Professional interests
Music, music and media, streaming services, platformization, music and society, cultural policy, the music industry, the music business, reception studies, audiences, social media, methodological development, research policy, research dissemination, interdisciplinarity.
Bio:
Anja Nylund Hagen (PhD) is Head of Department at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. She holds a degree in music and media studies from the University of Oslo and has previously worked as a doctoral fellow, postdoctoral fellow and researcher in projects at the Department of Media and Communication and the Department of Musicology.
In addition to her academic career, she has extensive work experience from NRK, the Norwegian Association of Researchers, Arts and Culture Norway, and the Ministry of Culture and Equality. She has broad experience with research dissemination aimed at the music industry and the media, and is happy to give guest lectures upon request.
She participates in the research project DigiLYD (Kristiania University College and UiO) and in the Nordic research network Equality in Nordic Music (ENMU).
Background
2025–present: Head of Department, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo
2023–2025: Head of Secretariat for the Committee on Music, Ministry of Culture and Equality. NOU 2025:7 Musikklandet. Polyphonic Music Policy for the Future
2020–2023: Senior Advisor, Arts and Culture Norway, Department of Cultural Analysis
2018–2020: Postdoctoral Fellow in the project MUSEC (UiO): Economy and Copyright in a Digitalised Music Sector
2017: Advisor, Norwegian Association of Researchers, Labour Relations Department
2015–2016: Completion Grant Fellow, Department of Musicology / Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo
2011–2015: Doctoral Research Fellow in the project Sky&Scene (Department of Musicology / Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo) with the thesis *Using Music Streaming Services. Practices, Experiences and the Lifeworld of Musicking* (2015)
2007–2011: Press Officer and Event Producer, NRK