Areas of Work
Ingrid Johnsen Hogstad, PhD, MPhil in Psychology, is affiliated at the bachelor’s program in social education. Her central teaching areas include, but are not excluded to:
- developmental psychology
- social educators in schools
- school absenteeism
- children as next of kin
- grief and crises in children and young people
- philosophy of science
- qualitative research methods
She supervises students at bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD levels.
Hogstad leads the research group Collaboration on Children and Youth (SamBU). She is currently involved in research projects concerning problematic school absenteeism (Utsia), foster children’s experiences of parental death during childhood (FoBa), and social educators in schools (VIS). In her research, Hogstad is particularly concerned with how welfare state professionals contribute to creating developmental conditions in children’s upbringing and everyday life in arenas such as kindergarten, school, and health services. Central research topics:
- children’s participation and involvement
- childhood loss and bereavement
- expressions of grief in children
- cultural understandings of children and childhood.
Hogstads doctoral thesis from 2021, “Possibilities and conflicts in professional encounters with young children experiencing parental illness and death. A sociocultural developmental psychology perspective on child involvement,” deals with professionals’ encounters with young children who experience serious illness and death in a parent (see review of the work, as well as recordings of trial lecture and defense).
Hogstad chairs the Research Forum at the Department of Health and Social Sciences (HS), which serves as an advisory body to the Dean on matters related to research. Hogstad is a staff member of the research school PROFRES 2.0, the interdisciplinary and interprofessional research school for profession-oriented and practice-oriented research within health, education, and welfare. She is a member of a Nordic Network for research on childlife, Nordisk Nettverk for barnelivsforskning, and also co-leads the cross-institutional research group “Children, Childhood, and Everyday Life” at HiM and HVO.
Background
Phd program in Health and social care: Professional Practice: Conditions and Development, Aug 2015 - Mar 2021.
Master in Psychology (MPhil in Psychology) Study program in Cultural and Community Psychology, UiO, 2012
Bachelor in Philosophy, UiO 2006-2009