Evi Petersen

Evi Petersen

Associate Professor
Department of Sports, Physical Education and Outdoor Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Sports and Educational Science
Campus Bø
In addition to my position at OsloMet, I am employed as an Associate Professor (Sport Sciences) at USN. I am leading the externally funded project (2025-2026): "Better balance for people with balance impairments". https://www.usn.no/forskning/prosjekter/andre-prosjekter/skoinnovasjon-for-okt-balanse/bedre-balanse Before, I was a PhD candidate at USN (enrolled in the PhD program: Culture Studies). In my PhD project, I was working theoretically and empirically on participants’ emotional and embodied experience that result from engaging in friluftsliv (outdoor activities). My theoretical approach draws from perspective related to Sport Science with a focus on health, Psychology and Culture Studies. I am generally interested in collaborative projects at the interface between physical activity, health-related wellbeing & nature environments.

Competences

 

Health, well-being, quality of life, elderly, Parkinson's, balance, barefoot, outdoor life, emotions, environmental psychology.

CV

Associate Professor, OsloMet, Early chiildhood education (2022- now)

 

PhD candidate at University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Institute of Outdoor Life, Sports and Physical Education (2017 - 2024)

 

Research assistant at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany (2015–2017)

Institute of Sport Science, Department of Exercise Physiology

 

M.A. human movement science - University of Hamburg, Germany (2015)

Main emphasis: Health research

M.A. thesis: "Health-related quality of life in the elderly – the impact of physical activity & urban green space"

Semester abroad at the University of Vancouver Island, Nanaimo, BC/Canada, Master of Arts Program: Sustainable Leisure Management (2013)

 

B.A. human movement science (Major), Psychology (Minor) - University of Hamburg, Germany (2011)

B.A. thesis: "Friluftliv – chances and barriers of outdoor therapy in the healthcare system"

Erasmus exchange student at the Universitetet i Agder, Kristiansand/Norway, Bachelor of Arts Program: Friluftsliv (2010)

 

Publications in Cristin