Academic interests
Laugerud's main research interests are knowledge production and use at the intersection of law, science, and technology in relation to institutional responses to crime victims, particularly victims of sexual violence, domestic violence, and terror. This includes research on the women’s movement, particularly the shelter movement; victims’ participation in legal proceedings; the increasing importance of expertise (in terms of medical, psychological, forensic scientific, and juridical knowledge) in the area of sexual violence; people’s and institutions’ trust in expert knowledge; decisionmakers’ use of various forms of expert knowledge, discretion, and common sense; and the relationships between law and politics, and between bureaucratic and professional norms. Laugerud is a sociolegal scholar inspired by science and technology studies (STS) and the sociology of knowledge. In her research, she combines knowledge, concepts, and theories from sociolegal studies, criminology, law, sociology, anthropology, psychology, feminist theory, and gender research. This means that her research is interdisciplinary and innovative, as it seeks to explore new ways of knowing how knowledge production and use shape and are shaped by people’s agency and meaning-making processes.
Keywords:
- Knowledge production and knowledge translation
- Interpretation of evidence in the Legal System
- Sexual Violence
- Victims and victims’ rights
- Gender equality and Human rights
- Gender and Feminism
- The Women’s movement and the Shelter movement
- Terror
Solveig Laugerud is a postdoctoral researcher in EVIDENTLY RAPE a Convergence Environment funded by UIO:Life Science.
Background
Laugerud defended her PhD thesis “The Legible Rape Victim: How Disciplinary Discourses in the Legal System create a New Victim Identity” in 2020. In her thesis, Laugerud analyzes how rape victims become entangled in a network of experts that discipline their conduct after a rape. Laugerud’s dissertation, which is based on qualitative analysis of legal decisions from the Compensation Authorities and criminal courts as well as interviews with female victims of sexual violence, shows how the disciplinary discourses in the Legal System on the one hand increases victims' agency, and on the other hand, increases victims' responsibility.
Laugerud has previously been a guest researcher at the «Center for the Study of Law and Society» at Berkeley Law.
Previously Laugerud worked at the Centre for Gender Research at University of Oslo and the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies.