Knut Hidle Knut Hidle (10.10.67) is a full time researcher at the Department of Planning and Mobility, Agder Research. He has a Ph.D. in Human Geography from University of Bergen. His main fields of interest are migration, mobility, place/space, local community and place development, regional development and regionalization. Graduate degree: PhD Keyposition: Senior Researcher Department: Welfare research CONTACTS Office phone: Mobile: Email: Fax: + 47 48 01 05 36 + 47 48 01 05 36 Knut.Hidle@Agderforskning.no +47 38 14 22 01 EDUCATION 1998-2004 1993-1996 Doctoral degree, Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Migrasjon og stedsmyte. Sted, migrasjonserfaringer og romlige forståelser i Kristiansand. Graduate degree, Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Fjell og mening. Identitet og argumentasjon I diskursen om en Reinheimen nasjonalpark. ACADEMIC CAREER 2010-2010 - 2008-2010 Associate Professor, Dep. of Geography, UiB Senior Researcher Agder Research (20%) Senior Researcher - Agder Research 2004-2008 2002-2005 1998-2002 1997-1998 Research director and Senior Reseacher Agder Research Assistant professor, Department of geography, University of Bergen PhD student, Department of geography, University of Bergen Researcher, Agder Research 1
1997-1997 Research Assistant, Department of geography, University of Bergen PROJECT EXPERIENCE 2009-2010 2009-2009 2008 2009 2008-2008 2007-2008 2006-2009 2007-2010 2006-2007 2006-2007 2007-2008 2003-2007 2007-2009 2004-2006 2003-2005 1998-2002 Reception centre for asylum seekers and local community. Project leader. Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) Sociocultural place analysis of Haugenstua, Project leader. Oslo municipality. Internationalization of the labour market, Project leader, The Research Council of Norway/VRI Agder Increased settlement of refugees in Knutepunkt Sørlandet municipalities, Project leader, Kristiansand municipality Work focused settlement of refugees, Project leader, The Directorate of Integration and Diversity (IMDi) The New Regional Norway: City Regions or County Regions, Local Project leader, The Research Council of Norway. Conceptions of centre and periphery and mobility s transforming power, co-worker, The Research Council of Norway. Entrepreneurship among ethnic minorities, Project leader, Vest-Agder county, Kristiansand municipality and The Competence Development Fund of Southern Norway Evaluation Support scheme to local voluntair immigrant organisations, Local project leader, Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion Regional economic growth: Attitides, mentality and set of values, Local project leader, SR-Bank, Vest-Agder, Aust-Agder and Rogaland counties, Greater Stavanger Economic Development SIP Rurality, Project leader from 2006, The Research Council of Norway. Business and place development at small places Understanding of crises as context for action, Project leader in 2007 and Co-worker from 2008, The Research Council of Norway. Scenarios Rogaland Agder 2020, Local project leader, SR-Bank. Interplay in five Norwegian city regions, Project leader from 2005, Ministry of Local Government and Regional Develolment, Tromsø, Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand municipalities and the counties the cities belong to. Migration and the multicultural city, PhD candidate, The Research Council of Norway. 2
PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed internasjonal journals Hidle, K., Cruickshank, J. and Ellingsen, W. (forthcoming): Conceptions of second home mobility in Norwegian political discourse. Sociologia Ruralis. Hidle, K., Farsund, A., Lysgård, H.K. (2009): Urban-Rural Flows and the Meaning of Borders - Functional and symbolic integration in Norwegian city-regions. European Urban and Regional Studies. 16(4): 409-421 Hidle, K. 2007: Mobilitet og det multikulturelle byrom: Hva skjer med stedsmyten, grenser og forskjellighet? Eksempler fra Kristiansand, Norge. Nordisk Museologi nr. 2:2007. Hidle, K., Cruickshank, J. and Nesje, L.M. 2006: Market, commodity, resource, strength. Logics of Norwegian rurality. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift Vol. 60, nr. 3. pp 189-198. Oslo. ISSN 0029-1951. Peer-reviewed national journals Hidle, K. (2009): Territorialitetens kategoriske grenser og mobilitetens ambivalens. Romlighetens strukturerende betydning I sysselsettingsperspektivet med besetting av flyktninger I norske kommuner. Norsk Tidsskrift for Migrasjonsforskning. Work as referee in peer-reviewed journals Norsk Tidsskrift for Migrasjonsforskning Journal of International Migration and Integration Chapters in books Farsund, A. Hidle, K, Lysgård, H.K. 2008: The Development of City Regions in Norway: The Importance of Everyday Regional Interaction and Economic Development Policy. In Bukve, O., Halkier, H. and de Souza, P. (eds.) Towards New Nordic Regions. Politics, administration and regional development. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. p. 137-160 Hidle, K. 2007: Place, Geography and the Concept of Diaspora A Methodological Approach. In: Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Brij Maharaj (eds.), Sociology of Diaspora: A Reader, pp. 94-112. New Delhi: Rawat Publications MA and PhD thesis Hidle, K. 1996: Fjell og mening. Identitet og argumentasjon i diskursen om en Reinheimen nasjonalpark. Master thesis in human geography, University of Bergen. Hidle, K. 2004: Migrasjon og stedsmyte. Sted, migrasjonserfaringer og romlige forståelser i Kristiansand. PhD-thesis. University of Bergen. 3
Reports Hidle, K., Ellingsen, W., og Vangstad, A. (2009) Internasjonalisering av arbeidsmarkedet i Agderfylkene. Omfang, strategier og migrasjonsløp. FoU rapport nr. 12/2009. Drangsland, K.A.K., Fuglseth, B.B., og Hidle, K. (2009) Sosiokulturell stedsanalyse av Haugenstua. FoU rapport nr. 11/2009. Hidle, K., Ellingsen, W. og Vangstad, A. (2009) Internasjonalisering av Arbeidsmarkedet. Suksesskriterier som kan bidra til at høykompetent arbeidskraft blir værende i bedrift og region. FoU rapport nr. 4/2009. Hidle, K. og Sørheim, S. (2008) Økt bosetting av flyktninger i Knutepunkt Sørlandet kommunene. Lokale og regionale forutsetninger. FoU-rapport nr. 6/2008. Agderforskning, Kristiansand Hidle, K. og Vangstad, A. (2008) Arbeidsrettet bosetting av flyktninger i norske kommuner. Forvaltningspraksis, kunnskapsgrunnlag og innspill til metodikk. FoU-rapport nr. 3/2008, Hidle, K. og Normann, R. (2008) Lederholdninger på Sørlandet. Analyse av verdier hos regionale ledere i næringslivet, offentlig sektor og politikk. Prosjektrapport nr. 24/2008. Hidle, K. (2008) Regionalisering og eksogene drivkrefter. Teoretiske og metodologiske innspill. Prosjektrapport nr. 23/2008. Hidle, K. (2008) Regionalitet og regionalisering, Bodø. Prosjektrapport nr. 18/2008. Hidle, K. (2008) Regionalitet og regionalisering, Bergen. Prosjektrapport nr. 16/2008. Hidle, K. (2008) Regionalitet og regionalisering, Ålesund. Prosjektrapport nr. 17/2008. Nødland, S. I, Hidle, K. and Kvaale, G. (2007) Organisasjoner for identitet og integrering. Rapport IRIS 2007/064, International Research Institute of Stavanger og Agder Research. Kristiansand/Stavanger. Hidle, K, Ellingsen, W, Nesje, L.M. og Vangstad, A. (2007) Entreprenørskap blant etniske minoriteter på Agder. FoU-report 1/2007, Agder Research. Hidle, K. et.al. (2005) Samspill i fem norske byregioner. FoU-report 4/2005, Agder Research Foundation. Popular science articles in newspapers, periodicals a.s.o. Hidle, K. og Nesje, L.M 2006: Hverdagsmobilitet i fem norske byregioner in Plan Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, byplan og regional utvikling, Nr. 3-4/2006, ss. 66-71. Cruickshank, J., Hidle, K. og Ellingsen, W. (2009) Hyttemobilitet som samfunnslim et innspill til norsk distriktspolitikk. Utmark nr. 1/2009. Lillehammer. 4
Guest lectures Hidle, K. Mobilitet og det multikulturelle sted. Hva skjer med grenser, forskjellighet og transgresjon? Lecture held on the Ph.d.-seminar At opleve (på) stedet, Syddansk University, Esbjerg, Denmark, 4-5 th October 2007. Presentation of papers on conferences Normann, R. og Hidle, K. Regional meta-governance Who do we trust? Paper presentert på Regional Studies Annual Annual Conference: Understanding and Shaping Regions: Spatial, Social and Economic Futures, Leuven 2009. Ellingsen, W. og Hidle, K. Mobile places. Paper held on European Urban and Regional Studies Conference, Istanbul, 18-21 September 2008. Ellingsen, W og Hidle, K. Mobile places. Paper held on the 14th Nordic Migration Researchers Conference in Bergen, November 14-16, 2007 Hidle, K. Farsund, A. og Lysgård, H. K. Urban-rural flow and the meaning of borders - Functional and symbolic integration in Norwegian city-regions. Paper presentert på European Urban and regional studies Conference, Roskilde, 2006 Hidle, K. Ellingsen, W. og Nesje, L.M. Imagining globalisation in rural politics - Global complexity and Norwegian images of rurality. Paper presented at European Urban and regional studies Conference, Roskilde, 2006. Hidle, K. Global flow and local response. On difference and reproduction in the multicultural city-space, Norsk Planmøte, Oslo, 2006. Hidle, K. Transgression and reproduction in the multicultural place a theoretical and methodological outline. Presentert på Nordic Geographers Meeting May 10-14 2005. Universitetet i Lund. Hidle, K. Politics for a multicultural society and images of rurality. Preliminary thougts on Norwegian regional politics in global complexity. Paper presentert på European Society for Rural Sociology XXI Congress, Keszthely, Ungarn, 2005. Presentation of papers on workshops Hidle, K. Transgression and Reproduction: On diversity, otherness and mobility in the multicultural place/space. Paper presentert på International Workshop on foreign migration to small towns and Rural areas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2006. LANGUAGES 5
Mother Tongue: Norwegian Other Languages: English (fluent), French (acknowledge). 6