Thilde Vegenfeldt

She employs qualitative ethnographic methods, including interviews and (participant) observation, and works multimodally with visual and sensory approaches.

Previously, she has investigated the role of care work in a rehabilitation ward during both the COVID‑19 pandemic and the national nurses’ strike.

During her studies, she worked extensively with social change processes, motherhood, and feminism. This included research on a women’s movement in Lod, Palestine, and a project on a universal basic income initiative in Scotland examining how social and development initiatives targets youn, vulnerable mothers in efforts to generate social transformation.

Thilde has also conducted research with people experiencing homelessness in Aarhus. She worked as a research assistant on a project exploring how urban planning shapes senses of belonging, and she followed a street nurse and sexologist in a study of the effects of caring touch and massage in a drop‑in centre.

She holds an MSc in Visual Anthropology from Aarhus University (2022). Before joining VIVE, she worked for three years as a cultural facilitator in Tårnby Municipality Libraries, where she led a major initiative on reading engagement and trained as a reading guide. She also has experience in public communication through Politiken’s Critics’ School and as an educator and speaker in the organization Salaam Film & Dialog.