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Sidsel Karlsen

Pro­fess­or

Music Education and Music Therapy Department

Photo: Charlotte Wiig

Research Areas / Expertise

  • Music education sociology
  • Music education and cultural diversity
  • Music and informal learning arenas
  • Music festivals

Research projects

Background

Education

  • PhD in music education, School of Music in Piteå, Luleå University of Technology, 2007
  • MA in vocal performance, Norwegian Academy of Music, 1999
  • Music teacher certificate, Østlandet’s music conservatory, 1993

Professional experience

  • 2018–present Professor of music education, Norwegian Academy of Music
  • 2015–2018 Professor of music education and general education, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
  • 2011–present Docent, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
  • 2010–2015 Professor of music education, Hedmark University College
  • 2009–2011 Postdoctoral researcher, Sibelius Academy
  • 2008–2010 Associate professor of music education, Hedmark University College

Publications

  • The double game of music, boklansering Live Weider Ellefsen, Petter Dyndahl, Anne Jordhus-Lier, Siw Graabræk Nielsen, Sidsel Karlsen, Ingeborg Lunde Vestad, Kari Marie Manum, Friederike Merkelbach, Anna Bull, Iver Graabræk-Dyndahl 2026
  • How higher music education leadership matters in times of challenge Albi Odendaal, Tuulikki Laes, Katja Thomson, Sidsel Karlsen 2025
  • Social class and musical gentrification Petter Dyndahl, Sidsel Karlsen, Siw Graabræk Nielsen 2025
  • Current trends in Nordic music education research: Invitation to a reflexive debate Catharina Renate Christophersen, Sidsel Karlsen, Siw Graabræk Nielsen 2025
  • Music as agent: A posthumanist attempt to understand music as a force of social change and turmoil Sidsel Karlsen 2025
  • Hva er FoU på NMH? Sidsel Karlsen 2025
  • Boundary work as feminist work: Deliberations on the growth and expansion of the Nordic field of music education research. Sidsel Karlsen 2025
  • Normkritisk musikkpedagogikk: Mangfold og ansvar Sidsel Karlsen 2025
  • CEMPE 10 years – what has changed? Sidsel Karlsen, Veronica Ski-Berg, Ellen Mikalsen Stabell 2024
  • Assessing the state of the sociology of music education - an analysis of the becoming and being of an academic field Petter Dyndahl, Live Weider Ellefsen, Anne Jordhus-Lier, Sidsel Karlsen, Siw Graabræk Nielsen 2024
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Projects Sidsel Karlsen participates in