The Centre for the Study of Professions (SPS) celebrates 25 years of research and doctoral-level degrees.
To mark this occasion, distinguished scholars are invited to attend this research seminar on the future of the study of professions.
Program
Thursday November 28
Lisa Herzog, University of Groningen, the author of Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts and the Infrastructure of Democracy is this years Grimen Lecture speaker. All participants are invited to attend her lecture. Visit the event website for more information.
Friday November 29
- 09.15: Welcome speech, by Centre director Beate Elvebakk, Centre for the Study of Professions (SPS).
- 09.30: Interdisciplinary perspectives on professions: A “curriculum” for coming researchers, by Andreas Eriksen and Lars Johannessen, SPS.
- 10.15: Professional expertise and citizens' knowledge, by Eva Krick, Institute for political science, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
- 11.30: Lunch
- 12.30: Professional responsibility in large, bureaucratic organizations, by Daniel Muzio, The School of Business and Society, University of York.
- 13.45: Coffee break
- 14.15: Professions and (in)equality, by Louise Ashley, School of Business and Managment, Queen Mary University of London.
Topics
Interdisciplinary perspectives on professions: A “curriculum” for coming researchers
For 25 years SPS has educated PhD students and researchers in theories of professions. Underneath our curriculum is a belief that theories of profession have relevance for future researchers, what are the basic assumptions about what professions are, what professionalism means, and why professions are important objects of research.
Speakers: Andreas Eriksen and Lars Johannessen, SPS, OsloMet
Professional expertise and citizen insights
If the professions' societal position is based on their expertise, then what is the rationale for including experiential citizen expertise in policy-making? To what extent does the knowledge of 'lay citizens' differ from professional, legitimized forms of knowledge? Under what conditions can we trust citizens' claims of competence and what are the limits of what can be considered competence?
- Speaker: Eva Krick, Institute for political science, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
- Comment: Lisa Herzog, University of Groningen, and Maren Omland, SPS, OsloMet
Professional responsibility in large, bureaucratic organizations
Given that today most professional work occurs in organizational settings, what – if anything – does professional responsibility and service for a common good mean in organizational contexts where in public sector, the welfare state mandate is assigned to the organization and in the private sector, the firms ultimately pursue profit?
- Speaker: Daniel Muzio, The School of Business and Society, University of York
- Comments: Marte Mangset, SPS, OsloMet/ Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris, and Edmund Henden, SPS OsloMet.
Professions and (in)equality
Some of the most prestigious professions are highly stratified in their recruitment, at the same time as their social contracts include civic responsibility, an ethos of public service and a mission to advance values such as health, social justice, and public safety. Have the processes of inclusion/exclusion to these professions changed, and what are the implications for their societal responsibilities?
- Speaker: Louise Ashley, School of business and management, Queen Mary University of London.
- Comments: Thea Bertnes Strømme, NOVA, OsloMet, and Sam Friedman, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science/ SPS, OsloMet.
