I will host a workshop at the annual Teaching and Education Day by the Faculty of Science and Technology at Umeå University on August 20, 2019. My workshop, simply called Teaching Sabbatical, will adress going abroad to teach. I will talk about my experiences of leaving the chores at Umeå University behind and moving abroad […]
A press release on the work I’m doing on a project called MT4North. This is a project aiming towards developing a innovation model for those working with medical technology R&D and especially those in the northern part of Sweden. Read the press release here (in Swedish)
Idag var det Öppet Hus på Umeå universitet. Tillsammans med de andra ingenjörsutbildningarna kunde man träffa Civilingenjörsprogrammet i Interaktion och Design i Vardagsrummet i Humanisthuset. Vid tre tillfällen presenterades även programmet i Hörsal G för en nästan fullsatt salong tillsammans med Teknisk Datavetenskap och Teknisk Fysik! Jag hoppas att våra blivande studenter har fått svar […]
On February 21, 2019, I will hold a short presentation on selecting NTU as host when doing exchange studies abroad at a seminar on foreign exchange. This is a seminar for the students at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå University. I will try to give the students some insights into how it is […]
On ThurdayI will hold a seminar on my time as a STINT Teaching Sabbatical Fellow at NTU and our time in Singapore at my home department, Applied Physics and Electronics (TFE). I will talk about teaching large groups, having state of the art technology, purposely built facilities, 28C+ all the time, never cook a single […]
I’m really proud that I was invited to give an inspirational talk for the delegates at the DataTjej 2019 Conference on February 7. I have been a long-term fan of the organization and every year, the MSc in Interaction Technology and Design program sponsor girls from the program to go to the conference. I’m so […]
On January 30, I will take part of a lunch seminar on the STINT Teaching Sabbatical program arranged by the International Office and Centre for Educational Development at Umeå University. Both Karin, program coordinator at STINT, and Katarina, STINT Fellow at Ohio State University, will also take part of the meeting During this meeting I […]
The end of this week, Dr. Helen Cripps, Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, Perth WA, Australia, will honor us with a visit at Digital Media Lab, Umeå University. During next week, we will work together on our research on the use of Instagram and Twitter […]
My home faculty at Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, just published an article about my stay, with my family, in Singapore and my teaching at NTU. In this article I give my view on teaching large groups at a top University in another part of the world. The article is written in Swedish […]
On April 23, 2018, Umeå University arranged a seminar for teachers at the university on the STINT Teaching Sabbatical. Last year I was sitting in the audience and right there decided to apply for a spot. This year I was one of the speakers. Together with Katarina from the Centre for Educational Development at Umeå […]