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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
Room number
A410
Postal address
Box 700
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 Excellent teacher at the Department of Psychology. Since January 2024, she is the Vice Dean with responsibility for undergraduate and graduate education at the Faculty of Social Sciences and a member of the University Education Board. Professor Skoog is also Chair of the PIL Unit Council (Unit for Pedagogical Development and Interactive Learning).

Professor Skoog received her PhD in Psychology from Örebro University in 2008. Between 2002 and 2027, she was employed at Örebro University and was, among other things, developer and responsible for the prevention profile of the clinical Psychology program. In 2014, she was voted by students as Örebro University's best female educator and was awarded the title of excellent teacher in 2015.

From 2015 to 2018, Skoog was employed as first amanuensis II at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. From 2018 to 2019, she was a researcher at the School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University. She has also participated in Erasmus teacher exchange program at Ramon Llull University in Barcelona (2015).

Research and postgraduate training

Professor Skoogs conducts basic research on the psychosocial development and adaptation of young people from a biopsychosocial perspective. In addition, she conducts - often together with practitioners from schools, social services and the non-profit sector - applied research on preventive and promotional interventions for children and young people and on implementation. Professor Skoog is a member of the research groups PRISE, GRID (Gothenburg Research In Developmental Psychology), and LoRDIA (Longitudinal Research on Adolescence).

She is currently supervising one postdoc and about five PhD students enrolled at Gothenburg and Örebro Universities, NTNU and Chalmers University of Technology.

Professor Skoog was Section Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (2021-2024) and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. She is a scientific advisor for the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care (SiS).

She has acted as reviewer and chair for a variety of national and international research funding bodies, including Forte, the Danish Trygfonden, the Norwegian Research Council and the Irish Health Research Board.

Community engagement/Societal outreach

In addition to tasks in education and research, Professor Skoog continuously interacts with the surrounding society through various research collaborations, consulting assignments, expert assignments and lectures, mainly related to child and adolescent development and psychosocial interventions. She is also a frequently engaged expert for various external actors such as the National Board of Health and Welfare, SBU (the Swedish National Board for Medical and Social Research) and the Ombudsman for Children.

Professor Skoog is the author of the prevention program My choice - My way! for young people in out-of-home care.