Karine Selseng Høiland

Field of work

• public health, quality of life and health promotion
• Collaboration and cross-sectoral cooperation
• Innovation and project work
• Health education, including motivational interviewing
• Physical activity

She is a trained physiotherapist, have further education in Health Ethics from VID, Leadership and Innovation from USN, as well as a master's degree in Collaboration and Public Health from HVL. She has worked as a physiotherapist and health advisor from 2007 - 2020, and has several years of experience working in the voluntary sector, including medical aid work in the Pacific region. 

Since 2020, she has been added to HVL campus Sogndal. She is affiliated with a bachelor's degree in Social education, and was previously deep into the further education Aktiv Omsorg. She is an international coordinator at the full-time education in Social education, and teach on the bachelor's education in Social education.  

Teaches in: 

• public health, quality of life and health promotion
• Interaction and interprofessional collaboration
• Innovation and project work
• Health education, including motivational interviewing
• Physical activity
• Anatomy, Neurology and Physiology - Musculoskeletal System

Researches: 

• Experience with the course "5 steps for increased Everyday Joy".
• Knowledge in practice; "Use of research-based knowledge in the service of the mentally disabled". 

Development work/project: 

• Co-creation for a berevigorous parish
• Out into the world - internationalisation in the bachelor's degree programme