She has also worked as a consultant, a civil servant, served as an expert to the European Commission and been president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.

[16][17] From 1993 she was affiliated with the Project for an Alternative Future (Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo), where she researched ethical financial institutions, money, and monetary systems.

In 2015 she became a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS), also at the University of Oslo.

[3][4][18] She has served as an independent expert on gender equality to the European Commission, and has been a visiting scholar at Martha Albertson Fineman’s Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory Law,[19] the GEXcel Center of Gender Excellence and the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds.

[21] She is a global affiliate of Fineman's research group, the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative at Emory Law, and of the WiSE Centre for Economic Justice at the Glasgow School for Business and Society.

The focus of her research has changed over time from financial institutions, management, and working life, to gender equality, migration, and violence.

[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] She has also researched the cultural adaptations and transnational practices of Polish migrants to Norway, and has been involved in several projects in Central and Eastern Europe.