Postdocs and researches making use of mobility grant in 2022

After a long hiatus due to COVID restrictions, the QUINT researcher mobility program is up and running again.

Professor Torben Spanget Christensen and the QUINT PhD fellows together at the 2021 NERA congress in Odense, Denmark.

During the first quarter of 2022, all seven QUINT PhD fellows have been able to travel to visit partner institutions in the Nordic region to meet with their external supervisors and exchange knowledge with other researchers.

The Mobility call 2021 attracted broad attention from the QUINT researchers, and there are a total planned 17 visits for 2022. Mobility grants are equally distributed between early career researchers and senior staff. The goals for visitations are joint analysis, joint publications, further collaborations and project ideas development.

This week, PhD fellows Cæcilie Hejl and Jonas Teglbjærg are visiting the University of Oslo, where they will meet with supervisors and study LISA-Nordic video data from Norway.

Illustration photo of Cæcilie Hejl and Jonas Teglbjærg — PhD Fellows Cæcilie Hejl and Jonas Teglbjærg viewing video data from the LISA-Nordic study at the University of Oslo. Photo: Misha Jemsek.

"Even though we've had a good working collaboration over Zoom, meeting in person tends to lead to more productive discussions" says Teglbjærg. "And it's very useful to get direct access to the video data from Norway" says Hejl.

Mobility and knowledge-exchange between institutions is especially important for the kind of research being conducted at QUINT.

“All of us in the PhD programme are taking a Nordic perspective in our research, so having the opportunity to actually travel to universities in other Nordic countries and talk to people there is really valuable” says Alexander Selling.

Selling’s dissertation is a comparative study of teachers’ goal setting in Nordic countries. In March Selling visited Umeå Math Education Research Centre in Sweden to present his work as a PhD fellow at QUINT, as well as discuss the analytical frameworks used in his thesis.

“I had a great time visiting Umeå University and was greeted very kindly by the researchers at the math education centre there. I use frameworks that have been developed by the researchers at the centre, and I got invaluable feedback and advice on different aspects of my research. I also got the opportunity to expand my network within the mathematical didactics community, getting to know several researchers within the field at both lunches and meetings.”

In addition to the PhD fellows, seven senior QUINT-affiliated researchers have also made use of the mobility grant in 2022 so far.