Field of work
I am head of Bachelor Physiotherapy. In here I am responsible for the study program, by means of content, pedagogy, and staff, with the aim to be sustainable and future-ready. My main focus is on progressive learning, togetherness and internationalisation.
Professional and research interests: Critical Pedagogy, Competence building for todays and future societal needs, equity, social justice, sustainability, health (public & global), planetary health and physical activity.
Additional roles
- Executive board member in Environmental Physiotherapy Association
- Member Education Committee World physiotherapy
- Teaching Fellow Comenius (Dutch National Network Higher Education Innovators)
- Member Darwin Mindlines group
Projects
- Comenius prosjekt: Critical Emancipative Learning, Joyful complex, comfortable Uncertain! (HAN University of applied Sciences, School of health, the Netherlands)
- Comenius Prosjekt: Moving beyond one-size-fits-all: Peer-support to enhance individual learning pathways (Maastricht University, Medical School, the Netherlands)
- Erasmus+ HEQED Health Equity through Education for a sustainable future
- Erasmus+ ECOLAH Embracing Complexity Orientated Learning Approach in Health
- Erasmus+ PREP-IP team Persons with a refugee experience Project
- Smart and digital health
The last years I worked as educational designer and senior lecturer rundt critical pedagogy, flexibility, inclusive assessments, partnership in learning, and innovation, within the connected areas of education, physiotherapy and health. I combined this with being a consultant physiotherapist. Physiotherapy areas I worked with are: Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy (manual therapy), sports physiotherapy, pain, refugee and migration health.
Currently I am not teaching, though my areas are:
- Intercultural sensitivity, equity & justice
- Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, theory & practice
- Clinical & Critical reasoning, philosophy
- Health models, theory & practice
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Innovation & Creativity
- Future orientation
- digital health
- pain education with patients
Research & developement areas:
- Assessment for learning
- Health pedagogy
- University pedagogy
- planetary health
- social justice
- Digital health
- physiotherapy
- pain education
Publications
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Pain education for patients
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"Evighetsmennesket" – hvilke etiske utfordringer må vi forberede oss på?
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Use of micro-credentials for interprofessional online education and training of health workers: A scoping review
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Future Sustainable Practices
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Learning, comfortable uncertain, joyful complex