Kompetansekatalog
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Sigrid Brevik Wangsness
has a Cand. philol. degree from the University of Oslo (English, Nordic languages and German) and also an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota. She works at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Oslo University College (HiO), teaching Professional English, International Business Communication and Cross-Cultural Communication. These courses also include Business English and British and American politics and culture.
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Jeanette Rhedding-Jones
is Professor of Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education at Oslo University College (HiO). She has three undergraduate degrees, a Masters degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree. As an Australian immigrant she taught English in Teacher Education in Norway 1997-1998. She currently works internationally as an academic writer, presenter, examiner of Doctorates and guest editor. An anonymous referee for 12 international refereed journals, she locally leads Masters degree coursework at HiO and supervises 11 Norwegian Masters students and 3 Doctoral students. As additional practice she works and plays one day a week in a Muslim kindergarten in inner Oslo.
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Olav Talberg
has a MA in English from University of Bergen. He is currently teaching English and Norwegian for vocational and engineering studies at Oslo University College (HiO). Publications: several course books within EFL for vocational studies in upper-secondary education. Main interest area is learning strategies applied to writing as a method for learning.
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Ann Torday Gulden
was a radiographer in UK before arriving to live in Norway in 1976. Since then she has worked in radiography education in Bergen and Oslo and taken a doctorate in Renaissance literature at the University of Oslo with a research year at University of Oxford. This was followed by postdoctoral research on early modern women writers. She has two pedagogical qualifications and has taught English literature at UiO. Gulden has participated in international Milton conferences and radiology conferences, published articles on Milton's 'Paradise Lost', initiated and designed courses in radiation protection at graduate and postgraduate levels at HiO, and taught English for Academic Purposes using her own specially devised courses, for a wide range of staff at UiO and Oslo University College (HiO).
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Ristil Skovgaard
er Cand.philol.fra Universitetet i Oslo, med engelsk hovedfag,
fransk og historie mellomfag og massekommunikasjon grunnfag. Dessuten har hun 1/2 års-enhet i forskningsformidling fra Journalisthøgskolen i Oslo, samt utdannelse som dramalærer fra folkehøgskoler i Norge, Danmark, Østerrike og Frankrike. Hun har lang undervisningserfaring fra alle skoleslag og har siden 1989 arbeidet ved ingeniørutdanningen på Høgskolen i Oslo med teknisk engelsk tilrettelagt for studenter på Forkurset. Spesialområde: Muntlige presentasjoner av tekniske (særlig byggtekniske) og vitenskapelige emner, tilrettelegging og veiledning i presentasjonsteknikk. For øvrig grammatikktrening,uttaletrening, oversettelse og annen språktrening.
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Agnes Lorange Hayman
has a Cand.philol. degree from the University of Oslo (engelsk hovedfag, fransk mellomfag og norsk grunnfag). She lived in England for many years, where she first taught Norwegian at LondonUniversityCollege, University of London, and later at Leicester Adult Education Centre. On her return to Norway, she worked for the Norwegian Business Foundation for Education Abroad. She is currently teaching English at OsloUniversityCollege (HiO), Faculty of Engineering, where she specialises in areas such as are globalisation, cross-cultural business behaviour, management, business ethics, and communication skills in general.
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Lynell Chvala
has an MA in Applied Linguistics for Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) from Iowa State University, USA. Her thesis focused on the use of English by Chinese doctoral students in the USA and the benefits of communication strategy instruction as a factor in their use in spoken English. She also holds a BA in pedagogy for the teaching English as a second language (TESL), as well as for the teaching of English language and literature for native speakers of English. Her experience ranges from phonetics and writing instruction at UiO to literature, culture and business/technical writing instruction at Högskolan i Halmstad. She has also held various courses in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). She is currently a lecturer in English at the Faculty of Education.
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Hilde Fiva
, Assistant Professor of Interpreting Studies at the Faculty of Education, OUC. Hilde is a certified interpreter Norwegian/English, and has 7 years work experience interpreting in the Norwegian public sector. She is a social anthropologist, and her MA thesis, "In Other Words" concerns encounters between the Norwegian public sector and people who are not proficient in Norwegian.
