Molde 20-23 October 2025
Navigating Practice-Near Research in One’s Own Field: Opportunities and Challenges
Conducting research within one's own field presents ethical, methodological, and practical opportunities and challenges. At this PROFRES research school symposium, we aim to achieve a broader, deeper, and more reflective understanding of opportunities and challenges of practice-near research. We will do this through knowledge exchange where we explore the various dimensions of the researcher role, the boundary drawing towards the professional role, research ethics and possible consequences and implications for knowledge production.
We warmly invite the PROFRES candidates to participate in this knowledge exchange through group work, presentations in parallel sessions and plenary discussions.
Preliminary programme (NB! Subject to change)
MONDAY 20 OCTOBER 2025:
Bus from the hotel to campus
11:00 - 12:00 Welcome and introduction to Work in progress by Birgitta Haga Gripsrud.
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch in the canteen
13.00 – 16:00 Work in progress
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee break
16.00 Bus to the hotel
17.30 – 18.45 Philosophical salon with James McGuirk at the hotel
19.00 Celebratory dinner
TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2025:
Suggestions for morning activity: Morgensvømming Moldebadet
08.30 Transport to campus
9.00-10.00 Key Note: Establishing a field – a historical account by Terese Bondas
10.00 – 10.15 coffee break
10.15-12.00 Key note: Catrine Halås
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 15.45 Workshop parallell sessions: presentation techniques (coffee break 14.45-15):
- Using the voice
- Pitching med Protomore grunderlab
- Samspill med publikum og bruk av powerpoint, med prof. i norskdidaktikk Karianne Skovholt, USN
- Presentasjonsrollen med skuespiller Linn Christine Wennersten
- Improviserende forskningsformidling med Jørgen Moltubak
- Podcast – presentasjon av egen forskning i podcastformatet
16.00 Fresh air or bus
Dinner suggestions: Glass restaurant, Guru (indisk), Smile (thai og sushi), Køl, Rød (Bare blå), Egon restaurant ved Thon hotel Moldefjord, Sabrura (Amfi Roseby).
Suggestions for physical activity: Molde klatresenter, badstu med sjøbad (obs bør bookes på forhånd: Nausta.no Roabadstue), rusle langsmed Sjøfronten, gåtur gjennom den grønne korridor
Mulighet til å bli med på tur til Storlihytta/Varden
WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2025 - ROMSDALSMUSEET
09.30 Transport to Romsdalsmuseet
10.00 – 12.00 Key note Atle Ødegård: Tverrprofesjonalitet i eget felt
12-13 Lunsj på Romsdalsmuseet
13-14.30: Lokalhistoriker Mads Langnes, med omvisning på Romsdalsmuseets utemuseum. Mulighet til Walk & Talk.
15-19 Think tank forskningstorg med tapasservering
THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER 2025:
Suggestions for morning activity : Morgensvømming Moldebadet
09.00 – 11.45 Forskerrollen og refleksivitet Innledninger av Karianne Nyheim Stray, Jeanette Varpen Undhjem (coffee break included).
11.45-12.45 Lunch + Candidates’ corner/ Staff meeting
12.45 - 13.00 Summary of the symposium by Birgitta Haga Gripsrud
13.00 grab and go
Organizing Committee:
Johanne Alteren, Ingunn Mundal, and Ingrid Johnsen Hogstad, Molde University College. Phd- Candidates: Laila Solli Reitan and Anette Dalmo Moltubak. Administrative advisors: Camilla Melhuus Line, Øyvind Nystøl, and Bjørn Eikrem, University of Stavanger, University of Agder, and Molde University College.