Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen

I am a registered physiotherapist since 1983 with expertise in specialized neurological rehabilitation/pediatric spinal cord injury (SCI), geriatric medicine, prevention of falls, physical activity and health, venous insufficiency, measurement methods, quantitative and qualitative /
explorative research approaches. I have my appointment at the Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital in Oslo, Norway since 1983, has been
affiliated to research at Karolinska Institutet since 2010, Oslo Metropolitan University between 2016-2022, and UiT The Arctic
University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway since 2021.

* Docent at Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Senior research scientist at Sunnaas Rehabilitation
Hospital, Department of Research and Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
* Deputy leader of the research group of Malin Nygren-Bonnier and associated member of the research group of Anna-Karin Welmer, NVS
* Principal investigator of the SCIP FALLS Study, a multicenter Swedish-Norwegian longitudinal study on prevention of falls in patients
with spinal cord injury, cooperation between KI, Aleris Rehab Station Stockholm and Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital (2012-ongoing)
* Principal investigator of the SINpedSCI study, an international multicenter study on the rehabilitation of children and adolescents with
spinal cord injury in ten rehabilitation units from Norway, Sweden, USA, Russia, China, Israel, and Palestine (2017-ongoing). A multidisciplinary group of 25 researchers and clinicians are cooperating
* Principal investigator of the study: International outcome measures in pediatrics rehabilitation study, a Scandinavian multicenter study on reproducibility, acceptability, and utility of the international, age-appropriate, and recommended data sets for pediatric spinal cord injury rehabilitation in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark (grant applications 2026) 
* One of the principal investigators of the StayBalanced study– Prevention of falls in older adults through implementation of evidence
based balance training– from clinical research to clinical practice (2015 - ongoing)
* Coordinator of the research collaboration between Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Norway and Karolinska Institutet (2006-ongoing)

1977 Biochemistry technician, Tromsø Vocational School
1981 Bachelor in Physiotherapy, Bergen University College, Norway
1989 Master of Arts (Candidata magisterii) in Sociology, University of
Oslo, Norway
1994 Master of Science in Physiotherapy, University of Bergen, Norway
2009 Doctoral degree, Karolinska Institutet
2016 Associate professor at Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital and Oslo
Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
2017 Docent/Associate professor Karolinska Institutet
2020 Professor UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Current research projects follow three distinct tracks. (1) Psychosocial aspects and rehabilitation services for children and adolescents with SCI, (2) Rehabilitation after post COVID 19 condition, (3) Prevention of falls in persons with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), Parkinson’s Disease, Osteoporosis and in older adults in Norway and Sweden. 

PUBLICATIONS, see reference list. 

Pedagogical education:
2010 Pedagogy Course “Case-based Learning”, Medical Case Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Two days course
2011 Supervisor Course ”Doctoral Supervisor Training Course - Introductory”, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. One week course
2014 Supervisor Course “Basic University Teaching, GHP”, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Five weeks course
2015 Supervisor Course “Pedagogy for Research Supervisors”, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm , Sweden. Two weeks course
2017 "Designing Doctoral Courses", Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Two weeks course
2022 Supervisor Course Doctoral Supervisors, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

The teaching comprises approximately 2, 000 hours (as of December 2023), excluding time spent on planning, of which 35% is at undergraduate level, 21% at doctoral level, 39% at research level, and 5% is other teaching time.