Teaching and Academic interests
Bachelor Program in Child Welfare
I have had and/or currently hold responsibility for the following subjects:
- BVP10125 Child Welfare Educator – Subject and Profession
- BVP10425 Children's Growth and Development – Psychosocial Perspectives and Practice
- HOVBVP10220 Child Welfare Educator in the Welfare Society
- HOVBVP10320 Children's Everyday Lives – Development, Socialization, and Social Pedagogy
- HOVBVP10420 Activity Subject and Practice 1: Mentorship in a Multicultural Context
- HOVBVP20120 Therapeutic Environment Work with Children and Youth
- BOOBVO22-1 Children in Public Care – Child Welfare Follow-up Work
I teach "Introduction to Child Welfare and How to Report Concerns," "Conversations with Children," and "Children as Relatives" for other study programs, both at the bachelor's and master's levels.
I develop simulation teaching and am part of the university's interdisciplinary simulation group. I am a facilitator in simulation and one of the instructors at the annual facilitator course "SimPed." I have also participated in creating this film: Introduction to Simulation.
I am one of the university's representatives in the Learning Network for Child Welfare Services in the "Smart Municipalities." Additionally, I am the responsible instructor for the course "Stable Start - Newly Employed in Child Welfare Services."
I teach the topic "Professionalism in Child Welfare Work. Practitioner and Fellow Human in Encounter with People in Difficult Situations" based on my own chapter in the textbook for the Master's program in Child Welfare Work (Brottveit & Juul, ed.), which is set to be published in 2026.
Background
I am a child welfare educator and kindergarten teacher with a master's degree in Social Work with Children and Youth. I have various education in management and supervision, including workplace environment and psychology, operational personnel management, change management, and child welfare guidance.
I have broad experience in child welfare work in case management, therapeutic environments, and counseling. I have worked in management in various organizations within child welfare and have experience in advising both foster homes and emergency homes, as well as employees in various workplaces in the child welfare field.
Alongside my job as a university lecturer, I provide external guidance for child welfare organizations and institutions through my company, Omsorgskompasset.
Examiner
I can examine most subjects at the bachelor's level in child welfare and have experience as an external examiner for both oral and written exams at other educational institutions.