On Friday, January 30, the University of Bergen invites you to the first ceremonial doctoral conferment of the year. The ceremony marks new doctoral candidates who have defended their dissertations in the period August to December 2025.
All candidates will be presented during the promotion, including those who are unable to be physically present. The ceremony will be streamed live, so that family, friends and colleagues can follow the ceremony digitally. A link to the stream will be published here when it is available.
Program
- Fanfare: Emil Kristoffersen Børøs Promotional fanfare, performed by students at the Grieg Academy
- March-in: Academic procession
- Speech by the Rector: Professor Margareth Hagen
- Musical performance
Presentation of new doctors (order may be changed)
- Faculty of Medicine – by Professor and Dean Marit Bakke
- Faculty of Humanities – by Professor and Dean Camilla Brautaset
- Faculty of Social Sciences – by Professor and Dean Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen
- Musical performance
- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology – by Professor and Dean Gunn Mangerud
- Faculty of Art, Music and Design – by Professor and Dean Åsil Bøthun
- The Faculty of Psychology - by professor and dean Stine Lehmann
- Faculty of Law – by Professor and Dean Sigrid Eskeland Schütz
- Speech on behalf of the new doctors
- Graduation: Academic procession and reception
The ceremony is led by Vice-Rector Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt.
Sign up here: https://www.uib.no/universitetsaulaen/180744/doktorpromosjon-30012026