Håvard Rudi Karlsen
Håvard is an Associate Professor of Personality Psychology and Psychometrics. This means that I do research on individual differences and what makes us behave as we do. And that I am especially interested in the methods and instruments we use to examine this. Apart from that, I have worked within health psychology, looking at anxiety and depression and their relationship with cardiovascular disease (spoiler warning: it’s complicated).
Lately I have been lucky enough to work with VR technologies and their use in teaching and skill development. I teach statistics, personality psychology, work and organisational psychology as well as health psychology.
Areas of expertise
In terms of statistics, I’m familiar with regression analysis (simple, multiple, logistic) and structural equation modelling, as well as t tests, ANOVA, chi square tests, correlation analysis and factor analysis (confirmatory and exploratory). I have some limited experience in big data analysis and machine learning, and am looking into working more on this. I mainly use R for analysis (as well as write up and publishing), but have in the past used Stata and SPSS, as well as some Python.
Supervision
I have supervised bachelor’s and master’s students, and I have taught in bachelor, master and PhD courses. In 2020 I won a price for research dissemination.
Are you writing a master’s thesis at the department and in need of a supervisor? If you have a good idea for a project that falls within my areas of expertise, shoot me an e-mail and we can discuss the idea and whether you want me as your supervisor. I currently have no open projects in need of a student, but I’m always up for discussion any ideas you might have.
Are you dreaming of becoming a PhD student? Again, if you have a good idea, don’t hesitate to get in touch. The road to funding and a position is long, but if you succeed it’s worth it!