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More than 600 registrations and 265 unique participants attended this year’s career boosting WEEK42 at the Faculty of Educational Sciences. This is a record number of participants.
Attendees came from all eight faculties of the university and several other units, including the university library and museums.
The event featured a total of 17 activities and, for the first time, a social gathering on the opening day. New this year was also a lunch break with research and communications support.
Feedback indicates that people are likely to return next year.
UV's skill building week is here to stay
“It’s great to see from the feedback that we’re improving both the content and logistics of WEEK42 each year”, said coordinator Elina Vinberg.
“This event gives early-career researchers valuable opportunities to build skills beyond what’s typically covered in PhD programs, while also showcasing the talents of our researchers and communicators from UV and UiO. We’re excited to keep refining the event and making it even better next year”, she said.
Research Dean Erik Knain was equally pleased:
“Such an exciting program – so much of interest for early career researchers in particular! Time only permitted me to take part in one of the seminars, on use of AI for review purposes, and it was most useful for my research!” he said.
Wondering if you should take time out for this event next year? Here’s some of the feedback a handful of the events got:
The practice of presenting by Kristian Bjørkdahl
- This was excellent! Presenter, content. It exceeded my expectations by far! Please repeat next year :)
- It was like a breath of fresh air! The content was relevant, the presenter was just amazing, the topic transferable to so many different roles at UiO. I picked up so much inspiration for my next presentation, and I also laughed so much. Well done with this one, and overall week 42!
How to get stuff published by Marte Blikstad-Balas and Øistein Anmarkrud
- This should be mandatory for every PhD student! One of the most useful courses I have attended so far. Thank you!
- This was a great presentation, so insightful, great examples, and hands-on and lively!
Grant writing for newbs by Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør
- It would be really good to have more on grant writing. This is such an important part of academia, i think it would be super useful to have more examples and perhaps where to look for funding, etc.
- The presenter was awesome!