My main research focuses on teaching food and health in schools and sustainability related to teacher training and teaching in higher education. I teach primary school teacher students in food and health at both bachelor's and master's level. I also teach health communication on the Bachelor of Public Health.
Food and health in schools (Home economics) and teacher education are now my research field. The topic is related to teaching in general and, more recently, sustainability teaching in particular at various levels in the education course.
I lead the Nordplus network FENN (Food Education Network North). The network will create a joint and coherent Nordic-Baltic education area centered on Food Education, enabling systematic and coordinated collaboration and development of Food Education based on the latest research and development activities. https://app.cristin.no/projects/show.jsf?id=2664800
I have also done research on young children and nutrition. In my PhD, I developed the website Mat til minsten. Read more about the project here: https://www.uia.no/om-uia/fakultet/fakultet-for-helse-og-idrettsvitenskap/mat-til-minsten.
I teach food and health (Home Economics) to student teachers at various levels in primary school teacher training. I am responsible for the subject Food and society for those taking food and health 2. I also teach the master's students in the subjects Food and Health in a health promoting perspective, Food and consumption in a sustainability perspective and Philosophy of Science and Method for the Researching Teacher in Food and Health, as well as to supervise master's theses.
I am subject coordinator for food and health.
I also teach health communication in the bachelor's degree in public health work.
Has worked ten years as a general teacher in elementary school with special emphasis on food and health education (home economics). At the University in Agder i started my work in 2007.
Pedagogy
Subject didactics in Food and health
Teaches food and health in primary school teacher training and guidance and pedagogy in public health worker training.
Food and food environment for children and families.
Member of Priority Research Centre for Lifecourse Nutrition
SustainComp
Educational food at SFO
Green Backpack
FENN (Nordplus Network)
Food and health in the school of the future
PhD project: Food4todders
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5887-0522
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