Education
Levin studied mechanical engineering and graduated with a master"s degree in Operations Research and Economics in 1971. In 1981, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy (magart) in sociology.
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Morten Levin
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He has formerly been a Research Director at The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research and has worked for the Royal Norwegian Defense Research Establishment and universities throughout Scandinavia and at Cornell University. His research focuses on change in organizations, especially with a view to the importance of the interaction between technology and organization. He has contributed to the epistemological and methodological basis of action research, and has published books and articles on organization and management, organizational development and action research.
He joined the then-University of Trondheim as an assistant professor in 1976, was promoted to associate professor in 1982 and full professor in 1992.
Morten Levin, who is Jewish, is also a critic of Israel, and was one of the initiators of a petition that Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet boycott Israel for the reason that "since 1948 the state of Israel has occupied Palestinian land and denied the Palestinians basic human rights". Together with Ann Rudinow Sætnan (an American-born Jewish Professor of Sociology at Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet) and Rune Skarstein, he organized a conference on the Middle East conflict in 2009, attracting scholars such as Ilan Pappe, Stephen Walt and Moshe Zuckermann.
Israel"s embassy in Norway protested against the conference. Alan M. Dershowitz used the conference as an example of Norwegian academia being "one-sided" and "anti-semitic" in a 2011 op-educated
In a 2009 op-ed in Adresseavisen, Levin criticized the labelling of critics of Israel as "Anti-semites", describing it as the "daily dose of propaganda from pro-Israeli organizations and media".
Membership
He was a member of an international committee evaluating the entire Danish Doctor of Philosophy education in 2006. He is a member of the editorial boards of Systemic Practice and Action Research, Action Research, Action Research International, Handbook of Qualitative Inquiry and Handbook of Action Research.
