Keynote Speakers

Gitte Wichmann-Hansen, MA, PhD is a Senior researcher at Department of Education Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, appointed Professor II at UiA, Norway and owner of the consultancy “Academic Supervision. Gitte Wichmann-Hansen is an established researcher within the field of doctoral education with 100+ publications on supervision. She has more than 20 years of experience with running high quality workshops for research supervisors in Denmark, throughout Scandinavia, and the rest of Europe.

Martin Stigmar is professor of higher education pedagogy. Martin teaches and researches higher education pedagogy with a focus on the role of supervisors and university educators. The research maps whether there is a common content in supervisor training for different professions (teachers, psychologists, specialist medical doctors and specialist dentists) and how the courses are organized. What are the coordination benefits of interprofessional supervision courses?
A research project that Martin participates in focuses on reasons why doctoral students do not complete their doctoral education with a particular focus on the relationship between supervisor and doctoral student. What can be done to prevent dropouts and what characterizes a good supervisory relationship?
Another research interest is assignments for and organization of higher education pedagogical units/University Centers and their courses. The research focuses on what different stakeholders (students, university educators and university management) have for expectations of the content of higher education pedagogical courses and how the courses can be planned and implemented. How can higher education pedagogical courses be organized so that the wishes of several different stakeholders are fulfilled?
Martin also conducts research, sponsored by the Swedish Research Council, on how digitalization in higher education has impacted university educators’ theories of teaching quality.