Associate Professor

Janne Iren Robberstad

Department of Arts Education
Janne Iren Robberstad
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Field of work

Janne Iren Robberstad is the coordinator of the EU Erasmus+  GSO4SCHOOL, a Strategic Partnership project in 5 countries.

She is the Production Manager of the Global Science Opera which was the H2020 SWAFS project "Developing an Engaging Science Classroom (Creations)" International flagship initiative during the years 2016-2018 (globalscienceopera.com).

Robberstad is a PhD-student and an Assistant Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), connected to the Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports. In her PhD-work she researches the relationship between sustainability and creativity in an artistic design-process within education.

She coordinated of the EU Erasmus+  “Creativity, Arts and Science in Education” (CASE) a Strategic Partnership project in 5 countries.

She is also involved in developing “Global Hands-On Ocean”, as part of her participation in the Norwegian Research Council's INTPART iScope-project focusing on advancing knowledge on ocean-health in education.

Through these projects, she has taught internationally in a variety of EU-funded (and other) contexts, including arts education workshops in Japan, USA, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Portugal and Chile. Her work-experience includes 15 years in the folk high schools teaching theatre, fashion- and costume-design and arts and crafts.  She has also earned a living as a visual artist and scenographer in her own company for over a decade. Robberstad has a masters degree in creative disciplines and learning-processes from HVL.



Research groups
Courses taught
  • MGUKH201, Arts and crafts 1, module 2 - Basic introduction to arts and crafts 2, 25/26, subject responsible
  • MGUKH550, Arts and crafts 3, module 4 - Master's thesis, 25/26
  • MGUMU502, Music 3, module 2 - Artistic Research, 25/26
  • MKUF501C, Profession knowledge in arts and crafts, 25/26
  • MKUF501D, Musical identities and profession knowledge, 25/26
  • MKUF505, Project pre-design and contextual reflection, 25/26
  • MKUF550, Master's thesis, 25/26
  • PFS801, Stage production 1, 25/26
  • PFS802, Stage production 2, 25/26
  • PPUA305, Postgraduate Certificate in Education 1, 25/26
  • TEK802, Textile culture 2, 25/26, subject responsible

Publications

  • Inter-relationships of science and the arts & STEAM education

    Oded Ben-Horin, Janne Iren Robberstad (2024)

  • Embodied eco-embroidery Creative craftsmanship in sustainable STEAM-education

    Janne Iren Robberstad, Randi Veiteberg Kvellestad (2023)
    Nordic Journal of Art and Research (A & R) 2023 ;Volum 12.

  • Meet the Global Science Opera

    Oded Ben-Horin, Janne Iren Robberstad (2022)

  • NASA, Goddard’s Office of Communications, StoryLab: “Meet the Global Science Opera” https://video.ibm.com/recorded/131485342

    Oded Ben Horin, Janne Iren Robberstad (2022)

  • “Broderi i samspel” Presentasjon under nettverkskonferanse for kunst og håndverk i UH-sektoren

    Janne Iren Robberstad, Randi Veiteberg (2022)

  • Robberstad, Janne Iren Eco-creativity in the GSO4SCHOOL - Key Note, GSO4SCHOOL international final conference, Athens, Greece, 2022 17th December 2022

    Janne Iren Robberstad (2022)

  • Towards a rationale for science-art integration as a transdisciplinary signature pedagogy

    Giedre Straksiene, Oded Ben-Horin, Magne Espeland, Janne Iren Robberstad (2022)
    Cogent Education 2022 ;Volum 9.

  • Broderi i samspel

    Randi Veiteberg Kvellestad, Janne Iren Robberstad (2022)

  • The GSO4SCHOOL Teachers’ Guidelines. Written with R. Doran and M. Sotiriou

    Oded Ben-Horin, Janne Iren Robberstad (2021)

  • The GSO4SCHOOL Framework and Master Plan. Written with P. Stergiopoulos and M. Sotiriou

    Oded Ben-Horin, Janne Iren Robberstad (2021)

  • “The Global Science Opera” World Space Week Romania

    Janne Iren Robberstad (2021)

  • Creativity, Educational Design and Teacher Education in the Global Trans-disciplinary Classroom - Key Note, NAFOL conference 2021

    Oded Ben-Horin, Magne Espeland, Janne Iren Robberstad, Marcelo H. Souza (2021)

  • "Futures of Education-GHOU 2020 - Learning to become." G-HOU, 2020. Rollinde, Emmanuel, Carl Pennypacker, Rosa Doran, Hassane Darhmanoui, Toshihiro Handa, Kathan Kothari, Fraser Lewis, Janne Robberstad, and Colleen Megowan. Global Hands-On Universe (GHOU)

    Emmanuel Rollinde, Carlton Pennypacker, Rosa Doran, Hassane Darhmanoui, Handa Toshihiro, Kathan Kothari (2020)

  • Robberstad, J., Doran, P., & Ben-Horin, O. (2021) GSO4SCHOOL Teachers Guidelines.

    Janne Iren Robberstad (2020)

  • Robberstad, J. (2021) Learning Science Through Ecoscenography, CASE

    Janne Iren Robberstad (2020)

  • Evig Teatermagi

    Janne Iren Robberstad, Ida Fugli (2020)
    DRAMA : Nordisk dramapedagogisk tidsskrift 2020

  • “The Global Science Opera – global transdisciplinary education” Key-note speaker at SPACE-conference in Porto, Portugal 30th March, 2019

    Janne Iren Robberstad (2019)

  • Understanding through Opera: Increasing children's engagement with climate change through cross-cultural collaboration. Kearney, D. & Robberstad, J. (2019) Paper presented at The 7th EUGEO Congress on the Geography of Europe in conjunction with the 51st Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Galway, 15 May 2019., Galway, Ireland

    Daihi Kearney, Janne Iren Robberstad (2019)

  • Dialogue and materiality/embodiment in science|arts creative pedagogy: Their role and manifestation

    Kerry Chappell, Lindsay Hetherington, H Ruck Keene, Heather Wren, A Alexopoulos, Oded Ben-Horin (2019)
    Thinking Skills and Creativity 2019 ;Volum 31. s. 296-322

  • “The Global Science Opera”, presentation-talk at the 11th International Meeting of Astronomy and Astronautics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Janne Iren Robberstad (2018)

  • Undress my Ego

    Janne Iren Robberstad, Ida Fugli (2018)

  • Sustainable Design – Ecoscenography and Creativity.

    Janne Iren Robberstad, Oded Ben-Horin (2017)

  • Creativity and Ecoscenography in the Global Science Opera . https://hvlopen.brage.unit.no/hvlopen-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2452703/Robberstad_Master.pdf?sequence=1

    Janne Iren Robberstad (2017)
    Høgskulen på Vestlandet

  • Global Science Opera (GSO), Ghost Particles Demonstrator. Co-authors: S. Sotiriou and P. Stergiopoulos.

    Oded Ben-Horin, Janne Iren Robberstad (2016)