Julie Hammerseth Herstad

Field of work

Work and competence area

I am the campus coordinator for the education in psychosocial work with children and young people on campus Førde and teach and guide students on the master's degree in Interaction and Public Health

I have been added to the research and innovation department in Helse Førde (from January 2025, 75%), where I am conducting a PhD in the NorseImpact project. The doctoral work is linked to the work package Responsive and responsible research and innovation with service user participation, and examines how emerging adults experience and understand mental health in a health-promoting and health literacy-oriented perspective. The goal is to develop knowledge that can inform further innovation and service development for young people. I am a PhD candidate in the postgraduate program RESINNREG.

I am a trained primary school teacher (1–10) with extensive experience from working with children and young people in schools, after-school activities and the foster care field. An increasing interest in mental health led to further education in psychosocial work with children and adolescents at HVL (2018), and a master's degree in Health-promoting relationship work (VID, 2022). Professionally, I am particularly concerned with health promotion, risk and protective factors, interdisciplinary collaboration, and courses can support children and young people with complex challenges.

Current themes

• Mental health and health promotion among adolescents and young adults

• Health literacy from a health-promoting perspective

• Digital health, innovation and tenancy development

• Psychosocial work and conversations with children and young people

• Trauma-sensitive approach in practice

• School, life skills and health-promoting school development

• Interdisciplinary collaboration and "the team around the student"

• User participation and co-creation in research

• Use of visual methods in research (autophotography, photo elicitation inreview) 

Teaches

• Psychosocial work with children and adolescents

• Health promotion and health promotion in schools

• Interdisciplinary collaboration and interaction

• Health service development

• Justification in interdisciplinary justification groups

Research groups

• PERSONFORSK – Research Group for Person-oriented Health Research (HVL)

• Interprofessional collaboration in practice and education (Molde University College)

• Collaboration for innovation in health and care services (HVL)

• Quality and innovation in health and care services (HVL)

• Participates in the research school PROFRES

Anna's Experience

• Course coordinator for Interdisciplinary Education in Psychosocial Work with Children and Adolescents. 

• Course coordinator for Pedagogical Orientation. Continuing Education (10 credits + 5 credits supplementary education)

• Correction of project plans and master's theses in the study programme Interaction and Public Health

• Teaching at SYKF250 Public Health in a National and Global Perspective