Kirsti Stuvøy

Kirsti Stuvøy joined Noragric and NMBU in 2014 as associate professor and since 2022 she is professor in international relations. At NMBU Stuvøy teaches “Introduction to International Relations” (EDS203), “Feminist and Critical International Relations Theory” (EDS381) and “Global Transitions and the City” (EDS383). Stuvøy regularly lectures in other courses in international relations and development studies at NMBU and has taught a variety of courses in International Relations Theories, Global Political Economy, Model UN, Security, War and Violent Conflict, Activism and Governance, and Foreign Policy. She has teaching experience from several universities in Norway and abroad (UK and Russia). She has supervised more than 35 master students to completion of their thesis and two PhD students.

Stuvøy’s research in international relations is focused on a broad-range of topics that can be crystallised in three themes: (1) Security-studies; (2) State-civil society relations in post-socialist Russia, and (3) Cities in International Relations. Her research is published in journals such as Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, Political Geography, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, etc. A full list can be found in Cristin. Her expertise in qualitative methodology was for example important in research on urbanisation and migration in Somalia, which is featured on the website “securityonthemove.co.uk” The research led to several articles on displacement in Somalia (Stuvøy, Bakonyi, and Chonka 2021; Bakonyi, Chonka, and Stuvøy 2019) and on security research methodologies (Chonka, Edle, and Stuvøy 2022).  

Stuvøy’s research on Russia includes field research experience, starting with her PhD research in 2004. She has done field research in Russia on issues such as activism on violence against women, state-society relations, EU-Russia civil society collaboration, and post-socialist urban change. Her grounded, empirical approach to research in Russia is guided by an interest in societal struggles that shed light of political and societal developments in a global perspective. Stuvøy leads the research project on urban transformation in Russia, “Urban margins, global transitions: Everyday security and mobility in four Russian cities”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2019-2023). With case studies this research on local experiences of urban change adds a human perspective to analysis focusing on structural dimensions, de-industrialisation, mobility, and decay. The research links developments in Russia to global (urban) discussions on marginality and precarity. Such research is more difficult after Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Stuvøy explores digital methodologies as approach to everyday experiences of war in Russia. 

Stuvøy is together with colleague Professor Stig Jarle Hansen co-leading the research project “EXIT and effective reintegration of violent extremist in Scandinavia (funded by the Norwegian Research Council, 2023-2027). Stuvøy is also participating in research on justice in decarbonization-processes (JUSTDECARB, with Professor Guri Bang), and is a member of NMBU’s strategic initiative on sustainable development, TOWARDS, lead by Professor Siri Eriksen.

Stuvøy was Head of Education at the Department of international environment and development (NORAGRIC) from 2014 to 2016. When Noragric as a result of NMBU’s re-organisation in 2016 became part of the Faculty of Landscape and Society, Stuvøy became LANDSAM’s first Head of Education (2017). Stuvøy is health and safety-representative of Tivoli (2022-2024). 

Before she joined NMBU, Stuvøy was associate professor in international relations at Lillehammer University College (2010-2014) and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tromsø (2009-2010). She competed her doctoral degree in 2009 at the University of Tromsø, where she started in 2004 after completion of studies of political science (major), Easter European Studies and Economics (minors) at the University of Hamburg, Germany (Magistra Artium). Stuvøy speaks English, German and Russian, and Norwegian is mother tongue.