Professor Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen
Professor in Childhood Studies, Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, NTNU, Norway
Email: ingvild.sorenssen@ntnu.no
Profile
As a childhood studies, media studies and education scholar, my research interests revolve around children's age identity, socialization and meaning-making in the interplay of popular culture, friendships, and family life. Theoretically, my focus is on the relationality of human and non-human actors in different sociomaterial assemblages.
Research
Publications
Sørenssen, I. K. (2025). “I feel a little bit of both”: Exploring the relational experiences of Norwegian tween girls through age as enactment and age-shifting. Childhood, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682251334341
Sørenssen, I. K., Ask, K., & Moltubakk, S. T. (2024). The involved and responsible outsiders: Norwegian gamer-parents expanding and reinforcing contemporary norms of parenthood. Journal of Children and Media, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2024.2418930
Sørenssen, I. K. (2022). Exploring enactments of the big screen and the small screen in a Norwegian early childhood education and care setting. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood.
Sørenssen, I.K. & Franck, K. (2021). Material as actor in the enactment of social norms: Engaging with a sociomaterial perspective in childhood studies to avoid the ‘traps of closure’ in Children and Society