Researchers

charlotte.tvedte@hvl.no

Charlotte teaches in several pre-service teacher programmes. Together with her colleague Torunn Hetland she has designed and tried out an interdisciplinary approach to writing, children’s literature and art and craft, ARTig. Her study is a part of the IMTE project where they study educational writing and educational processes concerned with facts and fiction. The Science Book for children is their educational point of departure and during the project pupils read, write, draw and create their own multimodal expressions.

janne.iren.robberstad@hvl.no

Janne is an assistant professor of arts education at HVL. Her PhD-research focuses on creativity and eco-design in STEAM-education. Janne is the coordinator of two EU Erasmus+ projects “Creativity, Art and Science in Primary Education (CASE)” and GSO4SCHOOL. She is the production manager of Global Science Opera (GSO), and is especially engaged in promoting sustainable approaches to quality design in the GSO. She has taught workshops in Japan, Norway, USA, Brazil, Chile, Portugal and Sao Tome & Principe piloting eco-scenography into the GSO initiative . She is also a team-member creating the pilot-project Global Hands On Oceans within the Norwegian Research Council project iSCOPE.

She has a masters degree in Creative Disciplines and Learning Processes and a Bachelor in Design, Arts and Crafts in Education, with an additional course in Textile Culture. Janne has a fifteen-year teaching experience in the Norwegian Folk High School-system, mainly within theatre, costume- and fashion-design and creativity-based projects. Her artistic career spans over two decades and includes both visual arts and theatrical design. As a member of the Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK), she has held several solo-exhibitions and has delivered a sizable amount of art commissioned by larger private companies. She is also a member of Association of Norwegian Scenographers (NSC), and has a long list of productions she´s designed and produced costumes and sets for, including the Norwegian premiere of ”Chess” and ”Miss Saigon”.

K.A.Chappell@exeter.ac.uk

Dr Kerry Chappell is appointed as Professor II at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. She is an Associate Professor of Creativity and Arts Education in the Graduate School of Education at Exeter University, where she leads the MA creative arts in education programme. She also leads the Creativity and Emergent Educational-futures Network, within which her research focuses on creativity in education, specifically in dance/arts and transdisciplinary settings. Kerry is currently principal investigator on the EU-funded SciCulture project, which is applying creative pedagogies for transdisciplinary arts/sciences/business intensives within European HE institutions. She is also co-investigator on the EU-funded Oceans Connections project, bringing together creative pedagogy, virtual reality, augmented reality, the sciences and arts to teach Ocean literacy in schools. She is investigating creative dance and health methodologies with colleagues from Dance in Devon and Trinity Laban Conservatoire (Wellcome Trust funded). She also recently led an ESRC-funded impact project developing a Science-Arts Creative Pedagogy Resource for schools (FREE resource now available at https://sciartsedu.co.uk). All of Kerry’s academic work is informed by her ongoing practice as a dance artist with Devon-based Dancelab Collective; she is also a trustee of Dance in Devon.