Guinea-Bissau
of the Nordic
,
Member of the Nordic Network of African Childhood and Youth Research (NoNACYR). A
,
Youth Research (NoNACYR
,
Education in Guinea-Bissau
with The Centre
,
Collaboration with The Centre for Social Research and Analysis (ICSRA), Reykjavík
,
Analysis (ICSRA), Reykjavík
with National Institute
,
Collaboration with National Institute of Public Health (INASA), Guinea-Bissau, on the
,
Health (INASA), Guinea-Bissau,
coalition of Nordic
,
coalition of Nordic researchers and students financed by NordForsk grant
,
financed by NordForsk
,
Trafficking in Guinea-Bissau
of the Bamako
,
,
the Bamako Initiative
,
Humanitarian Action (EUPRHA
Education
,
,
University of Iceland
,
Spænska
,
,
University of Iceland
,
Teacher Credentials
2000
,
Ph.D.
,
Stockholm University
,
Social Anthropology
1998
,
BA
,
Stockholm University
,
Social Anthropology
1987
,
,
Uppsala University
,
Þróunarfræði (eins árs nám),
1978
,
BS
,
University of Iceland
,
Chemistry
Professional Experience
2001 -
2004,
Researcher,
Funded by the Icelandic Science Foundation
2000 -
2004,
Part time Lecturer,
Iceland University
1998 -
2000,
Postgraduate Studies,
post funded by the Department of Social Anthropology Stockholm University
1993 -
1998,
Anthropologist,
Regional Health Board Biombo region Guinea-Bissau
1994 -
1995,
Gender Officer,
Swedish Embassy Bissau Guinea-Bissau Sept
1988 -
1993,
Documentalist,
Development Studies Unit Department of Social Anthropology Stockholm University
1982 -
1985,
Co-ordinator of Studies and Teacher,
The School for Laboratory Technicians The National Public Health Laboratory (LNSP) Bissau Guinea-Bissau
1980 -
1981,
Teacher,
Heppuskóli Höfn (Secondary School)
1978 -
1979,
Teacher,
Menntaskólinn við Sund (Junior College) Reykjavík Iceland
Published works
2024
Access to health and rights of children in street situations and working children
BMJ Paediatrics Open
Prevalence of and Influential Factors for Waterpipe Smoking among School-Attending Adolescents in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Adolescents
Street and working children
BMJ Paediatrics Open
Begging for Knowledge in Senegal
Social Sciences
2023
The Emergence of the Bissau-Guinean Fula Cernos
Journal of Religion in Africa
Sjálfboðastarf í Brothættum byggðum
Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
“Just Standing Still”
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Equality of opportunity
International Journal of Educational Research
Saga tvíhliða þróunarsamvinnu Íslands og samstarf í Afríku sunnan Sahara
Knattspyrna í Afríku og draumurinn um að meika það
Inngangur - hvert stefnir Afríka?
Frá Þúsaldarmarkmiðum til Heimsmarkmiða: staðan í Afríku
Afríka sunnan Sahara - í brennidepli II
2022
Adolescents amid emerging COVID-19 pandemic in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
BMJ Paediatrics Open
2021
Public Opinion in Iceland on Aid During the Ebola Epidemic in West Africa
Forum for Development Studies
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life of Bissau-Guinean religious (Quranic) schoolboys during a state of emergency
BMJ Paediatrics Open
Public or private school? Determinants for enrolment of adolescents in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
International Journal of Educational Research
Maternal grief in cross-cultural context
Death Studies
Social determinants of narcotics use susceptibility among school-attending adolescents in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau: a cross-sectional analysis.
Adolescents
2020
Hardworking, Adaptive, and Friendly
Use of Digital Technology among Adolescents Attending Schools in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
“A vicious circle”
Journal of Human Trafficking
“Not like every other tourist with selfie stick”: Voluntourism in Iceland
"Not like every other tourist with a selfie stick”: Voluntourism in Iceland
Hardworking, Adaptive, and Friendly
2019
Vinnan göfgar manninn
Ástæður og umfang sumardvala í sveit
Inngangur. Árstíðabundinn flutningur barna
Ósýnileiki barna sem leita alþjóðlegrar verndar á Íslandi í fylgd foreldra
Nordicum-Mediterraneum
Sent out into the country: It was part of being an Icelander
Sinn er siður í landi hverju
Af dráttarvélum
Heiðarlegir vinnuþjarkar, hreinlátir og fljótir að læra: Um sjálfboðaliðastörf á Íslandi
Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
Lífið og tilveran
Sumardvöl í sveit á 21. öldinni
2018
Child Participation in Ghana
Child Participation in Ghana
Donor dilemmas in a fragile state: NGO-ization of community healthcare in Guinea-Bissau
Development Studies Research
Review shows that Icelandic society is taking firmer steps to tackle the diverse forms of child abuse and neglect that its children are exposed to
Acta Paediatrica
Iceland and development aid in the era of the MDGs: a case study of an Alma Ata inspired primary healthcare project in southern Malawi
Development Studies Research
„Allt sem ég þrái“: Menntun og skólaganga barna sem leita alþjóðlegrar verndar á Íslandi
Tímarit um uppeldi og menntun
Iceland and foreign aid: from recipient to donor
2017
Infant Mortality in a Global Context
2016
‘All’s well in Iceland?’ Austerity measures, labour market initiatives, and health and well-being of children
Nordic Welfare Research
Iceland's Involvement in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
‘All´s well in Iceland?’ Austerity measures, labour market intitiatives, and health and well-being of children.
Nordic Welfare Research
Becoming somebody
International Journal of Human Rights
‘Vulnerable’ girls, education and non-governmental organisation sponsorship programmes in Kampala
Childhood
‘Vulnerable’ girls, education and NGO sponsorship programs in Kampala.
Childhood
Monitoring and evaluation of health system strengthening: Iceida’s development collaboration in Monkey Bay, Malawi, in 2000-2014
Nordicum-Mediterraneum
Applied ethics and allocation of foreign aid
Development Policy Review
2015
Algengi og margbreytileiki andlegs ofbeldis og reynsla af vanrækslu í æsku á Íslandi
Laeknabladid
‘We are like the Poles’: On the ambiguous labour market position of young Icelanders
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
20 years of the ICRC code of conduct for disaster relief
The Lancet
2014
Valdefling heyrnarlausra
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
Vinnuslys ungmenna
Laeknabladid
The Palermo Protocol: Trafficking Takes it All
Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration
2013
Viðhorf mæðra til fræðslu og ráðgjafar um brjóstagjöf: Eigindleg viðtalsrannsókn í mannfræði.
Ljósmæðrablaðið
Reynsla fullordinna Íslendinga af líkamlegum refsingum og ofbeldi í æsku
Laeknabladid
Reynsla fullorðinna Íslendinga af líkamlegum refsingum og ofbeldi í æsku
Læknablaðið
Staðgöngumæður: frjálsar og fórnfúsar konur
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
"Guinea-Bissau"
Corrigendum to "Intrafamilial conflict and emotional well-being
Child Abuse and Neglect
2012
Ógreindur: Á jaðrinum, án handleiðslu
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
Stelpufræði: Frá herbergismenningu til girl-power.
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
Happiness in the neonatal intensive care unit
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being
Sendur í sveit
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
2011
Partnership and Fragile States: the Case of Guinea-Bissau.
Alþjóðasamfélagið og óstöðug smáríki: Kosningar í Gíneu-Bissá
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
Intrafamilial conflict and emotional well-being
Child Abuse and Neglect
Heilsugæsla í Gíneu-Bissá: Áhrif umbunar á starf sjálfboðaliða og þátttöku.
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
2010
Mansal barna
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
Að hemja hundrað flær á hörðu skinni: Ofbeldi og refsingar barna
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
2009
Health for All: primary health care services in rural Guinea-Bissau.
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
Emotional experts
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Excluded groups: health care services in Monkey Bay, Malawi.
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
2008
The classification of newborn children: consequences for survival.
Hamingja og harmleikur: sjónarhóll fagfólks á gjörgæsludeild nýbura
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
2007
Partnership and post-war Guinea-Bissau
South African Journal of International Affairs
Formálsorð og inngangur
Afríka fyrr og nú : uppruni, ánauð og átök
Parents’ relations with prematurely born infants: distance or devotion?
Hetjudáð eða heigulsháttur: barnsfæðingar í Biombo.
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
2006
Relocation of Children: Fosterage and Child Death in Biombo, Guinea-Bissau.
Flokkun barna
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
Child Survival in Affluence and Poverty
Field Methods
2005
Máttug mannabörn fædd fyrir tímann
Ungir íslendingar í ljósi vísindanna
Restoration of social order through extinction of non-human children.
Andlegt og líkamlegt ofbeldi gegn börnum á Íslandi: sögulegt samhengi og forvarnir.
"A child is born to live": religion and child death in Guinea-Bissau.
Barn
Þróunaraðstoð og lækkun barnadauða.
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
International aid, partnership, and child survival [3]
Lancet
2004
Heimilisofbeldi gegn börnum á Íslandi: höggva-hýða-hirta-hæða-hóta-hafna-hrista-hræða.
Tired of weeping
Meðferð mikilla fyrirbura. "Þessar ósvöruðu spurningar erfiðastar."
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
2003
Deyðir fátæktin móðurástina?
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
2002
Ættartengsl í mannfræðirannsóknum: Viðbrögð við sjúkdómum og barnadauða hjá Papelfólkinu í Gíneu-Bissá.
Íslenska Söguþingið
2001
Conceptions of Children and Child Care.
Health education and cholera in rural Guinea-Bissau
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2000
Epidemic cholera in Guinea-Bissau
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
1999
Corpses and the spread of cholera [3]
Lancet
1998
Funerals as a risk factor for cholera transmission in Guinea-Bissau, West-Africa.
Epidemiology and Infection
Funerals during the 1994 cholera epidemic in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Epidemiology and Infection
1993
Colostrum and ideas about bad milk: A case study from Guinea-Bissau
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