Karin Båge

Karin Båge

Educational Developer
Visiting address: Alfred Nobels Allé 10, 14183 Huddinge
Postal address: TL Undervisning och lärande, TL Kontinuerligt lärande och professionell utveckling Valcke, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am a doctoral student in the Global and Sexual Health research group at the Department of Global Public Health, education developer at the Unit for Teaching and Learning (TL/UoL) and project developer at the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health. Trained in social anthropology and with a professional background in the civil society sector, I aim to focus my research and educational activities on those who are most at risk of being left behind. This means innovating current instruments and practices that are already at scale, as well as developing existing systems so as to make a structural shift in how organisations and ongoing activities are operating. Projects I co-lead include: - Improving global instruments that measure norms and values to also include norms and values related to sexual and reproductive health and rights - a collaboration with the World Values Survey. - Developing the quality of higher education in all educational programs - through advising central strategies - at KI to be equitable and inclusive in line with the sustainable development goals, through the project Internationalisation of the Curriculum. - Training public sector managers in fragile settings to achieve the sustainable development goals. - Developing tools for the global research community to bridge the know-do gap through the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health. 2013 - Masters of Arts in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. 2007 - Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology and International Relations from the University of Sussex, UK in 2007.

Research

  • My policy and research areas of interests include sexual and reproductive health and rights, and developing the quality of higher education in line with the sustainable development goals. My doctoral project focuses on norms and agency and their relationship with sexual and reproductive health outcomes. The research is based on a partnership with the World Values Survey that expanded its battery of questions to include questions on norms and attitudes related to sexual and reproductive health and rights, such as decision-making, attitudes on early marriage and child bearing, gender-based violence, use of contraceptives and reproductive health care services. It has been carried out in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Sweden and Zimbabwe.

Teaching

  • As an educational developer my responsibilities include designing and developing courses, training and advising university students, teachers and professionals in the health sector, on matters related to global health, intercultural education and education for sustainable development and sustainable health. *Undergradaute level* Global Health 7, 5 ECTs. This is a 5-week elective undergraduate course with 70-90 students each semester, who spend 3 weeks in Sweden studying theory and 2 subsequent weeks in a low-income country like Uganda, Tanzania, Vietnam and Laos. Beyond regular teaching and coordination responsibilities I also participate as an accompanying teacher traveling with the students for the duration of the study trip period. PREPARE - a pre-departure course for KI students going on an international exchange, including a module on global health. *Online courses* An Introduction to Global Health. This is six week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) introductory course in Global health available on the Edx platform. *Teacher training modules* Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, distance. Global Health for Teaching Staff at KI - a small private online course in global health for teaching staff at KI Tools for Global Health - workshops for teaching staff at KI. Managing Innovation for Sustainable Health

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Employments

  • Educational Developer, Teaching and learning, Karolinska Institutet, 2021-
  • Project Developer, Sustainable Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-
  • Educational Developer, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-2024

Degrees and Education

  • PhD Candidate, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Norms and values as barriers and enablers to global sexual and reproductive health and rights, Karolinska Institutet, 2024

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