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I work as an Associate Professor in medical and health professions education and am the head of the Center for Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine. During my 10 years as an employee at UiB, I have come to know UiB as an organization, workplace, and societal actor. I have established extensive contacts with colleagues in both scientific and technical-administrative positions and students. I am particularly familiar with the employee perspective. Through teaching subjects that are part of educational competence, I have become well acquainted with the challenges, dilemmas, and joys that scientific staff experience in their daily lives as researchers and educators. Good educational practice and quality in research are interconnected. Therefore, a fulfilling work life as an academic involves both connecting with students and colleagues, and academic achievements. As a university board representative, I will work for optimal conditions for securing the synergies between teaching and research.

I have worked closely with central bodies at UiB, helped establish new study programs, and am well acquainted with centralized procedures, especially in educational matters. This has given me valuable insight into challenges that cross faculty boundaries. It is important to be aware that as a university board member, you represent many fields and disciplines – especially at a broad university like UiB. Having a wide contact network and knowledge of the variations that exist at the university are therefore significant.

Furthermore, I have research leadership experience, and as a researcher in a small and interdisciplinary field, I know how important collaborations with national and international actors are. The same applies to collaboration across disciplines. I believe that interdisciplinarity, innovation, and curiosity are foundational for groundbreaking research and research dissemination.

We live in a time when academic values are under significant pressure. In efforts to protect democracy, freedom of expression, and free research, we all have a responsibility, and UiB as a societal actor has a particular obligation to be a clear voice with both actions and words. Because the coming years will be unpredictable, it will be especially important to be vigilant, critical, and proactive.

As a university board representative, I will work for:

• UiB to be a knowledge-based, sustainable, and ethically conscious societal actor
• Protecting key academic and democratic values such as freedom, respect, collegiality, responsibility, and cooperation
• Alignment between goals/ambitions and available opportunities/time
• A healthy balance between economic security and the ability to invest in innovation and core values
• Good working conditions and opportunities for students and employees in all job categories to develop and thrive
• Openness and sharing in both academic and technical-administrative work processes
• Ensuring employee motivation and well-being through respect and recognition
• Clean and transparent administrative processes and plain language