3 meetings

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

4 meetings

Today I have had 4 meetings / scheduled appointments. This included a 4 hour meeting in Universities Norway, specifically the working committee in UHR-Helse og sosial.

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.

4 meetings including 3 employee appraisals and UHR meeting

Today I have had 3 employee appraisals (total to date: 18) and attended the first day of the UHR-HS annual 2-day unit meeting (the latter digitally).

4 meetings

Today I have attended 4 scheduled meetings, including working committee meeting in UHR-Helse og sosial.

A meeting

Today I have attended one scheduled Teams meeting, with UHR-HS and the Norwegian Directorate of Health.

UHR-HS working committee meeting; Ayan Handulle´s ph.d. defense

Today I have attended the working committee meeting of UHR-Helse og sosial, the health and social studies unit of Universities Norway. I am currently a deputy member of the working committee. I have also followed part of the ph.d. defense of Ayan Handulle and the department´s celebratory event on that occasion, and will later tonight attend her dissertation dinner.

1 meeting

Today I have attended a meeting between Universities Norway and the Norwegian Directory of Health with regard to plans for establishing work placement offices in the municipalities of Norway.

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).