Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology, and have worked with applied cross-disciplinary research for more than 15 years. Øvergård is currently Head of the research group 'health promotion in settings'. Currently he enjoys being a researcher practitioner by splitting his time between academia and private HR industry.
Responsibilities
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Professor in work- and organizational psychology
- Supervision of master- and phd-candidates
- Lecturing on work- and organizational psychology in MSH-VAA4300 "health promoting work places", in applied statistics in MSH-OPP4400 "Master thesis", and in Epistemology and Theory of science in MSH-VET4100
- Research
- Aquisition of external funding for research- and innovation projects
As Head of Research Group in Health Promotion in Settings
- Planning of research strategy
- Representing research group in internal and external fora
- Support of research-related activities in the research group
Competences
- Professor-competent in work and organisational psychology: maritime human factors (from 2011), in arbeidslivsforskning (2018) and Menneske-teknologisamspill (2020).
- Sound understanding of Applied Statistics with particular focus on General Linear Modelling, robust non-parametric statistics and bootstrapping procedures.
- Experienced in Cross-disciplinary research
CV
Education
- PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Systems Engineering) from NTNU, Norway 2008
- Cand.Polit in Psychology (Ergonomics and Human Factors) from NTNU, Norway 2004
- Cand.mag from Akershus College, Norway, 2001
Research Interest
- Health promotion
- Organisational Psychology
- Personnel selection
- Psychosocial Work enviornment
- Leadership and Management
- Applied Statistics and Statistical Modelling
- Time-dependent analysis of work