Bettina Hjortholt, Ph.D.
Roskilde University
Department of Psychology and Educational Services
Universitetsvej 1
4000
Roskilde, Denmark
Email:bettinai@ruc.dk
Cand.Psych. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology
Bettina is a part time lecturer at the Department of Psychology and
Educational Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark. She teaches master
students in social and organizational psychology as well as qualitative
interview methods. The focus of this course is in line with the focus of
the Department as a whole, to understand subjectivity in its social,
cultural and institutional contexts and doing so from different
theoretical perspectives. Bettina also supervises Masters theses as well
as student’s project work. Students at Roskilde University do their
project work in groups which is essential to the way students work at
Roskilde University.
When Bettina met Ken Gergen in 1998 a whole new world of understanding
caught her interest: constructionism, post-structuralism, ANT or
non-modernism, post-feminism, among others. These were ways of
understanding that went further than the theories she already knew in
connection to ways of understanding humans as beings-in-the-world always
are already together-with-others. Bettina is both interested in how
this body of knowledge gives way to new understandings as well as its
deconstructive and critical potentials, that is, the calling into
question any taken for granted Truths as well as the hierarchicalization
between normal-abnormal, man-woman, human-nonhuman etc.
In connection to her teaching and supervision in, for example,
organizational psychology, Bettina is interested in organizational
practices that give way to new forms of organizing work, work relations,
and dealing with problems in organizations. In connection to her
theoretical interests, Bettina’s emphasis is on the importance of asking
who wins and who loses when new understandings and practices are put
into use and the importance of avoiding the creation of yet another
Right Practice/Method.