The English Department congratulates our colleague Heidi Haavan Grosch on her promotion to Associate Professor of English. Grosch has been teaching at Nord’s Levanger campus since 2011. Her teaching and academic profile includes English teacher education for grades 1-7, as well as work with international students in the course Nordic and International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and with continuing education courses (etter- og videreutdanning) for in-service teachers, with an overarching focus on children’s literature and drama, learner empowerment, and the importance of hands-on practical work to motivate and inspire active learning.
Grosch’s most recent projects include a collaborative storytelling project with Nord international students, 40 fourth-grade pupils, and a Nord colleague from arts and crafts, in which they created land art to inspire the stories they produced. She continues to expand the Stories in a Suitcase project which involves collaboration between Nord teacher education students and local preschools and primary schools. Both of these projects are the subjects of publications forthcoming in 2026.
She has also initiated and led other projects involving storytelling, including the Hilmar Festival’s Eventyrskrivekonkurranse (fairy tale writing competition), a collaboration with pupils in grades 1-10 and Nord students and teachers from the Norwegian section. She is a project member of the inter-university project Shaping the Modern Classroom: Implementing Student Active Digital Learning Cycles within Norwegian Teacher Training Programs (financed by HK-dir) and has been on the planning committee for two interdisciplinary conferences in 2025 and 2026 at the Nord University Levanger campus.
Grosch says that being promoted to the position of associate professor, based on 40 years of experience and work with children and youth, teachers and in schools is a great honor and celebrates the importance of a practical approach to teaching and learning in addition to an academic one. She encourages anyone who is interested in learning more about her work to visit her YouTube channel: CyberBridge .