Rate My Professor Torill Strand

Torill Strand is Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Oslo, a position she has held since 2014. She obtained her Dr. polit. degree from the Faculty of Education at the University of Oslo in 2007 and her Cand. paed. from the Institute of Educational Research at the same institution in 1994. Her career includes serving as Professor at Østfold University College from 2011 to 2014, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Educational Research at the University of Oslo from 2008 to 2011, and Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Bergen from 2005 to 2008. Earlier roles encompass Associate Professor at the Department of Teacher Education at Oslo University College from 2003 to 2004 and Research Fellow at the Institute of Educational Research from 1999 to 2003, as well as Assistant Professor at Oslo University College from 1994 to 1999. Strand has enriched her academic experience through international visiting positions, including Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley in 2000-2001, Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge's Department of Education and Homerton College in 2010-2011 and 2012, Visiting Scholar at Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009, and Visiting Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2022.