SPS offers several qualification and education programmes for OsloMet employees.
Centre for the Study of Professions (SPS)
Exploring the practice, politics and ethics of professions and professional practice.
Our research
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Professional practice
How do professions interact with wider society? What role do professions play in public institutions?
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Professional Careers and Labour Markets
A research group dedicated to studying the trajectories of professions in education and labour, and their degree of public trust.
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Expertise, Ethics, and Public Policy
How is knowledge-based and ethical practice shaped by interaction with the surrounding world, for example through political guidelines and technological development?
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Professional Knowledge and Qualification
What characterises professional knowledge and competency, and what role do education and training play in the qualification of professions?
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- From tension to quality: how student partners practice quality work (tandfonline.com). Hannah Muelder m.fl. (2025)
- Between governance and local knowledge: Social workers’ engagement with employment support for young people in the Faroe Islands and Greenland (journals.uis.no). Anne Leseth (2025)
- Exploring teaching quality: The role of school working conditions, principal leadership, and teacher characteristics (tandfonline.com). Educational Psychology. Zhang, Xin. mfl. (2025)
All publications
All our peer-reviewed publications are available in the research database Cristin (wo.cristin.no).
Qualification programmes
The Grimen Lecture
An annual lecture on philosophy and social science, in memory of Professor Harald Grimen.
Ph.D.-program and courses
At the Center for the Study of Professions, we offer a PhD program in the Study of Professions, along with several PhD courses in both Norwegian and English.
