Marte Lorentzen

Marte Lorentzen serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Oslo Metropolitan University's Centre for the Study of Professions, where she conducts research within the Professional Knowledge and Qualification group. Her work focuses on strengthening teacher education through collaborative partnerships and evidence-based practices, as evidenced by her leadership in the REPRESENT and REPOSE projects.

Her research examines critical tensions in educational systems, particularly regarding teacher specialization, knowledge hierarchies in professional collaborations, and epistemic relations in teacher education theses. She investigates how vertical/horizontal specialization shapes teaching roles, how research translates into practice, and how boundary work among teacher specialists influences school development. Her methodological approach combines qualitative analysis of professional discourse with policy implementation studies within Norway's Knowledge Promotion Reform framework.

Analysis of her 2018-2025 publications reveals consistent thematic evolution from foundational literature reviews on teacher roles toward nuanced examinations of partnership asymmetries and thesis-practice integration. Her work increasingly emphasizes context-specific knowledge mobilization, showing how research utilization varies across school-university collaborations and professional communities.

Lorentzen actively contributes to academic discourse through conference presentations at ECER, AERA, and NERA events. She collaborates extensively with researchers like Hermansen, Afdal, and Mausethagen, engaging stakeholders across Norway's educational sector to bridge research-practice gaps in teacher development.