Department of Education and Lifelong Learning is a social science based, interdisciplinary research environment that contributes to research-based knowledge on childhood, education and working life in a lifelong perspective.

The department has as its ambition to affect the political agenda and represents a unique national interdisciplinary research environment with evident relevance for researchers, students, practitioners, actors of society and decision makers with interests in our disciplines.

Research groups and networks

Research groups at Department of Education and Lifelong Learning:

• Adolescents' learning and development in education and sports – ALDES
• Conditions for learning and innovation in higher education and work – COOL
• Councelling (in Norwegian)
• Critical Childhood and Youth Studies – CCYS
• Entrepreneurship in primary and secondary education and training – EPSET
• Higher Education Research
• HumSam (in Norwegian)
• Innovative Immersive Technologies for Learning – IMTEL
• Integrated Educations Studies – InEdS
• Karriere og kompetanse i arbeidslivet (Norwegian)
• Learning in Everyday Practices - LiEP
• Learning in Working Life and Society – LAS (Norwegian)
• Life in School – LiS (Norwegian)
• Media Literacy and Education – MEDLiE
• Researching Materiality, Politics, and Pedagogy in Education - ReMaPP
• Qualities in Education (Norwegian)
• Special Education Issues (Norwegian)
• The relational life in the Scools of Trondheim (Norwegian)
• Wellbeing and health in school, work and leisure – WIN
• Wellbeing and Social Sustainability
• WorldViews