Job description

Teaching Theme:

Guidance and facilitating individual and group-based development of competence in communication, analysis and creating development support in an educational context, and interaction in family relationships

• Foundational communication development, working with communication difficulties when disabling conditions are present.
• Experience in using video as an analytical tool in guidance and support for clinicians and professionals
• Development of cultural sensitivities and relational skills in multi-cultural settings
• Serifisert Marte Meo supervisor (http://www.martemeo.no)
• Serifisert ICDP supervisor (http://www.icdp.no)
• Serifisert ICDP trainer (http://www.icdp.info/)

Sissel Sollied has a PhD from UIT, the Arctic University of Norway. After three years as a postdoctoral fellow in guidance, she became Associate Professor in Special Education in 2015, following sabbatical leave at Waikato University in New Zealand from November 2013 - May 2014. Sollied is a member of FIVE, the research group in counseling at the department (https://uit.no/forskning/forskningsgrupper/gruppe?p_document_id=339146) and for four years, between 2012-2016, was convener of the Nordic Network in Supervision under NERA (http://www.nfpf.net/).

Sollied has a background in Special Needs Education, Cand Polit in Education and a PhD in Education with specialization in Special Needs Education. Her early work experience includes employment in the Educational Psychological Counselling Service (PPT), the National service for special needs education (Statped) and work in Child Habilitation - particularly relating to the assessment and guidance in relations around children and young people with extensive disabilities. In the last decade she has worked primarily in University Colleges and Universities, both in terms of vocational education and special education. Here her professional focus has been on communication and the development of communication possibilities, with her research interest situated at the point where the different perspectives and experiences of those responsible for providing development support and care for people with disabilities come together. Since 2013, Sollied has also collaborated with The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs (Bufdir), and has been engaged, as ICDP trainer, in educating professional staff in shelter homes. This work is part of the Ministry of Justice's action plan against domestic violence "Life without violence" in the period 2014-2017. How facilitating processes can be organized so that they provide for increased cooperation, knowledge and empowerment for all participants in this setting has been a key outcome of her involvement in this project.