Betina Dybbroe has a background in social science and history from Roskilde University, wide work experience from the health sector and a phd. in education. Her research approach is interdisciplinary linking socialisational-, biographical, learning -and social studies in order to explore care and health as subjective experience, human activity and social and political practice simultaneously. Her special  conceptual interest is in questions of work identity, otherness as work orientation, and the relation between learning, action and health. Her empirical studies have included: nonformal qualifications in care in a comparative perspective Denmark- Southern Spain, nurses professionality and subjectivity at work, trade union practice of nurses, changes in working environment in the health sector, life-long learning in a gender perspective, life history methods in investigations in learning, the education of pre-school teachers, health promotion in the work place, the meeting between development aid and womens´ everyday life perspectives in a nomad culture of sub-saharan West Africa.Betina Dybbroe is part of the Graduate School in Lifelong Learning at Roskilde University, was head of The Association for Education of Adults and Continuing Education 2001-2005, head of Masters programme of Interdisciplinary Studies in Health Promotion and Health Strategies from its opening 2006- 2008, and is now amongh other activities director of the Research Unit for Health Promotion Studies at Roskilde University.    

Relevant publications in English:

Wrede, Henriksson,Høst,Johansson and Dybbroe (ed.)(2008):Care Work in Crisis- Reclaiming the Nordic Ethos of Care, Studentlitteratur, Sweden.

Dybbroe,B.( 2005): Caring Experience and Knowledge: Inside and Outside of Danish Classrooms, in Dahl, H.M. and Eriksen, T.R. (ed): Dilemmas of Care in the Nordic Welfare State: Continuity and Change , Aldershot, England: Ashgate.

Dybbroe,B. and Ollagnier,E.(ed)(2003): Challenging Gender in Lifelong Learning: European Perspectives, Roskilde University Press

Dybbroe,B. (2003): "You´ve got to give all the love you have, and yet consider it to be a job"- Care Work in a Gendered and Life Historical Perspective, in Jørgensen and Warring (ed): Adult Education and the Labour Market VII, vol. B, European Society for the Research in Adult Education, Roskilde University Press.

Dybbroe,B. ( 1999): Life History as an Access to Gendered Knowledge in Care Giving ,in: Kirsten Weber (ed.): Lifelong Learning and Experience, Roskilde University Press

Degrees and university positions

2009-
Research Director for The Ventre for Health Promotion Research, UCSF

2007-
Research director of the Inter Departmental Research Unit in Health Promotion at Roskilde University

2006- 2008     
Study director of the board of studies and head of the masters programme in Health Promotion and Health Strategies , RUC

2008-              
Visiting professor at Institut de Sciences de l'Educatión, Université Paris 8

2004               
Director (with Kirsten Weber) of: International Graduate School Course on European approaches to Women´s Work and Learning at Dubrovnik International University Centre, Croatia

2004               
Coordinator (with Henning Salling Olesen) of Conference on Life History and Biography at RUC on behalf of the European Association of Research into the Education of Adults

2001-              
Member of staff at the Graduate School of Lifelong Learning, RUC

2001-2004      
Member of the board of studies in Pedagogy and Educational Studies

2003-              
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Research, RUC

2000               
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Research, RUC

1999               
PhD in Care Research and Educational Studies, RUC

1997-1998      
Visiting Fellow, Departamento de Teoria e Historia de Educación, Universidad de Sevilla   

1991               
Diploma in Health Economics at the Danish Health Research Institute

1980               
Masters degree in History and Social Science, RUC

Current and Recent research

2010             
Research Director of the project "Well-being, recognition and learning in child care" 

2009-            
Research Director of Innovation in Health- a Community Development Project

2006-2008              
Research coordinator of the project "The shop-steward in the Field of Health        undergoing Change" in a collaboration between RUC and Ålborg University, funded by the National Union of Nurses

2007-2008              
Participant in the project : "Recruiting Men to Social Care Work " in collaboration with EU partners (Equal project)

2005-2006              
Principal researcher in the project: Sustainability and Real Competencies in Child  Care ( EU Social Fund and Equal project)

2003-2004              
Research coordinator ( with Vibeke Andersen) of the research project: "Work, Skills and Trade Union undergoing Change" funded by the Regional Union of Nurses, Frederiksborg Amt

Recent Networks and professional recognition

2008- 2010             
Appointed member to the research project " Meaning of Work in the social and health sector" at Centre for Research in Working Life, RUC ( funded by Research Institute on Working Environment)

2008-                      
Appointed representative of educational science in the National Board for the Education of Midwives

2005-2007              
Appointed representative of educational science and sub-director to the Board for Educational Development of the Health Professions in Copenhagen (CVU-Øresund)

2007-                      
Member of the Nordic Research Network in Health Promotion ( funded by WHO and NHV)

2006-                      
Member of the International Research Group in Psycho-Societal Research (SQUID)

Publications

A list of 60 publications, including 7 reviewed articles, 7 editorials of anthologies and 24 contributions to books and journals.4 of the publications are in Spanish, 1 in French, 21 in English.