Research interests:

Ellefsens research interests include addiction treatment, policing and the prevention of radicalization. He is currently doing qualitative work on heroin-assisted treatment, discrimination and hate crime.

Projects:

Heroin-assisted treatment

HateCycle The life cycle of hate crimes: Patterns, responses and consequences (HATECYCLE) - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism (uio.no)

Heroinassistert behandling - Oslo universitetssykehus (oslo-universitetssykehus.no)

Relevant links:

Orcid Rune Ellefsen (0000-0002-2420-9365) (orcid.org)

UIO https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/personer/vit/runeell/index.html

Researchgate Rune ELLEFSEN |Research profile (researchgate.net)

Latest publications:

Ellefsen, Rune; De Pirro, Silvana; Haukland, Vegard; Wüsthoff, Linda Elise Couëssurel & Arnevik, Espen Kristian Ajo (2024). “It’s a delicate balance”: Clinicians’ experiences of providing heroin-assisted treatment. Harm Reduction Journal. 

Myklebust, Lars Henrik Ryther; Eide, Desiree; Arnevik, Espen Ajo; Dadras, Omid; De Pirro, Silvana & Ellefsen, Rune et.al. (2024). Evaluation of heroin-assisted treatment in Norway: protocol for a mixed methods study. BMC Health Services Research.            

Kyrkjebø-Urheim, Tiril; Dahl Andersen, Christina & Ellefsen, Rune (2024). Pasienters opplevelse av livskvalitet i heroinassistert behandling. Sykepleien Forskning.   

 Ellefsen, Rune; Os, Kristina & Hovland Jakobsen, Mona (2024). Reporting anti-LGBTQI hate crime to the police: First-hand experiences and reasons for not reporting. Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing. 

Banafsheh, Azin; Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Rasisme og motstand: Minoritetsungdom slår tilbake. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.

Ellefsen, Rune; Wüsthoff, Linda Elise & Arnevik, Espen Kristian Ajo (2023). Patients’ satisfaction with heroin-assisted treatment: a qualitative study. Harm Reduction Journal.

Ellefsen, Rune (2023). Narkotikapolitikk i endring: Heroinklinikkenes oppkomst i Norge. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Ellefsen, Rune; Jan, Jämte & Sjøen, Martin Meggele (2023). Key dilemmas in the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism. Journal for Deradicalization.

Ellefsen, Rune and Sveinung Sandberg (2022). Resisting racism in everyday life: From ignoring to confrontation and protest. Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Ellefsen, Rune and Sveinung Sandberg (2022). Everyday prevention of radicalization: The impacts of family, peer, and police intervention. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.

Ellefsen, Rune and Sveinung Sandberg (2022). Black Lives Matter: The role of emotions in political engagement. Sociology.

Ellefsen, Rune and Jan Jämte (2022). The causes, contents and consequences of repression: A framework for analyzing protest control in the counter-extremism era. Social Movement Studies. 

Ellefsen, Rune and Martin M. Sjøen (2022). "Resisting violent extremism through pro-social resilience: The case of Norway." Routledge Handbook on Violent Extremism and Resilience, edited by Richard McNeil-Willson and Anna Triandafyllidou. Routledge.

Ellefsen, Rune (2021). Why not talk about repression? Radical activism and its responses to repression. Partecipazione e Conflitto [Participation and Conflict].

Ellefsen, Rune and Sveinung Sandberg (2021). A repertoire of everyday resistance: Young Muslims’ responses to anti-Muslim hostility. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Ellefsen, Rune (2021). Prevention of radicalization as an emergent field of plural policing in Norway: The accelerating role of militant Islamists. Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing.

Banafsheh, Azin, Rune Ellefsen og Sveinung Sandberg (2021). "Jævla terrorist!" Muslimhets og hverdagsmotstand. I Ungdommen, redigert av Guro Ødegård og Willy Pedersen. Oslo: Cappelen Damm.

Ellefsen, Rune (2021). The Unintended Consequences of Escalated Repression. Mobilization: An International Quarterly.

Jämte, Jan and Rune Ellefsen (2020). Countering extremism(s): Differences in local prevention of right-wing, left-wing and Islamist extremism. Journal for Deradicalization.

Jämte, Jan and Rune Ellefsen (2020). The consequences of soft repression. Mobilization: An International Quarterly.

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