André Kalmendal Bruns

André Kalmendal Bruns

Associate senior lecturer in Psychology at Linnaeus University, with a focus on metascience and educational psychology. I earned my PhD in 2025 with the dissertation Evidence in Education: How Metascience Can Improve the Quality of Evidence Syntheses in Educational Psychology, which examines how metascientific approaches can strengthen the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of evidence syntheses in educational psychology.

I am also the initiator of Monolog, a popular science lecture series held outside the university, aimed at making academic research accessible to a broader audience through interdisciplinary dialogue.

Teaching

Course Coordinator

• Teaching and Learning Based on Scientific Evidence (6 credits) – Supplementary Teacher Education Programme (Upper Secondary Subject Teachers)

Lecturer / Supervisor

• Introduction to Philosophy of Science, Research Methods, and Statistics (7.5 credits) – Psychology Programme

• Philosophy of Science, Research Methods, and Statistics (7.5 credits) – Psychology Programme

• Degree Project in Psychology (30 credits) – Psychology Programme

• Research Methods (7.5 credits) – Master’s Programme in Work and Organizational Psychology

• Univariate and Multivariate Statistics (7.5 credits) – Master’s Programme in Work and Organizational Psychology

• Quantitative Methods and Ethics (15 credits) – Doctoral Programme in Psychology

Research

My research focuses on how scientific evidence in education and psychology is generated, evaluated, and used in more reliable ways. I primarily work with systematic reviews, meta-analyses, psychometrics, and metascience, with particular emphasis on evidence-based educational interventions, research quality, and open science. The overall aim is to strengthen the scientific basis for decision-making in schools, education, and education policy.

Commissions

• Doctoral Student Representative on the Steering Committee for Open Science at Linnaeus University (2023–2025), contributing to strategic work related to the university’s implementation of national and international open science policies.

• Methodological and Statistical Advisor, LegiLexi Research Group (since 2022), with responsibility for psychometric and methodological issues in research and development projects targeting primary and secondary education.

• Copy Editor and Reproducibility Reviewer for the journal Meta-Psychology (2020–2022).

• Conference Coordinator and Program Chair for the Open Science Community Sweden Conference 2024 at Linnaeus University.