Staff events

29 Jan Anti-Racism Working Group Seminar, Dr. May-Britt Öhman, Uppsala University More information TBA.
31 Jan Online film screening: Picture a Scientist The film PICTURE A SCIENTIST will be available to watch between Jan 31st- Feb 2nd, followed by a panel discussion on Friday 5th February at 15.00-16.30.
02 Feb Professional development course 3 Teaching and Learning in Science and Mathematics Are you interested in doing research that is relevant to your particular subject teaching? The advanced course University Teacher Education 3 is starting for teachers in the natural sciences. Learn more about how you develop your teaching based on research and how you can work with Scholarship of teaching and learning.
08 Feb Online Workshop: Digital Active Learning Would you like to create a teaching and learning context that activates, challenges and motivates your students? Active learning is an umbrella concept for a number of teaching approaches that encourage students to engage in the various steps in the learning process. These approaches and methods can also be used in digital environments by combining synchronous and asynchronous teaching. In the workshop we investigate and discuss what interactive and collaborative teaching options are offered with Zoom and Athena as the basis.
09 Feb Professional development course 1 Teaching and Learning: Blended The course aims at supporting the professional development of teachers from all disciplinary areas at Stockholm University and requires no previous teaching or online experience.
09 Feb Professional development course 2: Teaching and Learning in the Science Academic Area The course is aimed for teachers within the Faculty of Science with previous formal training in teaching and learning
12 Feb Webinar: The Benefits of the EURAXESS Portal for Researchers After a short introduction of the EURAXESS portal, the lecturer will focus on how researchers can use the portal as well as benefit from it.
15 Feb Online Workshop: Pre-recorded video lectures and other ways to use video in your online teaching Many students want lectures to be recorded. What are the advantages of this, and what is the best way to record? Does it matter if you are recording a live lecture in Zoom or lecturing to a camera in your office for the film to be seen afterwards? What should you think about before and while filming a lecture? How can pre-recorded videos change teaching? What happens when students can see recordings at any time or only for a certain period? How can the students' own video recordings be used in the course?
17 Feb Grant writing seminar with Professor Kirsti Niskanen REIS regularly organizes seminars where senior researchers provide mentorship to younger colleagues regarding various aspects of the grant writing process.
19 Feb Online Workshop: Teaching in English — strategies when teaching in a non-native language This workshop has been designed for non-native English speaking university teachers who teach (or plan to teach) their subject matter in English. The aim is to help participants reflect on their own teaching strategies with respect to the teaching language and how these relate to student learning.
22 Feb Online workshop: Can we really develop Wikipedia assignments at the university? Wikipedia is a well-used source of knowledge. Its reputation has also become better within the academy and formal education, not only being the everyday target for looking up things. However, in order for Wikipedia to be used to its full potential, we must know both how it functions, how we can work with it in a source critical manner, and how we ourselves can contribute to the medium.
23 Feb Learn to create collaborative and flexible learning environments online Open Networked Learning (ONL) is aimed at teachers, educational developers, learning technologists and course designers in Higher Education, who want to develop teaching using digital tools and learning environments. The course offers the opportunity to explore and try collaborative learning in an open online learning environment with colleagues from different universities, disciplines and cultures (nationally as well as internationally).
26 Feb Online Workshop: Group supervision of PhD students ─ a way to increase participation and learning This workshop, aimed for supervisors of PhD students provides you with insights into the benefits of collective supervision and supervision collectives as a way to support PhD students in the writing of their thesis. The workshop allows you to discuss the benefits of collective supervision of PhD students from different perspectives.
26 Feb Anti-Racism Working Group Seminar: Dr. Anders Neergaard, Linköping University More information TBA.
11 Mar Online Workshop: Course design in Athena How can you design your course in Athena via the Planner? How can you use assignments and quizzes to improve students' learning? How can you increase the visibility of learning outcomes in Athena? An interactive workshop where you build and/or improve your course in Athena.
18 Mar Online Workshop: Cultivating research environments at a distance A workshop for you who have the role of Director of studies for PhD education, research group leader or PhD supervisor at Stockholm University. Based on recent research on how contextual factors interact with research productivity together with research on learning environments in an online environment, we will in this workshop discuss strategies and tools for creating a fruitful research environment for PhD students.
18 Mar Professional development course 2 Teaching and Learning in the Human Science Academic Area The course is aimed for teachers within the Human Science Academic Area with previous formal training in teaching and learning. (Professional development course 1 or equivalent.)
25 Mar Anti-Racism Working Group Seminar: Dr. Karida L. Brown, University of California More information TBA.
13 Apr Online workshop: Using and reusing open resources What open educational resources are available in your subject area? How can you find them, and how are you allowed to use them? How can resources that others have prepared and made available enrich your courses?
14 Apr Introduction to teaching (Hum/Sam) This course focuses on practical teaching and is aimed at postgraduate students and researchers with little or no experience of teaching within the academic area for human science. Bilingual: Swedish/English. START:7 April
15 Apr Information meeting about ethical review (via Zoom) In this meeting we will give an introduction to ethical review of research. We will talk about which research that must be reviewed, who is responsible for applying for review, how the process works, what to do if one has failed to apply for review, ethical review in research collaborations, what to think about when writing the application, etc. We will also answer questions.
20 Apr Online Workshop: ABC method for course design This workshop offers tools for analysing and developing the course design of your course. The workshop is online and based on the ABC method for developing course design. Bring your colleagues and take the workshop as a teaching team.
21 Apr Workshop: Online discussion and argumentation in teaching In this workshop we will explore how to use asynchronous online discussion and argumentation in teaching. Taking a highly hands-on approach, the workshop will arm participants with different teaching activities and teaching resources that they can make use of for their own lessons, in Athena and other systems. The workshop is a collaboration between Stockholm University and the Singapore University of Social Sciences, co-taught by lecturers from the two Universities.
30 Apr Anti-Racism Working Group Seminar More information TBA.
04 May Workshop: 12 steps to succeed as a teacher This workshop is aimed for new seminar leaders, doctoral students or to those with many teaching hours looking for new impulses, ex: Insights into communication with students about learning processes and teaching.
05 May Online workshop: Source criticism or plagiarism in higher education? Source criticism is a challenge in higher education as many students do not pay sufficient attention to the diversity of sources, they want a quick access to facts that they can reuse. This workshop on the topic of plagiarism gives you the opportunity to work on real case studies to see how to detect plagiarism attitudes at an early stage and how to prevent most of these cases from happening in the future.
24 Sep POSTPONED to September 2021: Inauguration and Conferment Ceremony The combined ceremony for the conferment of doctoral degrees and inauguration of new professors will take place in Stockholm City Hall.