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Catarina Wallengren

Senior Lecturer

Learning and Leadership for Health Care Professionals
Telephone
+46 31-786 40 58
+46 766-18 40 58
Mail
catarina.wallengren@gu.se
Visiting address
Arvid wallgrens backe hus 1 och 2
41346 Göteborg
Room number
1315
Postal address
Box 457
40530 Göteborg

About Catarina Wallengren

Research Presentation:Catarina is a researcher focusing on how learning about person-centred care (PCC) can be promoted within clinical practice, academic environments and civil society. She is an Associate Professor in Caring Pedagogy. She is a registered nurse and a certified teacher in nursing education.

Research:Catarina’s research focuses on how the development of PCC can be facilitated and how support in the form of education and training can be developed and implemented within clinical practice, academic environments and civil society.

Teaching:Catarina is the course leader for the course “Leadership and Learning” (15 credits, semester 6), which is part of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing programme. She is also the course leader for the course “Degree Project for Part-time Programmes” (15 credits), which is part of the Specialist Nursing Programme. She supervises and examines degree projects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervises doctoral students at doctoral level. In addition, she teaches within the areas of learning, innovation and PCC in undergraduate programmes (including the nursing, radiography and KUSK programmes) as well as at postgraduate level.

Academic Roles

Research Group Leader: Catarina is the research group leader for the comprehensive academic environment “Pedagogy and Healthcare Leadership for Professional Development” and GPCC-EDU. Within this environment, development is ongoing in relation to the six core competencies of healthcare: person-centred care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, informatics and patient safety.

Supervisor of Doctoral Students: 

Malin Lindberg (Specialist Nurse)

Kiana Kiani (Nurse)

Sara Bergström (Specialist Nurse)

Annie Jonnergård (Physiotherapist)

Research Colleagues: 

  • Mari Lundberg (Physiotherapist, Professor)
  • Caroline Feldthusen (Physiotherapist, Associate Professor)
  • Emma Forsgren (Speech and Language Therapist, PhD)
  • Ida Björkman (Nurse, Associate Professor)
  • Axel Wolf (Specialist Nurse, Professor)
  • Elin Siira (Nurse, PhD)
  • Kristina Rosengren (Nurse, Associate Professor)
  • Hanna Falk (Specialist Nurse, Associate Professor)
  • Ramona Schenell (Specialist Nurse, PhD)
  • Sonia Sunny (Specialist Nurse, PhD)

Keywords:Learning, person-centred care, pedagogy, innovation, implementation, intervention, facilitation.