Kari Spjeldnæs
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Leadership and Innovation
- Fakultet for ledelse og økonomi
Background
Kari Spjeldnæs is an Associate Professor and Head of Department at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences. She first joined Kristiania in autumn 2020 as a PhD Candidate.
In November 2022, she took up the position as Head of the Department of Leadership and Organisation. Since August 2026, she has served as Head of the Department of Leadership and Innovation.
Spjeldnæs has been a member of the research project Invading Media, Ambivalent Users and Digital Detox (Digital Disconnection), which explored media and media users, with a particular focus on strategies for withdrawal and disconnection from digital media.
She is a literary scholar with more than thirty years of experience in the Norwegian publishing industry, having worked as both an editor and executive. She brings extensive expertise in commercial operations, leadership and board governance.
Building on her doctoral research at the University of Bergen (2023), she published the book Lesekrise. Om lesing og konsentrasjon i en digital verden (2026).
The book addresses highly topical issues, and since its publication Spjeldnæs has delivered numerous lectures and participated in panel discussions and public debates. She is an active communicator of knowledge about how reading and literature are affected as screens increasingly compete for and capture our attention.
Areas of Expertise: Media studies, literature, reading, digitalization, media industries, organizational development
and business development