Health Psychology and Clinical Psychology

Peder Mortvedt Isager

Peder Mortvedt Isager is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Oslo New University College, where he teaches research methodology. He holds a PhD in research practice and metascience from Eindhoven University of Technology, and his research spans various topics within research practice, methodology, statistics, and psychology. He is particularly interested in studying causal mechanisms and complex systems within human psychology and health.

Heidi Øvereng Bjøntegaard

Heidi Øvereng Bjøntegaard is a University College Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Oslo New University College, where she teaches Health Psychology and Mental Health in Schools. She has a Master's degree in Public Health Science and is currently working on a PhD in Public Health Science at NMBU, researching how to facilitate and strengthen youth participation in a municipal context. She is particularly interested in health promotion and prevention among children and young people, and factors that promote good mental health and quality of life, and prevent mental disorders such as social and environmental factors and the opportunity for active participation in society.

Mia Brathagen Lie

Mia Brathagen Lie is a University College Lecturer in Psychology at Oslo New University College. She works as an online teacher and contributes to several subjects including biological, developmental, social, and personality psychology. She contributes through lectures, subject development, examination, and as a learning assistant. She has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (Lillehammer campus) and a Master's degree in Educational Psychology from NTNU in Trondheim. Her master's thesis examined how sex education can influence attitudes towards queer people among youth. Mia has previously worked in teaching and educational work for youth, focusing on mental health. Her academic interests include mental health, especially among minorities and in a school context, biological psychology, and the role of education in mental health.

Natalie Rolandsgard

Natalie Rolandsgard is a University College Lecturer at Oslo New University College, where she mainly works with academic guidance for students, as well as some teaching in certain subjects. She has a Bachelor's degree in Culture and Communication, and a Master's degree in Health, Development and Community Psychology from the University of Oslo. She has specialized in cultural and social psychology, and is particularly interested in language psychology, mental health, critical approaches to societal phenomena, and qualitative methods. She wrote her master's thesis on how youth understand openness about mental problems, which was later published as a research article.

Kornelia Antonsen Ekeli

Kornelia Antonsen Ekeli is a University College Lecturer at Oslo New University College, where she advises and teaches various introductory subjects in psychology. From the University of Oslo, she has a Master's in Psychology, as well as studies in English and practical-pedagogical education. Her master's project focused on sexuality and sexual health, and she is interested in several areas within health, social, and personality psychology, in addition to quantitative research methods.

Benjamin Goksøyr

Benjamin Goksøyr is a University College Lecturer in Psychology at Oslo New University College, where he works with academic guidance at the bachelor level, in addition to teaching qualitative methods. Benjamin has a Master's degree in Health, Development and Community Psychology from the University of Oslo with a specialization in discursive psychology. He is particularly interested in how language use constructs different societal phenomena and truths.

Judit Balazs

Judit Balazs is a part-time professor at Oslo New University College, and a professor and head of the department for developmental and clinical child and adolescent psychology at the Institute of Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. She is the Director of Education and Research at the Vadaskert Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Hospital and Polyclinic in Budapest, Hungary, where she also practices as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Judit teaches child and adolescent psychiatry, diagnostics, psychopharmacology, and suicidology for psychology and medical students, as well as doctoral students and psychiatrists in training. Her main research areas are suicidology, ADHD, subthreshold conditions, quality of life, and prevention of mental health among youth.

Silje Kvam Bårdstu (external)

Silje Kvam Bårdstu is a researcher at the Department for Children and Families at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo where she teaches developmental psychology and supervises bachelor, professional, and master students. She has a PhD in Personality Psychology from the University of Oslo and has researched children and adolescents' emotional and social development since 2012. Her research interest primarily revolves around individual differences in children and adolescents and how such differences impact their mental health, social development, and quality of life in interaction with various risk and protective factors in the social environment. She is particularly focused on early intervention in preventive areas such as kindergarten and school, and in the interaction between children and parents and within the family. She has extensive experience using data from large epidemiological and prospective studies such as the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), the TOPP Study, The Youth and Mental Health Study (YAMHS), and the FamilieForSK study. She is currently the project leader for the research project "Equality, Parental Conflict, and Children's Adjustment" at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, where she investigates how family dynamics are related to children's development and well-being.

Helene Nordby (external) 

Helene Bergh Nordby is a psychologist at TSB Ullevål. She has previously worked at DPS and in the Section for Morbid Obesity at Aker Hospital with bariatric surgery patients. In her clinical practice, she has worked with eating disorders, substance abuse issues, personality disorders, trauma, self-esteem, and obesity. She wrote her main thesis based on data from the Oslo Bariatric Surgery Study, where she looked at cognitive function, eating behavior, and weight outcomes among bariatric surgery patients. She is particularly interested in the connection between physical and mental health, and challenges related to behavior change. She is interested in what contributes to and maintains obesity, the prevalence of comorbid mental disorders in this population, how to create comprehensive treatment for patients suffering from obesity, as well as binge eating issues and how to assess and treat them. In the next few years, she plans to specialize in clinical health psychology.

Gro Walø-Syversen (external) 

Gro Walø-Syversen is a specialist psychologist with a specialization in substance and addiction psychology. She received her PhD from the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2021, where she defended her thesis on the longitudinal research project Oslo Bariatric Surgery Study (OBSS) Cognitive. The project was realized through close collaboration between the Regional Section for Eating Disorders at Ullevål Hospital, the Center for Morbid Obesity at Aker Hospital, and the University of Oslo. Gro has a deep grounding in and interest in research on topics such as obesity, treatment of obesity, and addiction. She is currently actively involved in a 5-year follow-up study of patients who previously participated in the OBSS Cognitive research project, under the leadership of Camilla Lindvall Dahlgren. Outside of the research world, Gro contributes to the field with her main position as a psychological editor for the Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association. With a combination of practical and academic experience, she contributes valuable insight into the world of psychology.

Line Wisting

Line Wisting (PhD) is a senior researcher at the Regional Section for Eating Disorders (RASP) at Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål. She has a PhD in health psychology from the University of Oslo and has carried out several projects mapping eating problems and disorders, including among people with type 1 diabetes. She is now working on "Body Project," a program to promote a positive body image and prevent eating disorders in risk groups, including young women, young athletes, and youth with type 1 diabetes. She is currently leading two RCT studies testing the effect of the "Body Project." Line also teaches on the master's program in psychology at Oslo New University College.