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Introduction to doctoral trainingFriday 25th September – Morning, Lecture Hall IT116
Session 4 – Communication, communities & essential apps08.15 – 08.45 The role and importance of social media in science Jari Laru
08.45 – 09.15 Exploiting the multidisciplinary environment in Oulu Anthony Heape
09.15 – 09.30 Been there, done that (part three) – Working over boundaries
Jana Podliská (Health & Biosciences)
09.30 – 10.15 Field-specific opportunities offered by your training environment - Poster session
Doctoral Programme coordinators
10.15 – 10.30 IT services Miki Kallio
10.30 – 10.45 Library services Ursula Heinikoski
10.45 – 11.15 Oodi, Optima and Notio Tanja Kähkönen, Pasi Terästi
11.15 – 11.45 Communicating science to the “(wo)man in the street”
Satu Räsänen
Session 5 – Wrapping it up 11.45 – 12.15 Problems & solutions, Questions & answers UniOGS coordinators
Exploiting the multidisciplinary environment in Oulu
Introduction to Doctoral Training 25.9.2015
Anthony HeapeCoordinator for Health & Biosciences
UniOGS
HUMANS TECHNOLOGYENVIRONMENT
REMEMBER THIS THING CALLED ”MOBILITY” ?
Mobility
Salzburg Principles for Doctoral Training (2005)
9. Increasing mobility
Doctoral programmes should seek to offer geographical as well as interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility and international collaboration within an integrated framework of cooperation between universities and other partners.
Seven Principles for Innovative Docoral Training (2011)
10.Interdisciplinary Research Options
Open research environment and culture to ensure that any appropriate opportunities for cross-fertilisation between disciplines can foster the necessary breadth and interdisciplinary approach.
4. Exposure to industry and other relevant employment sectors
In the widest sense.
5. International networking
Collaborative research, co-tutelle, dual and joint degrees.
should be encouraged
Mobility
But encouraging mobility is not enough !
Mobility must also be enabled !
should be encouraged
Fuding
Innovation interface
• New findings arise from collisions at the boundaries of disciplines
• An old question in one field may require a new angle from other field’s approach to answer it
Why go with multidisciplinarity?
Multidisciplinarity
HUMANS TECHNOLOGYENVIRONMENT
Too many projects are dropped, or not started, due to the absence of expertise in the research unit
Help might be found by undertaking a collaborative project with the unit, or institute, next door.
Fuding
Career development
• Broader experience
• Greater diversity of skills
• More comprehensive view
• New employment possibilities
• More funding sources available
What’s in it for me?
Multidisciplinarity
HUMANS TECHNOLOGYENVIRONMENT
SCIENTIFIC PROFILE OF YOUR UNIVERSITY
The University of Oulu researches people and cultures in a changing environment, as well as the opportunities that new technology provides for improving the well-being of people and the environment.
The University of Oulu is an expert in northerness.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
• Humanities• Education• Science• Medicine• Dentistry• Health Sciences• Economics and
Business Administration• Technology
• 70 fields of science• Four research focus areas and
four development areas
Environment, natural resources and materials• Environmental issues,
natural resources and energy economy
• Mining and mountain industry
• Materials science, properties and behaviour of matter, catalysts and material innovations
• Modelling and computational science
Mining and mountain industry
Steel research• Production of new
steels, development and optimisation of properties
Architecture
Biosciences and health• Cell-extracellular matrix research• Cardiovascular disease research• Enzyme structure and metabolic
research• Genes and the environment
Cultural identity and interaction• Intercultural interaction• Language, education and interaction
Research based teacher education• Research on communication and
interaction in learning and teaching• Globalisation and international
teacher education
Business studies and economics• Business models, networks and
relationships• Growth and corporate governance of
the firm• Sustainable economic development
Information technology• Machine vision and
ubiquitous computing technologies
• Wireless communications• High-speed electronics
and photonics• Biomedical engineering• Information systems and
software
HUMANS TECHNOLOGYENVIRONMENT
Currently with four research focus
areas
Research profile (Work in progress) with five focus areas
1. Advanced materials and sustainable process chains (Kehittyneet materiaalit ja kestävät tuotantoketjut)
2. Life-long health – molecular and environmental basis (Elinikäinen terveys – solutasoisten mekanismien ja elintapojen vaikutukset)
3. Sensors, wireless communication and services (Sensorit, langaton viestintä ja niihin perustuvat palvelut)
4. Environmental effects in relation to earth and near space (maan ja lähiavaruuden ilmiöt, ympäristömuutos)
5. Effects of demographical change - environmental humanities, and human geography (Kulttuurit muuttuvassa maailmassa)
University of Oulu : your playground
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10 FACULTIESFaculty of Biochemistry & Molecular MedicineFaculty of Education
Faculty of HumanitiesFaculty of Information Technology
& Electrical EngineeringFaculty of MedicineFaculty of Science
Faculty of TechnologyOulu Business SchoolOulu Mining School
Oulu School of Architecture
5 SEPARATE DEPARTMENTS
Center for Microscopy & Nanotechnology
Kajaani University Consortium
Laboratory Animal Centre
Library
Oulu Southern Institute
UNIVERSITY OF OULU GRADUATE SCHOOL9 Doctoral programmes
ADMA-DPArchi-DP
Aurora-DPBCO-DPEuda-DP
Exactus-DPInfotech-DP
MRC Oulu-DPOBS-DP
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6 COOPERATION CENTRES & PROGRAMMES
Center for Energy & Environment
Centre for Health & Technology
Center for Internet Excellence
Centre for Measurement & Information Systems
Center for Printed Intelligence
Martti Ahtisaari Institute
HU
MA
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TEC
HN
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Multidisciplinarity
Discussion with your neighbour 5 minutes
Your research:
• What discipline(s) it is based on ?
• What other field(s) in Oulu could be interested in, or make use of your results ?
Communication: No common understanding
• Different disciplines have ”different languages”
• the terminology has to be opened again and again
• perspectives can be drawn in different directions
Common challenges encountered in multidisciplinarity?
Communication: No common understanding
Solution?Consistent definitions
and terminologyGood willHumour…
Common challenges encountered in multidisciplinarity?
Career development
The down-side of the personal benefits defined by broader experience and greater diversity of skills:
• Ambiguous professional identity
• Difficulty for the employers to categorize your competence
The challenges encountered in multidisciplinarity?
2. Career development
Solution?Clarify to yourself what skills and competence you have / you may need to be employable
• Core• Transferable
AND LEARN TO COMMUNICATE THEM!
What are the challenges in multidiciplinarity?
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is
the most adaptable to change.”-Charles Darwin
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