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.

Better Provision for Norway's Children in ECEC

A major Norwegian study in on the quality and effectiveness of ECEC.

Beyond access: improving quality of early years reading instructions in Ethiopia

The objective of the project is to improve the quality of education for primary grades in Ethiopian schools.

Bringing Home Languages to Light: Perspectives from Polish Families and Professionals in Norwegian ECECs

PhD project exploring how home languages are supported and implemented in Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC), as viewed from the perspectives of minority parents and pedagogical leaders.

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.

Challenging the design principle of mixed-worded questionnaire scales

The project focuses on the design principle of combining both positively and negatively worded items in questionnaire scales.

Classroom activities for the six-year-olds – 20 years on (Klassprax_20)

The project investigates and evaluates the classroom activities of six year old children.

CLIL Network for Languages in Education (CLILNetLE)

The project aims to develop a shared conceptualisation and research agenda for the investigation of bi- and multilingual disciplinary literacies in Content and language integrated learning (CLIL).

COIL in Deaf Studies and Sign Language

Establish a basis for a sustainable system for a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) module in deaf studies and sign language. COIL can be described as virtual student and staff exchange as a strategic tool for internationalization of the c

Critical thinking in primary education

KriT is an interdisciplinary project aiming at developing educational models for critical thinking in primary education using children’s literature and news.

DARE – Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality

The project investigates how young people aged between 12 and 30 respond to messages and agents of radicalisation.

Democracy, Equality, Learning and Mobilisation for Future Citizens (DEMOCIT)

The aim of DEMOCIT is to partake in reducing a growing civic empowerment gap within Norwegian democracy.

Developing ICT in Teacher Education (DiCTE)

The overarching aim of the project is to develop ICT in teacher education.

Developing sufficient language and professional competence among adult immigrants in health work education

PhD project exploring how upper secondary vocational schools can facilitate the development of sufficient language and professional competence among adult immigrants in health work education.

DigiGen – The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation

DigiGen aims to develop knowledge about how children and young people use and are affected by the technological transformations in their everyday lives.

Diversity leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)

PhD project exploring how adults without upper secondary education learn their trade, develop a vocational identity, and obtain a trade certificate through the Norwegian practice candidate scheme.

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.

Educators and learners meet artificial intelligence

This project is dedicated to exploring both teachers' and students' perspectives on the implementation of artificial intelligence in an educational context.

EGREEN+ – European Green Mastery

Sustainable European competence certificates for landscaping, gardening and floristry.

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.

Evaluation of the renewal of vocational subjects

NIFU, OsloMet and Fafo are carrying out a research-based evaluation of the renewal of vocational subjects, commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Education.

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).

Flipped classroom in science education (FiNa)

Flipped classroom in science education (FiNa) aims at developing and investigating learning design based on digitally supported flipped classroom in order to facilitate student active learning.

From Cape2Cape - Development of internationalisation in Vocational Education

The PhD project investigates how internationalization can be implemented in upper secondary education. The collaboration aims to equip vocational students with better preparation to work in international workplaces, regardless of the country they are in.

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.

From Unskilled to Skilled workers – Adults Obtaining a Trade Certificate through the Practice Candidate Scheme

PhD project exploring how adults without upper secondary education learn their trade, develop a vocational identity, and obtain a trade certificate through the Norwegian practice candidate scheme.

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.

IMaT – Inclusive Mathematics Teaching: Understanding and developing school and classroom strategies for raising attainment

This project aims to strengthen mathematics teaching in Norwegian primary and lower secondary schools.

Implementation and practice of the training practice scheme in the counties

The project examines how the training practice scheme — a two-year, practice-based pathway in upper secondary VET — is implemented and used by Norwegian counties to reduce dropout and include more students in vocational education and training.

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.

Let's Become Inspirers and Architects of a Sustainable School

The project targets challenges in the school environment and aims to foster inclusive teaching practices by developing "green skills".

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.

Literacies for Health and Life Skills

The “Literacies for Health and Life Skills” (HLS) project aims to develop and implement a new didactic approach that will enable pre-service teachers to facilitate the development of young people´s health and life skills.

Mapping hateful utterances about Muslims on Norwegian Social Media

Based on analyses of big data from Norwegian social media the project aims to map hate speech about Muslims. The project will also conduct a meta-analysis of existing knowledge about hate speech about Muslims.

Mathematics, Science and Computational Thinking (MASCOT)

MASCOT is an interdisciplinary, collaborative and innovative research collaboration that aims to develop knowledge about teaching, learning and assessment processes of computational thinking in teacher education and school.

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.

Multilingual Beliefs and Pedagogies of English Language School Teachers in Norway

PhD project exploring how to foster multilingual pedagogies in English language teaching in schools in Norway through researching the multilingual beliefs and pedagogies of English teachers in linguistically rich and diverse school contexts.

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.

New media practices in a changing Africa

The project starts from two significant facts: relatively consistent economic growth in Africa over two decades, and a digital media revolution during the same period.

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.

PolkaNorski Implemented

The development of language skills and world knowledge in Polish-Norwegian multilingual children.

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.

Prevention of prejudice and promotion of inclusive school environment through increased diversity competence

The main goal of this project is to develop new knowledge on prejudice, hate speech and practices and attitudes that might cause exclusion in the school context.

Programming and makerspace in schools: Competences for the 21 st. century and adapted training for gifted students

The project is about developing technology-rich teaching programs for use in adapted education for gifted students.The focus is on the use of programming in teaching as part of a makerspace context.

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?

Reinventing Mainstream Classrooms (RE.MA.C.)

The project brings together native language students, migrant students and mainstream (language) teachers.

Research about the Norwegian national school leadership education

Norwegian universities and colleges have since 2009 offered national school leadership programs on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate of Education.

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.

Riverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers

The project will investigate legal cases from New Zealand, Colombia and India, where rivers have been granted personhood rights.

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.

Searching for Qualities

Investigation and research on the quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) for children under the age of three years.

Shaping of Geographical Knowledge in Curriculum

The doctoral project examines the shaping of geographical knowledge in the social studies curriculum in the Norwegian curriculum reform Kunnskapsløftet 2020.

Staying on Track – completion in vocational education and training

A longitudinal interview study following vocational students with low grades from lower secondary education through upper secondary vocational education and training (VET).

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.

Strengthening teacher education in lesser taught languages (STELT)

The main aim of the project is to strengthen foreign language teacher education for French, German and Spanish in Norway.

Supporting Content and Language Learning Across Diversity (SCALED)

The aim of the SCALED project is to develop a new online course: interactive and self-study mode that can be adapted to onsite use.

Sustainable Future for Education – Inclusive Vocational Practices

This is a Blended Intensive Program (BIP) with a focus on internationalisation in vocational teacher education.

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 for a Future in Flux - TEFF Academy

An international research project addressing the need for joint training and further education that help teachers cope with recent challenges in schools.

Teacher Education Panel Study (TEPS)

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

Teacher Education Schools in Vocational Teacher Education

Development of an organizational theoretical, didactic model for collaboration between educational institution and field of practice.

Teacher Qualification for the 21st century - teachers professional competence (TEQ21)

Future school and society are characterized by rapid changes and technological development, which in turn demand new competences such as creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking. In order to meet these challenges, teacher education p

Teacher Research Literacy (TREL): Comparative Trajectories in the Nordic-Baltic Region

TREL aims to identify good practices in the Nordic-Baltic educational context.

Teachers' and leaders' representation and participation in collaborations established to strengthen teacher education (REPRESENT)

The purpose of this survey is to gain increased knowledge about teachers’ and leaders’ representation and participation in collaborations established to strengthen the quality of teacher education programs.

Teachers’ Research Literacy for Science teaching (TRELIS)

Project TRELIS aims to prepare research literate science teachers who are able to integrate research-based knowledge with classroom experience to develop rich science learning opportunities for pupils.

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.

Transnational Collaboration on Bullying, Migration and Integration at School Level (TRIBES)

The project aims at advancing collaboration between stakeholders to evolve and improve scientific measures and guides, building capacity across these challenged areas, working holistically towards ensuring integration.

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 programme

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.

Words for Wellbeing – Quality of life and language impairment in adolescents and young adults

We aim to adapt a vocabulary assessment tool to Norwegian and try it out on different groups of adolescents and young adults with and without language impairments.

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.