I am trained as an anthropologist and have been working within the social science alcohol and drug research field most of my academic life. My research has focused on two overall topics: stakeholder perspectives on alcohol and other drugs use and health and social welfare institutional policy and practice. A recurring and underlying interest of mine in all research projects is how to understand the pleasures and problems experienced and how to conceptualize intoxication and addiction from a social science point of view.

My most recent research projects focus on nitrous oxide use among young people and harm reduction initiatives offered to drug users in Denmark.  

I mainly employ qualitative methods in my research projects, and are interested in methodological developments. Recently, I started together with colleagues to develop how Qualitative Secondary Analysis can be used in a cross-national context.  

Finally, before entering the alcohol and drug research field, I did my PhD in anthropology on traditional rituals and local forms of Islam in Java, Indonesia.