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The board 2025-2026

The Board of the Norwegian Artistic Research School is responsible for the content and quality of the training.

The board has members from all accredited Norwegian educational institutions with study programmes that lead to a PhD degree in artistic research (elected for four years). The PhD students have two representatives on the board (elected for one year).

Jostein Gundersen (chair)

University of Bergen (UiB)

Associate Professor and Vice-Dean of Research

Deputy: Åsil Bøthun

Tone Åse (deputy chair)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Professor

Deputy: Marcus Schwai

Manuel Pelmus

Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO)
Pro-rector for Research

Deputy: Merete Røstad

Per Zanussi

University of Agder/University of Stavanger (UiA/UiS - joint PhD programme)

Associate Professor

Deputy: Per Elias Drabløs

Ivar Grydeland

The Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH)

Assoicate Professor

Deputy: Ingfrid Breie Nyhus

Trond Lossius

University of Innland Norway

Professor

Deputy: Nina Frederikke Grünfeld

Giuseppe Pisano (2025)

PhD students representative

PhD student, NMH

Deputy: Ingvild Rømo Grande, NTNU/Volda

Saša Asentić (2025)

PhD students representative

PhD student, KHiO

Deputy: Ingvild Rømo Grande, NTNU/Volda

Students representives from 1 January 2026:

Kristian Byskov

PhD students representative

PhD student, NTNU

Deputy: Martyna Kosecka, NMH

Lise Skou

PhD students representative

PhD student, UiB

Deputy: Martyna Kosecka, NMH

The administration (HK-dir)

Geir Ivar Strøm (Policy director), Linda H. Lien (coordinator and secretariat), Ingrid Milde (Adviser), Søren Thilo Funder (temporary employee 2024-2025).

How to influence as a PhD student

Influence through your institution's representatives. The board meets at least four times a year, and the course plan and reading list are discussed and updated yearly.
Influence through your feedback after seminars and forums. The participants will receive a questionnaire after each event. The feedback is used to improve the quality of the training and to adjust the format of the seminars and forums.
PhD students can also influence through dialogue with the fellow´s representatives (elected in June) and by attending the yearly fellow´s meeting (all fellows will receive an invitation).

In addition, every three years an expanded evaluation that also includes supervisors and relevant representatives of the participating institutions will take place. Every six years a more extensive evaluation that includes external peers takes place. Institutions with research fellows participating in the research school will be given access to the results of the evaluations.