Ragnhild Sollund

Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund is a Norwegian criminologist and professor at the University of Oslo, known for her research in green criminology, wildlife crime and animal rights within criminological frameworks. Born in Baerum, she earned her Cand.polit. degree in criminology from the University of Oslo in 1994 and her doctorate in 2003, joining the university's Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law and being appointed professor in 2010. Her early research addressed gender, immigration and ethnic minorities' relations with the police, before her work turned increasingly toward species justice, wildlife trade enforcement and ecological harm, helping build the field of ecological and critical criminology.