Nicoline Toresen Lokdam
Nicoline Lokdam is a researcher at the PriSUD project and head of the research on solitary confinement. She works with data from Norwegian registers, including on solitary confinement. In her PhD, she wrote about substance use disorders among people in prison, using data from the NorMA cohort. Read more about her Phd work, here, or listen to her explain it in the video below!
Are prisons good enough at helping people with addictions?
Email:
n.t.lokdam@medisin.uio.no
Inequalities in health, health among socially marginalized groups and human rights issues are core themes of interest in Nicoline's work.
Nicoline has a bachelor's and master's degree in public health science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her degree is a combination of various health subjects, both quantitative and qualitative. Her master's thesis from 2017 was about health in prisons, with a particular focus on isolation in Danish prisons. She has previously worked with health in prisons at Dignity (Danish Institute Against Torture).