Learning and Education
Alva has given lectures to many different audiences. She has been awarded prizes for bridging the gap between science and practice.
Expertise
Her research and interest includes motivation, grit, effort, expectations, mindset, attention, feedback, autonomy, supportive leadership and performance monitoring.
She works as an author, consultant, lecturer and entrepreneur and has been teaching in the field of cognitive neuroscience and psychology.
Find articles by Alva on Researchgate or ses morea at Linkedin.
Background
Prior to and alongside her work as a lecturer Alva has spent many years working with research on feedback and motivation at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
She has a multidisciplinary background starting with a Master's degree in Biomedical Science and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Her work as a university teacher has taught her the importance of studying how we learn. She enjoys teaching and translating her work into pedagogies for teachers.
Topics of interest
- What is motivation?
- Two sides of “grit”
- Cognitive Neuroscience for teachers
- What is your view on abilities?
- Expectations and the work climate
- Concentration and flow
- Can feedback influence performance?
- Learning from mistakes
- Autonomy supportive leadership
- How do you give feedback?