About
I am an Associate Professor in Music and Creative Methods/Activity Subjects at the Department of Social Work at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University. I was educated at the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo, with an academic focus on music pedagogy, the understanding of music cultures, and music therapy. My master’s thesis was a qualitative, music-centered study using musical theory and practice in collaboration with people living with HIV/AIDS.
I hold postgraduate training in the receptive music therapy method Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) and have practiced as a GIM therapist since 2006. Since 2024, I am also an Accredited Trainer in The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM).
My academic interests center on the significance of music and other creative methods in human encounters, and on how various activities can function as the common third in relational settings within the field of child welfare practice. I am responsible for teaching practical skills training focused on working with one’s own attitudes and self-reflection through the use of creative methods and activities/activity subjects, as well as project work in preventive and health-promoting practice. In addition, I am engaged in professional development work, particularly related to teaching designs and practice-based experiences developed in collaboration with the field of practice.
I am also a singer and performer, and have developed several musical narratives for both adults and children. These are also professional development projects that form the basis for my own arts-based research, using an a/r/tographic approach in which I, as researcher, integrate the roles of artist (Artist), researcher (Researcher), and educator/therapist (Teacher/Therapist).
In 2018, I received the Work Environment Award from OsloMet central administration, in recognition of my work with cultural outreach at OsloMet.
In 2011, I received an honorary award from the Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation (now FRI – the Association for Gender and Sexual Diversity) for my engagement in HIV-related issues in general, and in particular for my work with the Garden Concert at Aksept – a centre for all those affected by HIV, Church City Mission.
Field of study
Project themes Innovations in education HIV Homosexuality Music Church and Society Culture understanding HIV/AIDS Queertheory Music Therapy Artbased research methods Creative learning strategies Health Promotion Guided Imagery and Music Education close to praxis Social activities Practise based research Humanities and the Arts practical-aesthetic subjects Preventive measures Creative methods Queer history Music and imagery Receptive Musictherapy A/r/tography
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Fuglestad, Svein
(2025).
Å våge seg fram i tillit. Om den røde løpers pedagogikk i lys av hovmodets ulike avskygninger.
Haugen, Torgeir; Gilje, Nils (Ed.).
Barn og dei sju dødssyndene: Refleksjonar over dygder og laster. p. 469-516.
Vidarforlaget AS.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5333211
Fuglestad, Svein
(2024).
«Jeg følte at jeg faktisk ‘var’ der» Resonans og berørthet mellom utøver og publikum i 'Enkemesse i en allehelgensnatt'.
Nordic Journal of Art & Research (A & R).
Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.7577/ar.5461
Fuglestad, Svein
(2020).
"I am not the same as when we met": Creating an identity beyond the victim of childhood trauma through Guided Imagery and Music.
Music therapy today. A quarterly journal of studies in music and music therapy.
Vol. 16.
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/9963
Fuglestad, Svein
; Grønning, Elisabeth;
Storø, Jan
(2019).
Aktivitetsfaget i barnevernspedagogutdanningen – i et nytteperspektiv.
Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern.
https://doi.org/10.18261/ISSN.1891-1838-2019-01-02
Fuglestad, Svein
(2019).
The Development of Music Programs in Europe and Beyond.
Grocke, Denise E. (Ed.).
Guided Imagery and Music: The Bonny Method and Beyond, 2nd ed.. p. 413-444.
Barcelona Publishers.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4663215
Fuglestad, Svein
(2017).
'New Blood': A contemporary GIM programme.
Approaches: Ena diepistīmoniko periodiko mousikotherapeias.
Vol. 9.
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/5903
Fuglestad, Svein
(2016).
Kreativ musikkverkstad - ein arena for profesjonell utvikling i barnevernspedagogutdanninga?.
Stensæth, Karette; Krüger, Viggo; Fuglestad, Svein (Ed.).
I transitt - mellom til og fra. Om musikk og deltagelse i barnevern. p. 81-105.
Norges musikkhøgskole.
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/4201
Stensæth, Karette; Krüger, Viggo;
Fuglestad, Svein
(2016).
I transitt – mellom til og fra, tekster om musikk og deltakelse i barnevern.
ISBN: 9788278532171.
254 p.
Norges musikkhøgskole.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4947376
Stensæth, Karette; Krüger, Viggo;
Fuglestad, Svein
(2016).
I transitt - mellom til og fra. Om musikk og deltagelse i barnevern.
ISBN: 9788278532171.
254 p.
Norges musikkhøgskole.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2445443
Storø, Jan
;
Fuglestad, Svein
; Grønning, Elisabeth
(2015).
Aktivitetsfaget i barnevernspedagogutdanningen.
Bjørknes, Linda Elisabeth; Kruse, Erik Lindbæk; Hagstrøm, Elisabeth; Karseth, Inger (Ed.).
Sommerfugl, fly! En artikkelsamling av barnevernspedagoger. p. 32-52.
Fellesorganisasjonen.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4956335
