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)

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Faculty of HumanitiesFaculty of Information Technology

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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

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Aurora-DPBCO-DPEuda-DP

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Center for Energy & Environment

Centre for Health & Technology

Center for Internet Excellence

Centre for Measurement & Information Systems

Center for Printed Intelligence

Martti Ahtisaari Institute

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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