NATED profiles

Leila Ferguson’s PhD project focuses on students’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing in relation to multiple documents literacy and cognition. She is part of track 1 and is PhD representative in the NATED board.

Professor Jorunn Møller is leading track 3 in collaboration with Professor Berit Karseth (UiO) and Associate Professor Gunn Søreide (UiB). Her research interests are within educational leadership and workplace learning, reform policy, governance and accountability.

Cecilie Dallands PhD project draws its data from the PISA+ video study, and is based on student interviews and classroom observations. The overall research question is: What strategies do students use when they work with individualised tasks in lower secondary classrooms?

Track 3 candidate Tine S. Prøitz studies what are learning outcomes and where do they come from.

Professor Ivar Bråten is one of the Track 1 co-leaders. - Our ambition with track 1 is to foster a research environment and a course program that give doctoral students access to top-level expertise in the fields of language, reading, and literacy, says Bråten.

PhD student Anne Berit Emstad in track 3 investigates post-evaluation processes in schools, and the role of leadership involvement.

Institutionalized learning practice in jazz is in the core of Steinar Sætre’s PhD-project, which goes in to NATEDs Track 4 Higher Education and Professional Learning.

PhD student Ragnhild Sandvoll is interested in learning in higher education and participates in NATEDs Track 4 Higher Education and Professional Learning.

Kari-Anne Bottegaard Næss is the first PhD student to receive a NATED research visit grant. For her overseas research she will be based at the University of York. In her PhD project she examines language development among children with Down’s Syndrom.

Sten Ludvigsen is the scientific leader of NATED. He thinks NATED will give an unique opportunity to improve educational research in Norway through extensive collaboration between the NATED partners.

Professor Roger Säljö is a leading international researcher of learning and communication in science and the use of ICT. He is connected to NATED through several networks, and will take part in NATED courses and seminars.