Jenny Valcke

I am an Educational Developer at the Unit for Teaching and Learning (UoL) and Researcher at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME) at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Professional role

I specialise in advancing pedagogical practices for healthcare professions educators, leading advanced teacher training courses such as Two2Tango: Tandems for the glocal classroom, Teaching in the Glocal University, and the Healthcare Education Scholarship Project Course. These initiatives emphasise English-medium education (EME), cultural humility, neuroinclusive design, and transformative methodologies to foster inclusive, sustainable healthcare curricula.

Academic Background
I earned my PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2009) in film and art studies, with a thesis on montage in avant-garde photography and film, complemented by an MSc in Film Studies (2000) and a Licence in Modern Literatures (1999) from Université Libre de Bruxelles. This interdisciplinary foundation underpins my transition into education, which began with teaching English to engineering students, progressed to training engineering faculty in English-medium instruction, and ultimately led to a focus on healthcare education and medical education research and development.

My fields of research

My scholarship centres on Education for Sustainable Education (ESD) in healthcare contexts, Internationalisation of the Curriculum (IoC), teaching methodology for the glocal (global + local) classroom, bilingual/multilingual education, English-Medium Education (EME), continuous professional development of healthcare educators, and equity in health professions training, evidenced by peer-reviewed publications.