Undervisere og medarbejdere på Academy Copenhagen

Psykoterapeut og erfaren underviser, supervisor og træner.

Emner

Kroppens fænomenologi, dissociationsfænomener og kroppen i psykoterapi.

Klinisk psykolog og ekspert i psykologien i seksuelle overgreb

Specialist i psykoterapi for voksne og klinisk psykologi

Cand. Psyk. og specialist i psykoterapi

Ulrik is a Senior Lecturer in philosophy of science, qualitative methods and ethics at University College Copenhagen. He is also an External Lecturer at Copenhagen University (History of Ideas), and a trained psychotherapist. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion (Copenhagen University), and an MA in Philosophy and Religion. He is also engaged in the Teacher Training programme of the Diamond Logos Academy that focuses on meditation and spiritual development.

Pernelle currently teaches philosophy of science and research design at Aarhus University. She has also supervised many Master’s theses. She has extensive practical experience of using ethnographic methods in qualitative research. She is also a practicing psychotherapist specializing in family therapy and group dynamics. Pernelle is currently part of a research group at DPU/AU, researching children and young people’s perspectives on mental health and pedagogy. This research consolidates two of her main interests, which are psychotherapy and giving children and young people a voice.

Jelena is currently a post-doc researcher at CCER at the University of Copenhagen. Her background is in psychology, and she is passionate about applying psychological ideas about the mind, learning, development and creativity to address real-world problems. Her main interests are in socio-cultural and practice-based perspectives on human activity and particularly the impact of AI-based technology. She is also experienced as a qualitative and mixed-methods researcher.

Teaching experience

Lecturer in Teaching, UCL Institute of Education, London (2021 – ongoing)

• Module leader on online MPhil/PhD Education programme: ‘Quantitative Data Analysis’, ‘Qualitative Data Analysis’ and ‘Research Methods in Education’.
• Module leader for ‘How people learn’ (1st year undergraduate module open to Education Studies, Psychology with Education, Social Science BSc students) and module leader for ‘Creativity and Education’ (3rd year undergraduate module open to all UCL students).
• Supervising students’ research projects, undergraduate dissertations, and carrying out examinations of PhD and EdD students for upgrade to PhD.

Senior
• Teaching Fellow (2018 – 2021)
• Module leader for ‘How people learn’ and ‘Creativity and Education’ modules.

Teaching Fellow (2017 – 2018)
• Seminar leader on modules ‘Introduction to Education Studies’ (BA Education studies) and ‘Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research Methods’ (BA Arts and Sciences) modules. Personal tutor.

Research experience

Researcher on “The Future of Artificially Intelligent Examination: The Users view on the PTE Test of English”, UCL, London (Nov 2021 – Dec 2022)

• Designing instruments, carrying out online interviews, and overseeing RedCap Surveys. Analysing data and drafting a report and other outputs.

Researcher on “Skills, Knowledge, Artificial Intelligence and Labour” (SKAIL) project, UCL, London (Oct 2020 – Mar 2021)

• Literature review of two research areas: articles reporting the challenges and opportunities associated with the application of AI in a variety of professions (e.g. healthcare, education) and articles discussing the technology-mediated learning at work (e.g. sociomaterial, distributed cognition and activity theory approaches).

Researcher on “Guidance of Adult Learning (GOAL)” project, UCL, London (Nov 2016 – Dec 2017)

• Part of the team that led a mixed-method evaluation study of adult education provision at national and regional levels across six European countries.
• Contributed to the development of the survey questionnaire for adult learning counsellors and data analysis, conducted online interviews with programme coordinators (policy-makers) in each country and led a focus group with the coordinators during the project team meeting

Contract

Researcher, IPSOS MORI, London (Oct – Dec 2013)

• Designing instruments in the domain of large-scale European surveys.

Policy Researcher, DG Education and Culture, The European Commission, Brussels (Mar – Jul 2013)

• Carrying out cross-country evaluation on EU2020 benchmarks for six European Countries. Drafting country-specific chapters for the annual publication: ‘Education and Training Monitor 2013’

Leadership positions

Admissions, marketing and alumni lead, BA Education Studies, UCL, London (Sep 2018 – Sep 2020)

• Planning, designing and delivering admissions and marketing activities to raise the profile of the BA.
• Extensive collaboration with the rest of the Senior Leadership Team, senior faculty members (such as heads of department) and across UCL (such as UCL’s marketing and admissions team).
• Member of the working group on assessment and workload for the BA students.
• Member of the working group responsible for implementing online platforms in formative and summative assessment at UCL.

Educations

PhD in Education, UCL Institute of Education, London (2013 – 2018)

• ESRC PhD Studentship (3 years) and Advanced Quantitative Methods Scholarship (3 years) grant code:
• Research topic: “Graduate transition to work: from qualifications and skills to ‘horizontal expertise’”.
• Mixed-method study combining large-scale survey data (REFLEX and PIAAC) and interview / focus group data

MA Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management, Institute of Education, the University of London and University of Deusto, Spain (2011 – 2013)

• Graduated with Distinction
• European Commission grant to study on the MA programme (Erasmus Mundus)
• Dissertation: ‘Recognition of prior learning (RPL), experiential learning and problem of learning transfer’.
• BA, MSc (integrated) Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (2005 –
2010)
• Achieved 2.1. equivalent

Dissertation in Experimental Psychopathology: The White Bear Effect: Scrambled Sentence test as a
tool for screening for depression vulnerability?

Scholarship and award

• Economic and Social Research Council (UK) PhD Studentship (2013 – 2016)
• Economic and Social Research Council (UK) Advanced Quantitative Methods stipend (2013 – 2016)
• Open Society Grant (2013-2014)
• European Commission Erasmus Mundus scholarship for MA studies (2011 – 2013)

Charlotte has spent the last 20 years working in the private sector as an educator, consultant, CEO and governor. In 2007, she founded Crossfields Institute, a UK educational charity, and developed the organisation to become an Ofqual regulated awarding organisation, a consultancy and a higher education institute. Charlotte completed her doctorate at the Bristol Business School (Faculty of Business and Law, University of the West of England), where she is now working as a Senior Lecturer in Leadership. She has a particular interest in auto-ethnographic research methods in personal and professional.

Karen has a wide range of experience working as an independent psychotherapist specializing in treatment of stress in the workplace. She has also worked extensively with crisis management and has taught this for the Red Cross. She has worked as a management coach and has been an external examiner for GIS. She also has particular knowledge of and experience with action research. Karen currently works on the board of the Danish Psychotherapist Association.

Finn is a writer and philosopher and currently works as an external lecturer at Toulouse Business School, Geneva Business School, and UIBS. He completed his Ph.D. from Copenhagen Business School in 2005, where he has also been an external lecturer at the Institute of Management, Politics, and Philosophy. He has worked with organizational and leadership development at Novo Nordisk Engineering and the Copenhagen Commune. In 2017, he completed an additional Master’s in Mindfulness from Zaragoza University.

Søren is a psychologist who has worked for many years at the Institute of Psychology (Aarhus University) and the Institute of Culture and Learning (Alborg University). He also has extensive professional experience in a broad range of psycho-social helping roles, including psychotherapist, supervisor, coach, process consultant and professional trainer. His practitioner experiences have formed the basis of his teaching and has been the source of the empirical data for his research.