Overview of research projects

PhD project examining the potential role of aesthetic learning processes in science education within the framework of education for sustainable development.

AI-driven exploration in interdisciplinary projects with Religious Education (KIDU)

PhD project exploring how artificial intelligence can be used in schools in ways that encourage active exploration and dialogue, rather than passive use in Religious Education (RE).

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Citizenship in Education

The PhD project explores how artificial intelligence shapes digital citizenship education, focusing on AI literacy, ethical awareness, and sociotechnical imaginaries.

CENSU - Climate Change Energy Sustainability

CENSU is a Norwegian-Tanzanian-Mozambican university collaboration within education and research which focuses on sustainable gas extraction and governance in the context of vulnerable communities and climate change.

Early Childhoods in the Postdigital: Inquiry into the Literacies of Young Children’s Contemporary Play with New Media Technologies

The project explores young children's play with new media technologies at home and in pre-school.

Empowered

The research project aims to develop innovative practices, methods and tools that promote ‘digital empowerment’ in schools and teacher education.

Enhancing student teachers' abilities to facilitate learners' digital competence (ENHANCE)

The project aims to strengthen teacher education programmes across Europe, equipping student teachers with the digital readiness and capacity to empower learners’ digital competence and address digital exclusion.

Facilitating change from within

The project investigates how core reflection and Bildung can be used to promote professional development in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE).

From Conversation to Text: AI-Supported Prewriting in Lower Secondary School

PhD project examining how students develop ideas and experience authorship when, during prewriting, they use a chatbot that only asks questions and does not generate text.

Students on exchange. Smiling students in a row outdoors.

Holistic approach to increased student exchange in early childhood education (HETBLU)

The HETBLU project aims to strengthen the culture for internationalization and increased student exchange at early childhood institutions.

Inclusive education in Nepal (NORHED II)

The project aims to build a strong teaching and research unit on inclusive education at Tribhuvan University in Nepal.

Interpreter-mediated Communication as Part of the Education of Public Sector Professionals in Norway

PhD project exploring to what degree interpreting is a part of the education of Norway’s future nurses, police officers and social workers.

Knowledge Integration in Teacher Education through Technology Enhanced Simulation (KITES)

A collaborative, design-based research project that allow students to practice complex challenges in a safe digital environment.

Learning Model for Self-Determination - II

People with intellectual disability have lower levels of self-determination than others. In this project, we conduct a community-based intervention aimed at enhancing self-determination skills, such as setting goals and making decisions.

Life Mastery as an Educational Phenomenon in Curricula

PhD project examining how "life mastery", "life capability", "well-being" or "life skills", as a historical educational-philosophical phenomenon, appears in Norwegian curricula in the period of 1939-2020.

Meaningful writing instruction, play and audience awareness in primary grades

PhD project which focuses on how first-grade pupils write for real audiences and how they develop audience awareness when provided with a play-based writing instruction.

Negotiating Belonging and Identity in Nordic Schools: Racialization, Student and Family Voices, and Researcher Positionality – an Ethnographic Case Study

PhD project exploring how racialized students and their families in Nordic schools experience and negotiate belonging and identity within educational settings.

NorPal ECHER: Norway–Palestine: Capacity building in Early Childhood, Higher Education and Research

The collaborative project will contribute to strengthening, reconstruction and long-term development of higher education in Palestine, with a focus on early childhood education (ECE).

Norwegian network for research on writing in higher education

The project aims at increasing research activity and strengthening research culture in writing research within Norwegian higher education.

Outdoor Learning in Higher Education (OLHE)

The project aims to strengthen knowledge, skills, and practices related to outdoor learning (OL) in higher education across Europe.

Picturability: Inclusive Learning through Visual Texts

The network’s aim is to bring together and strengthen the Nordic cooperation on (children's) literature research on visual texts.

Practical placement in the Global South

The purpose of the project is to enhance practical placement in the Global South to achieve a more stable and permanently increased number of students, based on a more quality-assured collaboration with the Global South.

Preparing for the unforeseen (PREP)

The PREP project investigates the role of emotions in teachers’, student teachers’, and school leaders’ decision-making in unforeseen situations in everyday school life.

Principals’ professional discretion: Making sense of meaning and emotional work in complex situations

How do school principals interpret complex, ambiguous situations and make sense of competing considerations?

Recognition of Prior Learning and language hand in hand, a case study among adults applying to the healthcare worker programme

How can we, in the best possible way, bring out both the linguistic resources and the previously acquired competence of adults who are applying to the healthcare worker programme?

Research Literacy in Practice: Tracking and Supporting Early Career Teachers (ReLiP-ECT)

The project investigates how early-career teachers use research to inform their teaching and professional decision-making.

Research-Based Teaching and Collaborative Learning in Physical Education (FUSK)

The project aims to bring pupils, teachers, student teachers, and teacher educators together in the joint development of physical education as a school subject.

School Absence: Interprofessional Collaboration and Student Participation in Attendance Cases (SAFE)

SAFE examines how schools, educational psychological services and other support services collaborate in responding to concerning school absence.

School, Motivation, Inclusion, Learning and Enjoyment (SMILE-P) – PILOT

The project examines how pupils experience school enjoyment, motivation and belonging when they go through important transitions in their education.

Strategies for Achieving Equity and Inclusion in Education, Training and Learning in Democratic Europe (STRIDE)

STRIDE will provide a new, comprehensive and comparative knowledge-base on effective education reforms, policy initiatives and interventions aimed at reducing inequalities in education, training and learning outcomes in Europe.

Teacher education across Europe: Innovative Mobility Opportunities (ΤΕΙΜΟ)

The TEIMO project aims to develop an inclusive, state-of-the-art Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) to enhance teacher education across Europe.

Teacher Education Panel Study (TEPS)

The Teacher Education Panel Study (TEPS) is a comprehensive study on the implementation of teacher education in Norway.

The importance of elective subjects in lower secondary school

To what extent, and in what ways, do elective subjects in lower secondary school contribute to students’ motivation, sense of mastery, and their choice of educational programs in upper secondary school?

Traditional Craftsmanship for a Sustainable Future

The project aims to strengthen the competency of the vocational teachers in traditional crafts by providing courses by craftsmen throughout the education.

Transitions and Thresholds in Infant–Toddler groups (TRANSIT)

The project investigates how kindergarten practices at the time of entry for the youngest children (0-2 years) influence how children and families with migrant and minority-language backgrounds are included.

Using alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) during police interviews

People with speech and language disorders face an increased risk of violence and sexual assault, but very often, they do not get the chance to tell their story to the police.

Vibrant Connections

In the project Vibrant Connections, we are particularly involved with how music, both traditional and new songs, can contribute to the preservation and renewal of immaterial cultural heritage in kindergartens and in kindergarten teacher training programmes.

Vocational Teachers as Facilitators in the School-to-Work Transition (School4Work)

We will develop knowledge that will enable vocational teachers to facilitate students’ transition from the school-based part of vocational education and training (VET) to apprenticeship.

VocEdData

The project studies students’ motivation, mastery, and learning experiences in both school-based and workplace-based training, aiming to generate knowledge that can enhance vocational education.

What characterizes the kindergarten's translanguaging practices in working with multilingual children aged 3–5?

PhD project aimed at understanding how kindergartens create opportunities for children to use of their mother tongue.

Work4Teaching - Bridging Worlds of Work and Teaching

How do experienced skilled workers develop into professional vocational teachers? This project explores vocational teacher students’ learning and professional development.