Margareth Kristoffersen

The 19th annual Nursing Ethics Conference

Four members of the Professional Relations research group attended the 19th Nursing Ethics Conference in Cork, Ireland on 1-2 September 2018. Margareth Kristoffersen, Kari Vetvatne, Ellen Ramvi and Birgitta Haga Gripsrud each presented papers, ensuring good representation of our research at this well-renowned scholarly arena.

In the media

Different voices in the contemporary argue that we need to talk more about death. By talking about what is unknown and which many fear, perhaps death will lose some of its sting? This is the issue at stake in a newspaper commentary by our Professional Relations member Birgitta Haga Gripsrud and Lisbeth Thorsen (UiO).

Read the commentary (in Norwegian)

Young Outstanding Researcher

Birgitta Haga Gripsrud is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Professional Relations research group. We are happy to announce that she has been awarded a research grant by the University of Stavanger as a Young Outstanding Researcher. Congratulations!

Prestigious editorship

We are happy and proud to share the news that our research group member, Associate Professor Nora Simonhjell, has been appointed the four-year editorship of Norsk litterær årbok (the annual Norwegian literary yearbook), alongside her colleage Benedikt Jager at the University of Stavanger.
 

Public debate

Kjetil Moen took part in a public debate about Sex, Death and God as taboos in Psychiatry at Kåkå kverulantkatedralen, Sting Nere, Stavanger. The debate was a sister-event to the 2017 mental health conference Schizofrenidagene. Kjetil Moen is a member of the Professional Relations research group at the University of Stavanger.