Eli Natvik

Field of work

As a researcher and teacher, I work in health promotion and public health, mental health, user participation and interaction. My publications can be found here: Google Scholar 

In the research and innovation project NorseImpact, I am renting the work package Responsive and resposible research and innovation with service user participation (Pilot Health, NFR). 

To utilize research results for teaching and professional development, I developed and digitized a learning resource: Active Clinical Reflection. This is an exercise in reflecting in action in clinical meetings, designed for group work. The target groups are experienced clinicians/master's students in health and medicine who work on an outpatient basis. We use research-based film about follow-up at the bariatric outpatient clinic, and key principles to stimulate reflection. Professional footwear players and film production have ensured the quality of the material. The digital resource is created in collaboration with Medielab, tested, and ready for use in teaching and professional development, without facilitation from developers. Get in touch if they want to try! We have good experience with Active Clinical Reflection as a facilitated and physical workshop, where we with teachers adapt the program to the relevant student group and the local learning environment. 

I teach and guide students on the master's programs in Interaction and Public Health, the master's programs in Clinical Physiotherapy, and the PhD program Health, Function and Participation in HVL. Furthermore, I collaborate on research and correction of PhD candidates at UiB and NTNU.  

• NorseImpact - Continous digital care in mental health 
• Evaluation of a mobile health intervention for promoting self-management in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• A structure for personalized self-management support and stepped-follow-up care in bariatric surgery
• Personalized and data-driven specialist care. Health services research based on patient data in routine monitoring, Helse Førde
• Partnership building in user-led research agenda setting for improved health care services with weight loss surgery patients, UiB
• Treatment of binge eating disorders: Mechanisms and course of treatment, Nord-Trøndelag Regional Health Authority

I defended my PhD at the University of Bergen in 2015, with the thesis "Carrying the weight of uncertainty: Patients' long-term experiences after bariatric surgery":  https://rb.gy/r8c8oq  

Education: University Pedagogy, UiB/HVL (2023), Postdoctoral Programme, Faculty of Medicine , University of Oslo (2022), PhD in Health Sciences, University of Bergen (2015), Master's degree in Health Sciences, University of Bergen (2010), Guidance Pedagogy, Sogn og Fjordane University College (1999), and Physiotherapy Education, Bergen University College (1996).

I have extensive clinical experience as a physiotherapist (1996-2011), especially in rehabilitation and intensive/pulmonary physiotherapy, and have worked in higher education since 2012 (UiB, HVL).  

Researching 

• Ethical and responsible innovation
• Teneste innovation in mental health care
• User experiences linked to innovation and digitalised health services
• User participation in research, testing of the Dialogue Model 
• Interaction between patients and healthcare professionals 
• Patient experiences from treatment for obesity and eating disorders
• Patient experiences from treatment for mental disorders (eating disorders, emotionally unstable personality disorders)

Research groups

Deputy member of the Research Group for Personalised Health Services (PERSONFORSK)

Personalized health services (PERSONFORSK) - Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (hvl.no) 

Research group for personalized health services (PERSONFORSK) - Helseforsking Sogn og Fjordane