I am an interdisciplinary scholar with a training both in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience, specialized in research on and development of inclusive teaching practise in higher education. I am also a certified conflict counselor and particularly interested in trauma-informed and neuro-inclusive conflict mediation and engagement. As a researcher I am working empirically, with experience both in quantitative and qualitative approaches and a specialization in the micro-phenomenological method that I often employ in participatory setups. Before moving into higher education research and training, I have worked extensively in the field of design, the arts and art pedagogy investigating and fostering playful and care-ful design, learning and engagement within the framework of  several art-science and industry-science collaborations. My deep passion both for university teaching and social justice has finally led me to CED where I am now investigating, co-designing and enabling transformative learning and working spaces. As an ADHDler myself, I have a particular focus on neurodiversity and neuro-affirmative teaching while employing an intersectional lens.

My research attends to the topic of inclusion, care in learning and working environments with a focus on higher education. I am interested in investigating what fosters and hinders the sense of belonging and thriving of students, teachers, researchers and other employees and which tools and approaches help to create spaces that allow for sustainable being and change also in times of trouble. I work mainly empirically and qualitatively and am specialized in the interview and analysis method of micro-phenomenology that I have been employing both in multi-method setups and as a standalone tool  in the lab and in the field to explore subjective lived experience. Theoretically I am inspired by the field of transformative and feminist pedagogy, creativity studies, critical gender, queer, decolonial, disability and neurodiversity studies as well as positive feminism. Due to my education as conflict counsellor I am also closely following discourses around conflict and dispute mediation and engagement as well as trauma-informed approaches to community building, teaching and supervision.

In my current employment, I am teaching within the University Pedagogical Program with a focus on small class teaching (https://ced.au.dk/en/courses/university-pedagogical-programme) and am developing and conducting courses on inclusive teaching and supervision, such as the workshops "Teaching in the neurodiverse classroom" and "Conflicts and challenges in the classrooom".

I am furthermore teaching in and responsible for the TECTU Education program open for AU´s MA and PhD students see here: https://www.trainingect.com/

Previously, I have been acting as teacher as well as supervisor in the study programs of Cognitive Sciences, Cognitive Semiotics, Linguistics and Anthropology on BA, MA and PhD level covering contents reaching from Experimental Design and Qualitative Methods to Cognitive Aesthetics. 

As most of my current research is of participatory nature, involving other neurodivergent researchers and teachers as co-researchers on the topic of inclusive teaching in academia, I work mainly collaboratively. 

Due to my rare specialization in micro-phenomenology I am furthermore collaborator, consultant or advisor in a number of other research projects within different disciplines reaching from psychophysics via design to anthropology. I am passionate about inter- and transdisciplinary research, collaboration and design particularly if related to (more than climate related) sustainable transformation of individuum and society. 

I am in a position with 50% Teaching/Consultancy and 50% Research distribution. For my focus in both see text above.