Educational background:
2014: PhD, University of Oslo
2005: Master Degree in Educational Leadership, University of Oslo
1984: Bachelor of Education
1980: Degree from Teacher Education College
Research interests:
- Educational leadership
- The education of school leaders
- School leadership development
- The education of school leaders
- School improvement
- Workplace learning
- Reform work
- Innovative work
- Pedagogy
- Tool mediation
- Boundary crossing
- Social Cultural Theories
- Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)
- Interaction analysis
- Multilevel analyses
- Intervention designs
- Multiple-time design
- Comparative designs
Current position:
Associate Professor at Department of Teacher Education and School Research
Previous positions:
- Postdoc, Department of Teacher Education and School Research (ILS), University of Oslo, 2015-2016
- Senior lecturer, Department of Teacher Education and School Research (ILS), University of Oslo, 2008-2015
- University Lecturer at Telemark University College, Spring 2014
- Research fellow, Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo, 2009-2014
- University lecturer, Department of Teacher Education and School Research, contracts, 2006-2009
- Supervisor, Educational Centre, Nesodden Municipality, 2005-2006
- Manager, Educational Centre, Nesodden Municipality, 1999-2005
- Teacher, Nesodden Municipality, 1985-1999
In the international board of:
International Successful School Principal Project (ISSPP)
https://www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/research/projects/isspp/
Visiting Scholar
Claremont Graduate University, LA, US, January-August 2011, January- March 2013
University of California, Berkeley, six weeks, 2014-2017
Supervision:
Main supervisor for PhS student from August 2021
Main supervisor for PhD student from August 2019
Co-supervisor for PhD student from August 2017-August 2021
Main supervisor for many students in the master programme in Educational Leadership
Current teaching:
Issues: perspectives on learning and leadership, organizational learning, learning across boundaries, qualitative methodologies.
UTLED4111: Styring og ledelse av utdanning
UTLED4220: Profesjonalitet, organisasjonsutvikling og demokrati
UTLED4221: Profesjonalitet og ledelse
UTLED4222 Kvalitet og organisasjonsutvikling
UTLED4223 Globalisering og medborgerskap
UTLED4301: Utdanningsvitenskapelige forskningsmetoder
UV9918V3 - Reviewing the Literature: Situating your Study in the Field