Pedagogical ambassadors in doctoral education
The purpose with Pedagogical ambassadors is to stimulate pedagogical development in doctoral courses by financed time for pedagogical ambassadors, as well as the start-up of a pedagogical network in doctoral education. The focus of the project is to develop and promote an educational culture in close partnership with doctoral programmes and research schools.
Pedagogic ambassadors are expected to:
- be able to lead pedagogical discussions, for example in seminar form.
- be able to initiate and pursue pedagogical issues that are relevant to doctoral education.
- lead one pedagogical development project during the project period.
- support colleagues/"Critical friend" and spread good examples.
- work for doctoral education at the entire KI level, not only for the research school / doctoral program with which they are affiliated.
A contact person assigned within the Teaching and learning unit at KI, to facilitate the collaboration within the group as well as with the pedagogical unit. Monthly meetings and round table discussions are the regular contact points, complemented with individual meetings between the ambassadors.
Pedagogical ambassadors 2024
Lucie Laflamme
Project: “What a kappa!”
Lucie Laflamme
ProfessorNicolas Ruffin
Project: “Supporting the Enhancement of Active Learning Activities and Formative Assessment in Doctoral Courses in Neuroscience“
Nicolas Ruffin
Senior Research SpecialistManuel Zeitelhofer
Project: “Establishing and evaluating a PhD Study buddy pilot program”
Manuel Zeitelhofer
ResearcherSylvie Le Guyader
Project: ” Evaluating the impact of pedagogy on the learning outcome of technological training at core facilities”
Sylvie Le Guyader
Senior Research Infrastructure SpecialistFranziska Albrecht
Project: ”What makes a good journal club experience for PhD students?”
Franziska Albrecht
Assistant ProfessorPedagogical ambassadors 2022
Eric Asaba
Project: "Co-create the debate!"
In my project, Co-create the debate, the aspects in focus were co-creation and debate. Co-create the debate was about engaging students in identifying topics that were most central to where they are in their own thinking, formulating debatable topics of relevance, and jointly agreeing on how to go about carrying out a debate that engages everyone in the course.
A method can work great in one situation, and not at all in another. Exploring what works, when and where it works (or not), is something very interesting and important as part of our academic teachership.
Eric Asaba
Senior Lecturer/Occupational TherapistAnna Sandström
Project: "Continuous update of the Research School in Epidemiology for Clinicians"
I have focused on how to continuously offer a relevant, high-quality, updated and pedagogically evolved research education Research School in Epidemiology for Clinicians. This has primarily been conducted by using “appreciative inquiry”, a systematic approach to identify and analyse successful experiences and practices, and then reinforce these and also use them in other contexts.
Anna Sandström
Affiliated to ResearchAnna-Karin Welmer
Project: "Faculty experiences of active student participation (ASP) in online doctoral courses during the COVID-19 pandemic"
My project focus on university faculty’s experience of active student participation in online doctoral courses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to gather information of what insights university faculty have gained during the pandemic concerning how to facilitate active student participation in online doctoral courses.
Anna-Karin Welmer
Senior LecturerJurga Larencikiene
Project: "Engaging doctoral students in undergraduate education"
My project is about developing a better platform for the involvement of doctoral students in undergraduate teaching.
Anita Berglund
Epidemiologist and Head of the Doctoral Programme in Epidemiology.
Project: Training of Teacher (ToT) workshop
Development and implementation of a Training of Teacher workshop, with the purpose to equip trainers with knowledge and instructional tools that enable them to, in turn, provide specific training to target audiences, aimed at enhancing student learning outcomes.
Pedagogical ambassadors in doctoral education started as a project to develop and promote an educational culture in close partnership with doctoral programmes and research schools.
The Pedagogic ambassador project is initiated and financed by the Committee for Doctoral education and the Course and programme committee.