Vidar Vambheim

Associate Professor in Education

Details
Faculty of Social Science

Phone (+47)
77645249

E-mail
vidarv@peace.uit.no

Homepage
www.peace.uit.no

Office/Visiting
D -0112, Faculty of Social Science.

Biography:
Autumn 2005: Lecturer and student supervisor at the CPS. Research on education and identity construction in adolescence (funded by the Norwegian Research council).

Spring 2005: Sabbatical.

April 2003-Oct 2004: Acting Director - Centre for Peace Studies, Univ. of Tromsö.

June 2001- June 2003: Development and implementation of Master Degree Program in Peace and Conflict Transforma-tion and Center for Peace Studies, University of Tromsö.

Aug.-December 1998: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Dept. of Comparative Educational Research. Research visit.

April 1997-:Associate Professor. Department of Educational Research, University of Tromsø

Aug -94-March-97: Assistant Professor.Dept. of Educational Research, Univ. of Tromsø

Aug-91-Jul.-94: Scholarship/research fellow. Dept. of Educational Research,Univ. of Tromsø

1986-91: Teaching, research and research based consultancy work on Education and Regional Development, Northern Troms (North Norway).

1986: Cand. Polit, Sociology, University of Trondheim, Norway.
Born in Bergen, Norway, 1953.

Current Research:
- Future oriented identity construction during adolescence
in different contexts of socialisation
see http:/uit.no/iplu
or http:/peace.uit.no/cps
- Peace Education: Content and framing.
- Bullying, analysis, treatment and a culture of peace.