3 meetings

Today I have attended 3 scheduled meetings, including 2 Universities Norway (UHR) meetings.

Elected as member of UHR-Helse og sosial working committee 2022-26

Today, at the second day of the annual unit meeting of UHR-Helse og sosial, I have been elected as a member of the working committee of UHR-Helse og sosial for the period 2022-2026.

Deputy member of working committee for UHR Helse og sosial

I have been appointed as deputy member of the working committee (arbeidsutvalg) of UHR Helse og sosial (which is a national organ for health and social studies) for Spring 2022.

Two-day UHR meeting attended

Over the two last days I have attended the digital two-day meeting of UHR-Helse og sosial, the health and social studies unit within Universities Norway.

National philosophy academic council meeting attended

Today I have attended the meeting of Norway´s national "fagråd" (academic council) for philosophy and history of ideas, digitally.

2 employee appraisals and 3 more meetings

Today I have had 2 employee appraisals (total to date: 39) and 3 more scheduled meetings. This included an info meeting on open science, and the second day of the UHR-Helse og sosial meeting (Universities Norway, health and social studies).

3 meetings

Today I have attended 3 scheduled meetings. This included the first day of the annual meeting in UHR-Helse og sosial, and my weekly meeting with the department´s office manager.

Three meetings

Today I have attended three digital meetings:

1. * the annual meeting of UHR-Samfunnsfag (the social science division of Universities Norway)
2. * this Spring´s first and only meeting in Forum for Forskning, organized by Faculty of Health Science and focused on matters of privacy. The event was attended by about 50 people.
3. * a meeting in the emergency preparedness group at Faculty of social sciences

Presentation of sustainability-themed UHR conference at Greenhouse lunch

Yesterday, Thursday November 28th, I talked about the sustainability-themes Universities Norway conference held earlier this week in Oslo for The Greenhouse during the weekly Greenhouse Thursday lunch. Some 10 people attended.

Conference of Universities Norway (UHR) attended

Today I have attended the annual UHR conference in Oslo (at Radisson Oslo Plaza). UHR, Universities Norway (the Norwegian name is Universitets- og høyskolerådet, which translates to "the university and university college council"), is a national association for Norwegian universities and university colleges. The topic for this year´s conference has been "Collaboration for a sustainable society". I attended the session "Education for transformation: Whose values and visions are shaping the future" by Karen O´Brien as well as all plenary session. I also attended the conference dinner.

UHR social sciences meeting and seminar attended

Wednesday and Thursday this week I attended the annual meeting of "den fagstrategiske enheten UHR-Samfunnsfag", a national entity for social sciences under Universitets- og høyskolerådet (Universities Norway), representing University of Stavanger´s Faculty of Social Sciences in my capacity as Vice-Dean of Research. The meeting was accompanied by a seminar and took place at Høgskolen i Innlandet, Lillehammer (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences).