Education

MSc International Disaster Management

Graduated with honours from The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester, UK Grade: 2.1 (B) Dissertation:

• Investigating Attitudes Towards Household Preparedness Storage in two Norwegian Municipalities

In my thesis I provided an updated review of the last two years of the emergency kit debate, and critisised the lack of a gold standard for household emergency kits, as well as the lack of scientific evidence of their usefulness. Through information gathered through semi-structured interviews I argued that household preparedness must be considered both dynamic and ongoing set of direct and indirect actions.   I also commented upon the status of the Norwegian civil preparedness situation, suggesting that most Norwegians have faith in their national authorities’ capability to handle a crisis and that they see little to no reason to prepare themselves or their households. However, the evidence points to vastly unprepared municipality administrations across the country.

• Armed Groups and Humanitarian Aid
• Cultures and Disasters
• Disaster Governance
• Humanitarian Diplomacy and Negotiation in Practice
• Humanitarian Protection
• Reconstruction and Development
• Research and Evaluation Methods
• Theory and Application of Disaster Management

• I served on the arranging committee and facilitated a talk during HCRI’s annual Humanitarian Careers Conference

BSc Psychology (Years 2-4)

Graduated with honours from The Scool of Arts, Social Sciences, and Management at Queen Margaret University, UK

Grade: 2.1 (B)

Dissertation:

• Auditory Bilateral Stimulation Effects on Episodic Memory Retrieval for Fearful Events

Although Eye Movement Desensitising and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is regarded as a first-line treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the underlying mechanisms are still under investigation. I investigated the ffects of the crucial bilateral stimulation component of EMDR in a non-PTSD sample of mainly undergraduate psychology students

 

Employing a between subjects design, 48 participants were randomly allocated into two groups, either receiving alternating- or simultaneous auditory stimuli. The remaining 10 participants were assigned to a separate forced simultaneous group as their scores on the PDS reached clinical levels.

 

Employing the film clip paradigm, positively shown to elicit emotional arousal of fear,  I thested participants’ recall of film events by free narrative recall and a cued recognition multiple choice questionnaire. The experimental hypothesis predicted that participants in the active condition, receiving alternating auditory bilateral stimuli would elicit enhanced memory recall for the film events, yet this could not be evidenced.

Coursework:

• Abnormal Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Core Areas in Psychology
• Critical, Historical, and Conceptual Issues in Psychology
• Critical Review
• Data Analysis
• Developmental Psychology
• Enquiries in Psychology
• Health Psychology
• Individual Differences
• Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• Professional Applications of Psychology
• Psychobiology
• Psychology in Context
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Quantitative Research Methods
• Research in Psychology
• Risk Behaviours
• Social Psychology

Leadership in Crisis

Studied at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Coursework:

• Leadership in Crisis

BSc Psychology (Year 1)

Attended the first year at the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University, UK

Coursework:

• Crime and Social Life
• Investigating Psychology
• Understanding Psychology

BA Cultural and Social Science

Graduated from The Department of Humanities at the University of Oslo, Norway

Grade: No average grades issued by the university

Dissertation:

• Frillesønn med helgenkongefar – Arven etter Olav den Hellige [The Son of a Leman with a Saint King as Father – The inheritance of Saint Olav]

Investigating the saga literature’s descriptions of differences and similarities between Olav the Holy and Magnus the Good. Touching upon the expectations and demands that followed from being the son of a Saint. Did he follow in his fathers footsteps and did he live up to society’s expectations?

 

The thesis investigates thoughts and ideas in four sagas (The saga of St. Olav, The saga of Magnus the Good, The saga of Harald Hardrada, and Morkinskinna), conserning itself not whith what may be historically correct, but rather what the situation was portrayed to appear like.

Coursework:

• American Civilisation
• American Literature
• British Civilisation
• British Literature
• English Grammar
• English Phonetics and Intonation
• Examen Paedagogicum
• Examen Philosophicum
• From Viking to The White Christ – Norwegian Political Culture ca. 750-1300
• International Military Operations
• Neighbourhood Bully – The Great Powers and the Middle East since 1945
• Norwegian History (old and new)
• Social- and Personality Psychology
• Political Theory
• Saint Culture in Norway and on Iceland ca. 1100-1300
• Shakespeare
• World History (old and new)