First-year students and the student mentoring arrangement 

One such project is to study how first-year students experience their first academic year, and how we may facilitate their academic and everyday study life in a good way. We will do this by collecting data about the first-year students through the student mentoring arrangement for first-year students, in collaboration with the First Year Experience Team at UiT, which also includes representatives from the Student Parliament, the Arctic Student Welfare Organisation, and administrators from all levels of UiT. Many students drop out during the first academic year. The student population has changed over recent decades, so it is particularly relevant to obtain new information. A larger share of the current student population is from families without higher education.  

Wellbeing at university - a pilot study

We are in the process of collecting data in the pilot study "Wellbeing at university" in order to study students' physical and perceived stress. We collaborate with teachers and students at the bioengineering education, who collects hair samples from the student participants. The bioingenieer students gets practical experience with research by planning and executing data collection as a part of the study programmes' own curriculum.

We also work closely with Laboratory Medicine at UNN, who will analyze the collected hair samples according to a method they have developed themselves.

Collaboration with the Department of Psychology and the Student Clinic  

The project group and Department of Psychology aim to create a course where psychology students may work preventively with first-year students and their mental health at the Student Clinic at the Student Sports Centre. 

Investigating how teachers experience integration of research into teaching 

Together with HelPed (the Centre for Health Educational Development), we want to study how our teachers experience being part of our previous pilot surveys.  

Living Campus and Student life at Spitsbergen, Svalbard 

The Arctic Student Welfare Organization is currently working on two projects with us as partners. The projects are Living Campus and Student life at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The project group contributes to the project planning, as well as to mapping and evaluation activities involving students in various ways.