Klara Bolander Laksov Professor
Contact
Name and title: Klara Bolander LaksovProfessor
Phone: +46812076302
Workplace: Department of Education Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room 2514Frescativägen 54
Postal address Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik106 91 Stockholm
About me
As Director of the Centre for the Advancement of University teaching, www.su.se/ceul I strive to support the university as an organisation to develop good conditions for learning, both for students and staff. This is done in collaboration with colleagues at the department of Education and distributed all over Stockholm University and in constant dialogue with the management of the university. I am also a researcher in higher education and medical education. Part of the time I am also the director of a research group on learning in clinical contexts at Karolinska Institutet.
Currently I teach the seminar series in educational leadership, which is one of the courses of the Centre for the Advancement of university teaching. I am also involved in an international course in educational leadesrhip, lead from Aarhus University in Denmark. Also, I regularly do workshops for university teachers on topics like: leading change in higher education; educational leadership; teaching and learning in higher education; team based learning; and research supervision.
An area that I have engaged in a lot is the scholarship of teaching and learning. The basic idea here is for university teachers to take on a systematic approach to their teaching, to explore what works better or worse for student learning, and share this with colleagues in different fora to continuously develop teaching and learning.
I am currently involved in several research projects. One project explores the clinical learning environment as a learning organisation, looking into physicians' experiences of clinical environments for learning.
Another project explores issues of collegiality from a leadership perspective in a literature study.
A third project explores different systems of awarding teaching, such as 'Teacher of the Year' and the use of expert reviewers of teaching portfolios to better understand conditions around the status of teaching and how this is mediated and communicated in university organisations.
For a list of my publications see DiVa