She is a member of the Management Group of Ocean Science and Technology, one of the strategic research areas at NTNU. She is the ethics representative of the regional committee for medical research ethics, REK Midt-Norge. She is also part of the working committee for the Norwegian Network of Professional Ethics and of EBEN [European Business Ethics Network] Scandinavia, and the external member of the ethics board of IFE Institute for energy technology. Central research areas are corporate social responsibility and business ethics, as well as professional ethics and research ethics. She has written several introductory books on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and on ethics.