Olov Nordvall

Short presentation

Roles:

• Senior lecturer in didactics
• Member of the research group [CHAP]
• Member of the program development groups for the Preschool Teacher Education Program and the Child and Youth Studies program

Academic qualifications: PhD

Teaches in: Preschool, elementary, and high school teacher education programs, special education teacher education program, and independent courses

Keywords

• social sustainability
• risk and protective factors
• psychosocial development
• cognition
• systematic quality work
• preventive work
• self-regulation

Biography

Undergraduate degree with a focus on cognitive science at Umeå University and Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg (Master of Arts in Cognitive Science, 2008).

Doctoral education with a focus on educational science at Umeå University (Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Psychology, 2018).

2017-2022 strategic roles in public administration with a focus on social sustainability, crime prevention, integration, and children's rights.

Since 2022, researcher and teacher at the Department of Education

Research

Participating in the Forte-funded research project “Equitable Child Health Opportunities and Education Services”

Responsible for subproject 3, which runs from 2023 to 2029.

The project is part of the research conducted by the CHAP research group.

Also conducts research on children's media use and digitization in preschool.