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Kaja Borchgrevink has defended her thesis today, 9 June 2017 'With Faith in Development: Islamic Charity as Development in Practice?' at Department of International Environment and Development Studies Noragric, Faculty of Landscape and Society at NMBU Ås Campus.
Her trial lecture:
Is women's apparently increasing involvement in religious life, including piety movements and religio-political organisations, likely to contribute to egalitarian social change in southern Asia?
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Emeritus Professor Carole Rakodi, University of Birmingham, UK
Second opponent: Dr. Tamsin Bradley, University of Portsmouth, UK
Committee coordinator: Dr. Poul Wisborg, Noragric, NMBU, Norway
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Ingrid Nyborg, Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), NMBU
Dr. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway