Kamilla Rognmo
Job description
Associate professor in Health psychology at the research group of clinical psychology.
Supervises PhD, master and BA-students.
Research areas of interest are psychiatric epidemiology of physical acitivity and mental distress among adolescents, family members of individuals with an alcohol abuse disorder, alcohol use and sleep problems in the general population and potentially traumatic events experienced in childhood or adulthood.
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Research interests
Alcohol use and sleeping problems, sleeping problems and sleep duration and weight issues, offspring and partner effects of alcohol use, physical activity and depression among adolescents
Teaching
Teaches health psychology subjects, in particular regarding addiction and stress.
Supervises PhD-students and students with the master and bachelor program in psychology, as well as students at the professional program in psychology.
Uses quantitative research methods.
Member of research group
Member of project
CV
Curriculum vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
*Rognmo, Kamilla
*Date of birth: 12.10.1980
*Sex: Female
*Nationality: Norwegian
Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=qQAF34EAAAAJ&hl=no
URL for personal web site: https://uit.no/om/enhet/ansatte/person?p_document_id=238492&p_dimension_id=88120
EDUCATION
2009 PhD: Defence date: 12.12.2013
“Consequences of alcohol use for family members: A population based study”
Faculty of Social Sciences/Department of psychology, University of Oslo/Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway.
PhD supervisors: Kristian Tambs and Espen Røysamb
2004-2008 Master of psychology
“Reading behaviour unravelled: An empirical study of psychological, social and demographic factors influencing fiction reading behavior”
Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Thesis supervisor: Britt Marie Drottz Sjøberg
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2013-current Associate professor
Leader of the Research group of Clinical psychology 2016-2017 and 2019-2020
Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway
2009-2013 PhD-candidate
Department of mental health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
2008-2009 Researcher
Department of mental health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
AWARDED FELLOWSHIPS
2015 Funding granted for the project “Alcohol use and sleep problems in the general population: The Tromsø Study”, received from Helse Nord RHF, Norway.
2017 Funding granted for the project “Physical activity and depression among adolescents: The Fit Futures Study”, received from Helse Nord RHF, Norway
2013 Funding granted to the Post Doc-project “Prevalence and risk factors for cyberbullying in a Norwegian and crosscultural epidemiological study”, recieved from Extrastiftelsen/Stiftelsen Dam. As I at the time of announcement was employed in a tenured position, the project did not commence.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO AWARDED FELLOWSHIPS
2018 Contributed to the grant proposal for the PhD-project “Healthy school-to-work transitions: A multi-method approach to understanding youth not in education, employment or training”, from the Research Council of Norway, Norway. I contributed by discussing research questions and editing the project description.
2008 Contributed to the grant proposal for two PhD-projects “The impact of parental alcohol abuse on the mental health of the offspring: A prospective population based study”, received from Research Council of Norway, Norway. I contributed by developing the project and writing the project description.
LICENCES/CERTIFICATIONS
2020 Admitted to the Research Group Leader Development Program at UiT the Arctic University of Norway
2016-2017 Completed the National Training Program for Young Research Leaders
2014-2015 Completed a one-year course in pedagogics in higher education at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, documentation of the acquired competency can be found here: https://digitalmappe.uit.no/kamrog80
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND RESEARCH FELLOWS
PhD student supervision
2021-current Master of Psychology Vendela Husberg-Bru will hand in her PhD-thesis during autumn 2023
2017-2020 Master of psychology Ida M. Opdal, defended her thesis Physical activity and depression among adolescents: Results from Fit Futures on August 21st 2020.
Graduate student supervision
• Completed supervision of thesis work for 5 master students (60 ECTS) in Psychology, Department of psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway.
• Completed supervision of thesis work of 10 students at the professional program (30 ECTS) in Psychology, Department of psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2013-current Teaching position (50 % of the position as associate professor is dedicated to teaching) at the department of psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
Course manager for PSY-3013, PSY-2583 (spring semester 2017) and PSY-2011. Additional teaching in PSY-1001.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2020 – 2021 Member of the master program committee at the Department of psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
2019-2020 Leader of the research group of clinical psychology at the Department of psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway
2019 Member of evaluation committee for a PhD position at the Department of psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway
2019 Member of evaluation committee for a PhD-candidate at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway
2019 Member of evaluation committee for a PhD-position at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
2018 Member of evaluation committee for a position as associate professor at the Department of psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway
2018 Member of evaluation committee for a PhD position at the Department of psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway
2018 Leader of evaluation committee for a PhD-candidate at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway
2018 - 2021 Member of the committee of the graduate student research study program (Forskerlinjen I Psykologi) at the Department of psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway
2017 - 2019 Vice leader of the research group of clinical psychology at the Department of psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway
2016 - 2017 Leader of the research group of clinical psychology at the Department of psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway
2016 Member of organizing committee of internal seminar at the Department of psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
2014 Member of organizing committee of internal seminar at the Department of psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
2014 Leader of evaluation committee for a PhD-position, at the Department of psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
2014 Leader of interview committee for a PhD-position, at the Department of psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
2014 Member of interview committee for a PhD-position, at the Department of psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2009 - current Reviewer for the journals American Journal of Epidemiology, Addiction, BMC Public Health, Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association, The journal of Clinical psychology, Social Psychology and Psychiatric Epidemiology, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sleep Science and Practice.
2014 - 2015 Junior guest editor of special edition of the journal Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment
MAJOR COLLABORATIONS: National
Associate professor Bente Morseth, Faculty of Sports Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, campus Alta, and Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway. We have collaborated on one grant proposal that received funding from Helse Nord, Norway, in 2016 and one international multicenter study validating a questionnaire meant to measure physical activity among psychiatric populations.
Research professor Wendy Nilsen, Work Research Institute, Centre for Welfare and Labor Research, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HIOA), Norway, and Department of Mental Disorders, NIPH, Norway. We have an ongoing collaboration on several grants and funded projects.
Researcher Helga Ask, Department of Mental Disorders, NIPH. Norway. We are collaborating on a project funded by Helse Nord in 2016.
Senior researcher Christopher S. Nielsen, Department of Chronic diseases and aging, NIPH. We collaborate on a project funded by Helse Nord in 2016.
MAJOR COLLABORATIONS: International
Associate professor Simon Rosenbaum, Faculty of Medicine, School of psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia. We are collaborating on several projects concerning physical activity and mental health.
CAREER BREAKS
12/2014- 11/2015 Maternity leave
07/2011 – 04/2012 Maternity leave