After 2016: Retirement from post as Associate Professor in Norway and settlement in Berlin:
- In-house training of English business communication. Intermediate to high level (B2/C1). Example: Markengold, a PR agency
- Individual and group training of “English for the job”. Lower, intermediate or higher (A/B/C) level.
- Teaching beginner’s/survival German to Norwegians
- Teaching beginner’s/survival Norwegian to Germans
- Being external examiner at two universities (HiØ and Oslo Metropolitan University), English business communication courses
1998-2016: Associate Professor at Høgskolen i Østfold / Østfold University of Applied Sciences (HiØ), Halden, Norway and academic head of Bachelor’s Programme in International Communication:
- Curriculum development and teaching of:
- Professional communication in English such as presentations, email and memo writing, business negotiations
- Corporate communication, English: corporate identity and reputation, crisis communication
- Copywriting: writing for the media and for advertising, English
- Functional translation, i.e. cross-cultural and transcreational translation, Norwegian-English-Norwegian
- Communication training (in Norwegian) for student leaders
2010-2016: English communication training for academic and administrative staff at HiØ
- Training academics to present research papers at international conferences
- Training administrative staff to communicate with international students and universities: oral communication and emails
- Editing PhD theses written in English
2000-2006: Participating in “Competence Enhancement in the Østfold Region”, training English business communication in companies such as:
- Fortum, a merger of electricity providers in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Baltic countries
- English chosen as corporate language, thus language training was needed for lower and intermediate management staff for presentations, board meetings, email writing etc.
1995-97: Lecturer at NKI University College (now part of Kristiania University College, Oslo)
- Teaching technical and business English and environmental management
- Participating in developing a fully-fledged problem-based curriculum
1982-1997: Lecturer at Hærens ingeniørhøgskole / the Norwegian Army College of Engineering, a combined military training school and university of construction engineering
- Curriculum development and teaching of courses in
- Technical, business and military English
- Technical German
- Environment management for construction engineers
- Training civilian Army technicians in personnel management and communication
- Leading the development of a new, problem-based and project-oriented curriculum in the engineering college
- One year: teaching technical English to car mechanics in a vocational school in the Norwegian Army
Mid 1990s: Teaching English in a business college specialising in teacher training for vocational studies
Mid 1990s: Developing and teaching extracurricular courses for students at various Norwegian universities: “The first-year university experience” (study technique etc.)
1973-1980: Teacher in Lower Secondary School in Norway (14-16 years old pupils)
- Teaching English, German and social studies
