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

Publications

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

    Robberstad, Janne Iren, Kvellestad, Randi Veiteberg (2023)
    Nordic Journal of Art and Research (A & R) 2023 Volum 12 ;(2)

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

    Ben Horin, Oded, Robberstad, Janne Iren (2022)

  • Meet the Global Science Opera

    Ben-Horin, Oded, Robberstad, Janne Iren (2022)

  • Broderi i samspel

    Kvellestad, Randi Veiteberg, Robberstad, Janne Iren (2022)

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

    (2022)

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

    Robberstad, Janne Iren, Veiteberg, Randi (2022)

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

    Straksiene, Giedre, Ben-Horin, Oded, Espeland, Magne, Robberstad, Janne Iren (2022)
    Cogent Education 2022 Volum 9 ;(1)

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

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

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

    Ben-Horin, Oded, Robberstad, Janne Iren (2021)

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

    Ben-Horin, Oded, Robberstad, Janne Iren (2021)

  • “The Global Science Opera” World Space Week Romania

    (2021)

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

    (2020)

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

    (2020)

  • Evig Teatermagi

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

  • "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)

    Rollinde, Emmanuel, Pennypacker, Carlton, Doran, Rosa, Darhmanoui, Hassane, Toshihiro, Handa, Kothari, Kathan, Lewis, Fraser, Robberstad, Janne Iren, Megowan, Colleen (2020)

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

    Chappell, Kerry, Hetherington, Lindsay, Keene, H Ruck, Wren, Heather, Alexopoulos, A, Ben-Horin, Oded, Nikolopoulos, Konstantinos, Robberstad, Janne Iren, Sotiriou, Sofoklis, Bogner, Franz Xaver (2019)
    Thinking Skills and Creativity 2019 Volum 31 ;s. 296-322

  • 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

    Kearney, Daihi, Robberstad, Janne Iren (2019)

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

    (2019)

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

    (2018)

  • Undress my Ego

    Robberstad, Janne Iren, Fugli, Ida (2018)

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

    (2017)

  • Sustainable Design – Ecoscenography and Creativity.

    Robberstad, Janne Iren, Ben-Horin, Oded (2017)

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

    Ben-Horin, Oded, Robberstad, Janne Iren (2016)