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On Friday, there will be a big celebration of International Women’s Day taking place at MED, with important topics on the agenda.
Welcome to lunch with a focus on abortion and democracy in Domus Bibliotheca at 12:00: Abortion rights under attack: Democracy without the right to decide over one’s own body?
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The Centre for Global Health invites people to Domus Bibliotheca at 14:00 to celebrate two extraordinary women at the event: Global Health: Why does the world need more people like Sigrun and Gro? (in Norwegian). Watch the stream if you don’t get a seat!
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Marianne Natvig has written the post What is the menopause? in Norwegian for us on the Medisinbloggen; a topic that has been taboo for far too long.
Read the dean’s full editorial
The Management Column
What happened to FRIPRO?
Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation Jan Bjålie explains the changes regarding applications for FRIPRO announcements. He encourages anyone thinking about applying to seize the opportunity and get help from the faculty’s skilled research advisors. Deadline 22 April.
Read the full post in the Management Column
Studies
Can examinations be shorter and better?
Associate Professor Stefan Schauber’s work involves examination quality, and he believes it must be possible to challenge the current practice of having around 100 examinations questions in the professional study programme in medicine.
Read the entire post in Norwegian under About Research from IMB
News from MED
Get help with your FRIPRO application!
The Research Council of Norway’s new rolling application deadline requires better preparation of the application before submission. You risk 2 years of quarantine if your application does not meet the grade. Faculty advisors can help you with your FRIPRO application. Sign up for support as soon as possible and submit your draft by 22 April.
Read the full post on the internal pages.
Briefings
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UiO: Have you noticed that it is no longer possible to get a tax deduction for public defence dinners?
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UiO: Discounts on theatre performances for UiO employees:
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Final chance: Bring your children along to see HC Andersen’s The Nightingale. Plenty of available tickets on 16 March.
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Free VIP tickets to Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ in Kanonhallen at Løren on Saturday 9 March (NB: two free tickets per person.)
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Helsam: Doctoral research fellow Cecilie K. Hertzberg at the Center for Medical Ethics has written articles on the forskersonen.no website: We need an ethics revolution in home nursing.
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IMB: Follow the status of the construction work in connection with the new Oslo University Hospital: See information and phase plans for the construction project on the IMB website for information from the Norwegian Hospital Construction Agency.
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Keep yourself updated (in Norwegian) about the study into the possibility of a merger regarding the Faculty of Dentistry and Faculty of Medicine. Please contact the work group if you have any input.
Management meetings
Lederforum: Overview of meeting dates. The next meeting is on Tuesday 19 March. Agenda items and documents must be submitted by 12:00 on the last Thursday before the meeting. Minutes of the previous meeting can be found here (in Norwegian).
Overview of faculty board meetings and IDF meetings in 2024 (PDF in Norwegian) with deadlines for submitting matters. The next faculty board meeting will be held on 12 March. Agendas and protocols will be updated here (in Norwegian).
University Board meetings in 2024. The meetings are live streamed and open to anyone who would like to attend. The next meeting will take place on 12 March. See also agendas and minutes from the first meeting of the year on 6 February.
Opportunities and deadlines
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See all important deadlines regarding applications for research funding in Funding opportunities
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Keep track of the annual cycle for award announcements. Several announcements have been published.
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The faculty has announced new project funding to stimulate academic development and research on the consequences of the war in Ukraine. The project proposals should focus on the physical and mental health of the population of Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in Norway. The projects can involve and support Ukrainian researchers in Ukraine and in Norway.
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Innovation. Announcement of funding: Do you have an innovative idea for a new product or service based on your own research, but need funding to further develop the idea? Apply for seed funding from UiO Growth House. Application deadline 4 April.
Courses and events
See the University of Oslo’s course calendar for an overview of all available courses. See also updated overviews of courses from UiO:IT and the Medical and Science Library.
- Upcoming public defences
- 14 March at the Science Library Nerdy Science Cakes Competition. Will it be a cake from MED that wins the sweetest and most nerdy cake baking competition of the year?
- Course in research data management. Learn how research data can be managed in a legal, structured and secure manner, and how it can be stored, reused and understood in the future by yourself and others. Some courses in Norwegian and some in English.
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18 March: Workshop in data management plans.
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20 March: Share archives and reuse research data
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16 April: Plan your research data management
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17 April: Share, archive, and reuse research data
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22 May: Research data management planning
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24 May: Share, archive and reuse research data
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- 20 March at Domus Bibliotheca: Input meeting: New language policy at UiO (in Norwegian). Join us and contribute to UiO’s new language policy! At this second of two breakfast meetings – one in Norwegian and one in English – we share experiences and get input on language use and language policy at UiO.
- 21 March: The Brain in the Centre: On a high. Love, alcohol and drugs. They give us all a high. What happens in our brain? Register or watch a stream of the event. Domus Bibliotheca 18:00 - 19:30.
- 21 March: Per Fugelli Lecture 2024: The Ecology of War: Gaza as the ultimate example
- 24 June – 28 June: Course in Machine Learning for Epidemiologic and Health Policy Analysis. Adapting machine learning to Norwegian health data to enhance causal analyses of patient pathways and patients’outcome. Register by April 15.
About Resarch
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Medisinbloggen: What is the menopause? in Norwegian by Marianne Natvig. No one comes to inform us about the menopause. No public health nurse shows up at the joint meeting at work and says that today everyone is going to find out what happens in this phase of life. Maybe it won’t be that bad. It is not a disease.
Klinmed: FRIPRO funding to research the early stages of blood cancer. Lorena Arranz has been awarded NOK 12 million from the Research Council of Norway to find out more about what happens during the early stages of development in blood cancer diseases.
Helsam/ forskning.no: The pandemic changed the role of the municipal doctor. In the CovidNor project, doctoral research fellow Silje Rebekka Heltveit-Olsen (UiO) has researched pandemic preparedness among municipal doctors. She finds that the Covid 19 pandemic revealed a need for more formalised tasks and role performance for municipal doctors.
IMB: Conflicting theories of consciousness may fit together after all. Professor Emeritus Johan Frederik Storm has led the work on an article that is attracting attention. The goal has been a new approach to understanding how our awareness works.
Klinmed: New knowledge about the serious liver disease PSC (link in Norwegian.) There are many things we don’t know about PSC. New research gives us another piece in the scientific puzzle.
Medisinbloggen: Intestinal bacteria reveal the risk of serious illness in Norwegian by Simen Hyll Hansen. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis affect almost 40,000 people in Norway. Some people get so sick that their bowel needs to be removed. By examining patients’ intestinal flora, we can see who is at risk of getting worse.
Klinmed: The hidden health crisis in Norwegian prisons. The proportion of inmates in Norwegian prisons with both substance abuse disorders and mental disorders is increasing. This worries Norwegian researchers. They are now calling for a more targeted and holistic approach to prisoner health.
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