Our employees

Kjersti Lundetræ
Professor / Director

Tel: +47 51 83 32 60
kjersti.lundetre@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• On Track (research project)
• BRAIN (research project)
• Two Teachers (research project)
• Early literacy instruction
• Reading- and writing difficulties
• International reading literacy surveys (PIRLS, PIAAC)

Joachim Kolnes Andersen
Head of office

Tel: +47 51 83 35 41
joachim.k.andersen@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Head of administration

Aline Alves-Wold
Assistant professor

aline.alves-wold@uis.no

Areas/projects:

Julie Arntzen
Ph.d-student

julie.arntzen@uis.no

Areas/projects:

Arild Michel Bakken
Associate professor

Tel: +47 51 83 29 84
arild.m.bakken@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Literature education
• The Norwegian Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016–2019

Edle Inga Bentsen
Assistant professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 61
edle.i.bentsen@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Reading difficulties / Dyslexia
• Early screening of reading ability
• Early reading instruction

Ingeborg Margrete Berge
Assistant professor

Tel: +47 51 83 11 57
ingeborg.m.berge@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Reading literacy in high school
• The Norwegian Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019
• FYR
• Reading and writing literacy 1, years 8-13

Mary Genevieve Billington
Associate professor

Tel: +47 51 83 11 59
mary.g.billington@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• SkillsREAL (research project)
• Adult basic skills

Inga Kjerstin Birkedal
Assistant professor

inga.k.birkedal@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Reading difficulties
• Early reading instruction
• Transition ECEC - school
• Reading in elementary school
• Reading in middle school

Anne Elisabeth Dahle
Associate professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 47
anne.e.dahle@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• The Stavanger project
• Reading and writing difficulties / dyslexia
• Early screening of reading ability
• Reading in elementary school

Elisabeth Rege Filbrandt
Assistant professor

Tel: +47 51 83 31 30
elisabeth.rege@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Language development and reading in ECEC

Camilla Lausund Fitjar
Ph.d-student

Tel: 51 83 28 13
camilla.l.fitjar@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• DigiHand

Njål Foldnes
Professor II

njal.foldnes@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Multivariat statistics
• Psychometrics

Unni Fuglestad
Assistant professor

Tel: +47 51 83 31 19
unni.fuglestad@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Reading in secondary school
• The National Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019

Egil Gabrielsen
Professor emeritus

egil.gabrielsen@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Adult basic skills
• Reynell Developmental Language Skales

Åse Kathrine Gjestsen
Assistant professor

Tel: +47 51 83 31 46
ase.k.gjestsen@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Reading and writing difficulties / dyslexiai
• The Stavanger project(research project)
• Reading in middle school
• Reading in secondary school

Aslaug Fodstad Gourvennec
Associate professor

aslaug.f.gourvennec@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• High-achieving students
• Reading in upper secondary school
• Assessment of reading comprehension
• RESPONSE (research project)
• Literature education

Hilde Gunnerud
Ph.D-student

Tel: +47 51 83 32 69
hilde.gunnerud@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Reading and writing difficulties
• Language development and reading in ECEC
• Multilingualism
• The Stavanger project (research project)

Frank Hakemulder
Professor II

frank.hakemulder@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Interfaces of reading and writing

Lise Helgevold
Assistant professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 46
lise.helgevold@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Leselos
• Support for school and ECEC owners
• Reading in middle school
• Reading in secondary school

Trude Hoel
Associate professor / post doc

Tel: +47 51 83 32 09
trude.hoel@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Language development
• Reading activities and children’s literature
• Reading on paper and on screen
• Early Childhood education
• COST - DigiLitEY
• VEBB

Toril Frafjord Hoem
Assistant professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 53
toril.f.hoem@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Reading in secondary school
• Reading in middle school
• School development
• Teacher leaders

Anne Håland
Associate professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 48
anne.haland@uis.no

Areas:

• Reading and writing in elementary school and secondary school

• Reading and writing instruction

Maria Therese Jensen
Post doctor

Tel: +47 51 83 18 20
maria.t.jensen@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Two Teachers
• Psychology
• Psychometrics and quantitative method

Maya Dybvig Joner
Ph.D. student

maya.d.joner@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Reading and writing difficulties
• ECEC
• Transition ECEC - school
• Early reading instruction
• Coordinator - Lesegledere

Grethe Kallevik
Advisor

Tel: +47 51 83 35 56
grethe.kallevik@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Study coordinator

Tim Levang
Video editor and illustrator

Tel: +47 481 32 026

tim.o.levang@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• The National Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019

Anne Mangen
Professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 64
anne.mangen@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Effects of digitisation on reading

• Empirical studies of literary reading

• Embodied cognition; embodied aspects of reading, writing and learning

• The impact of digital technologies on reading

• VEBB

• E-READ

Erin Margaret McTigue
Post doctor

erin.m.mctigue@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• On Track

Monica Gundersen Mitchell
Ph.d student / assistant professor

monica.g.mitchell@uis.no

Areas/projects:

Margunn Mossige
Assistant professor

Tel: +47 51 83 31 42
margunn.mossige@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Manager - national assignments
• The National Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019
• Writing difficulties in older pupils
• Reading in secondary and upper secondary school

Morten Njå
Ph.d.-student

morten.nja@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Assessment of reading comprehension
• RESPONSE
• Reading in Years 8-10

Arne Olav Nygard
Associate professor

Tel: 51 83 31 39
arne.o.nygard@uis.no

Areas:

• Digital text culture
• RESPONSE research project
• Literary education in the upper secondary / high school classroom

Gunn Helen Ofstad
Assistant professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 10
gunn.h.ofstad@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Language development and reading in ECEC
• Reading and writing difficulties
• The National Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019
• Transition ECEC - school
• National language support program
• Continuing education for ECEC teachers

Ellen Rafos
Senior consultant

Tel: +47 51 83 31 45
ellen.rafos@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Finance
• Administration

Hege Rangnes
Ph.D.-student

hege.rangnes@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Reading instruction in elementary school (grades 5-7)
• Second language learning

Elisabeth Rongved
Communications adviser

Tlf.: +47 51 83 32 06
elisabeth.rongved@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Communication
• Media response
• Social media
• Web content/editing

Vibeke Rønneberg
Associate professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 72
vibeke.ronneberg@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Assessment of reading comprehension
• CATO (research project)
• Writing research

Inge Schreuder-Lindløv
Video editor

Tel: +47 986 98 888
Inge.schreuder-lindloev@uis.no

Atle Skaftun
Professor

Tel: +47 51 83 31 32
atle.skaftun@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• RESPONSE: Literacy practices in digitalized classrooms
• Two Teachers
• Literacy and Literature education
• Literacy practices in school
• Dialogic perspectives on technologies and thinking
• Orality and Disciplinarity

Oddny Judith Solheim
Professor

Tel: +47 51 83 31 36
oddny.j.solheim@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Dyslexia
• Assessment of reading
• Motivation and engagement
• Teacher-student ratio
• On Track
• Two Teachers
• PIRLS 2016

Elisabeth Brekke Stangeland
Associate professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 75
elisabeth.b.stangeland@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Language development and reading in kindergarten/ECEC
• Play and social competence in early age
• The Stavanger Project
• The National Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019, ECEC
• Assessment of reading comprehension

Olaug Strand
Ph.D-student

Tel: +47 51 83 31 08
olaug.strand@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study)

• Second language learning

Hildegunn Støle
Associate professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 74
hildegunn.stole@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Reading assessment
• Reading in upper secondary vocational school
• The subjects of English and Norwegian in school
• IGEL -  the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literary Reading

Kristin Sunde
Ph.D-student

kristin.sunde@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Early reading instruction
• Two Teachers

Johanne Ur Sæbø
Assistant professor

Tel: +47 51 83 23 84
johanne.u.sebo@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• The National Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019
• Reading in elementary school
• Reading and learning disabilities
• Coordinator – Lesegledere

Leif Tore Sædberg
Communications adviser

Tel: +47 51 83 24 08
leif.t.sedberg@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• The National Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019
• Research communication
• Media response
• Marketing
• Social media
• Web editor
• Media production

Margrethe Sønneland
Ph.D-student

Tel: +47 51 83 31 18
margrethe.sonneland@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• The National Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019
• RESPONSE (research project)
• Disciplinary literacy
• Literary education

Kirsti Thisland
Consultant

Tel: +47 51 83 20 34
kirsti.thisland@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Administration
• The Stavanger Project
• The National Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019
• PIRLS

Jenny Thomson
Associate professor II

j.m.thomson@sheffield.ac.uk

Areas/projects:

• Reading literacy
• Digital literacy
• Rhythm and reading

Trond Egil Toft
Communications adviser

Tel: +47 51 83 31 38 / +47 906 62 489
trond.e.toft@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Research communication
• Media response
• Marketing
• Social media
• Web editor
• Graphic design

Mark Torrance
Associate professor II

mark.torrance@uis.no

Katarzyna Anna Tunkiel
Associate professor

Tel: 51 83 28 47
katarzyna.a.tunkiel@uis.no

Areas/projects:

Finn Egil Tønnessen
Professor

Tel: 51 83 32 65
finn-egil.tonnessen@uis.no

Areas:

• Reading
• Dyslexia
• Research Methods
• Philosophy of Science

Per Henning Uppstad
Professor

Tel: +47 51 83 12 68
per.h.uppstad@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Writing processes
• Computer assisted reading instruction / technology enhanced learning
• Dyslexia
• Literacy
• Bilingualism
• CATO
• Two Teachers
• On Track

Åse Kari Hansen Wagner
Professor

Tel:  +47 51 83 23 01
aase-kari.h.wagner@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Two Teachers
• On Track
• The Stavanger Project
• Multilingualism and reading
• Language development and language stimulation in early age
• Observation of language in early age
• Language contact / Language history / Onomastics

Bente Rigmor Walgermo
Associate professor

Tel: +47 51 83 32 44
bente.r.walgermo@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• Motivation for reading
• On Track research project
• Reading and writing difficulties
• Reading instruction
• Reading assessment

Marit Aasen
Assistant professor
marit.aasen@uis.no

Areas/projects:

• The National Strategy for Language, Reading and Writing 2016-2019
• Literacy and learning
• Second language learning
• Literature education in middle school