Søk om deltakelse til Barents Sea Youth Conference 2016 for en unik mulighet til å lære mer om arbeids- og utviklingsmuligheter i Nord-Norge. Søkefrist søndag 10. april.

Barents Sea Youth Conference (BSYC) arrangeres i Hammerfest 18.-20. april. Studenter innen alle relevante fagretninger ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet oppfordres til å søke om deltakelse.

For første gang går BSYC parallelt med hovedkonferansen – Barents Sea Conference. Dette gir rom for økt kontakt og nettverksbygging mellom studentdeltakere og bransjen.

Les mer om Barentshavskonferansen.

Deltakelse gir

Økt forståelse for bransjens aktivitet og langsiktighet. Det vil være høyt aktivitetsnivå på norsk sokkel fram mot 2020 og videre, selv om motvinden merkes. Vi oppfordrer studentene til å være nysgjerrige, løsningsorienterte og ha interesse for ny teknologi. En unik mulighet til å møte sentrale aktører innen petroleumsnæringen i Norge.

Foto: Goggen Hansen. Arktisk kultursenter i Hammerfest.

Hva er inkludert

Komplett seminardeltakelse, inkludert dags- og kveldsprogram, overnatting, frokost, lunsj og middag konferansedagene (ytterligere forpleining  må studentene selv dekke) og reisetilskudd.

Hvordan søke om deltakelse

Skriv en søknad på inntil 1 side om hvorfor du ønsker å delta på Barents Sea Youth Conference 2016. Knytt gjerne noen refleksjoner til hvilke måte du ønsker å bruke erfaringer fra konferansen knyttet til egne studier og fremtidig karriere.

PhD studenter er hjertelig velkommen til å søke om deltakelse.

Søknad med CV merket BSCY 2016 sendes til karriere@uit.no innen søndag 10. april 2016 (obs. forlenget søkefrist).

Praktisk info om støtte til reise 

Studenter med annet studiested enn campus Hammerfest som bli trukket ut til å delta vil være berettiget til reisetilskudd med følgende fordeling: Alta: 500,- Tromsø: 1000,- Narvik: 2500,- Harstad: 2500,- Bodø: 2500,- Trondheim: 2500,- og Oslo: 2000,-. Studenter bestiller selv reise. Raskt oppgjør etter mottatt dokumentasjon.

– See more at: https://uit.no/om/enhet/aktuelt/arrangement?p_document_id=458741&p_dimension_id=178338#sthash.I6CUmCz1.dpuf

– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UiTKarriere/

Den offentlig retorikk rundt temaet kvalitet innen forskning dreier seg i stor grad om eksellens og evnen til å få frem forskningsgrupper som internasjonalt er i front inne sitt felt. En fremheving av denne utviklingen ble nylig realisert gjennom regjerings bevilging til såkalte verdensledende miljøer. UiT svarte på bevilgningen ved å tildele midlene til ett av våre fremste forskningsmiljøer. Ønsker UiT å forsterke denne utviklingen må vi sikre at vi har en kultur for utvikling av eksellens. Debattmøtet har til hensikt å belyse hvorvidt UiT har en kultur for utvikling av eksellens innen forskning.

Paneldeltakere: Trude Haugli, Paul Wassmann; Laura Janda; Jürgen Mienert; Bjørn Hersoug; Hans-Kristian Hernes (alle UiT)  og Bjørn Haugstad (statssekretær, KD). Leder av debatten vil være Skjalg Fjellheim (Avisa Nordlys).

Tankesmia Grønn Fase deler i 2016 ut 50 000 kr til beste idé eller konsept som fremmer miljøvennlig energi.

– See more at: https://uit.no/om/enhet/aktuelt/nyhet?p_document_id=454111&p_dimension_id=88199#sthash.wud7aZkb.dpuf

For english version, please see bellow

BOWLING KVELD!

TODOS fyller fem år, og feirer med bowlingkveld!

TODOS inviterer deg til en kveld med bowling, biljard og hipp hipp hurra! Feir med oss den 2. mars mellom 18-20 hos Bybowling i Storgata 68, vi har booket lokalet for oss i disse to timene. Vær vennlig å registrere for eventen slik at vi vet hvor mange som kommer og kan planlegge deretter.

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Vær oppmerksom på at dette er et arrangement for PhD-studenter og Post-docs ved UiT!
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BOWLING NIGHT!

TODOS turns five years old, and its time to strike!

TODOS invites you to an evening of bowling, billiards and hip hip hurrah on the evening of 2nd March between 18.00 and 20.00. Join us to play and socialize at Bybowling on Storgata 68, the place will be all ours for 2 hours. Please register for the event so that proper arrangements can be made.

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Please note: This is an event for Uit PhDs and Post-docs only!
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Leadership skills may become handy both during and after your PhD. Sign up now for two days lectures about leadership, and two days of practical seminar given by Nordnorsk lederutvikling.

Application deadline: 1 April 2016

Sign up here: https://uit.no/utdanning/emner/emne?p_document_id=430571&ar=2015&semester=V  

The course run from 10–13 May 2016.

Course contents:

Writing a PhD benefits from the acquisition of competencies outside of the specific study, e.g. being aware of current academic norms, knowing how to retrieve, manage and treat references, handling scientific research data, and being up-to-date about open access publication.

Take control of your PhD Journey: From (p)reflection to publishing is a seminar series organized by the University Library, designed for PhD students coming from all fields of study. It consists of five independent, yet interrelated, seminars, each of which containing a mix of theory, discussion and practical exercises.

Learning outcomes

If attending all individual seminars, the PhD student will be expected to have obtained the following learning outcomes:

Skills
•    Search scientific literature in relevant databases
•    Use EndNote for citing references as well as organizing them
•    Search relevant Open Access publishers
•    Manage research data according to best practice
•    Find and use repositories for archiving manuscripts and research data

Competence
•    Know and explain the whys for the transparency of science (textual publications and research data)
•    Know and explain what is considered correct citation and plagiarism
•    Know and explain why systematic literature search is important
•    Know about advantages and disadvantages with open access
•    Know and explain best practice for research data management

 For more information and registration, see https://uit.no/tavla/artikkel?p_document_id=449476

Tuesday 26th of November 2015 TODOS held its annual general meeting and elected a new board for 2015. The AGM was satisfied with the activities of the organization the previous year and the old board was dismissed and the new board elected. The AGM decided to expand the board by one board member for 2016. The new Board will start its mandate on 01.01.2016. The minutes of the AGM will be available soon on the TODOS website. The members of the TODOS Board 2016 are as follows:

Board-Chair –  Charlotte Weber, The Norwegian College of Fishery Science (BFE)

Vice Board-Chair – Anna Wirsing, Department of Medical Biology (MH)

Chair of Social Affairs – Bilal Babar, Department of Physics and Technology (NT)

Chair of Academic Affairs – Jonathan Hira, The Norwegian College of Fishery Science (BFE)

Accountant – Javier Sánchez Romano, Department of Arctic Marine Biology (BFE)

Board Member – Theodora Sam, The Norwegian College of Fishery Science(BFE)

Board Member – Runa Borgund Barnung, Department of Community Medicine (MH)

We wish them the best of luck!

According to the UiTs policy, all research results should be published in Open Access journals, or be made available in institutional repositories.  Also, the European Research Council (ERC) and Wellcome Trust, demand that the research they are funding is made accessible (Open Access).

To get a clearer picture and in connection to the 10th Munin Conference, TODOS in collaboration with the organizing committee of the Munin Conference invite all PhD candidates, employees and students at UiT to a morning seminar on scholarly communication, publishing and open access issues. We are pleased to announce the participation of the keynote speaker from the Munin conference: Stuart Shieber, as well as Jan Erik Frantsvåg and Anika Mckenroth .

The seminar will take place Wednesday morning 2nd of December from 9.15am til 12.00 (Breakfast served from 8.30) at the Medicine faculty, auditorium 6 (MH U6.A6AUD6).

In order to order the right amount of food and coffee/tea for the breakfast, please register yourself at https://goo.gl/kVr729 by the 27th of November.

Best,

TODOS Board

More about Open Access:  Open Access

The speakers:

Stuart M. Shieber, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard, and the faculty director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. His primary research field is computational linguistics, the study of human languages from the perspective of computer science. He was the founding director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society and is a co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Professor Shieber led Harvard’s efforts to institute open-access policies leading to the policies now in place at Harvard and emulated elsewhere.

Jan Erik Frantsvåg has a background in Economics, Computer Science and Banking. In 2011, he graduated from a master in Documentation Science. After a 13 years career in banking, Jan Erik worked another 13 years in various administrative positions at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Jan Erik works full-time on Open Access since 2006. He participates in projects, advocates Open Access and administrates the publication fund and the publication service Septentrio Academic Publishing from UiT. Since 2015, Jan Erik spends half of his working time researching Open Access.

Jan Erik will focus more about the situation of OA at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and where are it is heading. He will explain what are the differences between OA and traditional journals and   how to make good OA choices.

Anika Mackenroth works as a communication advisor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, where, for the last four years, she has taught public-oriented research communication to PhD candidates. She heads an editorial team and otherwise works with the full breadth of communication-related tasks, from strategic communication planning, to marketing, media relations, social media and PR. She has experience in marketing, information and journalism.

Anika will give us advices for the dissemination part in the grant proposals: how to craft the presentation and the dissemination plan. Least and not last, she will tell us how to stand out by being relevant. 

The presentation of  Jan Erik Frantsvåg: link

The presentation of Anika Mackenroth: link

The video of the event is available a well but due to a technic issue, there is some sound only after 1h08min : link.

​Teaching and learning in higher education – course for PhD fellow

The spring semester course will have two sessions: 1st and 2nd of February 2016 and 31th of March and 1st of April 2016

Who can apply? Research fellows at the UiT with teaching activities during spring semester 2016

Language of instruction: English.

Application date: 20th of December 2015

Application form and more information: See Tavla: https://intranett.uit.no/vis-tavla?p_document_id=440238

Do you want to improve your teaching skills? T​he course Teaching in higher education is aimed at PhD fellows who want to improve their teaching skills. The course gives you fundamental skills in teaching, enabling you to:

• plan and conduct different teaching activities
• develop your own teaching skills
• discuss teaching and learning based on relevant theories and research

​ AMP​ Seminar with Julien Bourelle on 20th November

When: 20th November at 20.00

Where: Sparebanken festsal, Storgata 65

Arctic Meeting Point (AMP) is organising a seminar with Julien Bourelle who wrote a book about how to connect with Norwegians. Seminar will be held on Friday, 20th of November at 20.00 in Sparebanken festsal, Storgata 65 . Entry is free.

http://monda.no/lectures-and-seminars/the-norwegian-culture/

​About Julien Bourelle:

Julien S. Bourrelle is educated as a rocket scientist and known for his entertaining lectures on the Norwegian culture. He is the author of “The Social Guidebook to Norway” and the founder of Mondå – a project helping Norwegian organisations to benefit better from diversity.

HRH Crown Prince Haakon handed him The TOP 10 award which highlights an "outstanding" international role model in the Norwegian working and social life.

For more information about Arctic Meeting P​oint: ​www.arcticmeetingpoint.com​

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