Research

My research explores developmental dynamics and person-environment relations. I am particularly interested in the meaning of the environment in relation to creating and facilitating developmental dynamics for people in various institutional settings, such as high schools, social-psychiatric living facilities, and psychiatric hospitals. I explore the invitational character of the environment (material surroundings, social others, societal meaning and standards) and how this plays into people’s self-understanding and experience of agency and action possibilities.

In my work, I combine ecological psychology with cultural-historical psychology, and focus on the transaction between – and interplay of – individual and environment, with an emphasis on material aspects, the built and the social environment, and how developmental possibilities and constraints are offered, created, and negotiated in people’s everyday lives.