Academic interests
Development of teaching and learning Resources, teacher training programs in science education and education for sustainable Development.
Research interest within Teacher Professionel Development, Education for Sustainable Development and inquiry based science teaching.
Work Areas
Project Leader for Uterommet – the local environment as a learning arena
Project Leader for Realfagsløyper - Didactic competence development in the sciences
Resource development and academic dissemination on platforms including:
naturfag.no/uterommet
naturfag.no
viten.no
realfagsloyper.no
Background
Education
2013: PhD in Science Education. Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo, Norway. Thesis: “Globalizing the science classroom": Exploring the development of students’ conceptual understanding of climate change from international peer collaboration.
2006: Master of Science Education. Halmstad University, Sweden. Thesis: The Assessment System and the Role of the Teacher. A study of students' perceptions of whether and how the assessment system influences the role of the teacher in Danish and Swedish upper secondary schools.
2004: Cand. Scient. in biology, behavioral ecology. University of Oslo, Norway. Thesis: Feeding strategies in great tit (Parus major): Do parents adjust prey size to nestlings’ size?
Positions
2025 - Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Science Education, University of Oslo, Norway.
2013 – 2025 Associate Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Science Education, University of Oslo, Norway.
2014 – 2015 Associate Professor II, The University College of Southeast Norway (USN).
2013: Senior Lecturer, Teacher Education in Biology at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway (now OsloMet).
2008 – 2012 PhD Candidate in Science Education, Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo, Norway.
2006 – 2008 Science and Biology Teacher in secondary and upper secondary school, Sweden.