I work as a senior lecturer in special education at the Department of Education. I have extensive teaching experience both at the university level and in the field. As a senior lecturer, I teach e.g. the following courses:
My main research topic is the development of mathematical skills and learning difficulties related including comorbidity of learning difficulties. I have conducted both cross-sectional and follow-up studies of mathematical and comorbid learning difficulties and their consequences on later educational pathways among both children and adolescents. I have been involved in the development of new screening tools for teachers and researchers to identify mathematical learning difficulties. I use quantitative methods (incl. structural equation modeling).
Lately, my research interest is more and more in intervention research (RTI) as it is central in understanding how to prevent learning difficulties from developing. In addition, development of mathematical thinking skills, more specifically algebraic thinking skills, and mathematical concepts has become important part of my research.
