INTERNATIONALIZATION. This autumn Sepideh Olausson, an associate professor in health sciences, is at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona. There she works at Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovations on a teaching sabbatical funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT). Olausson says she finds inspiration in teaching and academic leadership. STINT’s Teaching Sabbatical program aims to develop both individuals and institutions. By…
Teachers prepare to be Always READY for digital and hybrid teaching
EDUCATION. The faculty is now launching a creative meeting place where teachers and other staff working with educational questions can provide support and inspiration to each other in our efforts to improve the quality of our digital teaching. The meeting place is created in the form of a Teams channel called ‘Alltid REDO’ [Always READY]. All staff interested in digital education are welcome to join the Teams channel. You can…
Nominate Electoral Assembly electors that will appoint teacher representatives to the University Board – by September 1st
ELECTION. New teacher representatives are to be appointed to the University Board at the University of Gothenburg. They are appointed by an electoral assembly consisting of electors from the University’s faculties. Sahlgrenska Academy will appoint 7 electors through an academy-wide election. The Academy’s teachers are encouraged to nominate elector candidates. The nominations must be received by the nominating committee no later than September 1st. During the next term of office, the…
Many lessons learned from rapid transition
DISTANCE EDUCATION. The rapid transition to distance education placed a considerable burden on many teachers at Sahlgrenska Academy. In an interview with Akademiliv, two of them, Helen Lindqvist and Sanna Nybacka, tell us what it was like to redo, on short notice, a major course that would partly take place in the dieticians’ teaching kitchen. When they received word that the teaching would take place at a distance just over…
Three new Excellent Teachers named
DISTINCTION. Lena Hartelius, Inger Jansson and Helena Wigert – these are the latest to join Sahlgrenska Academy’s honored staff named Excellent Teachers. Our faculty has appointed 14 Excellent Teachers since the program’s inception in 2015. Lena Hartelius, a professor of speech therapy, teaches and supervises treatment of neurologically caused speech and language problems. What she most enjoys about teaching is often being surprised, impressed and happy. “The students and colleagues…