About the group
The research focuses on
- Information and shared decision making
- Effects of uncertainty on communication and decisions
- Clinical decisions and processes around them
- Detail studies of verbal and non-verbal communication
- Challenges when interlocutors do not share mother tongue
- Effects of communication skills traning
We focus on doctor-patient communication.
Funding
Our research has been funded by The Regional Health Trust of Southeast Norway (5 projects), The Norwegian Research Council (2 projects), and Extrastiftelsen DAM (1 project), covering in total 8 PhDs, 3 postdoctors, and one 50% researcher position. Fulbright scholarship led to a US research visitor for one academic year 2015-16 and one in 2023-24.
Cooperation
Our group has broad international collaboration, primarily with researchers in the US, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. Nationally, we collaborate with researcher at the universities in Oslo and Bergen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Bergen Health Trust and Nordland Health Trust.
With support from The Regional Health Trust of Southeast Norway we have been able to build an international research network, which arranges a workshop every year in January.
This network is called Oslo Communication in Healthcare Education and Research group (OCHER).