Charlotte Svendler Nielsen

Charlotte Svendler Nielsen serves as Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. Her academic trajectory spans from Lecturer (2002-2004) through Post Doc/Senior Lecturer (2008-2011) to current Associate Professor status (2016-present), with research anchored in movement education and dance pedagogy.

Education:

• PhD in Movement Education
• MSc in Physical Education

Research Focus: Her work examines embodied, aesthetic, and intercultural processes in learning through dance and physical education, investigating children's corporeality, meaning-making in movement, and phenomenological research methods. She pioneers videographic inquiry and arts-based approaches to understanding embodiment in educational contexts.

Publication Trends: Recent outputs reveal strong interdisciplinary integration of dance with multicultural education, emphasizing social cohesion and embodied cognition. Her scholarship bridges Nordic educational models with global contexts (particularly Southern Africa), demonstrating consistent focus on arts-based methodologies for inclusive pedagogy across diverse cultural settings.

Scientific Awards: No specific awards were documented in the source material.

Research Leadership: She directs multiple international initiatives including:

• ERASMUS+ projects on Arts-Integrated Teaching in Multicultural Schools (2018-2020; 2021-2024)
• KONE Foundation's Embodied Language Learning through Arts (ELLA, 2021-2024)
• Norwegian pARTiciPED project on Student Teacher Empowerment (2021-2023)
• Finnish Academy's ArtsEqual initiative (2015-2020)

Academic Service: As former Executive Board Member of Dance and the Child International (2009-2022), current Chair of UNESCO's European Network of Arts Education Observatories (2019-present), and Danish Ministry arts education panelist (2015-present), she shapes global dance education policy while co-editing Routledge's international book series on dance pedagogy.