- Authoritarian regimes
- Political elites in dictatorships
- Quantitative research methods
- Democratic backsliding
- The GCC countries
Ina Lyftingsmo Kristiansen left PRIO in 2023. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
About
I'm an MA student at the Peace and Conflict Studies programme at the University of Oslo. Previously I have studied in the UK, South Korea and Oman. I also work as a research assistant with the Paths to Power dataset at the University of Oslo.
Education
2021-2023 MA in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Oslo
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019 Arabic language studies, Sultan Qaboos College Oman
2018 - 2020 BA-courses in comparative politics and Arabic, University of Bergen
2014-2018 BA Hons in Teaching English as a Second Language and Korean, University of Central Lancashire
2016-2017 Exchange year at Ehwa Womans University, South Korea
Work Experience
Nov 2021 - Current Research assistant, University of Oslo
Nov 2022 - March 202 Research assistant, PRIO
Feb 2022-May 2022 Seminar leader teaching R, University of Oslo
Languages Spoken
Norwegian (native); English (fluent); French, Modern Standard Arabic, Korean (intermediate); Farsi (elementary).