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.

Course and seminar overview

2025
POSTPONED GHIG991: Latent Class Analysis

Lecturer: Guy Notelaers

Date: POSTPONED

Location: Room 007 (26.11) & Room 007, C12

ECTS: 2

GHIG Staff Seminar

Date: 14.11

Location: C12

GHIG 18.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Gisela Böhm

Date: 22.05

Location: Alrek, 2F4 HEMIL meeting room

GHIG990: ReproducibiliTea journal club

Lecturer: Bjørn Sætrevik & Sebastian Brun Bjørkheim

Date: Samling en gang i måneden

Location: C12 & Teams

ECTS: 1

GHIG937: Quantitative methods

Lecturer: Sebastian Jentschke

Date: 06.05, 09.05, 13.05 & 16.05 (09:00-16:00)

Location: C12, room 002

ECTS: 2

GHIG945: Critical perspectives on theory and methodology in psychology 

Lecturer: Artur Nilsson

Date: 10.02, 11.02, 13.02 & 14.02

Location: C12, room 005 (10.02 ,11.02 & 14.02), Alrek, 3F9 Hardbakka (13.02)

ECTS: 2

2024
GHIG 17.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 31.05

Location: Alrek, Edda

PhD seminar "Open topic & PhD presentation"

Seminar leader: Øystein Holmelid & TbD

Date: 25.04, 23.05 & 06.06

Location: C12 (25.04), Alrek 2F15 Tarlebø (23.05), Alrek, 2F4 HEMIL meeting room (06.06)

GHIG944: Advancing the Social Sciences: Adressing Challenges and Enhancing Research Integrity

Lecturer: Sara Jahnke

Date: 08.04, 09.04, 06.05 & 07.05

Location: Alrek, 2F15 Tarlebø (08.04-09.04), 3F15 Borgaskaret (06.05-07.05)

ECTS: 3

PhD seminar "Supervising students as a PhD-candidate"

Seminar leader: Olin Blaalid Oldeide

Date: 21.03

Location: Alrek, 3F9 Hardbakka

GHIG932: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using LAVAAN 

Lecturer: Kyrre Breivik

Date: 18.03-22.03

Location: Alrek, 2F15 Tarlebø (18-19.03 & 21.-22.03) & 2F4 HEMIL meeting room (20.03)

ECTS: 2

GHIG990: ReproducibiliTea journal club

Lecturer: Bjørn Sætrevik & Sebastian Brun Bjørkheim

Date: En samling i måneden

Location: C12 & Teams

ECTS: 1

PhD seminar "How to write a dissertation"

Seminar leader: Rune Krumsvik

Date: 22.02

Location: C12

GHIG918A: Qualitative methods for PhD: Advanced level

Lecturer: Lill Susann Haugen & Olin Blaalid Oldeide

Date: 19.02-23.02

Location: Alrek

ECTS: 5

PhD seminar "How to build an academic CV"

Seminar leader: Cecilie Nordbotten

Date: 25.01

Location: Alrek, 2F15 Tarlebø

GHIG942: Standing on the shoulders of giants

Lecturer: GHIG staff

Date: 27.01-04-02

Location: Abroad

ECTS: 2

2023
GHIG 937: Quantitative methods

Lecturer: Sebastian Jentschke

Date: 20.11, 24.11, 30.11 & 04.12

Location: C12, room 001

ECTS: 2

PhD seminar "How to handle media in research"

Seminar leader: Mari Lund Eide

Date: 23.11

Location: C12

GHIG943: Understanding and dealing with job burnout

Lecturer: Arnold Bakker

Date: 23.10-25.10

Location: U.Phil, room 2A (23.10), C12, room 007 (24.10-25.10)

ECTS: 1.5

PhD seminar "Participation in research"

Seminar leader: Nawar Sayyad & Howida F. Abdulrahman

Date: 05.10

Location: Alrek

GHIG 16.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 01.06

Location: Alrek, Munin

GHIG990: ReproducibiliTea journal club

Lecturer: Bjørn Sætrevik

Date: Sessions once a month

Sted: C12 & Zoom

ECTS: 1

GHIG918A: Qualitative methods for PhD: Advanced level 

Lecturer: Marguerite Daniel

Date: 17.04-21.04

Location: Alrek

ECTS: 5

PhD seminar "Mobility in research"

Seminar leader: TBA

Date: 23.03

Location: C12

GHIG941: Creative Research and Academic Writing

Lecturer: Arnold Bakker

Date: 07.02-08.02

Location: C12, room 005 & 002

ECTS: 1.5

2022
GHIG990: ReproducibiliTea journal club

Lecturer: ReproducibiliTea journal club

Date: Sessions once a month

Location: C12 & zoom

ECTS: 1

GHIG939: Colloquium course on salutogenesis and resilience

Lecturer: Marguerite Daniel

Date: 20.01, 07.02, 16.03, 28.04, 18.08, 15.09, 13.10 & 17.11

Topics: 

  1. Introduction and comparison of the two theories
  2. Introduction to Salutogenesis and GRRs
  3. Salutogenesis: SOC and its three dimensions
  4. Salutogenesis: New developments beyond health
  5. Resilience: Introduction to resilience at individual level
  6. Resilience: Social ecology of resilience
  7. Resilience: Resilience: new developments
  8. Reflections on resilience and on salutogenesis

Location: Alrek

ECTS: 2

GHIG 15.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Jørn Hetland

Date: 09.06

Location: Bergen Børs Hotel

GHIG940: Positive Occupational Health Psychology

Lecturer: Arnold Bakker

Date: 07.06-08.06

Location: TBA

ECTS: 1

GHIG937: Quantitative methods

Lecturer: Sebastian Jentschke

Date: 11.01, 14.01, 17.01 & 20.01

Location: C12, room 005

ECTS: 2

GHIG938: Truth in research and science

Lecturer: GHIG staff & invited guests (Rainer Bromme & Arnold Bakker)

Date: 22.01-29.01

Location: Abroad

ECTS: 2

2021
GHIG990: ReproducibiliTea journal club

Lecturer: ReproducibiliTea journal club

Date: Sessions once a month

Location: C12 & zoom

ECTS: 1

GHIG932: Introduksjon til Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) ved bruk av LAVAAN

Lecturer: Kyrre Breivik

Date: 22.11-26.11

Location: Alrek

ECTS: 2

GHIG918A: Qualitative methods for PhD: Advanced level

Lecturer: Marguerite Daniel

Date: 31.05-04.06

Location: Alrek

ECTS: 5

2019
PhD seminar "Research dissemination: Prezi presentation"

Seminar leader: Bjørn Sætrevik

Date: 04.12

Location: C13

GHIG Midterm evaluation autumn semester

Date: 15.11

Location: C13

GHIG934: Quantitative diary designs and multilevel analysis

Lecturer: Jørn Hetland

Date: 12.06-14.06

Location: C12

ECTS: 1

GHIG 14.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Jørn Hetland

Date: 24.05

Location: C13

GHIG936: Salutogenesis beyond health

Lecturer: Marguerite Daniel & Maurice Mittelmark

Date: 09.05, 06.06 & 04.09

Location: C13

ECTS: 1

PhD seminar "Writing an application: How to apply for post-doc funding"

Seminar leader: Mari Hysing & Ove Heradstveit

Date: 09.05

Location: C12

PhD seminar "Research: Replication and pre-registrering"

Seminar leader: Bjørn Sætrevik

Date: 11.04

Location: C12

GHIG Staff Seminar "Reasearch supervision for Ph.d.-supervisors"

Seminar leader: Olga Dysthe, Ståle Pallesen, Keneth Hugdahl, Kariane Westrheim

Date: 15.03

Topics:

Supervision and feedback on text

When the PhD project doesn't go as planned

Supervisors' and PhDs' expectations for each other

Location: Studentsenteret, Egget

PhD seminar "PhD-thesis: Writing the synopsis"

Seminar leader: Terje Magner

Date: 13.03

Location: C12

GHIG935: Academic Freedom: It's facets and consequenses for researchers, lecturers and PhD students

Lecturer: Bente Wold, Gisela Böhm, Rüdiger Pfister, Oddrun Samdal, Rainer Broome

Date: 19.01-21.01

Location: Abroad

ECTS: 2

2018
GHIG Midterm evaluations autumn semester

Chair: Jørn Hetland

Date: 02.11

Location: C13

GHIG933: Podcasting for Social Scientists

Lecturer: Paul Kellner

Date: 01.10, 05.10, 15.10 & 22.10

Location: C13

ECTS: 1

GHIG923-C: Quantitative Methods – Multivariate Design and Analysis

Lecturer: Sigurd Hystad, Tony Leino & Guy Notelærs

Date: 24.09-26.09

Location: C12

ECTS: 1

GHIG918A: Qualitative methods for PhD: Advanced level

Lecturer: Marguerite Daniel

Date: 11.06-15.06

Location: C13

ECTS: 5

GHIG 13.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Jørn Hetland

Date: 01.06

Location: C13

PhD Seminar "Self-care as a PhD student"

Seminar leader: Elisabeth Schanche

Date: 24.05

GHIG923-A: Quantitative Methods – Survey Methodology

Lecturer: Gisela Böhm, Rune Mentzoni, Torbjørn Torsheim & Endre Tvinnereim

Date: 21.05-23.05

Location: C12

ECTS: 1

GHIG Staff Seminar "Innovative methodologies in resilience research such as visual  techniques, use of film, etc."

Seminar leader: Prof. Michael Ungar (invited guest)

Date: 12.04

Location: C13

PhD Seminar "Research dissemination in social media"

Seminar leader: Jill Walker Rettberg

Date: 13.04

GHIG923-B: Quantitative Methods – Experimental Design and Analysis

Lecturer: Vebjørn Ekroll, Sebastian Jentschke & Bjørn Sætrevik

Date: 12.03-14.03

Location: C12 

ECTS: 1

PhD Seminar "Presentasjon av forskerforbundet"

Seminar leader: Steinar Vagstad (Forskerforbundet)

Date: 15.02

GHIG Seminar for PhD & Staff "Disaster risk reduction: Building adaptive capabilities by transcending culture"

Lecturer: Dr. Petra T Buergelt (School of Psychological and Clinical Sciences at Charles Darwin University)

Date: 31.01-01.02

Location: C12

ECTS: 1

2017
GHIG932: Structural Equation Modeling 

Lecturer: Kyrre Breivik

Date: 13.11-17.11

Location: C12

ECTS: 2

PhD Seminar "Research communication: Why, to whom, what and when to communicate your research to the general media"

Seminar leader: Margareth Barndon

Date: 31.10

GHIG Staff Seminar "Supervisor-candidate relationship - what to do when things don’t work"

Seminar leader: Jørn Hetland & Maurice Mittelmark

Date: 06.10

Location: C13

GHIG913-A /GHIG913-B: Socio-ecological approaches to behaviour change: theory, design and evaluation of interventions

Lecturer: Laurence Moore

Date: 02.10-06.10

Location: C12

ECTS: 1.5 (A) / 3 (B)

PhD Seminar "Going abroad as a PhD candidate"

Seminar leader: Stefanie Meyer & Jill Anette Opsahl 

Date: 13.09

GHIG 12.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Jørn Hetland

Date: 16.06

Location: C13

PhD Seminar "Authorship: The Vancouver Convention"

Seminar leader: Bjørn Sætrevik

Date: 01.06

GHIG 930: Resource-based approaches to health

Lecturer: Marguerite Daniel & Maurice Mittelmark

Date: 03.04-05.04

Location: C13

ECTS: 2

PhD Seminar "Good lecture: Reduce stress – content and connection in presentation/layout"

Seminar leader: Marguerite Daniel

Date: 27.03

GHIG931: Knowledge translation and exchange: Improving the impact of research through design, funding, implementation and dissemination of research

Lecturer: Oddrun Samdal, Bente Wold, Ingrid Holsen, Laurence Moore

Date: 21.01-28.01

Location: Abroad

ECTS: 2

2016
PhD Seminar "Good teaching: Tips for PhD candidates with regard to teaching"

Seminar leader: Arild Raaheim

Date: 07.12

GHIG Staff Seminar "Guidelines for PhD Committees"

Seminar leader: Bente Wold, Bjørn Sætrevik & Annegreet Wubs

Date: 13.11

Location: C13

PhD Seminar "Publication process: How the editor thinks, cover letter, revisions and rejections"

Seminar leader: Maurice Mittelmark

Date: 26.10

GHIG929A /GHIG929B: Interdisciplinary perspectives on modifiable social influences on behaviour.

Lecturer: Laurence Moore

Date: 04.10-07.10

Location: C13

ECTS: 1.5 (A) / 3 (B)

GHIG Midterm evaluation autumn semester

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 08.09

Location: C13

GHIG 11.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 10.06

Location: Studentsenteret, Egget

PhD Seminar "Perspectives on theory: How to write about theory in the synopsis"

Seminar leader: Roger Strand

Date: 28.04

PhD Seminar "How to make a scientific poster"

Seminar leader: Helge Grønhaug

Date: 06.04

GHIG927A/GHIG927B: Design, management, conduct and reporting of empirical research studies.

Lecturer: Laurence Moore

Date: 10.03-15.03

Location: C13

ECTS: 1.5 (A) / 3 (B)

GHIG Staff Seminar "The PhD thesis summary ("Kappen")" & “Managing research teams"

Seminar leader: Terje Manger & Laurence Moore

Date: 11.03

Location: C13

PhD Seminar "How to make a presentation in Prezi"

Seminar leader: Helja Bjørnøy Urke

Date: 07.03

2015
PhD Seminar "Experiences and reflections on writing the synopsis"

Seminar leader: Annegreet Gera Wubs

Date: 09.12

GHIG Staff Seminar "Application writing: time well spent or waste of time?"

Seminar leader: Bente Wold

Date: 13.November

Location: C13

GHIG918: Qualitative Methods for PhD: Advanced level

Lecturer: Marguerite Daniel

Date: 09.11-13.11

Location: C13

ECTS: 8

GHIG913A/GHIG913B: Socio-ecological approaches to behaviour change: theory, design and evaluation of interventions

Lecturer: Laurence Moore

Date: 19.10-23.10

Location: C13

ECTS: 1.5 (A)/3 (B)

PhD Seminar "PhD funding is over, what now?"

Seminar leader: Emmanuel Babatunde

Date: 15.09

GHIG 10.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 29.05

PhD Seminar "Selfmarketing as a researcher"

Seminar leader: Daniel Hanss

Date: 24.02

GHIG925: The many faces of academia- changing expectations for researchers

Lecturer: Wolfgang Stroebe, David Nicholas, Laurence Moore, Bente Wold, Gisela Böhm & Daniel Hanss

Date: 24.01-31.01

Location: Abroad

ECTS: 2

2014
GHIG Midterm evaluations autumn semester

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 12.11

PhD Seminar "Good teaching"

Seminar leader: Arild Raaheim

Date: 04.11

PhD Seminar "Litterature review"

Seminar leader: Rune Krumsvik

Date: 09.09

GHIG 09.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 09.09

Location: C13

GHIG924A: Theory of planned Behaviour (TPB) Meets Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Icek Ajzen,  Prof. Dr. Peter Schmidt, Bente Wold & Gisela Böhm

Date: 21.05-23.05

Location: C13

ECTS: 1.5

PhD Seminar "Digital tools for researchers"

Seminar leader: Walter Wehus

Date: 13.05

GHIG923-C: Multivariate methods for PhD students

Lecturer: Åge Diseth, Nora Wiium & Gisela Böhm

Date: 19.03-21.03

Location: C13

ECTS: 1

PhD Seminar "How to make presentations in Prezi"

Seminar leader: Bjørn Sætrevik

Date:18.03

GHIG923-B: Experimental Design and Analysis

Lecturer: Bjørn Sætrevik, Finn Jellestad & Gisela Böhm

Date: 13.03-17.03

Location: C13

ECTS: 1

GHIG923A: Survey Construction and Measurement 

Lecturer: Gisela Böhm, Thorbjørn Torsheim & Ann Bostrom

Date: 10.03-12.03

Location:C13

ECTS: 1

PhD Seminar "How to handle the press?"

Seminar leader: Ingunn Halvorsen

Date: 11.02

2013
PhD Seminar "Library Resources"

Seminar leader: Kjersti Aksnes- Hopland

Date: 03.12

GHIG Midterm evaluations autumn semester

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 07.11

PhD seminar "Discussions and guidance with GHIG students/researchers on design/analysis issues and research methods"

Seminar leader: Laurence Moore

Date: 04.11-07.11

GHIG932: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) ved bruk av LAVAAN

Lecturer: Kyrre Breivik

Date: 28.10-01.11

Location: Uni Helse Krinkelkroken1, 3.floor

ECTS: 2

PhD Seminar "Popular scientific work"

Seminar leader: Mats Glambek, Helga Urke & May Hauken

Date: 01.10

GHIG918A: Qualitive methods for PhD: Advanced level

Lecturer: Marguerite Daniel, Karen Marie Moland & Nils Gunnar Songsatd

Date: 09.09-20.09

Location: C13

ECTS: 8

PhD Seminar "Presenting with Prezi"

Seminar leader: Bjørn Sætrevik

Date: 13.07

GHIG 08.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 14.06

Location: C13

PhD Seminar "General introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM-analyses)"

Seminar leader: Torbjørn Torsheim

Date: 04.04

GHIG916: Evaluation research: from competing paradigms to mixed methods

Lecturer: Laurence Moore

Date: 18.03-22.03

Location: C13

ECTS: 3

GHIG Staff Seminar "PhD training: weaknesses and strengths of the Norwegian system compared to PhD programs in other countries"

Chair: Bente Wold 

Date: 15.03

Location: C13

PhD Seminar "Writing the synopsis for the dissertation (Kappen)"

Seminar leader: Rune Krumsvik

Date: 28.02

GHIG917: Creativity in research: generating creative ideas, working in creative teams and creative writting

Lecturer: Karl Halvor Teigen, Olga Dysthe, Gro M. Sandal, Hege H. Bye & Laurence Moore

Date: 19.01-29.01

Location: Abroad

ECTS: 2

2012
PhD Seminar "How to get published"

Seminar leader: Maurice Mittelmark

Date: 20.12

PhD Seminar "Moderators and mediators in quantitative research"

Seminar leader: Jørn Hetland

Date: 22.11

GHIG915: Questioning global hegemonic thinking: new approaches in gender, generation and health

Lecturer: Marguerite Daniel, Haldis Haukanes & Torill Bull 

Date: 14.11-16.11

Location: C13

ECTS: 2

GHIG Staff Seminar "Leading an international project on a 105-day confinement study in which a multinational crew(N=6) simulated a Mars mission"

Seminar leader: Gro M. Sandal

Date: 09.11

Location: C13

PhD Seminar "PhD-student's role as supervisor"

Seminar leader: Marguerite Daniel

Date: 04.10

GHIG 07.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 08.06

PhD Seminar "Employing social cognition models to develop actions preventing HIV/AIDS among youth in sub-Saharan Africa"

Sub-heading: Discussions on "The Reasoned Action Approach" and illustrations of structural equation modeling and "Sobel's approximate test"

Seminar leader: Leif Edward Aarø

Date: 15.05

PhD Seminar "Measurement of psychological constructs"

Seminar leader: Torbjørn Torsheim

Date: 17.04

GHIG913A/B: Socio-ecological approaches to behaviour change: theory, design and evaluation of interventions

Lecturer: Laurence Moore

Date: 12.03-16.03

Location: C13

ECTS: 1.5 (A)/ 3 (B)

GHIG914: The assets approach to health

Lecturer: Maurice Mittelmark & Marguerite Daniel

Date: 08.03-09.03

Location: C13

ECTS: 1

PhD Seminar "How to make brilliant and pedagogic presentations, using power point, keynote and multi-media"

Seminar leader: Børge Sivertsen

Date: 07.02

2011
GHIG912: Introduction to Qualitative methods, interview and analysis

Lecturer: Torill Larsen, Ingrid Holsen & Hege Tjomsland

Date: 05.12-16.12

Location: C13

ECTS: 3

GHIG Staff Seminar "Procatination"

Seminar leader: Stig Berge Mathiessen

Date: 11.11

Location: C13

PhD Seminar "Associations between schools' tobacco restrictions and adolescents' use of tobacco"

Seminar leader: Simon Øverland

Date: 01.11

PhD Seminar "What is good teaching?"

Seminar leader: Arild Raaheim

Date: 20.09

PhD Seminar "How to publish in scientific papers"

Seminar leader: Arnstein Mykletun

Date: 07.06

GHIG 06.Annual seminar & midterm evaluation

Chair: Bente Wold

Date: 27.05

Location: C13

PhD Seminar "How to prepare and write the 'kappe'"

Seminar leader: Oddrun Samdal

Date: 13.04

PhD Seminar "How to present research in the media"

Seminar leader: Gro Malnes Øvrebø

Date: 08.03

PS913: Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling using AMOS

Lecturer: Kyrre Breivik

Date: 07.03-11.03

Location: C13

ECTS: 2

PS912: The many faces of leadership and followership, and their applicability in the academic arena

Lecturer: Stig Berge-Matthiesen, Anders Skogstad & Bente Wold

Date: 22.01-29.01

Location: Abroad

ECTS: 2

GHIG PhD seminars

About the GHIG PhD seminar series

GHIG has had a tradition for many years that the GHIG seminars were coordinated by PhDs for PhDs. The seminars took place the last Thursday of the month, and were alternating between Alrek and C12. In 2025 GHIG started a collaboration with PsykSTIP, who now are responsible for organizing and coordinating the PhD-seminars, while GHIG supports them with administrative and economic resources. The seminars are a wonderful place for meeting colleagues and listen to interesting presentations that are relevant to you as a PhD. All PhDs are invited to the seminars.

Find more information and stay in the loop for upcoming PhD-seminars on the PsykSTIP website. (external link)

History

GHIG's PhD seminars started in 2006, but were only partly coordinated by PhDs until 2016, after which they were solely responsible for the seminar series. The seminars have been an important arena for dissemination training for GHIG PhDs, as well as giving an opportunity to delve into relevant topics which were not covered by the graduate schools course portfolio. The seminars where structured in a way that gave PhDs, after attending at least 10 seminars and presenting at one of them, the opportunity to gain 1 ECT. The seminar series was on hiatus during 2020-2022, but was resumed in 2023.

Last updated: 14.01.2026