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Karl Henrik Storhaug Reinås

Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Education
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Academic interests

My research field is within health education and clinical communication.

My research project focuses on how patients and healthcare professionals share and co-construct knowledge to develop health literacy. This involves patients acquiring coping strategies and experiential learning, while healthcare professionals develop person-centered approaches to treatment and diagnosis that are tailored to the patient’s unique needs and preferences.

My data material consists of video recordings from the preparatory procedure prior to PET-CT scanning, telephone recordings between patients and rheumatologists in which diagnostic imaging results are communicated, and audio recordings of interviews with patients about their narratives and experiences of living with a chronic fibrotic connective tissue disease.

The approach is ethnographic, using interactional, discursive, and narrative analyses of the data. The focus is on gaining a better understanding of how person-centered learning processes that facilitate patient agency can contribute to improving prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for patients with chronic fibrotic connective tissue diseases.

Other academic interests

  • Institutional conversations
  • Clinical communication
  • Experiential learning
  • Professional learning
  • Health literacy
  • Person-centered care
  • Motivational psychology
  • Counselling
  • Psychosocial development
  • Qualitative methods
  • Philosophy of science

Courses taught

Current

Previous

Background

Work

  • 2023–: Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oslo (UiO)
  • 2026–2026: Peer reviewer, Scandinavian University Press, SCUP
  • 2022–2023: University Lecturer, Kristiania University College
  • 2022–2023: Expert assessor, National authority for quality in training, NOKUT
  • 2019–2023: Teaching Assistant, Department of Education, UiO
  • 2016, 2018 and 2022: Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, UiO
  • 2019–2020: Research Assistant, Department of Education, UiO
  • 2017-2020: Student recruiter, Faculty of educational sciences, UiO

Education

  • 2026: Master's in Organisation, Leadership and Labour, UiO
  • 2025: University teaching program (230 hours), UiO
  • 2025: Ambassador programme, Values and Democracy, EuroDoc
  • 2024: Bachelor’s in Political Science, UiO
  • 2021: Master's in Educational-psychological counseling, UiO
  • 2019: Year unit in Special Needs Education, UiO
  • 2019: Bachelor’s in Education, UiO
  • 2018: Dialogue facilitator, UiO
  • 2014: Bachelor’s in Psychology, UiO

Positions held

Current

Previous

Earlier in my period of being a PhD student, I have been Head of governmental relations, Association of Doctoral organisations in Norway (2024), Observer in the working group UHR-Research, Universities Norway (2024), Member of the Election council, Faculty of educational sciences (2023 and 2024), member of the Research Committee, UiO (2023-2024), president, representation officer, and PR-officer, UiODoc (2023-2026), member of the Department board, Department of education (2025) and Head of the Academic and Research Policy Committee, the Norwegian Student Organisation (2023-2024).

During my studies, I held a number of positions. Among a variety of positions, I was head of the Student union at the Faculty of Educational sciences, editor of Pedagogical Profile, member of the Institute Board at the Department of Education, the Recruitment Committee at the Department of Education, the Employment Committee at the Faculty of Educational sciences and the Local work environment council.

Partners

My research project is part of the Life Sciences initiative at UiO, and forms part of the interdisciplinary research group (convergence environment) FibroPET. My project is part of work package 4 who is responsible for education.

In FibroPET, we collaborate across the disciplines of nuclear medicine, rheumatology, physics and pedagogy, with the aim of creating the best possible precision-medical treatment and diagnosis for patients with fibrosis diseases that ensure good person-centred learning trajectories.

In addition, I am affiliated with The centre for Person-centred Care at Gothenburg university, together with the rest of the FibroPET convergence environment.

Tags: Health education, Counseling, Professional learning, Qualitative methods, Motivation, Psychosocial difficulties, Qualitative methodology, Pedagogy, Workplace learning, Conversations, Interactional analysis, Dialogical learning, philosophy of science, Clinical communication, Collaborative learning, Qualitative methods, Talk

Publications

  • Reinås, Karl Henrik Storhaug; Pedersen, Tuva Emilie Orheim; Aasland, Sigrun; Malthe-Sørenssen, Anders; Grande, Trine Skei & Blikstad-Balas, Marte [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2026). Hvor er pensum? doi: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=exd7Z9267II. Full text in Research Archive
  • Reinås, Karl Henrik Storhaug; Rootwelt-Revheim, Mona-Elisabeth; Fretheim, Håvard Halland; Johnsrud, Kjersti; Midtvedt, Øyvind & Sherwani, Alexander Gul [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2026). Time is crucial: An Interaction analysis study of dilemmas between patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases and health care professionals at a PET-CT facility. Annals of Rheumatic diseases. 34(2-4), p. 2387–2387. doi: https:/eular.sharepoint.com/sites/AbstractBookletPublication/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2FAbstractBookletPublication%2FShared%20Documents%2FEULAR%202026%20Abstract%20Book%20%28pre-Congress%29.pdf&parent=%2Fsites%2FAbstractBookletPublication%2FShared%20Documents&p=true&ga=1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Mathiesen, Liv; Wøien, Hilde & Reinås, Karl Henrik Storhaug (2025). Fasilitatorutdanning - et pedagogisk tilbud for å styrke studentenes læringsutbytte for tverrprofesjonell samarbeidslæring i praksis. Full text in Research Archive
  • Reinås, Karl Henrik Storhaug (2025). Pedagogiske helter i helsevesenet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Reinås, Karl Henrik Storhaug (2025). Phd candidates psychological wellbeing. Full text in Research Archive
  • Reinås, Karl Henrik Storhaug (2024). Utdanning er en investering i helse og livskvalitet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Reinås, Karl Henrik Storhaug (2023). Psykologprofesjonens evinnelige elitejag. [Journal]. Psykologisk.no. Full text in Research Archive

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