Her research field is within Art and Design Education. In 2010 she defended her doctoral thesis addressing Architecture as a key area within the school subject Art and Crafts, at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Since 2012 Fauske has been working on a post-doc project about ‘with Making Scholarship’ and ‘Doctorateness’ in the field of Art and Design Education. The project is part of an ongoing Scandinavian research project.