Short Bio

Associate Professor in Geography, University of Iceland, from August 2001
Chair, Department of Geography and Tourism in 2007 and 2011

Ph.D. post, Lund University, Sweden. From 1996-2000. Title of Ph.D. project: Women heading households in Zimbabwe: Mobility, livelihood and contested spaces.

Ph.D. research and courses, teaching and administration at the Dept. of Human Geography.

Gender, ethnicity and mobility in a globalized world, with focus on southern Africa, Iceland and Northern Europe. North-South relations, geopolitics and development.

Gendered access to resources, including land in Africa and grants to regional development in Iceland. Regional development policy.