Ellen Vea Rosnes

Background

Ellen Vea Rosnes is professor in intercultural communication and global studies, merited teacher and Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences, VID Specialized University. She holds a PhD in Literacy Studies from the University of Stavanger and a master’s degree in Human Geography from the University of Oslo. Ellen has a broad international experience from work within education, research, and consultancy.

Ellen’s main fields of research are Intercultural Competence and History of Education in Colonial and postcolonial contexts. Using archival material and oral sources, she has conducted research on the history of education, focusing on Norwegian missionaries as actors, in Madagascar and South Africa during the colonial period and at independence (1920-1970). Based on collaborative action research and document analysis, she has also conducted research on intercultural competence in the diverse Norwegian educational setting.

Ellen is the project leader Transloyalties in Citizenship Education (TranCit) - VID Specialized University (NFR 334299). She was leading VID’s research group forskningsgruppen ‘Research on the Intercultural History of Christianity’ (RethinC) (2017-2020) and is a member of VID’s Excellence in Research project ‘Connected Histories - Contested Values. World Lutheranism and Decolonisation: Processes of Transloyalties, 1919-1970 (CHCV). She was the program responsible for VID’s Master of intercultural work (2016-2022) and has extensive teaching and supervising experience on bachelor-, master’s and PhD level within the areas of development, globalization, intercultural competence, intercultural education, citizenship and postcolonialism. She holds external lectures on history of education and intercultural competence.

Subject

• Intercultural Competence
• History of Education
• Literacy
• Citizenship