Live Skow Hofgaard

Academic interests

• Resilience (positive adaptation despite significant stress or adversity)
• Mental health promotion and illness prevention
• Positive psychology, subjective wellbeing, purpose and meaning in life
• Genetic and environmental factors, twin studies
• Treatment of post-traumatic stress symptoms
• The relationships between psychology, society, culture and politics

Courses taught

PSY2207 – Mental Health and Wellbeing

Background

• PhD fellow for PROMENTA at the Department of Psychology, UiO, 2020-(current position)

• Project team member at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress studies, 2019-2020

• Cand. Psychol., University of Oslo, 2019

• Exchange student at Universidad de Granada, Spain, 2015-2016