Claudia Gillberg

Research

Claudia Gillberg, PhD in Education, initially specialised on worklife and adult education, and has remained affiliated with the School of Communiation and Education at the JU. Claudia's research interests include societal development, knowledge producation and barriers to learning. Claudia consders the concept of lifelong learning to be an open-minded and pluralistic approach to life and its challenges which require all of us to develop new insights through reflection, critical evaluation, and, ideally, collaborative learning, no matter where we are. 

Biography

Claudia Gillberg has higher education teaching experience at all levels. Examples of taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses are The History and Philosophy of Education, Knowledge Paradigms, Social Science Methodologies, Qualitative Methods, The Politics of Education, Teaching Methods in Higher Education for University Teachers, Professional Development in Preschool through Teacher Initiated Projects, and School Leadership and Inclusion. Claudia has also been managing teacher education programmes and developing new modules, especially on collaborative learning and action research in the field of professional development. Claudia has initiated and carried out organisational learning in the public sector, e.g. the healthcare system and human resources. She is affiliated with a number of research and education organisations worldwide. In the past six years, Claudia has shifted her focus towards issues of access, parity of participation and power for sick and disabled children and adults. She has also been vocal about the urgent need of feminist methods of inquiry in healthcare, especially for chronically ill patients. She is currently working on a book chapter on Ableism in Academia and several other research projects of a collaborative nature. She is a trustee of the newly established ME Patient Foundation and a Fellow at the UK based  Centre fore Welfare Reform.