1. University of Oslo
Department of Sociology and Human Geography
Postal address: Postboks 1096 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
E-mail: ekspedisjonen@sosgeo.uio.no
www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/
To whom it may concern
Date: 29 January 2014
Letter of Reference
Ms Elise Luhr Dietrichson successfully completed the Bachelor Degree Program in
Development Studies at the University of Oslo in June 2013. I have known Ms Dietrichson
since January 2013, as a student at the Final Course in Development Studies (UTV3091
Avslutningsemne i utviklingsstudier). The last semester of our study program includes
lectures and seminars on thematic and methodological issues, and the writing of a
bachelor thesis. Our students have the option to carry out fieldwork in a country of the
South, and to write their theses based on fieldwork research. Students choose the country
and topic on their own, and develop a proposal to be reviewed and approved by the
Program. Upon their return, they have to deliver a fieldwork report.
Ms Dietrichson wrote her bachelor thesis on the role of NGOs in processes of participation
and exclusion of the poor in India. She addressed this issue from the perspective of
deepening democracy, focusing on practices within specific citizenship and urban
governance programs. Her thesis is based on fieldwork carried out in March-April last year
in Bangalore, where she collected primary and secondary data. She conducted in-depth
interviews with representatives, employees and field workers of major NGOs actively
involved in the programs.
Ms Dietrichson has successfully demonstrated the ability to pursue her own initiatives, and
to apply her academic knowledge to the design and development of a specific research
project. Fieldwork is demanding both at the academic and personal level, and Ms
Dietrichson has demonstrated the capacity to reflect on the thematic and methodological
issues involved. She has demonstrated as well to have the interpersonal skills and cultural
sensitivity necessary to carry out fieldwork in a country much different from her own.
Ms Dietrichson has been a committed student, both inside and outside the classroom. She
is a highly motivated and self-driven student with much to contribute both in group work
and class discussions. She takes her academic work seriously, and has the capacity to
critically reflect on various aspects of the issue at hand. She works systematically and has
the perseverance and skills to get the job done, with excellent results.
Outside the classroom, Ms Dietrichson has been much appreciated by her peers as an
active member of the Student Council (Programutvalget) at our Program, both for her
good organizing and communication skills as well as for her openness and generosity.
4. University of Oslo
Department of Sociology and Human Geography
Postal address: Postboks 1096 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
E-mail: ekspedisjonen@sosgeo.uio.no
www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/
To whom it may concern
Date: 29 January 2014
Letter of Reference
Ms Elise Luhr Dietrichson successfully completed the Bachelor Degree Program in
Development Studies at the University of Oslo in June 2013. I have known Ms Dietrichson
since January 2013, as a student at the Final Course in Development Studies (UTV3091
Avslutningsemne i utviklingsstudier). The last semester of our study program includes
lectures and seminars on thematic and methodological issues, and the writing of a
bachelor thesis. Our students have the option to carry out fieldwork in a country of the
South, and to write their theses based on fieldwork research. Students choose the country
and topic on their own, and develop a proposal to be reviewed and approved by the
Program. Upon their return, they have to deliver a fieldwork report.
Ms Dietrichson wrote her bachelor thesis on the role of NGOs in processes of participation
and exclusion of the poor in India. She addressed this issue from the perspective of
deepening democracy, focusing on practices within specific citizenship and urban
governance programs. Her thesis is based on fieldwork carried out in March-April last year
in Bangalore, where she collected primary and secondary data. She conducted in-depth
interviews with representatives, employees and field workers of major NGOs actively
involved in the programs.
Ms Dietrichson has successfully demonstrated the ability to pursue her own initiatives, and
to apply her academic knowledge to the design and development of a specific research
project. Fieldwork is demanding both at the academic and personal level, and Ms
Dietrichson has demonstrated the capacity to reflect on the thematic and methodological
issues involved. She has demonstrated as well to have the interpersonal skills and cultural
sensitivity necessary to carry out fieldwork in a country much different from her own.
Ms Dietrichson has been a committed student, both inside and outside the classroom. She
is a highly motivated and self-driven student with much to contribute both in group work
and class discussions. She takes her academic work seriously, and has the capacity to
critically reflect on various aspects of the issue at hand. She works systematically and has
the perseverance and skills to get the job done, with excellent results.
Outside the classroom, Ms Dietrichson has been much appreciated by her peers as an
active member of the Student Council (Programutvalget) at our Program, both for her
good organizing and communication skills as well as for her openness and generosity.
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Last but not least, she is an outspoken student who is also receptive to the ideas of others.
For all these reasons, I endorse Ms Dietrichson’s academic and professional prospects
without hesitation.
Sincerely,
Jemima García-Godos
Associate Professor
Director, BA Program in Development Studies
Tel. (direct line): +47 22855293
E-mail: jemima.garcia-godos@sosgeo.uio.no
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10. NEINORDIC CENTRE IN INDIA
COURSE COMPLETION CERTIFICATE
This is to cerrift that Ms. Elise Luhr Dietdchson has obtained ECTS gtade A in the course
,Demography, Gender and Reproductive Health: An Inttoduction to Population Studies in India' (10
ECTS) which has been organized by the Nordic Centte in India Q{CD - coopetation with the International
Institute fot Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, ftom 8th July to 4'h August,2012.
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the study of demogtaphy in the Indian context by
hghlight-g contemporary trends in population growth and distribution, fertility, mortality, ubanization and
-tg.å"". Within tle theme of gender and reptoductive health, the coutse addtesses topics such as the
coicept of gender in the Indian miJieu, gender inequality, rlr.atritage and dowry, domestic violence,
r.proå.r.tir.. health status in India, familyplanning and abortion, gender concerns in health c re,a gendered
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HIV/AIDS, prostitution and health, and ethical issues involved in public policy in these
aforementioned ateas. The course requires that the student actively participates in lectutes, discussions,
assignments and field visits.
The required assignments are as follows:
(1) Term Paper and Presentation: Students ate required to submit a written paper of 3000 to 4000words on a
r.i.r'u.t topic based on themes such as the basics of Indian demography, reproductive morbidity and health,
gender inequality in India. The paper has to be submitted and presented in the fourth week.
(Z; fi.ta visit Report I: Students are required to submit a group repott of 1500 to 2000 words and make a
presentation based on a field visit assigned to them.
i:; nl.ta visit repott II: Students are required to submit and present field reports of 2000-2500 words each
based on their practical expetiences in the visits to the various rural health intewention sites they witnessed at
Institute of Health Management (IHMP), Pachod, Aurangabad district, Maharashtra.
Field visits were arranged to Centre for the Study of Social Change (CSSC) that under the Project WIN
(Women India Netwot$ Mumbai implement interventions in a modular fotmat for integrated human
å..,.Iop-..t of Bandra's slum dwellers using Health as an entry point; to Family Planning Association of
fndia (FPAI) that is recognized as India's leading and largest reproductive and sexual health otgznizaion; to
Institute of Health Managem"nt (IHMP), Pachod, Aurangabad district, Maharashtra that works with health
and education interventions in the rural area; and to the slums in Dhatavi and Mankhurd in Mumbai.
Sightseeing included places of interest in Mumbai and Aurangabad.
The course is designed with the Nordic university curriculum in mind and it is open for graduate students
ftom the Nordic Centre in India member universities.
The coutse contains 109 contact houts and 140 hours of independent work.
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