Monthly Archives: September 2018

(Norwegian) Veilederseminar i Stavanger for ph.d.-veiledere ved Det medisinske fakultet

Veilederen er en nøkkelperson for ph.d.-utdanningen. Det medisinske fakultet har i flere år hatt samlinger for sine ph.d.-veiledere og høsten 2018 tilbyr vi en halv dag med faglig påfyll og inspirasjon også i Stavanger.

For mer info og program se her.

Tid: 21.november 2018 – 12.00-16.00
Sted: Auditoriet i Vestbygget, Stavanger Universitetssykehus
Påmeldingsfrist: 13.november 2018

New publications

Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 12 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Hege F. Berg.

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Relay baton transferred

I will act as Head of Department for the next 6 months in Pål Njølstad’s absence. Emmet McCormack will be my deputy, while Silke Appel and Jone Trovik continue in their roles as Vice Heads for research and teaching, respectively. The administrative team and I will do our best to solve the tasks ahead of us in a good way.

One of the issues we are working with is the strategy plan. The existing plan expires at the end of the year, but we have now extended it for one year to get more time to work out a new one. In March we will invite to whole institute to a retreat at Solstrand as a substitute for next year’s strategy seminar and institute day. The new strategic plan will be a central theme at the retreat. External funding will be a key issue for discussions. Another point is the allocation of positions. The legislative changes that reduce our opportunity to hire persons temporary will give the department challenges over time, but I am confident that we will manage to solve these issues in a good way together.

Finally, I wish all our talented employees good luck with the applications to Helse-Vest.

Eystein

Migration Conference: Health in All We Do

15-16 November 2018, Bergen University Aula

Welcome to the UiB conference on migration health! The conference is organized by the University of Bergen in collaboration with Norwegian Centre for Migration and Minority Health (NAKMI), the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Directorate of Health.

Registration deadline: 15 October, 2018

The conference will be a meeting place where researchers, representatives from health services, volunteer actors and users enter into dialogue and actively listen to each other’s messages and experiences. Large gaps between research results, practice and patient needs can lead to unequal health care and poor health outcomes for some immigrant groups.

Research on “migration and health” has increased in scope in recent years, but there is little collaboration between academic disciplines, but also between health institutions nationally. Our vision is to provide politicians and the society with relevant, useful and up-to-date information that can help improve health care for all, including immigrants.

Programme here.

K2 Annual Retreat

K2 arranges the second Annual Retreat for PhDs and postdocs employed at the department. The event has both an academic and social profile, where the overall aim is to promote communication and collaboration between our different research environments. This year’s event will be at Vatnahalsen in Myrdal, on October 25-26. We invite all interested PhDs and postdocs to sign up by September 16. 

Display of BIFF film Monday 24 September: Picture perfect

Also this year, K2 organizes the display of one of the year’s BIFF films. The movie is open and free for all.

This year, the choice fell on “Picture perfect” by Ida Kleppe. The film will be subtitled in English. More about the movie here:

https://www.biff.no/filmer/article1367011.ece?language=english

Welcome to a BIFF movie experience at work, hope to see many of you there.

Best regards Julie

Time and place: Large auditorium, Sentralblokken. Monday 24th September, 14.30

(Norsk) Vi sees på Innovasjonsuken OPP!

Under en måned til årets store arrangement for de som er interessert i innovasjon, entreprenørskap, ny teknologi, finurlige løsninger og fremtidens tjenester! Årets arrangement blir større, bredere og enda fetere!

OPPdag vår innholdsrike festivalkalender
40 arrangement er allerede på plass. Flere er under planlegging og det er enda tid til å bli med som arrangør. Sjekk ut festivalkalenderen og meld deg på arrangement på innovasjonsukenopp.no.

OPPlev noen smakebiter fra programmet:

*   Grand Opening sammen med Bergen Design Festival på GRAND Selskapslokaler
*   Det vil yre rundt på Marineholmen under «OPPlev Marineholmen»
*   Flere «Design Mornings» arrangementer
*   «Stormkast», “Sysla Live” & “Nuwave” gründermesse i Grieghallen
*   «Give A Job» er en viktig inkluderingsarena for å vise frem innvandrere og flyktningers kompetanse for potensielle arbeidsgivere i regionen vår
*   Som alltids blir det «DNB NXT» & “MeetCorprates” hos DNB i Solheimsviken
*   Innovasjon Norge inviterer til flere kurs og samlinger flere steder i regionen
*   Bergen Teknologioverføring og Impact HUB har flere arrangement iløpet av uken
*   «Bergen Brainstorm» i regi av studentgruppen Start UIB, «Show & Tell» på Fabrikken på HVL og “Early Stage” er gode initiativer for studentmiljøet i Bergen
*   54 timers hackathon under «Startup Weekend Bergen»
… og enda er det mange spennende arrangement på gang!

Det finnes også andre relevante arrangementer relatert til innovasjon og brukermedvirkning:

Oslo Innovation Week går av stabelen 24. – 26. september. Du finner programmet her.

Cutting Edge Festival er et samarbeid med en rekke ulike samarbeidspartnere, deriblant UiO. Inngår som en del av Oslo Innovation Week og avholdes 25. september. Les mer her.

(Norwegian) Senter for grunnforskning ved Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi

Siden 1992 har Det Norske Videskaps-Akademi huset mer enn 1000 fremragende forskere fra hele verden.  

Senter for grunnforskning, på engelsk Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), er et frittstående forskningssenter som hvert år tar imot tre internasjonale og tverrfaglige forskningsgrupper. Målet er å styrke og internasjonalisere uavhengig grunnforskning.

Hvert år kan fast ansatte forskere ved senterets samarbeidspartnere søke om å danne en internasjonal og tverrfaglig forskningsgruppe for ett års opphold ved CAS.

Forskningsaktivitetene ved senteret er organisert med en gruppe innen hvert av følgende tre fagområder:

Gruppene har en kjerne bestående av seks til åtte forskere som er ved senteret mer eller mindre hele forskningsåret. I tillegg kan gruppene ha flere forskere på kortere opphold. Normalt vil til sammen 40-45 forskere fra 10 -15 forskjellige nasjoner forske ved CAS i løpet av et år.

Søkerne går gjennom en omfattende søknadsprosess. I første runde velger styret ved Senter for grunnforskning hvilke prosjekter som går videre til andre runde. Etter en internasjonal fagfellevurdering blir til slutt tre prosjekter valgt to år i forveien av oppholdet.

Frist for å søke for 2021/2022 er i midten av januar 2019.

Les mer på denne nettsiden: https://cas.oslo.no/

New publications

Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 4 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Hege F. Berg.

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Happy Sunday!

The Sabbath (from Hebrew (שבת) means ceasing and was first used in bible context for the seventh day of creation. It is a religious day for rest, worship, party and / or activities within several religions. Sabbatical year or more precise named research term, is a good thing for academics. For many years, the universities have had this as a strategic asset because the knowledge society is international. Internationalization and stronger contact with international academic communities contribute to raising the quality of research and education. Research term is possible for permanent employed professors after six years of earning (in 100% position), allowing them to take their families abroad for a year, giving a great opportunity for new knowledge and new networks. The social dimension is also important by the ability to meet a new culture, make new friends, and come closer together as a family.

Research term abroad is strongly recommended for all permanent professors. Because the value of the university is so great, foreign stays should be a requirement for professor competence. There can of course be social reasons why this is difficult to implement. There is actually another interesting opportunity: What about spending the research term at the Center for Advanced Study in Oslo? Here you will find offices, meeting rooms and more for you and researchers you want to associate with you from home and abroad. The Center was created by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Every year there are hosts for three research groups. On the basis of proposals received, the groups are selected by the board after group leaders, proposed international partners and the projects have been through international evaluation. The Center will strengthen basic research and provide close collaboration between Norwegian and foreign researchers. The budget for each research group is 3.5 million NOK for project costs, scholarships, free purchases of foreign researchers, as well as housing, travel, conference and seminar expenses. The application deadline is mid-January 2019 for the academic year 2020-21.

I have had a research term in Boston at the Harvard Medical School in Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in addition to being a postdoc at the University of Chicago. These stays have been central to my career as researcher plus that it has actually been very fun. Soon, I will go to Boston for a new stay at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, this time for six months. Eystein Husebye will be Acting Head of Department, thank you very much for that. See you all nest Spring!