Vel overst?tt sommerferie og velkommen tilbake til et nytt semester. Det f?les godt ? v?re tilbake til normalen og starte p? et semester som er planlagt uten ulike former for restriksjoner knyttet til pandemien. Det er en stor lettelse og glede ? se at studentene er tilbake p? campus. Fadderuka har g?tt etter planen og forh?pentligvis lagt et godt grunnlag for at de nye studentene har f?tt b?de faglige og sosiale kontakter de vil ha glede av gjennom studietiden.
Studenter uten eksamenserfaring
Mange av de nye studentene tilh?rer ?rskull som har v?rt hardt rammet av pandemien. Mange har g?tt gjennom videreg?ende skole uten ? avlegge en eneste eksamen og mangler derfor erfaring med en situasjon de kommer til ? m?te hos oss. Mange har ogs? levd et mindre sosialt aktivt liv enn det mange gj?r i ungdomstiden. Fadderne v?re har derfor hatt en spesielt viktig jobb ? gj?re ved semesterstart i ?r.
N? n?r vi er tilbake til normalen, kan vi igjen glede oss over samv?ret med andre, ikke minst kolleger.
Det er all grunn til ? komme i rytme igjen, b?de sosialt og med hensyn til andre aktiviteter. Normalitet betyr ogs? at vi kan og skal jobbe for ? drive virksomheten etter etablerte ?rshjul, retningslinjer og rutiner. Det gir forutsigbarhet for ansatte og studenter og gj?r at vi kan konsentrere innsatsen om v?re viktigste faglige prioriteringer og ikke m? bruke tid og krefter p? ? v?re i en vedvarende og slitsom unntakstilstand og finne ad hoc-l?sninger p? sm? og store pandemiskapte problemer. Ett synlig uttrykk for denne normaliseringen er at fakultetet n? har fjernet den ekstra tiden doktorkandidatene fikk til ? forberede pr?veforelesning i forbindelse med disputasen.
Skal feire nytt Eilert Sundt hus
Ogs? n?r det gjelder arbeidssted ser vi konturene av en normalisering. Oppussingen av Eilert Sundts hus g?r etter planen, og fakultetsadministrasjonen flytter tilbake til 3. og 4.etasje i slutten av september. Disse etasjene har ikke v?rt en del av den omfattende rehabiliteringen og oppussingen av Eilert Sundts hus og kan derfor tas i bruk av ansatte f?r vi kan ta 5.-12. etasje i bruk. Men fra begynnelsen av v?rsemesteret 2023 skal ogs? ?I, TIK, ISV og SAI igjen v?re p? plass i nyoppussede og flotte lokaler p? Blindern.
Vi lover at vi skal feire n?r alle er tilbake, det har vi virkelig fortjent etter oppholdet i midlertidige lokaler av varierende kvalitet.
UiOs styre har vedtatt tre ulike tverrfaglige satsinger. Disse er UiO Livsvitenskap, UiO Energi og UiO Norden. UiO Norden fases ut ved ?rsskiftet og erstattes av den nye satsingen UiO Demokrati. Alle UiOs satsinger er tverrfaglige og involverer ansatte fra ulike fagmilj?er. De har likevel ulike faglige tyngdepunkt, og fremover vil den nye satsingen UiO Demokrati v?re den av UiOs satsinger som har det tydeligste tyngdepunktet i samfunnsfag og humaniora. Det finnes mye kompetanse p? fakultetet om de fem tematiske hovedsporene som er nevnt i UiO Demokratis f?rste utlysning av midler, og satsingen representerer en mulighet til ? utvikle demokratiforskningen videre i tett 亚博娱乐官网_亚博pt手机客户端登录 med ansatte fra andre fakulteter.
Forskere fra SV b?r prege UiO Demokrati
UiOs satsinger er viktige for UiOs ledelse og styre, og vi i fakultetsledelsen ?nsker at ansatte fra v?rt fakultet skal v?re godt representert blant s?kerne om ? etablere nye forskergrupper med deltakere fra minst to ulike fakulteter og h?per at samfunnsvitenskapelige perspektiver vil v?re med p? ? prege satsingens innhold fra f?rste stund. Fakultetet inviterte derfor alle ansatte til et mobiliseringsseminar i midten av august.
Responsen p? invitasjonen var meget god, og 21 ansatte fra ulike grunnenheter deltok p? seminaret.
Rapportene derfra tyder p? at seminaret var vellykket. Naturligvis kan ogs? ansatte som ikke var med p? mobiliseringsseminaret s?ke om midler fra satsingen. S?knadsfristen for UiO Demokratiutlysingen er 15.oktober. Vi gleder oss til ? f?lge de ulike prosjektideene videre.
Editorial: Back to normal
“There is every reason to get back into the rhythm of things, both socially and with regard to other activities. Normality also means that we can and will work to run activities according to the established annual cycle, guidelines and routines”, writes Dean Anne Julie Semb.
I hope all of you had a lovely summer holiday and I would like to welcome you back to a new semester. It feels good being back to normal and starting a semester that is planned without various forms of restrictions related to the pandemic. It is a great relief and joy to see that the students are back on campus. Buddy Week has gone according to plan and has hopefully laid a good foundation for the new students when it comes to making both academic and social contacts they will enjoy throughout their studies.
Students with no examination experience
Many of the new students belong to year groups that have been hard hit by the pandemic. Many have gone through upper secondary school without taking a single examination and therefore lack experience regarding a situation they will encounter with us. Many have also lived a less socially active life than many do during their youth. Our buddies have therefore had a particularly important job to do at the start of this year’s semester.
Now that we are back to normal, we can once again enjoy spending time with others, not least our colleagues.
There is every reason to get back into the rhythm of things, both socially and with regard to other activities. Normality also means that we can and will work to run activities according to the established annual cycle, guidelines and routines. It provides predictability for staff and students and allows us to concentrate our efforts on our most important academic priorities. It means we do not have to spend time and effort on being in a persistent and tiring state of emergency and having to find ad hoc solutions to small and large pandemic-created problems. One notable expression of this normalisation is that the Faculty has now removed the extra time the doctoral candidates were given to prepare a trial lecture in connection with public defences.
Celebrating the new Eilert Sundt building
We can also see the contours of normalisation when it comes to people’s place of work. Renovation of the Eilert Sundt building is advancing according to plan, and the faculty administration will move back to the 2nd and 3rd floors at the end of September. These floors have not been part of the extensive rehabilitation and renovation of the Eilert Sundt building and can therefore be used by employees before we can use the 4th-11th floors. However, from the beginning of the 2023 spring semester, the Department of Economics, the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, the Department of Political Science and the Department of Social Anthropology will also be in place in newly renovated and beautiful premises at Blindern.
We promise that we will celebrate when everyone is back, this is something that we all really deserve after our stay in temporary premises of varying quality.
UiO’s Board has adopted three different interdisciplinary initiatives. These are UiO Life Sciences, UiO Energy and UiO Nordic. UiO Nordic will be phased out at the turn of the year and replaced by the new UiO Democracy initiative. All of UiO’s initiatives are interdisciplinary and involve employees from different academic communities. However, they have different academic focuses and the new UiO Democracy initiative will be one of UiO’s initiatives that has the clearest focus on the social sciences and humanities. There is a lot of expertise at the Faculty regarding the five main thematic tracks mentioned in UiO Democracy’s first announcement of funding, and the initiative represents an opportunity to further develop democracy research in close collaboration with employees from other faculties.
Researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences should influence UiO Democracy
UiO’s initiatives are important for UiO’s management and Board, and the faculty management would like employees from our faculty to be well represented among the applicants in establishing new research groups with participants from at least two different faculties. We hope that social science perspectives will help influence the content of the initiative from the very beginning. The faculty therefore invited all employees to a mobilisation seminar in the middle of August.
The response to the invitation was very good, and 21 employees from different units participated at the seminar.
Reports indicate that the seminar was successful. Naturally, employees who did not participate in the mobilisation seminar can also apply for funding from the initiative. The application deadline for the UiO Democracy announcement is 15 October. We look forward to following the various project ideas.