Background and activities

Substitute for Ingrid Olsen until 1st of september 2021.

I work with the learning environment at The Faculty of Natural Sciences (NV). This means that I work to increase student retention, persistence and success, and I have a special focus on first year experiences and on the welcome programme for new students at NV.

My responsibilities at NV include:

  • Coordinating and developing the welcome programmes for new students, including teknostart and realstart.
  • Coordinating and developing the mentor programme.
  • Establish shared learning spaces for students.
  • Support the student associations and the student representatives.
  • Maintiaing up-to-date information about the quality of education and student retention and persistence.
  • Advise employees and student representatives about the quality of education in study programmes
  • Provide informational and practical support to departments that wish to work systematically with increased student succsess, retention and persistence.
  • Receiveing and processing cases and hearings concering the learning environment
  • Receiveing and processing cases concerning discrepancies in quality of education and cases concerning bullying, harrasment, sexual harrasement, discrimination or inadequate learning environment.

Competencies:

First year experience

Transition support to higher education

Student retention

Student persistence

Administrative procedure for complaints and whistleblowing cases

Project managment

Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

Journal publications

Report/dissertation