2026
Disputation: Maja Vestad
Time and place: 15 June 2026, 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Traces of crime: A study of evidence production in criminal justice
Before the disputation, Vestad held a trial lecture entitled: The forensic trace and the forensic imaginary: What does contemporary Norwegian forensic practice reveal about the history and future of the evidence chain? Would the founders of forensic science identify continuities with, or disruptions from, their aspirations? What is the role of technology in this discourse?
Disputation: Ingeborg Jenssen Sandbukt
Time and place: 8 June 2026 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: From Disaster to Desister? Narratives of Incarcerated Men with Lived Sexual Recidivism Experience
Before the disputation, Sandbukt held a trial lecture entitled: The connection between discourse and action in adults who sexually offend – between narrative, violent conduct, and subjective change.
2025
Disputation: Pernille Søderholm Nyvoll
Time and place: 25 November 2025 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Pains and possibilities of imprisonment: An exploration of experiences from ‘exceptional’ open prisons in Norway
Before the disputation, Nyvoll held a trial lecture entitled: Exceptional, rehabilitative, health-promoting? International perspectives on the role of open prisons in changing penal landscapes.
Disputation: Rose Elisabeth Lunde
Time and place: 7 November 2025 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: (P)rehab and Punishment: Drug Treatment, Therapeutic Intervention and Hybrid Penality in Prison
Before the disputation, Lunde held a trial lecture entitled: A critical discussion of power relations in prisons.
Disputation: Samar Abbas Nawaz
Time and place: 27 June 2025 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Safe integration of civil drones: Law, self-operation & infrastructure.
Before the disputation, Nawaz held a trial lecture entitled: How can the EU create a comprehensive regulatory system for unmanned aircraft beyond the safety domain?
Disputation: Jan Christoffer Andersen
Time and place: 24 June 2025 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica
Thesis: Boundaries of Online Misogyny: Identities and Narratives in the Incel Subculture
Before the disputation, Andersen held a trial lecture entitled: Map out the different disciplinary spaces of incel research, explaining how their theoretical and methodological framings differ, conflict and/or overlap. Focus particularly on how and why sociological / feminist / masculinity studies approaches are at odds with psychology and evolutionary psychology frameworks, and also with extremism studies, and address where cultural studies and particularly criminology fit into this schema.
Disputation: Maria Louise Hansen
Time and place: 23 June 2025 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: After sex: Exploring ambiguity in the aftermath of sex and rape
Before the disputation, Hansen held a trial lecture entitled: Binary and non-binary understandings of consent.
Disputation: Marina Hiller Foshaugen
Time and place: 20 June 2025 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Nocturnal policing. Order maintenance, plural policing, and nightlife environments
Before the disputation, Foshaugen held a trial lecture entitled: Theorizing Nocturnal Policing: Power and Control in Urban Nightlife Environments.
2024
Disputation: Sine Holen
Time and place: 19 November 2024 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Violence and Intervention: Military justifications for enhancing human security
Before the disputation, Holen held a trial lecture entitled: The use and deployment of gender in human security.
2023
Disputation: Annette Vestby
Time and place: 12 December 2023 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Practical criminologies: sensemaking and proactive policing
Before the disputation, Vestby held a trial lecture entitled: Researching intelligence-led policing and inter-agency co-operation in the information age.
Disputation: Pål Winnæss
Time and place: 1 December 2023 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Utdanning til kunnskapsbasert politiarbeid. Politihøgskolen som sosialiseringsagent
Before the disputation, Winnæss held a trial lecture entitled: Forholdet mellom teoretisk og praktisk kunnskap i politiutdanningen.
Disputation: Knut Mellingsæter Sørensen
Time and place: 6 October 2023 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: «Hvem i helvete kommer nå?» Kriminalomsorgsarbeid i en ekstraordinær kritisk situasjon
Before the disputation, Sørensen held a trial lecture entitled: Diskuter hvordan og hvorfor fengslingen av Breivik skapte mere eller mindre maskine-bureaukrati i Ila fengsel.
Disputation: Erik Nadheim
Time and place: 28 February 2023 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Kriminalitetsofre og rettssikkerhet – Om tekst som taler og hva det sier som ikke blir sagt
Before the disputation, Nadheim held a trial lecture entitled: Diskuter årsakene til fremveksten av lovbruddsofrenes situasjon som et offentlig anliggende i lys av kriminalpolitiske overveielser og viktimologiske teorier.
2022
Disputation: Elisabeth Myhre Lie
Time and place: 15 December 2022 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Annerledespolitiet. Idealer og dilemmaer i politiets forebyggende dialogarbeid
Before the disputation, Lie held a trial lecture entitled: Analysér dialogpolitiets forebyggende virksomhet ut fra metodologiske, teoretiske og etiske perspektiv.
Disputation: Nina Sunde
Time and place: 25 November 2022 11:30–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Constructing digital evidence. A study on how cognitive and human factors affect digital evidence
Before the disputation, Sunde held a trial lecture entitled: What are the implications and potential blind spots of the proliferation of cognitive psychology in the professionalization of detective’s work?
Disputation: Dorina Damsa
Time and place: 4 November 2022 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Women and bordered penality in the Nordic welfare state
Before the disputation, Damsa held a trial lecture entitled: What are the benefits of applying a border criminology framework, particularly regarding the concept of 'crimmigration', and evaluate the possible criticisms toward this framework?
Disputation: Thomas Anton Sandøy
Time and place: 2 May 2022 11:30–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Alternative sanctions for young drug offenders. From punishment to help?
Before the disputation, Sandøy held a trial lecture entitled: Desistance from crime, or from being criminalised.
Disputation: Özlem Gürakar Skribeland
Time and place: 25 February 2022 13:00–16:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica and Zoom
Thesis: Forced Return of Migrants to Transit Countries – A Case of Competing Sovereigns
Before the disputation, Skribeland held a trial lecture entitled: Please assess the obligations and responsibilities of different states and the EU towards migrants and asylum-seekers in the Belarus-Poland border crisis, applying critical legal theory.
2021
Disputation: Kristina Kepinski Jacobsen
Time and place: 22 June 2021 11:30–15:00, Zoom
Thesis: Objektivitet og empati i avhør av fornærmede – en kvalitativ undersøkelse av norske politiavhør
Before the disputation, Jacobsen held a trial lecture entitled: En avhørspsykologisk analyse av Gjenopptakelseskommisjonens bemerkninger om avhørsteknikkene i etterforskningen av Baneheia-drapene, jfr. sak 2020/82.
Disputation: Martin Nøkleberg
Time and place: 11 June 2021 11:15–15:00, Zoom
Thesis: Policing global hubs – A study of the Norwegian airport and maritime port security environments
Before the disputation, Nøkleberg held a trial lecture entitled: Security as Necessary Evil? The local disruption of global transport flows: a Norwegian perspective.
Disputation: John Todd-Kvam
Time and place: 30 April 2021 11:15–15:00, Zoom
Thesis: Understanding desistance and penality in Norway: discourses, practices and experiences
Before the disputation, Todd-Kvam held a trial lecture entitled: A comparison of processes and structures of desistance and/or the role of probation between Norway and other countries.
2020
Disputation: Hilgunn Olsen
Time and place: 13 November 2020 11:15–15:00, Zoom
Thesis: Narkotikapolitikk og skadereduksjon. Dilemmaer i politiarbeid, rusbehandling og sprøyterom
Before the disputation, Olsen held a trial lecture entitled: Straff og skadereduksjon i narkotikapolitikken, idealer og realiteter.
Disputation: Anja Emilie Kruse
Time and place: 27 August 2020 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica
Thesis: The Why, the Who and the Wherefore. Explanations, self-change and social friction in men’s narratives of sexual violations
Before the disputation, Kruse held a trial lecture entitled: What can we learn from men's accounts of sexual violating behaviour and what are the benefits and dangers of engaging with them?
Disputation: Solveig Laugerud
Time and place: 27 April 2020 13:15–16:00, Zoom
Thesis: The Legible Rape Victim: How Disciplinary Discourses in the Legal System Create a New Victim Identity
Before the disputation, Laugerud held a trial lecture entitled: Situating Norway in the global struggle against sexual violence: comparative perspectives on legal systems, discursive regimes and the role of non-state actors.
Disputation: Janne Helgesen
Time and place: 16 April 2020 10:15–13:00, Zoom
Thesis: Straff og velferd i fangebehandling av rusmiddelbrukere. En kvalitativ analyse av empowerment og samarbeid i norske rusmestringsenheter
Before the disputation, Helgesen held a trial lecture entitled: Hvordan kan avhandlingens studie av brukermedvirkning og empowerment i norske fengsler bidra til forskningens diskusjon om hva eksepsjonalisme ('Nordic penal exceptionalism') egentlig innebærer og betyr?
2019
Disputation: Jenny Maria Lundgaard
Time and place: 27 September 2019 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in the Main Building
Thesis: Kritisk kunnskap: Meningsdannelse og beslutningsprosesser ved politiets operasjonssentral
Before the disputation, Lundgaard held a trial lecture entitled: Grenser for selvdisiplinering og selvsensur i politiforskning.
Disputation: Lisbeth Fullu Skyberg
Time and place: 18 June 2019 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in the Main Building
Thesis: Rettslige forklaringers troverdighet. En teoretisk, historisk og empirisk undersøkelse av bevismuntlighetens betydning for vurdering av troverdighet i straffesaker
Before the disputation, Skyberg held a trial lecture entitled: Prinsippet om fri bevisvurdering i et komparativt rettshistorisk og psykologisk perspektiv.
2018
Disputation: Rune Ellefsen
Time and place: 8 March 2018 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in the Main Building
Thesis: Performing and policing transgressive protest: A relational approach to the SHAC-HLS conflict in Britain (1999–2014)
Before the disputation, Ellefsen held a trial lecture entitled: In the dissertation, the trajectory of the British animal rights campaigners Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) serves as a starting point from which to develop theories of the dynamics of social movement and the policing of conflict. In other words, the conflict between SHAC and Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) serves as a starting point for Ellefsen’s analysis of the relationship between protest and protest policing. For his trial lecture the committee would like Ellefsen to assess how the theories, models and concepts he relates to and develops in the dissertation hold up to other cases of protest and protest policing.
Disputation: David Rodrigues Goyes
Time and place: 29 January 2018 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in the Main Building
Thesis: Biopiracy from a green criminological perspective
Before the disputation, Goyes held a trial lecture entitled: How would a Southern Criminology epistemology deal with climate change as a criminological issue?
2017
Disputation: Anette Bringedahl Houge
Time and place: 5 December 2017 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in the Main Building
Thesis: “Thugs” on Trial. Narrating Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in and for International Criminal Justice
Before the disputation, Houge held a trial lecture entitled: Narrative expressivism - a theoretical and analytical approach to international criminal law.
Disputation: Siv Rebekka Runhovde
Time and place: 20 October 2017 11:15–15:00, Auditorium 4 in the Main Building
Thesis: Policing the Illegal Trade in Wildlife. A Study of Norway and Uganda
Before the disputation, Runhovde held a trial lecture entitled: Police discretion and illegal wildlife trade: dilemmas and potential solutions.
2016
Disputation: Monika Lindbekk
Time and place: 29 August 2016 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica
Thesis: Inscribing Islamic shari‘a in Egyptian marriage and divorce Law
Before the disputation, Lindbekk held a trial lecture entitled: What does the sociology and anthropology of law contribute to the study of legal pluralism in contemporary Muslim family Law?
2015
Disputation: Kjersti Lohne
Time and place: 9 October 2015 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in the Main Building
Thesis: Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs and the International Criminal Court
Before the disputation, Lohne held a trial lecture entitled: How can we pursue a global sociology of punishment methodologically and theoretically?
Disputation: Moses Deyegbe Kuvoame
Time and place: 15 September 2015 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in the Main Building
Thesis: In Search of Care: How marginalised street-involved Black and minority ethnic youths tackle the psychoaffective injuries of multiple and prolonged marginality in a White workfare state.
Before the disputation, Kuvoame held a trial lecture entitled: Why do feelings matter in criminology?
Disputation: Christin Thea Wathne
Time and place: 28 August 2015 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in the Main Building, Domus Academica
Thesis: Som å bli fremmed i eget hus – Politiets opplevelse av mening og motivasjon i lys av nye styringssystemer
Before the disputation, Wathne held a trial lecture entitled: New Public Management og endrede motivasjonsmønstre blant offentlig ansatte.
Disputation: Sverre Flaatten
Time and place: 24 March 2015 11:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in the Main Building, Domus Academica
Thesis: Høyesteretts lenker - Straffeutmåling i etterkrigstiden: en fortolkning med utgangspunkt i vinningslovbrudd
Before the disputation, Flaatten held a trial lecture entitled: Samfunnsvitenskapelig forskning på strafferetten - rettssosiologiens oppgave og forhold til andre fagfelt.
2014
Disputation: Vikram Kolmannskog
Time and place: 24 January 2014 12:15–15:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica
Thesis: We are in between - Securing effective rights for persons displaced in the context of climate change and natural hazard-related disasters
Before the disputation, Kolmannskog held a trial lecture entitled: How can sociology of law contribute to a better understanding of what rights need to be protected for people susceptible to displacement by climate change and environmental stress? How might such people be protected and who should afford such protection?
2013
Disputation: Ida Nafstad
Thesis: Et anstendig menneske: Møter mellom rusbrukere og det offentlige rom i Oslo
Before the disputation, Nafstad held a trial lecture entitled: Tilgangen til byens offentlige rom: et spørsmål om makt og motstand?
Time and place: 7 February 2013 10:30–16:00, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica
2012
Disputation: Yngvil Grøvdal
Time and place: 26 January 2012 12:15, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica
Thesis: En vellykket sak? Kvinner utsatt for mishandling møter strafferettsapparatet
Before the disputation, Grøvdal held a trial lecture entitled: Drøft fordeler og ulemper ved alternative konfliktløsninger i saker med vold i nære relasjoner.
2011
Disputation: Camilla Lied
Thesis: Irriterende til stede. Om gatejuristar i Oslo og København
Before the disputation, Lied held a trial lecture entitled: Gatejuristens utvikling og posisjonering sett i samfunnsmessig og rettssosiologisk perspektiv.
2010
Disputation: Thomas Ugelvik
Thesis: Å være eller ikke være fange – Frihet som praksis i et norsk mannsfengsel.
Before the disputation, Ugelvik held a trial lecture entitled: Hverdagsliv i totale institusjoner: Hvilke bidrag gir analyser med utgangspunkt i interpellasjon, performativitet og motmakt i forhold til den klassiske institusjonsforskningens fokus på struktur og kultur?
2009
Disputation: Geir Aas
Time and place: 8 December 2009 11:15, Old Ceremonial Hall in Domus Academica
Disputation: Jan Georg Christoffersen
Thesis: Sikkerhetsstyring i skipsfarten 1998 - 2008. Bakgrunnsfaktorer for reguleringsmessig etterlevelse og overtredelse av ISM-koden.
Before the disputation, Christoffersen held a trial lecture entitled: ISM reguleringen i et kriminologisk perspektiv.
Disputation: Asbjørn Rachlew
Thesis: Justisfeil ved politiets etterforskning - noen eksempler og forskningsbaserte mottiltak
Before the disputation, Rachlew held a trial lecture entitled: Å forske på sine egne - metodiske og etiske utfordringer knyttet til forskning på egen profesjon.
2008
Disputation: Niels Kr. Axelsen
Thesis: Mellommenn og Markedsmisbruk. Om den strafferettslige reguleringen av mellommenn i verdipapirhandel og de reelle handlingsmønstre - en analyse i skjæringspunktet mellom rettsdogmatikk og kriminologi
Before the disputation, Axelsen held a trial lecture entitled: Gir den nye verdipapirhandelloven svar på kritikken av reguleringen av mellommannsvirksomhet i verdipapirhandelen som avhandlingen reiser?
Before the disputation, Axelsen held a trial lecture entitled: Skyldkrav til ledelsen i foretak som vilkår for foretaksstraff.
Disputation: Jane Dullum
Thesis: Fra oppbevaring til risikohåndtering? Om nedbygging av de psykiatriske institusjonene
Before the disputation, Dullum held a trial lecture entitled: Drøft likheter og forskjeller mellom fengslenes og de psykiatriske institusjonenes utvikling og samfunnsmessige funksjon.
Before the disputation, Dullum held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Rettsliggjøring og rettssikkerhet i psykiatrien.
Disputation: Yngve Hammerlin
Thesis: Om fangebehandling, fange- og menneskesyn i norsk kriminalomsorg i anstalt fra 1970–2007
Before the disputation, Hammerlin held a trial lecture entitled: Kan en straffeinstitusjon ha et innhold som gjør at dens trekk som straffeinstitusjon tones sterkt ned og eventuelt forsvinner? Fins det eksempler på slike institusjoner, hva er eventuelt deres hovedtrekk? Er det i så fall rimelig å kalle dette fengsel?
Before the disputation, Hammerlin held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Problemet selvmord i norske fengsler.
Disputation: Nicolay B. Johansen
Thesis: Sosial kontroll i byer. To tradisjoner etter Durkheim og Tönnies
Before the disputation, Johansen held a trial lecture entitled: Forståelse av vold i storbyer: Hvilke muligheter gir Norbert Elias’ samfunnsteori og eventuelt andre og nyere sosiologiske perspektiver for å overskride motsetningen mellom et sanksjonsperspektiv og et perspektiv med vekt på kollektive representasjoner når utviklingen skal forklares?
2007
Disputation: Gudrun Brottveit
Thesis: Seksuelle overgrep mot barn - en fortolkende tilnærming til barnevernsarbeidernes forståelse
Before the disputation, Brottveit held a trial lecture entitled: Hva kan kriminologer lære av sosialarbeidere og hva kan sosialarbeidere lære av kriminologer?
Before the disputation, Brottveit held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Et kriminologisk blikk på barnevernets rolle i behandlingen av seksuelle overgrepssaker.
Disputation: Cecilie E. Basberg Neumann
Thesis: Det bekymrede blikket. en studie av helsesøstres handlingsbetingelser
Before the disputation, Neumann held a trial lecture entitled: Helsesøsterprofesjonens yrkesutøvelse i en flerkulturell sammenheng.
Before the disputation, Neumann held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Makt, kunnskap og omsorg.
2009
Disputation: Nina Jon
Thesis: En skikkelig gutt - arbeidet med å forme en passende maskulinitet. Foldin verneskole 1953–1970.
Before the disputation, Jon held a trial lecture entitled: Utkast til en sammenlignende analyse av de statlige verneskolene Bjerketun for jenter og Foldin for gutter på 1950- og 60-tallet.
Before the disputation, Jon held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Jenter, vold og cowboymaskulinitet.
Disputation: Helene O. Gundhus
Thesis: For sikkerhets skyld. IKT, yrkeskulturer og kunnskapsarbeid i politiet
Before the disputation, Gundhus held a trial lecture entitled: Drøft dine suksesskriterier for godt politiarbeid.
Before the disputation, Gundhus held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Risikodiskurser og risikovurderinger.
2005
Disputation: Heidi Mork Lomell
Thesis: Det selektive overblikk. En studie av videoovervåkningspraksis.
Before the disputation, Lomell held a trial lecture entitled: Det offentlige rommets betydning i kriminalpolitikken.
Before the disputation, Lomell held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Menneskerettigheter er vel og bra - men for hvem? Offeret eller gjerningsmannen?
2004
Disputation: Lill Scherdin
Thesis: Kontrollkulturer og etikk, satt på spissen.
Before the disputation, Scherdin held a trial lecture entitled: Betydningen av kulturelle og strukturelle forhold for forståelsen av "det frie, skapende mennesket."
Before the disputation, Scherdin held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Maktens ansikter.
2003
Disputation: Katja Franko Aas
Thesis: From Faust to Macintosh: Sentencing in the Age og Information
Before the disputation, Aas held a trial lecture entitled: Sentencing in the Age of Information: An Assessment of Sentencing Policy in Scandinavia Present and Future.
Before the disputation, Aas held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: The Body does not Lie.
Disputation: Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund
Thesis: Rammer, rom og mobilitet. Innvandrerkvinners arbeidsliv.
Before the disputation, Sollund held a trial lecture entitled: Det blir ofte påstått at innvandrerdominerte jobbkategorier sakker akterut mht. attraktivitet i forhold til andre yker. Drøft spørsmålet i lys av den internasjonale litteraturen og din egne observasjoner.
Before the disputation, Sollund held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Spesiesisme, rasisme og sexisme - beslektede fenomener?
2000
Disputation: Elisiv Bakketeig
Thesis: Rettsapparatet som sosialt system i saker om seksuelle overgrep mot barn.
Before the disputation, Bakketeig held a trial lecture entitled: Drøft mulige vekselvirkninger mellom holdninger i seksuelle overgrep mot barn og strafferettssystemets behandling av denne type saker.
Before the disputation, Bakketeig held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Hvorfor er feltet seksuelle overgrep mot barn preget av ensidige og stereotype oppfatninger?
Disputation: Hedda Giertsen
Thesis: K og måter å forstå drap på.
Before the disputation, Giertsen held a trial lecture entitled: Diskuter forholdet mellom kriminologi og kriminalpolitikk.
Before the disputation, Giertsen held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: "Pesten" av Albert Camus som utgangspunkt for noen kriminologiske diskusjoner.
1999
Disputation: Ragnhild Hennum
Thesis: Bevis i saker om seksuelle overgrep mot barn.
Before the disputation, Hennum held a trial lecture entitled: Det juridiske og det samfunnsvitenskapelige blikket på seksuallovbrudd - kollisjon eller komplementaritet?
Before the disputation, Hennum held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Finnes det alternativer til dagens rettslige behandling av saker om seksuelle overgrep mot barn?
1998
Disputation: Paul Larsson
Thesis: I lovens grenseland. Banksertifikatordningen 1985-95.
Before the disputation, Larsson held a trial lecture entitled: Drøft eksempler på klassiske og nyere teorier om ungdomskriminalitet, sett i forhold til begrepene «determinisme» og «rasjonalitet».
Before the disputation, Larsson held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Monster, visst fins de.
Disputation: Hildigunnur Ólafsdóttir
Thesis: Alcoholics Anonymous in Iceland. From Marginality to Mainstream Culture.
Before the disputation, Ólafsdóttir held a trial lecture entitled: Å ta risiko i livet og måter man kan styre dem på.
Before the disputation, Ólafsdóttir held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Den islandske alkoholpolitikkens nedtrapping mot århundrets slutt: Fra styring til behandling og forebyggelse.
1993
Disputation: Kristin Skjørten
Thesis: Voldsbilder i hverdagen. Om menns forståelser av kvinnemishandling.
Before the disputation, Skjørten held a trial lecture entitled: Fremvekst og begrensning av destruktivitet i sosiale systemer.
Before the disputation, Skjørten held a self-selected trial lecture entitled: Problemer ved bruk av legalstrategi mot vold og seksuelle overgrep i familien.