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Therése Julia Iréne Skoog

Assistant Dean

Department of Psychology
Telephone
+46 31-786 69 37
+46 766-18 69 37
Mail
therese.skoog@psy.gu.se
Visiting address
Haraldsgatan 1
41314 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 500
40530 Göteborg

Assistant Dean

Faculty of Social Sciences
Telephone
+46 31-786 69 37
+46 766-18 69 37
Mail
therese.skoog@psy.gu.se
Visiting address
Konstepidemins väg 2A
41314 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 720
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of Psychology - Organisation, Health and Addiction
Telephone
+46 31-786 69 37
+46 766-18 69 37
Mail
therese.skoog@psy.gu.se
Visiting address
Haraldsgatan 1
41314 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 500
40530 Göteborg

About Therése Julia Iréne Skoog

Roles and leadership at the University of Gothenburg, previous employment and teaching

Therése Skoog is Professor of Psychology and a Distinguished University Teacher at the Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg. Since January 2024, she has served as Vice Dean for Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences, with responsibility for undergraduate and master's education, and is a member of the University Education Committee. She also chairs the Steering Committee for the Unit for Academic Scholarship (EAL).

Therése earned her PhD in Psychology from Örebro University in 2008 with a dissertation on pubertal development. During her years at Örebro University, she held several leadership roles in education and pedagogical development, including responsibility for developing and coordinating the prevention profile within the Psychology Programme. She also served as Chair of the Education Committee. In 2014, she was voted Best Female Teacher by the students, and in 2015 she was awarded the title of Distinguished University Teacher.

Between 2015 and 2018, she held a position as Associate Professor II at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. She subsequently served as a Visiting Researcher at the School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University (2018–2019). She has also participated in the Erasmus Staff Mobility Programme at Ramon Llull University in Barcelona.

Therése has extensive experience teaching and supervising at undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels. She has taught developmental psychology, prevention science, research methods and implementation science, and supervises master's theses, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers.

Research and postgraduate training

Therése Skoog's research focuses on children's and adolescents' psychosocial development from a biopsychosocial perspective. As principal investigator and co-investigator, she has secured approximately SEK 75 million in competitive external research funding from organisations including the Swedish Research Council, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, and Forte (the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare). She has published circa 90 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals and edited books.

Her research spans basic studies of developmental processes as well as applied research on preventive and health-promoting interventions for children and young people, and on how such interventions can be successfully implemented in practice. Her work is conducted in close collaboration with schools, social services and civil society organisations.

She is a member and one of the leaders of the AdLab research group and also leads the Research Network on Sustainable Academic Leadership (FNHL).

Therése supervises several doctoral students at the University of Gothenburg, Örebro University, NTNU and Chalmers University of Technology.

She has held several international scientific appointments, including serving as Section Editor for the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (2021–2024), and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. She also serves as Scientific Advisor to the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care (SiS).

She regularly serves as an expert reviewer and panel chair for national and international research funding organisations, including Forte, the Research Council of Norway, TrygFonden (Denmark), and the Health Research Board (Ireland).

Community engagement/Societal outreach

In addition to her leadership, teaching and research responsibilities, Professor Skoog actively collaborates with organisations outside academia through research partnerships, consultancy work, expert assignments and invited lectures. Her activities primarily focus on child and adolescent development and preventive and psychosocial interventions.

She is frequently engaged as an expert by national agencies and organisations, including the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU), the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT), and the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (NAKVIS).

Professor Skoog has co-authored My Choice – My Way!, a prevention programme developed for young people placed in out-of-home care.