{"id":158,"date":"2019-09-13T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/?p=158"},"modified":"2022-09-21T09:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T07:52:38","slug":"seminar-in-svalbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/2019\/09\/13\/seminar-in-svalbard\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar in Svalbard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from a 3-day seminar in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Svalbard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Svalbard<\/a>, with 58 others in the Department of Psychology (IPS). Since my main supervisor, Tove, is a professor in this department, I also am affiliated with them. I therefore have 2 &#8220;homes&#8221; &#8211; IPS and the university library.<\/p>\n<p>Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago far north in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from 77 to 80 degrees north latitude, with more polar bears than people. I felt quite privileged to travel there with IPS. Besides the important aspect of getting to know faculty, staff, and other PhD-students, the program also included presentations from the departments&#8217; research groups, an update from the library about new agreements with publishers for open-access publishing (thank you, Torstein!), job safety in the Arctic, changes in psychology courses and programs, and other news from the administration.<\/p>\n<p>We also had time for an exciting boat trip to Barentsburg (a Russian coal-mining community), and some delicious meals.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you IPS for the exotic seminar!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-159\" src=\"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/09\/IMG_2385-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/09\/IMG_2385-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/09\/IMG_2385-768x367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/09\/IMG_2385-1024x490.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/09\/IMG_2385.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Tove and Torstein on the boat to Barentsburg. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-160\" src=\"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/09\/globe-Svalbard-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/09\/globe-Svalbard-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/09\/globe-Svalbard-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/09\/globe-Svalbard-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2019\/09\/globe-Svalbard.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from a 3-day seminar in Svalbard, with 58 others in the Department of Psychology (IPS). Since my main supervisor, Tove, is a professor in this department, I also am affiliated with them. I therefore have 2 &#8220;homes&#8221; &#8211; IPS and the university library. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago far north in the Arctic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/2019\/09\/13\/seminar-in-svalbard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seminar in Svalbard<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":"","featured_image_src_square":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ellen Nierenberg","author_link":"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/author\/ellen-nierenberg\/"},"rbea_author_info":{"display_name":"Ellen Nierenberg","author_link":"https:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/eni081\/author\/ellen-nierenberg\/"},"rbea_excerpt_info":"Just returned from a 3-day seminar in Svalbard, with 58 others in the Department of Psychology (IPS). 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