Teaching and supervision

My Teaching & supervision Portfolio IN A NUTSHELL

Entrepreneurship and regional development

• Entrepreneurs, organizations and business models (with Erlend A. Gulbrandsen and Inessa Laur)

• Entrepreneurship and society (with Runar Gundersen and Gunn Kristin Aasen Leikvoll)

• SME structures and dynamics (with Martin T. Falk and Mona A. Olsen)

• Student enterprises (supervision / evaluation, with Runar Gundersen and Martin T. Falk)

• Introduction to economic geography (with Anke Matuschewski)

• Regional economic development theories (with Anke Matuschewski)

• Globalization and regionalization theories (with Anke Matuschewski)

• Cross-border studies in human geography

• Institutional economics and economic geography

• Entrepreneurship theories in economic geography

• Demography, population studies and economic geography

• Regional banks as local SMEs and competititiveness (with Alexander Stroehl)

Economics

• Introduction to economics (with Horst Brezinski)

• Microeconomics (with Horst Brezinski and Thomas Schumann)

• The economics of European integration (with Horst Brezinski)

• Economic policy

Business administration

• Introduction to Business Administration

• International Marketing

• Organizational theory

• Cases in Management

• Tourism Management

• Sharing Economy (Module) in the course: Sustainability Marketing and Circular Economy

• Process, product and people (focus sustainability management) (with Anh Nguyen Duc)

Research methodology

• Descriptive statistics

• Multivariate statistics and econometrics

• Introducing qualitative research methods (within seminars and applied students projects)

• Scientific working and academic presentations/writing

Supervision at bachelor, master and PhD level

• Bachelor thesis seminar (for bachelor students in business administration)

• Individual supervision of bachelor, master, diploma theses in business administration, marketing and tourism, innovation and management, sustainability management and economic geography (various programmes at various German and Norwegian universities)

• Co-supervision of doctoral theses (2010-2020, University of Bayreuth Germany): Dimitris Kyriakidis (2010-2011); Alexander Ströhl (2018-2020).

• Viva voce examiner of doctoral theses: Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir (2022), University of Iceland, Iceland; Stefanie Döringer (2021), University of Vienna, Austria.

• Doctoral supervision as main supervisor (2024-present, University of South-Eastern Norway): Gunn Kristin Aasen Leikvoll.

Pedagogical EDUCATION

Course "Supervising Doctoral Students" (2021):
Pedagogical training for Ph.D.-level supervision. University of South-Eastern Norway. 

Certificate “Hochschullehre Bayern” (2009-2011):
Two-year pedagogical training certificate for university and college faculty staff in Germany.
124 hours of training in: 

• Teaching and learning concepts 

• Presentation and communication 

• Oral and written examinations

• Evaluations in teaching 

• Advising and supervising students.

Teaching: Miscellaneous

• Co-grader for the course "Grønn vekst - strategier og ideologier"/"Green growth - strategies and ideologies" (University College Molde, Norway, 2022)

• Co-grader for the course "Strategy and Innovation" (University college Innland, Norway, 2019-2020)

• PhD research seminar in economic geography (University of Pecs, Hungary, 2010-2011)

• Executive education master programmes for social work professionals (University College Erfurt, Germany, 2007-2009)