Speakers at SimPro 2023

Invited presenters

Wenche Lervik is a PhD student at the Department of Health Sciences at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU. She is a part of the project Professional education, and simulation-based training PROSIM. In this presentation, she analyzes facilitators basic assumptions regarding feedback through interviews, ethnographical fieldnotes, and video data of debriefing for nursing students participating in simulation-based training. Wenche has a background as a nurse and has several years of experience as a facilitator in simulation-based training in nursing education. 

Susanne Gustavsson is senior lecturer at Department of Education and Special education, University of Gothenburg. Her research interest lies in two areas. One area is vocational education and then primarily vocational education's teaching practice and vocational learning in school and in the workplace. She has participated in studies about teaching in upper secondary school, but also about teaching in higher education, for example nursing education and teacher education. She is also chairman of the management group for the Nordic Vocational Education and Vocational Didactic Network (NORDYRK).

Giulia Messina Dahlberg is Senior Lecturer in Education at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg. A central contribution of her research lies in its focus of what happens when we open up social sites, places and materialities to “diverse mobilities” enabled by todays’ interconnectivity that goes beyond spatial logics of local/global, virtual/real, center/periphery, education/workplace/private life. Giulia has a background as an upper-secondary teacher and she has worked in national programs at university level over the past 15 years.

Mari Starup is a PhD student at the Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences at University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway. Her research focusses on maritime education and the social interactions during training in simulated environments, mainly by drawing on qualitative interaction analysis of video records of simulator-based training. Mari has a background in the maritime industry, with experience of working as a navigation officer on board chemical tankers. She also has years of experience as a teacher and simulator instructor before pursuing a doctoral degree in maritime operations.  

Marcus Samuelsson is associate professor at Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning at Linköping University. His research interest focusses classroom management from teacher and students’ perspective, efficient teachers’ leadership, and virtual practice from simulation training. He conducts teaching, instructions, and research with virtual practice. Over the year Marcus, in several research projects has created simulations as well used established simulations to overcome the experienced gap between different part of teacher training and to prepare preservice and in-service teachers for a better conduct of work. 

Per-Olof Hansson is a lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Linköping University. P-O has a doctorate in pedagogy with a didactic focus. He is a teacher trainer in social studies for students on the subject teacher program. P-O organizes annual field courses to East Africa and India/Japan and has been an exchange teacher at the University of Nairobi on several occasions. The research interest is about mobile learning, simulation teaching and health literacy. He is also a researcher at the Athletic Research Center, Linköping University.

Aud M Wahl is an associate professor at Department for Industrial Economics and Technology Management. She has a doctorate in 'Maritime safety leadership and simulator-based training' from NTNU, a master's degree in sociology from the same place and a background as a commercial pilot and flight instructor. Wahl has been a researcher with Sintef Ocean and NTNU Social Research, specializing in transport safety and human factors. Before joining NTNU, she worked with leadership training and simulator-based training of professional maritime officers with Kongsberg Maritime.

Ellen Bjørge Ekse is a PhD student at the department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU. She is a part of the project Professional education, and simulation-based training PROSIM, which is a comparative study of simulation-based training in maritime, health and biomedical laboratory science education. She will present data from interviews with bachelor level teachers using simulation-based training. In these interviews the teachers have been asked to reflect upon their emphasize on, and importance of, simulators as a way of teaching students about more implicit social and cultural codes of professional work.

Stefan Hanus M.A. is PhD student at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His research focuses on simulation learning, medical education, and the social interactions during debriefings. He teaches courses on evaluation as well as quantitative methods of educational research. He obtained a Master degree in Educational Science at the University of Regensburg. Stefan Hanus works as scientific assistant at the chair of Educational Science III. The focus of the chair is on the analysis of outstanding professional performers and educational means to foster their acquisition of expertise. Studies are conducted in different domains and using a large variety of empirical research methods (from eye-tracking analyses to biographical records of practice activities). 

Helen Jossberger, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Department Educational Science, at the University of Regensburg, Germany. She teaches courses on learning and professional development, expertise research, instructional design, evaluation research, development and socialisation, and methodology. Her research focuses on self-directed and self-regulated learning in vocational education, professional learning, workplace learning and (visual) expertise development. Currently, she is assistant editor of Educational Research Review. She received her PhD at the Open Universiteit on self-regulated learning in vocational education. She obtained a Master degree in Cognitive Psychology at Maastricht University. 

Hans Gruber, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. is Full Professor of Educational Science at the University of Regensburg (Germany) and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Turku (Finland). Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Educational Research Review, and as Member of the Board of Trustees at the University of Education Weingarten (Germany). Previously, he served as Vice-Rector of the University of Regensburg. He is Past President of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI). His main research topics are professional learning, expertise, eye-tracking, workplace learning, social network analysis, and higher education.

Conference Organizers

Charlott Sellberg is associate professor in Applied IT and Learning at Department of Applied IT at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research draws on embodied, situated and socio-cultural theories of learning to study the use of simulations for training and assessment currently across three professional domains: maritime, healthcare and bioengineering education.

Marte Fanneløb Giskeødegård is associate professor at Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Her research interest is in organization and working life, with special interests in issues related to the globalization of working life, cooperation mediated by technology and standardization. How organizations adapt to working in an environment that involves different national and cultural contexts is another area of interest.