I am an Associate Professor in Educational Sciences. I am trained as a teacher with degrees in English Didactics and Multicultural Education (OsloMet), and I worked in primary and lower secondary schools for several years. I hold a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Professions (OsloMet), where I investigated knowledge development among teachers in different collaborative settings in schools.
My current research interests focus on teachers' professional knowledge and teacher education. I am a work package leader in the NFR-funded project KITES (2026–2030), which develops digital simulations for teacher education. I also co-lead two smaller collaborative projects related to teacher education: one examining summative assessment (2025–), and another exploring the use of theory in master's theses in pedagogy (2026–).
I teach courses in pedagogy and educational sciences, with a particular focus on topics such as educational policy and developmental psychology. I am also involved in a project on classroom management with schools and school owners through the national Decentralised Competence Development Scheme.
I co-lead the research group Profession, Qualification and Society (PKS) at LUSP/HVO at Østfold University of Applied Science (OUAS).
Academic interests
- Teachers’ professional knowledge
- Teacher education
- Teacher profession
- Assessment in teacher education
- Simulation in teacher education
Courses taught
I teach courses in pedagogy and educational sciences in the Teacher Education programme at Østfold University of Applied Science (OUAS)
Dissemination
I have presented research at a range of national and international conferences and research seminars, including CIES (2015), ECER (2015, 2016, 2017, 2020), AERA (2016), ISA Sociology of Professional Groups (2016), NAFOL (2016), NERA (2016, 2017, 2018, 2023, 2025), ProPELL (2017), NORPRO (2017), and the Åsgårdstrand Seminar (2019, 2023, 2024).
Background
- PhD in the Study of Professions (2022)
- Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Education (2017-2018)
- Visiting Researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium (2018)
- MA Multicultural and International Education
- Teacher Education (English didactics)