Field of work
Is a senior lecturer in milieu therapeutic work, a trained social educator and holds a master's degree in evidence-based practice (EBP). Currently leads the international team at the Department of Welfare and Participation (IVD), with responsibility for holistically coordinating and implementing internationalisation across bachelor's and master's programs at IVD.
Has been the program coordinator and head of the Bachelor's in Social Care. Campus Bergen.
Head of the international network Crossing Borders. Leader of the project Social Work Education: Innovation for Transformative Change - SoWEGloW. A collaboration between HVL, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India and the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. Head of the Norec project: Children with disabilities and Human Rights conventions.
Academic employee in Team Across (TpT) for internationalisation at HVL.
Teaches
Environmental therapeutic practice, knowledge-based practice, research and methodology, project work, internationalisation and multicultural perspectives in education.
Researching
Development work and quality improvement in education, nationally and internationally
Internationalisation at home
Practice as a learning arena in the Global South
Milieu therapy work
Autism spectrum disorders
Families with children with intellectual disabilities, nationally and internationally
Research groups
- Member of the research group: Educational Research
- BSVCBE1, Crossing Borders - Social Inclusion and Active Citizenship, Fall 2026, subject responsible
- BSVCBE2, Crossing Borders - Ways to Improve Participation, Fall 2026, subject responsible
- BSVCBP, Crossing Borders - practical placement, Fall 2026
- SABV260, Socio-Cultural Diversity and Inequalities in Social Work, Spring 2027
- VPD120, Human Lifespan Development and Learning , Spring 2027
- VPL100, The Conceptual Basis and Professional Boundaries of the Social Educator , Fall 2026
- VPL130, Normative and Deive Goal-Directed Therapy, Spring 2027