Through my last two field sampling trips during the Polar night period I have been so lucky to be assisted by a UNISprout bachelor student – Johannes, who had applied to join in on a 40 hour internship within my project. I myself am a PhD student from India doing...
The first of March it was yet again time to submit the Annual report. Writing up a summary of this year’s activities is a challenging and rewarding process. A chance to remind ourselves of our progress – and some failures, and assure that our activies and future plans align with...
The goal of bioWRITE is to provide a common resource in the academic writing education at BIO. Currently, the site includes instructions on how to write in the IMRaD-format (Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and Discussion); it also covers different genres within science communication such as lab reports, blog posts...
We are two students doing an internship at bioCEED, based at UNIS, during this spring semester. Anne Bruls first came to UNIS as a BSc student in 2016. She is enrolled in a general MSc Biology program in Wageningen, the Netherlands, but her addiction to Arctic Biology led her to...
How we teach, how and where we discuss teaching and learning, has changed a lot during the last weeks. Although there are many challenges, we see that teachers around Norway (and beyond) have found new ways of communicating and sharing – and new conversational partners. Teachers gather in digital rooms...
bioCEED leader Vigdis Vandvik and colleagues Lucas M. Jeno, Arild Raaheim, Torstein N. Hole and Gaute Velle have written this opinion piece in Khrono: Med årvisse åpne data om tilstanden i norsk høyere utdanning markerte Studiebarometeret et veiskille for sektoren. Nå er tiden moden for neste skritt på veien: Studiebarometeret...
bioCEED deputy leader Pernille Bronken Eidesen and BIO’s Øyvind Fiksen were recently interviewed in an article in Forskerforum: – Gode undervisarar er bevisste på kva dei held på med, og dei tenkjer mykje på korleis dei kan bli betre. Det som har gjort meg til ein betre undervisar dei siste...
Interested in learning more about supporting students developing their academic writing? bioCEED invites you to a seminar with Lene Nordrum (Lund University). Wednesday 29th January, 13:15-14:00 at Auditorium 4, Realfagbygget, UiB Disciplinary literacy – how to read, write, and talk in a specific discipline – is the key to knowledge and success in...