Guneriussen Willy
Professor
Department of Social Sciences
University of Tromso
Norway
Biography
Born 1949. Dr. philos Tromsø 1989. Employed at the Philosophy Section, Tromsø until 1985. NAVF fellow Sociology 1985-88. Associate Philosophy 1989-93. At the Department of Sociology from 1993, professor of 1997. Half position as research director (and professor) at the Faculty of Science from the summer of 1998. Full position as research coordinator (and professor) for doctoral education at the faculty from summer 1999 to 31/12 2005. 2006 - 2014: Appointed as Academic Leader (Professor) for the Faculty of Science's Multi-disciplinary Research School - CEPIN (Citizenship, Encounters and Place Enactment in the North). 2014 - dd: Back as Professor of Sociology at ISS, UiT. Professor II at Harstad University College 2000 - 2016.
Research Interest
"1) Modernization and globalization processes 2) Traditions, paradigms and fundamental problems in social sciences 3) Social theory and understanding of nature"
