PhD forum

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MINUTES

MEETING:

PhD forum

No / Year: 1/2019

Weekday: Thursday Date: 02.05.19. Participants: : Fasil Tesema, Katie Herlingshaw, Kjersti Kalhagen, Malte Jochmann, Sarah Strand, Peter Betlem, Tatiana Drotikova, Magdalena Wutkowska, Lisa Baddeley, Anne Bjørndal.

Start: 13:00 End: 14:15 Place: Kapp Schoultz

Leader: Anne Bjørndal

Minutes: Anne Bjørndal Copy for information: Ruben Eidesen, Ane Hammervoll Bjørsvik, Håkon Kristensen, Elise Strømseng, Marry Kristin Waal Sandstå, Harald Ellingsen, head of departments.

Reference: https://www.unis.no/phd- resources/#forum

Minutes from meeting 11.10.18.

The minutes from the PhD forum on 11.10.18 were approved.

News from the study administration:

Two PhD dissertations this far in 2019:

 Ylva Ericson (AGF) – 20 February

 Ane Cecilie Kvernvik (AB) – 29 March Two new PhD candidates since our last meeting:

 Kjersti Kalhagen (AGF)

 Peter Betlem (AG)

Aleksandra Smyrak-Sikora and Sebastian Sikora got a daughter on 24 April 

RCom (research committee) has made a suggestion for a PhD policy at UNIS, to be handled in the leader group shortly. Anne will send the suggested PhD policy to the candidates, for information.

News from the mainland universities:

 UiT (NT-faculty)

o New template for project descriptions (for new PhDs) to be implemented soon o New contact person (vacancy due to maternity leave); Maren Lund Andresen,

phone 7764 4055; e-mail: [email protected]

 UiB

o Has reorganized their PhD programme to have one PhD programme per faculty (instead of at university level).

 New regulations: https://regler.app.uib.no/regler/Del-2-Forskning- utdanning-og-formidling/2.1-Forskning/2.1.1-Administrasjon-av-

forskerutdanning/Regulations-for-the-degree-of-Philosophiae-Doctor-PhD- at-the-University-of-Bergen

 Programme description and new supplementary rules for the Faculty of

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Mathematics and Natural Sciences:

https://w3.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/engelsk_programbeskriv else_ph.d.-programmet_oppdatert_18.2.19_0.pdf

 Web-pages: https://www.uib.no/en/matnat/53972/doctoral-education-phd- faculty-mathematics-and-natural-sciences

Lisa Baddeley: How to do a good poster presentation

 Video about how to design a good poster:

http://www.nuigalway.ie/remedi/poster/index.html

 Lisa’s notes are uploaded on the PhD web pages under lectures / resources here:

https://www.unis.no/phd-resources/#forum

Wanted topics

The following topics / ideas for the PhD forum was presented. More suggestions can be sent to Anne.

 How to communicate research in more “modern” ways (QR-code, digital media…)

 Academic writing

 Oral presentations

 Stress management

 Latek / Mark down

 Interactive sharing session among the PhDs

 Authorship (rules / guidelines)

 Career development (inside and outside academia)

 Postdoc funding Next meeting

 The PhD students were encouraged to arrange a social event before summer (pizza, barbeque, pub etc. ) The PhD students will send a request to UNIS to see if there are any possibilities to get some funding for this kind of events.

 The PhDs wanted to organize a “writing club”, in line with what have been done at the AGF-department earlier.

 Next PhD forum is planned in early autumn 2019.