Patric Nordbeck

Researcher, Senior lecturer

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Research

Excited about process-relational approaches to quantitative experimenting. Exploring methods and analyses that can generate dynamic information about a given task/movement, for example looking at how skill learning works, or how the optimal blend of flexibility and stability leads to functional movement strategies. It also applies to more applied projects, for example within sports psychology, within particular sports, both exploring coaching pedagogy and how to apply ecological dynamics to particular practices. It also applies to physiotherapy and injury prevention, where dynamics and kinematics are captured in natural settings.

In social psychology my colleagues and I are looking at neoliberalism at the individual level and the consequences of adherence to neoliberal ideology as a predictor of social exclusion and social distance. The method essentially takes advantage of people's sensitivity to particular constraints in relation to affordances between organisms. Essentially, what, when, and how, do relevant constraints perturb organism-organism relations and force a change in affordance enaction.

Recent startup collaboration with archeologists at Stockholm University, exploring how an Ecological Psychological starting point can be applied to studies in experimental archeology and provide an alternative perspective to evolutionary and cognitivist frameworks.

Teaching

My main teaching areas include methods, statistics, philosophy of science/psychology, and post-cognitive psychological theory (mainly Ecological Psychology and Dynamic Systems Theory).

I have taught a range of undergraduate methods and linear statistics courses, and advanced level philosophical/theoretical/methodological courses focusing on reconceptualizing static and component-dominant research into dynamic and relation-dominant research.

When I teach, my main priority is to anchor often quite abstract ideas and concepts as closely to practice as possible. This affects both teaching style and course structure, by focusing student work on interactive and practice-dominant teaching modules. I also tie and adapt the type of practice students receive to their academic goals, which can for example be research-, industry-, or life-focused skills.

Finally, I have supervised a variety of Senior Theses and 5 Masters Theses over the recent years, and am always interested in supervising new students.

Professional work

Statistical Consultant for the Swedish Red Cross to gather, collate, and disseminate data about the work that all of Sweden's 350+ local chapters perform on a regular basis and in response to current crises.

Collaboration with ABF MittSkåne to research the healing process of people that are on long-term sick leave.

UKÄ subject classification

  • Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Probability Theory and Statistics

Free keywords

  • ecological psychology
  • dynamic systems theory
  • non-linear pedagogy
  • differential learning
  • chaos theory
  • LSSMC: Qualitative Methods Lab
  • LSSMC: Computational Social Sciences
  • LSSMC: Experimental Methods
  • LSSMC: Methods

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