Sidsel Vive Jensen has a PhD in sociology of religion from 2013 (Aarhus University). She did her PhD within the field of governance of religious diversity in Europe and her dissertation included an empirical study (survey and interviews) of the governance of minority religious practices in Danish public schools.
After her PhD, Sidsel’s research interests shifted from religious to ethnic minorities and especially their conditions and experiences in schools. For example, Sidsel has investigated the social experiences of children affected by the Aarhus policy of (ethnic) school desegregation and the consequences of different models of school reception of newly arrived migrant and refugee children on processes of inclusion and exclusion.
Sidsel has a general research interest in children’s and young people’s relations, interactions and social networks. She has investigated how perceptions of sameness/difference constructed in particular school settings influence children’s relations of closeness and distance and how children’s classroom networks relate to different aspects of their wellbeing.
Sidsel’s work include different theoretical and methodological approaches, but she specializes in close observations of interaction and analyses of these in a sociological framework. Sidsel has been a research fellow at TrygFondens Børneforskningscenter since 2014. Her work has been published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Childhood and Symbolic Interaction
