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Ingeborg Olsdatter Busterud Flagstad (pictured) was checking whether a year-old article of hers had recently been cited when she discovered that another manuscript had been stolen. ‘It was word for word the same, just the title had been altered slightly,’ she says, ‘I could have lost part of the work towards my doctorate.’ When the […]
Gunnar Yttri , rector of Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), recently spoke to Forskerforum. Here are some highlights. ‘[The old universities] represent something else, but few at HVL think that this is the path we should be following. Norway has enough old-style universities. We can learn something from them, but there are parts […]
The budget of the outgoing Solberg government has received much criticism in the research sector. ‘We’re worried because the sector will quite simply lose out,’ says Guro Elisabeth Lind, head of the Norwegian Association of Researchers. She points out that the state budget has an overall growth of 2.3% while that of the university and […]
Ola Borten Moe is the new Minister for Research and Higher Education in the new government. The government’s declaration contains some expected changes in direction. The controversial efficiency cuts (ABE reform) in the public sector will be removed, and a so-called trust reform will be introduced. In addition, the government has announced a major investment in […]
With reduced travel activity due to the coronavirus, the budget of the outgoing government estimates it will be possible to reduce university and college travel expenses by five percent annually, or NOK 74 million, from next year. The budget will soon be up for consideration in parliament. ‘I hope we can make it to a […]
The monograph still has its proponents. One of them is Professor Emeritus Leiv K. Sydnes of the University of Bergen. His central argument is that the monograph gives room to discuss all research results – including negative ones, which are often left out of research articles. ‘If the student performs the experiment and everything goes […]
Senior engineers with research backgrounds work as researchers, teachers, technicians, planners and administrators, but do not earn much more than a newly hired PhD student. Now Even Birkeland from UiB is pushing for engineers with research backgrounds to be given an established career path and recognition for their training. He’s not the only one who sees […]
‘The most exciting aspect of this election is the increasing fragmentation of Norwegian politics, as voters shift their allegiances to the small parties’, comments election researcher Johannes Bergh (pictured). According to Bergh, researchers favour parties on the left or green side and are less likely to support centrist or conservative parties. He thinks part of […]
The wage scale was flat until 1991, when local negotiations led to deregulation.Wages have become increasingly individualised ever since. According to the Norwegian Civil Service Union (NTL), local negotiations have become a reward system. Those whose expertise is attractive to the private sector now command high salaries from academia, while those in the humanities, arts, […]
According to Laura Maria Führer, the PhD programme she attended encourages the publication of articles. Just before summer, she submitted her doctoral thesis as a monograph, i.e., it was structured like a book, with inter-dependent chapters. The alternative is to write one’s thesis as journal articles that will hopefully be published on an ongoing basis, […]
Salary negotiations for state employees recently reached a settlement. Even though the Norwegian Association of Researchers and Unio State broke off negotiations when the state refused to offer more than a 2.7 per cent increase in salaries, that was where mediation came to an end. ‘We’re disappointed that we didn’t get any further,’ says lead […]
Oslomet has issued new travel rules: From now on, only strictly necessary flightswill be permitted – but was does ‘strictly necessary’ really mean? Rector Curt Riceresponds: ‘We have asked employees to evaluate for themselves what is strictly necessary. Publicly funded travel must be approved by the employer in advance, as is already the case. But […]
Several studies show that the pandemic has hit young researchers hard. Many had hopes of receiving help towards delayed research fellow positions in the revised national budget. However, those hopes were dashed. Guro Elisabeth Lind, head of the Norwegian Association of Researchers, says, ‘The government has missed a golden opportunity, which is a great disappointment […]
Iranian Mahgol Afshari was initially elected to NTNU’s board as student representative, but was later informed that her Norwegian-language skills were not good enough, reports Khrono. According to NTNU’s election rules, board members’ Norwegian-language abilities must be ‘sufficient to attend to their duties’. The University of Oslo has no similar requirement. When deputy board member […]
Skewed pandemic impact When NIFU, the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, asked scientific staff about their time use in spring of 2020, more than half responded that they spent less time on research than before the pandemic because preparing for teaching was quite time-consuming. The survey reveals clear gender differences: During […]
How much do researchers and educators earn at universities and colleges? What is the average annual salary for college lecturers, associate professors and research fellows? What kind of wage increase can you expect if you are promoted to professor? And which institutions offer the highest pay? The Norwegian Association of Researchers has recently released the […]
‘Last year, the industry had their piece of the pie in the back room’, says Guro Elisabeth Lind, head of the Norwegian Association of Researchers (NAR) and negotiator for Unio State, representing the public sector. ‘Our members need a pay raise.’ Wage negotiations start on 27 April. As usual, the industry negotiates first, and the […]
The average age of immigrant descendants is 13 years. No wonder, then, there are so few of them among Norwegian researchers, says Astri Syse of Statistics Norway (SSB). According to diversity statistics presented by NIFU and SSB earlier this year, immigrants accounted for no more than 0.5 per cent of researchers at Norwegian research institutions […]
The White Paper on labour relevance, published by the government on 12 March, includes a proposal for PhD candidates to replace teaching with practical training outside of academia. ‘It can be a good thing that instead of teaching you do a semester of practice. During a normal fellowship period, you only get input from academia, […]
‘It’s an addiction’, he continues, comparing journals to a drug, the researchers to a junkie. Worldwide, universities spend at least NOK 100 bill. a year on subscriptions – ca. NOK 50,000 per article – while the actual cost lies between NOK 1,000 and 5,000. ‘We could build new particle accelerators and space stations every year.’ […]
Scientific publishing has long since turned digital, and the rows of scientific journals at University libraries are shrinking. ‘I think journals are on their way out and will perish together with the senior scientists who built their careers on them,’ says Prof. Are Raklev (pictured) of the Department of Physics at UiO. He finds all […]
In March 2020, Associate Professor Vegard Aune at NTNU received a notice that he had published a new article. ‘I recognized neither the authors, the content, nor the study itself.’ After many rounds of contacting the involved parties to have his name removed, Aune found that this was trickier than assumed. First in September the […]
