#26

Today I have had half a book writing day devoted to my book Being and Sign and applying for research leave at the University of Stavanger´s faculty of Social Sciences, where I work (at Department for social studies). Apart from the book project the research leave application also includes tentative plans for application work related to the ERC Synergy Grant scheme. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 26 including 17 book writing days.

Two applications for green funding rejected by University of Stavanger

Recently I sent two applications to the University of Stavanger concerning green funding/green transition funds, with one of them involving a public lecture on the future of environmentalism, and the other a field trip in relation to my study of socialized wolves. None of the applications were funded.

Expanded Reason Awards - application

I have just submitted my chapter "A Biosemiotic Perspective on the Human Condition and the Environmental Crisis" to the Expanded Reason Awards, with a CV, an extended abstract, and a 3.000 word  "explanatory document" written for the occasion.

Application to Nansenfondet sent in hope of conference participation funding

I have just submitted an application to Nansenfondet for funding of conference participation in 2024, for the project "Miljø og velferd" (Environment and welfare). As a result of budget cuts, the University of Stavanger´s Department of social studies, where I work, will only fund maximum one conference participation per year from now on, whereas I have been used to attending about five conferences per year.

Research leave application submitted

Today I have applied for a research leave 2024-2025 at University of Stavanger, with a project focused on my book project Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement.

NORPART application "Cuban and Nordic welfare" successful

Yesterday we got to know that our project application "Cuban and Nordic welfare" will be funded by Norwegian Partnership Programme for Global Academic Cooperation (NORPART), with some 5 million crowns, for the period 2019-2023. This is first of all a student exchange and educational collaboration project. The project involves collaboration between University of Stavanger´s Department of social studies and University of Havana´s Department of sociology.

Our project is the only one with a partner in Latin America, and one of two projects awarded to University of Stavanger.

I took active part in the application work, and am one of 12 members of the project´s "Academic Collaboration Group" (7 from Stavanger) and one of 5 members (3 from Stavanger) in the project´s Steering Committee.

Nettop meeting

Today I attended a meeting at NettOp, the UiS unit for e-learning, in connection with our NORPART application work involving Cuba.

NORPART application work and meeting

Today I have attended a meeting concerning our NORPART application (collaboration with University of Havana). The application is due this Thursday. I made some text work this weekend, more is to come the next few days.

NORPART meeting

Today I took part in a meeting with some colleagues, including two administrative staff, concerning our NORPART application which is due by the end of this month.

NORPART meeting

Today I attended a meeting with two colleagues in relation to our NORPART application which is due by end of May.

NORPART application meeting

I have just met with a colleague to discuss our NORPART application, which I am involved in preparing.

NoSP: Not PAJ representative

At yesterday´s business meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology (NoSP), I´m told, it was announced that Fredrik Svenaeus is appointed this year´s representative presenting at the annual conference of the Phenomenological Association of Japan (PAJ). Thus, I did not "win".

See also:

Applied to represent NoSP at PAJ conference

Application for parental leave sent

Today I have posted my application for parental leave in relation to the birth last autumn of our twins Alexander and Cecilie da Silva-Tønnessen. All I have had so far is two weeks straight after birth. I now apply for a further 21 weeks or so, with some of it taken as graded parental leave (part-time, combined with part-time work). If the application is approved as submitted, I will start part-time parental leave April 1st and have full-time parental leave August 1st to October 26th (the latter portion of leave will be rearranged if I get a position as Head of department at University of Stavanger).

One more meeting on excellence in research program

Today I have met with the research director at University of Stavanger to discuss my intent to apply within the UiS´ program for excellence in research.

No from Czech-Norwegian grant scheme

The Czech-Norwegian grant application I have taken part in (see previous posts) along with Anton Markoš and Dan Faltýnek, entitled "Living beings as sign systems in evolution and development", was not successful. This became clear as results were announced July 15th. 19 of around 400 applications were funded.

No from Idélab

Today I was notified that I am not invited to the Research Council of Norway's Idélab.

See also:

Application sent to take part in "Idélab" on climate-friendly technology

Idélab received 155 applications, decision to be made by 20/12

Job application - UiA

February 21st I applied for a permanent position as Associate professor in philosophy at the University of Agder (at the Department of Religion, Philosophy and History, Faculty of Humanities and Education), which is located where I am currently residing (and have been living for a total of 10 years). I was later informed that 20 people have applied for this position - including one professor and 7-8 Associate professors, myself included. 

The position is/was meant to be filled starting August 1st, but given that I have not to date been notified about who's in the evaluation committee (sakkyndig komité), this is not so likely. Personally I have a 3 month  period of notice at the University of Stavanger.

Contribution to Estonian-Norwegian research project application

In the days leading up to March 5th I contributed to the research project application "Animals in Changing Environments: Cultural Mediation and Semiotic Analysis", where I am the prospective Principal Investigator of the Norwegian research team, with Tartu's Timo Maran being the Principal Investigator of the Estonian research team, based at University of Tartu's Department of Semiotics. The Norwegian team will, if the application proves successful, include professor Paul Thibault (University of Agder) and Post-Doc Kristin Armstrong Oma (University of Oslo). My head of Department at University of Stavanger has approved my and the university's involvement, and I have met with an economics consultant in the central administration. 

The application is due to be submitted by March 14th. More details later.

Unsuccessful research application

I have just been informed - though the decision is not that fresh - that the application for a research project entitled "Environmental Semiotics: Theory and applications in changing culture and environment" failed to get funding. In the application I was included as an Extraordinary Researcher with full work load (research) - though I was later told who would actually be included, and with what kind of role, would only be decided following a positive answer.

The external reviewer noted that

this research has the potential to place the Tartu School of Semiotics within international Environmental Humanities. [...] The proposal is, however, too semiotical in the sense that it lives in its theoretical fields without making too many contacts to practice and concrete problems.

Cf. previous posts:
* Application for research project 2011-2016
* Prospects for further wolf research?