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K2-News Week 11
It’s time to honor our best in research, teaching and dissemination 2017!
A. PRICES OF THE MEDICAL FACULTY 2017
Prizes will be awarded for the year’s publication, the research group of the year, the year’s PhD work, and excellent research dissemination.
K2 can promote up to two candidates in each category. The proposals needs to be detailed. The individual proposal should be on 1/2-1 page. We ask research group leaders to submit proposals o pal.njolstad@uib.no by Friday 6 April 2018.
The Publication of the Year
-describe quality, originality, and innovation
– if relevant, consequences for further knowledge acquisition, clinical use or innovation
– should represent the department’s own research
-the original article as nominated should be enclosed as a pdf file of the printed article
The PhD Thesis of the Year
-describe quality, originality, and innovation
– if relevant, consequences for further knowledge acquisition, clinical use or innovation
-candidate’s own contribution to the work needs to be explained
-four printed copies of the thesis should be sent to the faculty (will only be returned on request).
The Research Group of the Year
-describe research production and quality
-should have close collaboration and not have the character of being a loosely linked network
-contributions to national and international research collaboration, networking and contributions to recruitment and education of researchers recruited
The Dissemination Price
-descrube how the researcher or research group has been able to convey recent research in an excellent way to a broad audience
-research dissemination must be of high quality in terms of professional content, design and execution
-should engage, awaken curiosity, give inspiration and new knowledge
-the dissemination must respond to society’s need for information and knowledge about research and higher education.
B: K2’S TEACHING PRICE
K2 has launched a teaching price of 50,000 NOK. The prize is awarded once a year to a lecturer who has particularly excelled for outstanding efforts in student education within subjects in the program of medicine, pharmaceuticals, dentistry or nutrition belonging to K2.We ask for proposals sent to jone.trovik@uib.no by April 13, 2018.The prize will be awarded at the Examination and Teaching Seminar on 2 May.
Matters that are especially emphasized in the assessment of proposed candidates for the K2 tuition fee:
-student evaluation of teaching
-remarks for good education
-development of new student activating teaching methods
-use of new digital teaching or examination methods
-production of textbooks / textbooks
-internationalization of teaching
-other teaching or exam-related projects with clear transfer value
INFO REGARDING POST DELIVERY, CAMPUS BUS AND MATERIAL – EASTER 2018.
Mail:
Monday 26 March and Tuesday 27 March, the internal mail will go as usual.
Wednesday, March 28, it will not be any mail pickup or delivery
Campus Bus:
The campus bus run during Easter week. That means, the last day the bus goes is Friday the 23rd. The bus goes back to normal, after Easter, Tuesday the 3rd of April
Material Units / Other Transport Assignments:
These 2 units end up holidaying in Easter week.
No transport assignments are thus expedited / performed in Easter week.
Transport is back as usual Tuesday 3rd of April
Network Luncheon for all PhD fellows
Dear all,
The Postgraduate School of Clinical Medicine is preparing a new Network Luncheon for all PhD fellows and researchers at K1 and K2 departments.
Now is the time to sign up as a presenter, if you would like to present your latest results, engage in discussion with other PhD students and practice your presentation skills.
The upcoming Network Lunch will take place;
Thursday April 12th , Laboratory building, room 9.1/9.2, from 11:30-13:00.
Registration link:
https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/embed.php?id=4761627
Take a break from your daily lab-routine and enjoy a free lunch, socialize and hear talks from fellow PhD students, and on top of all that, earn one ECTS point!
If you would like to earn one ECTS (http://www.uib.no/en/course/FSKLI901) , please contact:
Irene.hjelmaas@uib.no
Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have!
Looking forward to see you
Irene and Yasaman
Workshops on responsible research and innovation (RRI)
All PhD students at the University of Bergen are invited to 1-day workshops in responsible research and innovation (RRI). No prior knowledge of RRI is needed.
http://www.uib.no/en/svt/116009/workshops-responsible-research-and-innovation-rri
New chance to apply for PhD funding to employes in public sector
New chance to apply for public phd. Link is only in norwegian:
Program for aktivities at IUC in 2018
Here you can find the program
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 24 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 Johnny Laupsa-Borge.
Info on startup of BUS 2 – Child and Youth Hospital Step 2
In connection with the start of construction work at the Children’s and Youth Hospital, Step 2, we would like to provide brief information about what will happen in the next few weeks:
Going now: Creation and establishment of construction site.
12th of March: Start-up of excavation and transport of masses from construction site.
19th of March: Startup of drilling and blasting.
Blasting 2 times per day in the time window at 12:30 to 13:00 and at 15:30 to 16:00. Explosion will be notified by signal.
An invitation will be sent to a information meeting regarding the project in the near future.
With best regards
Helse Bergen
Do you need more shelves?
We still have shelves of the type as shown in the picture. These are now on the 9th floor of the lab building and need new homes. If anyone is interested, they can contact Marius by email as soon as possible. Marius will help with transportation
Marius
Desperately seeking … TEACHERS
At K2 we do have many teaching contributions: pharmacy, nutrition, molecular biology and dentistry, but the most comprehensive is the medical curriculum with all its facets from the basal anatomy, physiology and biology to the whole panorama of diseases (in addition, contributions from the university for the education of medical specialists are being asking for). As university employees we ALL have to contribute as teachers/facilitators, although at different levels. The academics hold the responsibility for lecturing, but specific student courses may need assistance from technicians/non-medical scientists. Students will also need mentoring during specific projects in handling instruments/machines and statistics.
PhD students with UiB scholarships are to fulfil a proportion of compulsory service/work. With relevant medial background I will ask for their appropriate time/share to be allocated for teaching. PhD students with other scientific backgrounds will be prioritized for other needy/worthy tasks. It is important that each mentor inform their PhD candidates accordingly regarding these UiB expectations and actively encourage them to participate in teaching activities. Other “non-UiB scholarship” candidates are encouraged to participate in teaching activities. During their PhD training, the candidate shall participate in academic dissemination. Teaching activities will be one way of fulfilling this. In addition, planning for future scientific employment, teaching experience is important. Hopefully I will be informed of who may be included as teacher from the new pool of PhD candidates.
The teaching day 2 May has a teaching portfolio as a theme, precisely to enable us to document and visualize teaching skills.
OSCE (Objective Structured Clincal Exam), or station exam in Norwegian, is used for pharmacy already, while in Medicine 2015 it will be held for the first time in full scale for a full litter of students on 20 June. We need that teachers from the first to the sixth semester make exam paper proposals. This must be reported to K1 OSCE responsible, professor Eirik Søfteland.
K2 shall be responsible for implementing the final OSCE for the 12th semester. There, we need to find a person with an interest in teaching/evaluation that will help lead the work towards the first exitOSCE in June 2019. Do you have experience (graduated from e.g. the Netherlands or the UK?), or just want to take the challenge with a new part of the educational range: contact me! Or tell me someone you think will suit this; “tip phone” = jone.trovik@med.uib.no.
Jone
Announcement of competence funding for group C (technical / administrative staff)
Funding for development and competence raising has been budgeted also for 2018. It is possible to apply for funding for professional development and competence raising measures up until NOK 5000.
The criteria for allocation of funds are:
- The application must be professionally relevant and supported by the research group leader.
- The research group must contribute with 50% of the costs.
Link to application form here.
Written applications can be sent to Julie Stavnes.
Do you need more bookshelves?
We have 8 bookshelves of the type as shown in the picture. These are now on the 9th floor of the lab building and need new homes. If anyone is interested, they can contact Marius by email as soon as possible.
Marius
Changes in the practice of research education at the Faculty
Recently, some changes have been made in the practice of research education at the Faculty. Changes and clarifications apply to English requirements, co-authorship statement and impartiality for supervisors.
More information can be found here. (Link in Norwegian.)
Elections to the University Board | Nominations for Group B
A member and three deputies for Group B, temporary academic staff in teaching and research positions, shall be elected to the University Board.
Deadline for nominations is 15 March.
More information can be found here.
At the same time, elections for groups B and D, the students, will be held to the Faculty Board and Institute Council.
Workshop on EC’s expert database | 13 March
Workshop on “Registration for the EC’s expert database and how to increase your chances to be selected”.
On Tuesday 13 March (at. 9:00–11:00), Kristof Vlaeminck, head of the UiBs Brussels Office, will give a workshop on how to register for the expert database of the European Commission in order to be a potential evaluator of Horizon2020 projects. After an introduction by the pro-dean of research, Marit Bakke, and a short overview of the different aspects of the registration, the participants will start creating their profile while Kristof assists them. The aim of the workshop is that all participants have finished registering and can be selected by the European Commission. Don’t forget to bring your own laptop if you participate to the workshop.
The workshop will take place in the faculty boardroom, 4th floor, Armauer Hansens Hus. To register for the workshop, please send an email to: Ingunn.Flatebo@uib.no.