MINUTES
MEETING:
PhD forum
No / Year: 2/2013Weekday: Friday Date: 24.05.13. Participants: Miriam Marquardt, David Wrangborg, Heidi Sevestre, Anne Elina Flink, Xiangcai Chen, Renat Yulmetov, Teena Chauhan, Eike Stübner, Gro Heidi Råmunddal, Anne Bjørndal
Start: 10.00 End: 11:30 Place: Van Mijen
Leader: Anne Bjørndal
Minutes: Anne Bjørndal Copy for information: Ane Bjørsvik, Ruben Eidesen, Kari Moxnes, Iben N.
Andersen, Ole Arve Misund Reference: V:\Admin\STUDADM\PhD
administrasjon\Interne phd\PhD forum
Minutes from meeting 20.03.13.
The minutes from the PhD forum on 20.03.13. was presented and approved.
News from the study administration:
A new PhD candidate was presented; Anne Elina Flink at the AG-department. Welcome!
Each PhD candidate presented himself / herself and his / her PhD project briefly.
News from the mainland universities
None of the mainland universities had reported any special issues to be addressed at the meeting.
However, we had a look at the universities’ web pages regarding PhD programmes:
– UiB:
• http://www.uib.no/phd/en – UiO
• http://www.mn.uio.no/english/research/doctoral-degree-and-career/phd- programme/index.html
– UiT (Faculty of science and technology)
• http://uit.no/ansatte/organisasjon/artikkel?p_menu=28714&p_document_id=
61521&p_dimension_id=88131 – UiT (BFE Faculty):
• http://uit.no/ansatte/organisasjon/artikkel?p_document_id=329334&p_dime nsion_id=88163&p_menu=28713
– UiT (MH Faculty)
• http://en.uit.no/ansatte/organisasjon/artikkel?p_document_id=169998&p_di mension_id=88108&p_menu=28713
– NTNU (Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology)
• http://www.ntnu.edu/ivt/phd/
– UMB
• http://www.umb.no/research/article/phd-education
Gro Heidi Råmunddal – Endnote – what is it and what can it do for you?
Gro Heidi Råmunddal from the library gave a lecture on Endnote. She also presented a new web site “PhD on track”, a cooperation project between the University of Aalborg, Bergen University College, the University of Bergen, the University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of
Economics.
The Endnote-presentation and link to “PhD on Track” will be uploaded on
V:\Admin\STUDADM\PhD administrasjon\Interne phd\PhD forum\Meetings.
Next meeting
Next PhD forum will be held in early September.
Suggested topics for next meeting:
ask Janet Holmén to give a short lecture on academic writing
discuss article draft(s) from one or a few of you PhD candidates
