Center for Research Excellence CREATE--Center for Research on Equality in Education. Leader of the center for the second 5-year term (2028-2033)
Department of Special Needs Education
Academic interests
Substantive
- Early Childhood Education and Care
- Social inequality in early education
- Consequences of childhood poverty
Methodological
- Causal modeling in observational data
- Measurement of change
- Measurement models in early childhood
Teaching
I do not teach any courses in the spring of 2024
Past teaching:
MAE4054: Study Designs for Causal Inference
SPED1200: Research methods and research based practice in special needs education
SPED2100: Theories of child development and social development
SPED4010: Quantitative methods
UV9255 Causal modelling in non-experimental data
see http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/uv/uv/UV9255/index-eng.html
With Ronny Scherer: Learn to write empirical research paper
Background
- Psychologist, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- PhD, Department of Psychology at UiO in 2009
- PhD fellow and later Post Doc fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
- Senior Researcher, The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development (www.nubu.no)
- Professor II, Center for Educational Measurement at the University of Oslo
- Deputy department head and head of research ISP 2021-2023
- Member of the government appointed expert group on children in poor families (2022-2023)