About us
We are a team of individuals with a wide breadth of personal and professional friluftsliv experience, knowledge and skill. Through our research, we aim to improve our own teaching, while enriching friluftsliv practices in Norway and beyond.
We invite prospective students, individual practitioners, partner organizations, and potential research collaborators to join us as we work to address the most pressing issues for people and planet through friluftsliv.
- Read more about our research history, current projects, and vision in our downloadable 8 page booklet.
- During the pandemic, we began the Outdoor Studies Forum, as a collective space where difficult questions about friluftsliv practice could be discussed.
- In June, 2026, we will host the 11th International Outdoor Education Research Conference.
Research areas
Our principal areas of research are broad and overlapping. They include nature tourism; outdoor pedagogies; leadership and professionalization in the outdoors; outdoor leisure practices; mobile technology and social media in friluftsliv; friluftsliv in schools and education; culture and friluftsliv; and nature, health and well-being.
See projects related to our group
International and externally funded projects
- Walking with the SDGs (Høyem; project with the network One by Walking)
National collaborations and interdisciplinary/inter-institutional
- Friluftsliv og kjønn (Høyem; together with colleagues in friluftsliv at other Norwegian universities)
- PhD project on friluftsliv as preventative mental health – partnered with Mental Helse Ungdom and DNT (Hald, Ulset and Beames)
Internal collaboration projects, including phd projects
- Understanding minority students’ experiences at NIH (Beames, Vindhol Evensen and others)
- Self-directed learning: The ‘Personal development plan’ and lifelong learning (Eriksen & Høyem)
Individual projects related to individuals in the group
- friluftsliv: the almost nearly perfect concept (Beames & Eriksen)
- Social media messaging from Norway’s biggest friluftsliv organizations (Beames)
- Educating for the Big 3: climate justice, equalities, and health (Beames)
- Teaching avalanche knowledge indirectly: Experiences from Norwegian outdoor education programs in the winter mountains (Høyem & Rosenberg)
- ‘My place in nature’: Significant places in nature and good life (Høyem)
- The ageing outdoor adventure educator (Beames)