Current position Professor

E-mail kiri@oslomet.no

Areas of interest Health literacy | Physical activity | Physical activity play | Health-related quality of life in children and adolescents | User-involvement | Patient reported outcomes (PROM) | Intervention studies | Mixed methods research

RESEARCHER BIO Kirsti Riiser is professor at the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Health Technology (RHT) at OsloMet and a senior researcher at the Department of Child and Adolescent Health Promotion Services at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She is a trained physiotherapist from Oslo University College, with several years of experience working with children and adolescents in child health centers and school health service. She holds a master’s degree in pedagogy from the University of Oslo and a PhD from the Norwegian School of Sports Science.

Kirsti’s practical expertise and formal background have led most of her research to take place at the intersection of health and education. Initially, her work focused on motivation for physical activity and play. Over the last few years, it has evolved to include health literacy among parents and young people. She engages in interdisciplinary, user-involved research on how primary health care responds to the needs of parents and young people in navigating, understanding, and using health information and services. Riiser has led and currently leads intervention studies in primary health care and has thereby acquired extensive methodological expertise.

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