Halvor Spetalen

Halvor Spetalen holds a cand.polit. degree from the University of Oslo and is Professor at the Department of Vocational Teacher Education at OsloMet. He is a member of the research group School–Work–University Collaboration, coordinator of the Centre for Knowledge on Vocational Education and Training (SKY), Professor II at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and subject editor for restaurant and food processing in the Store norske leksikon (SNL).

Spetalen has taught and conducted research in vocational teacher education at OsloMet since 2001. His research interests centre on how vocational education and training can promote inclusion and prepare future practitioners for skilled employment. Much of his work focuses on restaurant and food processing and includes analyses of occupational practice and competence needs, recruitment, sustainability, vocational language, digital approaches to teaching practical skills, and the development of the skilled workforce of the future.

His teaching has focused particularly on entrepreneurship, vocational didactics, curriculum development, and research and development methodology, with an emphasis on developing professionally relevant competence among vocational teachers.