Fourth Ex.phil. seminars

Today I have given the fourth seminar in Ex.phil. this Autumn, at University of Stavanger´s Department of social studies, in two rounds, with altogether some 85 students attending. The course is part of the bachelor in psychology as well as the year-long study in psychology. Today´s topics included what it means to be human, academic writing and argumentation, and lies in politics.

Third Ex.phil. seminars

Yesterday and today I have given the third seminar in Ex.phil. this Autumn, at University of Stavanger´s Department of social studies, in two rounds, with altogether some 95 students attending. The course is part of the bachelor in psychology as well as the year-long study in psychology. Today´s topics included ethics, academic writing and argumentation with emphasis on logics, and orientation about a compulsory submission.

Responsible for environmental ethics in Store Norske Leksikon

I have been recruited as responsible (fagansvarlig) for environmental ethics in Store Norske Leksikon, which is the largest and most read edited encyclopedia in Norway and written by professionals. The category now also includes animal ethics.

Fifth Ex.phil. seminar

Today I have given the fifth Ex.phil. seminar this Autumn as part of the bachelor in psychology at the University of Stavanger´s Department of social studies, in two rounds. Topics included source use in academic texts, and who´s exempted from moral and juridical responsibility. 

Third Ex.phil. seminar

Today I have given the third Ex.phil. seminar, in two rounds, in the University of Stavanger´s bachelor in psychology, in collaboration with Anne Beth Våga from the UIS library, who covered referencing and use of sources for the first hour of the seminar. Today´s seminar was also open som student in their second or third year of the bachelor study.

#1; progress plan for book project "Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement"

Today I have had the first writing day this Spring, mostly devoted to making a writing plan for the entire Spring (see previous post). I have also made a draft progress plan for my book project Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement, estimating some 75 writing days resulting in a finished manuscript in June 2025. This would realistically leave space for only 10 article/chapter writing days in Autumn 2024 as well as in Spring 2025. 

2023 totals updated (words written)

After a little more writing today, these are the updated, corrected totals for Autumn 2023 and the year 2023 as a whole: Altogether I logged 12.040 words written this Autumn. With a further 23.377 words written in Spring, this brings this year´s total up to 35.417 words. 

Altogether I have logged 236.053 words written over the last 5 years (2019-2023).

 

See also:

#35; 2023 totals (words written)

#26,5

Today I have had half a writing day with work done with my research assistant on our GDP review article.

Six hours of teaching commencing last week of this autumn´s teaching

Today I have taught for 6 hours in Examen Philosophicum - the last day of teaching for two of four seminar groups, though two seminars still remain the next couple of days. Before the two seminars today I gave the 12th and final lecture, summing up and starting a course in academic writing.

Autumn´s sixth writing day

Today I had this autumn´s sixth writing day so far, with 7 hours devoted to focused academic writing. I added to the Biosemiotics editorial "Phenomenology and biosemiotics" and my article "Human development, inequality and social risks in Latin-America and the Nordic countries", and marginally to "Wasted growth: Case study - the American nightmare". Altogether I wrote some 1.700 words of text.

Autumn´s fifth writing day

Today I had this autumns fifth writing day - and, with 7 hours, the longest so far (I find it practical to have a writing day on Thursdays and then catch up with email and other tasks on Fridays - Monday to Wednesday I am (mostly) teaching).

I did different kinds of work with five different articles (including writing new text on four), so the day was a bit fragmented in terms of focus.

Oxford writing trip coming to an end

My first writing trip, to Oxford, is coming to an end - I will be heading home tomorrow morning. I have not done as much as I hoped, but I have nevertheless: Revised a jointly written article (see previous post); started on and developed a disposition for "The case for minimizing anthropogenic mortality in wildlife mortality", found key, updated sources for "Introducing a notion of accumulated GDP", brainstormed about (and hopefully operationalized) a later article on wasted and wasteful growth (GDP growth vs. human development), and cleared my head concerning realistic academic writing plans for the rest of the year.

Plans for full writing days

From now on I plan to start having a full-day writing day, working at home, every week, whenever possible. I have made preliminary plans for the rest of this year.

Writing trip to Oxford

I am currently (27/4-2/5) in Oxford, at a hotel, on a writing trip. This is my very first writing trip (and my first visit to Oxford), but I intend to have another one at some point this summer (both funded with my Yngre Fremragende Forskere (Younger Outstanding Researchers) funds). I am primarily drafting (or at least getting started with) two articles, work-titled "The case for minimizing anthropogenic mortality in wildlife management" and "Introducing a notion of accumulated GDP".

Welfare services research meeting

On Tuesday March 13th I attended the meeting of the program area for welfare services research, where we discussed this year´s research applications, and how we can help each other with regard to academic writing.

10 hours of teaching in Ex.Phil.

I have given an Ex.Phil. seminar today, and one yesterday, plus two Monday, when I also gave the 12th lecture. This concludes my teaching in Ex.Phil. this autumn. This week´s teaching included summary, course in academic writing, and trial Multiple Choice exam.

Teaching - academic writing

Today I taught for 2 hours - third part of course in academic writing, held my Kjersti Ørvig and myself, for bachelor thesis students at Department of social studies. This concludes this year´s writing course.

Writing plan for 2017 and beyond

Today I have made a writing plan (book projects) for 2017, with preliminary plans for 2018-2021. Notably, I am taking a break from Utslippsfrie nye verden? Hva debatten om gasskraftverk sier om norsk natursyn, on CCS, to make room for the wolf-themed book I am co-writing this Spring. In parallel I´ll write on my novel Regnskap, as I have the last half year, until the summer (with another novel waiting in line this Autumn, along with continued writing on Utslippsfrie nye verden?).

First hour of teaching this year

Today I taught for 1 hour, and followed teaching another hour, in the first of three lectures in academic writing for bachelor thesis students at University of Stavanger´s Department of social studies, along with Kjersti Ørvig.

2 hour lecture - academic writing 2

Today I have taught for 2 hours, in the academic writing course for bachelor students (bachelor thesis in child welfare, bachelor thesis in social work) at University of Stavanger´s department of social studies. This completes the writing course.