Catherine Anne Nicole Lorentzen

Catherine Anne Nicole Lorentzen

Associate professor
Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
Department of Health, Social and Welfare Studies
Campus Vestfold (C2-59)

Responsibilities

- Responsible for the lead of courses, teaching and supervision, mainly in the Master's in Society and Health, i.a.

 

- Main responsible for the course "the Master's thesis" (MSH-OPP4400)

- Supervision on the master's thesis, both qualitative and quantitative method approaches

- Main responsible for courses/supervision for municipal public health actors in the evaluation of public health work

 

- Collaboration with various external actors (including Vestfold and Telemark county council, Korus Sør, NOVA/OsloMet) related to the Ungdata survey, the Ungdata+ survey (longitudinal study among children and young people about leisure time and quality of life) and the Public Health Survey among adults in Vestfold and Telemark

- Research on immigrant women's use of nature - preferences, barriers and perceived benefits

- Research on young people's mental health in a socio-ecological resource perspective (Based on data from the Ungdata survey)

- Meta-analytic research related to the importance of individual factors for work-related health

 

- Member of the PhD committee for the doctoral program Person-centered health care

 

- Member of the research group HENÆR

- Member of the research group Education and education

Competences

I have worked with the following topics: physical activity and health, how to motivate for and facilitate increase in physical activity, public health work in local communities, outdoor life/nature and immigrants, general self-efficacy in adolescents, process and effect evaluation.

I have experience with various quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Publications in Cristin