PhD Courses and Seminars
GHIG is a supplement to the elective part of the PhD program at the Faculty of Psychology, and aims to offer 15 ECT in scientific perspectives, research methods and dissemination through courses, seminars and workshops and social activities.
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2025
| Date | Course and Seminars | Lecturers | Location |
| 10.-11. & 13.-14. Feburary | Critical perspectives on theory and methodology in psychology (2 ECTs) | Artur Nilsson | TBD |
| 6., 9., 13., & 16. May | Quantitative methods (2 ECTs) | Sebastian Jentschke | C12? (TBC) |
| Sessions once a month | ReproducibiliTea journal club (1 ECT) | Bjørn Sætrevik and Sebastian Brun Bjørkheim | C-12 and Teams |
| 23. May (TBC) | 18th Annual seminar & midterm evaluation | Bente Wold | Alrek, Edda |
2024
| Date | Course and Seminars | Lecturers | Location |
| 27 Janurary - 4 February | Standing on the shoulders of giants (2 ECTs) GHIG942 | GHIG satff members Invited guests: Karl Halvor Teigen | Abroad |
| 25 Janurary | Phd seminar series "How to build an academic CV" | Cecilie Nordbotten | Alrek, Tarlebø (2F15) |
| 19 – 23 Feburary | Qualitative methods for PhD: Advanced level (5 ECTs) | Lill Susann Haugen and Olin Blaalid Oldeide | Alrek |
| 22 Feburary | Phd seminar series "How to write a dissertation" | Rune Krumsvik | C-12 |
| Sessions once a month | ReproducibiliTea journal club (1 ECT) | Bjørn Sætrevik and Sebastian Brun Bjørkheim | C-12 and Teams |
| 18-22 March | An Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using LAVAAN (2 ECTs) | Kyrre Breivik | Alrek, Tarlebø (man, tue, thur, fri) Hemil møterom (wednesday) |
| 21 March | Phd seminar series "Supervising students as a PhD-candidate" | Olin Blaalid Oldeide | Alrek, Hardbakka (3F9) |
8-9 April & 6-7 May | Advancing the Social Sciences: Adressing Challenges and Enhancing Research Integrity | Sara Jahnke | Alrek, Tarlebø (day 1 & 3), Borgaskaret (day 2 & 4) |
| 25 April | Phd seminar series "Phd presentations" | Øystein Holmelid & TBD | C12 |
| 23 May | Phd seminar series "open" | Alrek, Tarlebø (2F15) | |
31 May | 17th Annual seminar & midterm evaluation | Bente Wold | Alrek, Edda |
| 6 June | Phd seminar series "open" & Social gathering after | Alrek, Hemil møterom (2F4) |
2023
| Date | Course and Seminars | Lecturers | Location |
| 7 - 8 February | Creative Research and Academic Writing (1.5 ECTs) GHIG941 | Arnold Bakker | C-12 7. Feb room 005 8. Feb room 002 |
| 23 March | PhD seminar series "Mobility in research" | ||
| 17 – 21 April | Qualitative methods for PhD: Advanced level (5 ECTs) | Marguerite Daniel | Alrek |
| Sessions once a month | ReproducibiliTea journal club (1 ECT) | Bjørn Sætrevik | C-12 and Zoom |
| 1 June | 16th Annual seminar & midterm evaluation | Bente Wold | Alrek, Munin |
| 5 October | Phd seminar series "Participation in research" | Nawar Sayyad & Howida F. Abdulrahman | Alrek |
| 23 -25 October | Understanding and dealing with job burnout | Arnold Bakker | Day 1: U.Phil Room 2A Day 2-3: C-12 Room 007 |
| 23 November | PhD seminar series "How to handle media in research" | Mari Lund Eide | C-12 |
20, 24, 30 November & 4 December | Quantitative methods (2ECTs) | Sebastian Jentschke | C-12 Room 001 |
2022
| Date | Course and Seminars | Lecturers | Location |
| 22-29 January | Truth in research and science (2 ECTs) GHIG938 | GHIG satff members Invited guests: Rainer Bromme and Arnold Bakker | Abroad |
| 11, 14, 17, 20 January | Quantitative methods (2ECTs) | Sebastian Jentschke | C-12 Room 005 |
Sessions once a moth 12:00-14:00 | Colloquium course on salutogenesis and resilience. (2 ECTs) GHIG939 20 January: Colloquium 1 Introduction and comparison of the two theories. 7 February: Colloquium 2 Introduction to Salutogenesis and GRRs . 16 March: Colloquium 3 Salutogenesis: SOC and its three dimensions. 28 April: Colloquium 4 Salutogenesis: New developments beyond health. 18 August: Colloquium 5 Resilience: Introduction to resilience at individual level. 15 Sept.: Colloquium 6 Resilience: Social ecology of resilience. 13 October: Colloquium 7 Resilience: Resilience: new developments. 17 Nov.: Colloquium 8 Reflections on resilience and on salutogenesis. | Marguerite Daniel | ALREK |
| 7- 8 June | Positive Occupational Health Psychology (1ECT) | Arnold Bakker | TBA |
| Sessions once a month | ReproducibiliTea journal club (1 ECT) | Bjørn Sætrevik | C-12 and Zoom |
2021
| Date | Course and Seminars | Lecturers | Location |
| 31 May- 4 June | Qualitative methods for PhD: Advanced level (5 ECTs) | Marguerite Daniel | ALREK |
| 22-26 November | Introduksjon til Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) ved bruk av LAVAAN (2 ECTs) | Kyrre Breivik | ALREK |
| Sessions once a month | ReproducibiliTea journal club (1 ECT) | Bjørn Sætrevik | C-12 and Zoom |
2019
| Date | Course and Seminars | Lecturers | Location |
| 19-26 January | PhD and staff seminar: "Academic Freedom: It's facets and consequenses for researchers, lecturers and PhD students"
| Bente Wold, Gisela Böhm, Rüdiger Pfister, Oddrun Samdal, Rainer Broome | |
| 13 March | PhD seminar series | Terje Manger | C-12 room 005 12:00-13:30 |
| 15 March | Staff seminar for faculty members | Olga Dysthe, Ståle Pallesen, Keneth Hugdahl, Kariane Westrheim | Egget, Studentsenteret |
| 4 April | PhD seminar series | Bjørn Sætrevik | C-12 room 005 12:00-13:30 |
| 9 May | PhD seminar series | Mari Hysing & Ove Heradstveit | C-12 room 005 12:00-13:30 |
| 9 May, 6 June & 4 Sept. | PhD course: Salutogenesis beyond health. (1ECT) | Marguerite Daniel, Maurice Mittelmark | Day 1: C-13, HEMIL-meeting room 13:00-15:00 Day 2: C-13, Board room 13:00-15 Day 3: C-13, HEMIL-meeting room 13:00-15:00 |
| 24 May | Annual seminar and midterm evaluation | TBA | C-13, 5th floor |
| 12, 13, 14 June | PhD course: "Quantitative diary designs and multilevel analysis". (1 ECT) | Jørn Hetland | C-12, room 005 |
| 31 October-1 Nov. | Research Fellow Seminar | Solstrand | |
| 15 November | Midterm evaluation Fall semester | C-13, 5th floor |
2018
Date | Course and Seminars | Lecturers | Location |
January 31 and February 1 | 2-day seminar for PhD candidates and staff members: Disaster risk reduction: Building adaptive capabilities by transcending culture. (1ECT) | School of Psychological and Clinical Sciences at Charles Darwin University. | C-12, seminar room 001 |
March 1 | GHIG Board Meeting | Board Room C-13 | |
March 12-14 | Elective PhD course Quantitative Methods – Experimental Design and Analysis (1ECT) | Vebjørn Ekroll Sebastian Jentschke Bjørn Sætrevik | Day 1: C-12 room 003 Day 2: C-12 room 004 Day 3: C-12 room 002 |
March 21-23 | Elective PhD course | Gisela Böhm Rune Mentzoni Torbjørn Torsheim Endre Tvinnereim | Day 1: C-12 room 003 Day 2: C-12 room 004 Day 3: C-12 room 001 |
April 12 | Staff seminar | Board Room C-13 | |
June 1 | 13th Annual seminar (for PhD candidates and staff members) Mid-term evaluation (Spring semester) Social gathering after the seminar | Board Room C-13 | |
| June 11-15 | Elective PhD course | Marguerite Daniel | C-13 room 204 |
| September 24-25-26 | Elective PhD course Quantitative Methods – Multivariate Design and Analysis (1ECT) | Sigurd Hystad Tony Leino Guy Notelærs | Day 1: C-12 room 006 Day 2: C-12 room 006 Day 3: C-12 room 006 |
| October 1, 5, 15 & 22 | Elective PhD course Podcasting for Social Scientists (1ECT) GHIG933 | Paul Kellner | C-13 1 Oct 14.00-16.30 5 Oct 14.00-16.00 15 Oct 14.00-16.00 22 Oct 14.00-16.30 |
| October 15 | GHIG Board Meeting | Board Room C-13 | |
November 2 | Mid-term evaluation (Fall semester) | 10:00- 13:00 Board Room C-13 | |
| November 2 | Staff seminar | 16:00-18:00 Board Room C-13 |
2017
| Date | Courses and Seminars | Lecturers | course leader | location |
January 21-28
| PhD course and staff seminar: GHIG931 Knowledge translation and exchange: Improving the impact of research through design, funding, implementation and dissemination of research 2 ECTs | Oddrun Samdal, Bente Wold, Ingrid Holsen, Laurence Moore | Bente Wold | Parque Cristobal |
| March 10 | Staff seminar | Jørn Hetland | Board Room C-13 | |
April 3-5
| PhD course: GHIG930 Resource-based approaches to health 2 ECTs | Marguerite Daniel and Maurice Mittelmark | Marguerite Daniel | C-13 room 276-1 |
| June 16 | 12th GHIG Annual seminar (for all PhD candidates and staff members) Mid-term evaluation | Jørn Hetland | Board Room C-13 | |
| October 2-6 | PhD course: Socio-ecological approaches to behaviour change: theory, design and evaluation of interventions. GHIG913-A (attendance)/ GHIG913-B (paper) 1,5 or 3 ECTs | Laurence Moore | Laurence Moore | TBA |
| October 6 | Staff seminar | Bente Wold | ||
| November 13-17 | PhD course: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). | Kyrre Breivik | Kyrre Breivik | TBA |
2016
| Date | Courses and Seminars | Lecturers | course leader | location |
March 11
| Staff seminar | Bente Wold | Board room C-13 | |
March 10-15
| PhD course:Design, management, conduct and reporting of empirical research studies. | Laurence Moore | Laurence Moore | To be announced |
June 2-3
| PhD course: Salutogenesis | Marguerite Daniel | Marguerite Daniel | To be announced |
June 10
| GHIG's 10th annual seminar and 10 year anniversary conference. | Bente Wold | Egget | |
September 8 | Mid-term evaluation of Phd candidates | Bente Wold | Board room C-13 | |
October 4-7 | PhD course: Interdisciplinary perspectives on modifiable social influences on behaviour. GHIG929A Course description (attendance) GHIG929B Course description (attendance + paper) | Laurence Moore | Laurence Moore | To be announced |
November 13 | Staff seminar | Bente Wold | Board room C-13 |
2015
| Date | Courses and Seminars | Lecturers | course leader | location |
January 24-31 | 5th GHIG PhD and staff seminar at Grand Canary: "The many faces of academia- changing expectations for researchers". | Wolfgang Stroebe, David Nicholas and Laurence Moore | Bente Wold, Gisela Böhm and Daniel Hanss | Parque Cristobal |
Postponed
| PhD course: Social Networks and Social Capital (Perspective Course). | Laurence Moore | Laurence Moore | To be announced |
May 29 | GHIG's 10th annual seminar and mid-term evaluation | TBA | ||
October 19-23 | PhD course: Socio-ecological approaches to behaviour change: theory, design and evaluation of interventions. Course code GHIG913A-B | Laurence Moore | Laurence Moore | To be announced |
November 9-13 | PhD course: Advanced Qualitative Methods | Marguerite Daniel | Marguerite Daniel | 09:00-16:00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Room 204 Tuesday Hemil-meeting room |
November 13 | Staff seminar |
2014
Seminars
Ghig seminars are held every month or 3-4 times per semester.
| Date | Workshops Courses and Seminars | Lecturers | Course Leader | Location | Time |
10-21 March | Course: GHIG923 A, B and C Quantitative Methods |
| Gisela Bohm (UiB) | ||
| 10 - 12 March | Course: GHIG923-A Survey Construction and Measurement (1 ECT )
| Gisela Bohm (UiB), Thorbjørn Torsheim (UiB), Ann Bostrom (Uni of Washington, USA). | Gisela Bohm (UiB)
| 10th C-13, room 278-2-3 11th C-13, room 276-2-3 12th C-13, room 278-2-3 | 10:00-16:00 |
| 13 - 17 March | Course: GHIG923-B Experimental Design and Analysis (1 ECT ) | Bjørn Sætrevik (UiB) Finn Jellestad (UiB) | Gisela Bohm (UiB) | 13th - BC room 215 14th BC room 132 17th - C-13, room 276-2-3
| 10:00 -16:00
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| 19 - 21 March | Course: GHIG923-C Multivariate methods for PhD students (1 ECT ) |
Åge Diseth (UiB) Nora Wiium (UiB) | Gisela Bohm (UiB) | 19th - C-13 room 278-2-3 20 - 21st C-13, room 276-2-3 | 10:00 -16:00 |
| 3 April | GHIG BOARD MEETING |
| Board Room Chris.gt 13 | 12:00 | |
| 24 April - 8 May | Course: Design and conduct of research (Faculty's obligatory course) PS901 |
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| 21 - 23 May |
Workshop: GHIG924A Theory of planned Behaviour (TPB) Meets Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) |
Prof. Dr. Icek Ajzen Prof. Dr. Peter Schmidt
| Bente Wold (UiB) Gisela Bohm (UiB) |
Christiesgt. 13 Rom: C13: 204 | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| 6 Juni | 9th Annual seminar/ Mid-term evaluation | Bente Wold |
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| 30 -31 October | PhD seminar at Solstrand (Obligatory) PS902 | Bente Wold |
| Solstrand Hotel |
2013
Date | Activity | Location and time |
| 19-29.01 | Gran Canaria: Elective course. "Creativity in research: generating creative ideas, working in creative teams and creative writting". Lectures by Prof. Emeritus Karl Halvor Teigen, Prof. Olga Dysthe, Prof. Gro M. Sandal, Hege H. Bye and Prof. Laurence Moore (for GHIG members only). Registration to Maria Luttges Mathieu | Parque Cristobal, Gran Canaria. |
| 28.02 | Regular seminar. The topic of the seminar is: "Writing the synopsis for the dissertation (Kappen)", by Professor Rune Krumsvik. | C-12, room 446 11:00-13:00 |
| 15.03 | Supervision seminar | Board room 16:00 |
| 18-22.03 | PhD course "Evaluation research: from competing paradigms to mixed methods", by Prof. Laurence Moore (3ECTs). Course description | C-13, 2nd floor, Monday-Tuesday-Wed. and Friday room 276/2-3, Thursday room 276/1, 10:00-16:00 |
| 04.04 | Regular seminar. The topic of the seminar is: "General introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM-analyses)". The topic will be addressed by Associate Prof. Torbjørn Torsheim. | C-12, room 446 11:00-13:00 |
| 13.06 | Regular seminar. The topic of the seminar is: "Presenting with Prezi", by Bjørn Sætrevik. | C-12, room 446 11:00-13:00 |
| 14.06 | GHIG 8th Annual Seminar | C-13, Board room 10:00 |
| 9-20.09 | Phd course "Qualitative methods for PhD: Advanced level course", by Marguerite Daniel assisted by Karen Marie Moland and Nils Gunnar Songsatd. (8ECTs). Course description | TBA |
| 01.10 | Regular seminar. The topic for this seminar will be popular scientific work. During the seminar we will address the guidelines for the popular scientific work, as well as different alternative outlets for it, such as writing a feature article, writing a Wikipedia article, etc. Presentations by Mats Glambek, Helga Urke and May Hauken. | C-12, room 446 11:00-13:00 |
| 28.10-01.11 | PhD course "Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) ved bruk av LAVAAN" by Kyrre Breivik, Uni Helse in cooperation with GHIG. Course information. (in Norwegian) | Uni Helse, Krinkelkroken 1, 3. floor, teaching room 2. |
| 04-07.11 | Discussions and guidance with GHIG students/researchers on design/analysis issues and research methods by Laurence Moore. | C-13, 5th floor. |
2012
Date | Activity | Location and time |
| 07.02 | Regular seminar. The topic of the seminar is: "How to make brilliant and pedagogic presentations, using power point, key note and multi-media", by Børge Sivertsen . | C-12, room 446 10:00-12:00 |
08-09.03 | PhD course "The assests approach to health". Course co-ordinators: Maurice Mittelmark and Marguerite Daniel (1ECT). Course description | room 276-2/3 09:00-15:00 |
| 09.03 | Supervision seminar | C-13 Board room 16:00 |
| 12-16.03 | PhD course "Socio-ecological approaches to behaviour change: theory, design and evaluation of interventions", by Prof. Laurence Moore (3ECTs). Course description | C-13, Mon., Tues., Wed. and Friday room 207. Thursday room 276-2/3. 09:00-15:30 |
| 17.04 | Regular seminar: "Measurement of psychological constructs", by Torbjørn Torsheim. | C-12, room 446 10:00-12:00 |
| 15.05 | Regular seminar: "Employing social cognition models to develop actions preventing HIV/AIDS among youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Discussions on "The Reasoned Action Approach" and illustrations of structural equation modeling and "Sobel's approximate test", by Leif Edvard Aarø. | C-12, room 446 10:00-11:00 |
| 08.06 | 7th annual GHIG-seminar | C-13 Board room. 09:00 |
| 04.10 | Regular seminar. The topic of the seminar is: "PhD-student's role as supervisor", by Marguerite Daniel. | C-12, room 446 11:00-13:00 |
| 09.11 | Supervision seminar: "Leading an international project on a 105-day confinement study in which a multinational crew(N=6) simulated a Mars mission" by Gro M. Sandal. | C-13 Board room 16:00 |
| 14-16.11 | PhD course "Questioning global hegemonic thinking: new approaches in gender, generation and health". Course co-ordinators: Marguerite Daniel, Haldis Haukanes, Torill Bull (2ECTs). Course description. | C-13, Wed. and Thursday room 276/1. Friday room 276-2/3. 09:00-15:30 |
| 22.11 | Regular seminar. The topic of the seminar is "Moderators and mediators in quantitative research". The topic will be addressed by Jørn Hetland, associate professor at the department of psychosocial science. | C-12, room 446 11:00-13:00 |
| 20.12 | Regular seminar. The topic of the seminar is "How to get published".The topic will be addressed by Professor Maurice Mittelmark. | C-12, room 446 11:00-13:00 |
2011
Date | Activity | Location and time |
22-29.01 | Gran Canaria: Elective course:The many faces of leadership and followership, and their applicability in the academic arena. By Stig Berge-Matthiesen, Anders Skogstad and Bente Wold (for GHIG-members only) . Registration to Wenche Marthinussen | TBA |
| 7-11.03 | Elective course offered by GHIG and Uni Health: "Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling using AMOS". By Kyrre Breivik. Registration to Maria Luttges | C-13 room 204 |
| 08.03 | Regular Seminar. The topic of the seminar is: "How to present research in the media", by Gro Malnes Øvrebø. The Division of Communication at UiB will then give us some tips about what's good to be aware of when presenting research in media (e.g. the press release and the popular scientific work). | C-12 room 315 11:30-13:00 |
| 11.03 | Supervison seminar | C-13 Board room. 16:00 |
| 13.04 | Regular Seminar.The topic of the seminar is:"How to prepare and write the "kappe"", by Professor Oddrun Samdal. | C-12 room 446 09:30-11:30 |
| 27.05 | 6th annual GHIG-seminar | C-13 Board room. 10:00 |
| 07.06 | Regular seminar. The topic of the seminar is: "How to publish in scientific papers", by Arnstein Mykletun, Professor II. | C-12 room 446 10:00-12:00 |
| 20.09 | Regular seminar. The topic of the seminar is: "What is good teaching?", by Professor Arild Raaheim, Head of the Higher Education Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology. | C-12 room 446 10:00-12:00 |
| 20-21.10 | Annual PhD seminar at Solstrand Hotel | Solstrand |
| 11.10 | Supervision seminar | C-13 Board room 16:00 |
| 01.11 | Regular seminar. Fellow researcher Simon Øverland will present the article "Associations between schools' tobacco restrictions and adolescents' use of tobacco". | C-12 room 446 10:00-12:00 |
| 21, 22, 23.11 | CDP course "Linear mixed models", by Torbjørn Torsheim (open to GHIG members) | |
| 05-16.12 | PhD course "Introduction to Qualitative methods, interview and analysis", by Torill Larsen, Ingrid Holsen and Hege Tjomsland. Course description (the course will be given in Norwegian). Registration to Maria Luttges | C-13 room 503 10:00-15:00 |
