New NSfK council members from Finland and Sweden

25 January 2023

Helena Huhta from Finland replaces Natalia Ollus and Anna-Karin Ivert from Sweden replaces Caroline Mellgren. Helena Huhta is a Finnish sociologist and criminologist, who studied in her ethnographic PhD the changing meanings of ethnicity in the prison everyday life. Along with her thesis, Helena has studied various other topics using diverse qualitative methods while working…

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Newsletter – January 2023

18 January 2023

Content News from the secretariat Seminar, conferences, podcast, etc. News from the Nordic countries Publications Reports Statistics Contact Secretaries Denmark: Helena Birk Oxlund Faroe Islands: Daisy J Iversen Finland: Emma Villman Greenland: Sara Kirstine Jakobsen Iceland: Jónas Orri Jónasson Norway: Marina Hiller Foshaugen Sweden: Lisa Flower If you have any questions or comments about NSfKs activities, please contact the Chair or the secretariat. The contact…

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Travel grants for researchers in the field of criminology, based in the Nordic countries

10 January 2023

The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK) provides financial support for conference related travel and study trips abroad. The activities NSfK support via the travel grants can include: participation in conferences in a foreign country participation in academic courses in a foreign university (available only for PhD students) research stay periods at a foreign university…

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Newsletter – December 2022

19 December 2022

Content News from the secretariat Seminar, conferences, podcast, etc. News from the Nordic countries Publications Reports Statistics Contact Secretaries Denmark: Helena Birk Oxlund Faroe Islands: Daisy J Iversen Finland: Emma Villman Greenland: Sara Kirstine Jakobsen Iceland: Jónas Orri Jónasson Norway: Marina Hiller Foshaugen Sweden: Lisa Flower If you have any questions or comments about NSfKs activities, please contact the Chair or the secretariat. The contact…

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New publisher of NJC

16 December 2022

From next year the Nordic Journal of Criminology (NJC) will be published by Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget) – Nordic Journal of Criminology is the flagship of NSfK, says Heidi Mork Lomell, NSfK Chair. The journal is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research articles in the field of criminology and crime prevention. The journal provides…

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PhD Network Seminar in Sweden

14 December 2022

In November, Nordic PhD students in Criminology met in Lund for two days of networking and knowledge exchange.  The NSfK funded seminar served as a meeting platform for early career researchers in the Nordic countries as well as an arena where criminological research could be further developed. The participating PhD students gave a presentation of…

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23 applications for research grants received

12 December 2022

December 7th was the deadline for the 2023 call for research funding. – We are happy and excited that we have received 23 applications in total asking for more than 12,000,000 NOK in research funding. The applications involve criminological research environments from all the Nordic countries, and we see a blend of traditional and new…

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Newsletter – November 2022

16 November 2022

Content News from the secretariat Seminar, conferences, podcast, etc. News from the Nordic countries Publications Reports Statistics Contact Secretaries Denmark: Helena Birk Oxlund Faroe Islands: Daisy J Iversen Finland: Emma Villman Greenland: Sara Kirstine Jakobsen Iceland: Jónas Orri Jónasson Norway: Marina Hiller Foshaugen Sweden: Lisa Flower If you have any questions or comments about NSfKs activities, please contact the Chair or the secretariat.…

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New issue of NTfK

16 November 2022

It is a great pleasure hereby to inform you that Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab 3/2022 is published online. This issue contains of a substantial combination of criminal law and criminological contributions, that at the same time represents a big variety of research methods. This issue also represents a historic step forward since the Nordic Research…

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Newsletter – October 2022

18 October 2022

Content News from the secretariat Seminar, conferences, podcast, etc. News from the Nordic countries Publications Reports Statistics Contact Secretaries Denmark: Helena Birk Oxlund Faroe Islands: Daisy J Iversen Finland: Emma Villman Greenland: Sara Kirstine Jakobsen Iceland: Jónas Orri Jónasson Norway: Marina Hiller Foshaugen Sweden: Lisa Flower If you have any questions or comments about NSfKs activities, please conctact the Chair or the secretariat. The…

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