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Researching intimate partner violence committed by fathers

"My research is focused on fathers who have been violent towards intimate partners. Their own perspectives on their actions, the process of stopping violent behaviour, and media coverage of fathers and violence," says Rannveig Ágústa Guðjónsdóttir, adjunct lecturer at the University of Iceland School of Education, explaining her current project which she has entitled "Fathers and violence". The study is part of a larger project aiming to map the perspectives of men with a history of violence using various different approaches.

Research of this kind is absolutely vital in Rannveig Ágústa's opinion, because the findings can help us identify solutions to improve the situation. "Sociological research generally enables us to assess a situation at a certain point in time, understand our reality and the society in which we live. By mapping problems, we have the opportunity to work with those problems and develop potential reforms and preventative measures."

BMC Seminar - Microneurography as a tool in clinical neurophysiology

9. March 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00

Læknagarður

room 201

BMC Seminar Thursday 9th of March at 12:00 in Læknagarður, room 201

Speaker: Dr. Yrsa Bergmann Sverrisdóttir, Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Science, University of Iceland

Title: Microneurography as a tool in clinical neurophysiology – studying Sympathetic nerve traffic in humans

Bio: Professor Sverrisdottir is a trained Sympathetic Microneurographer, gaining her PhD in Autonomic Neurophysiology at the Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, under the supervision of Professors Mikael Elam and Gunnar B Wallin, the pioneer in sympathetic research in humans.

CANCELED - Posting a perfect life: Being watched and feeling judged on social media

10. May 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00

Stakkahlíð / Háteigsvegur

This event is unfortunately canceled.

RannKyn (Research Institute for Equality, Gender and Education) and the School of Education invite you to an open lecture with Dr. Rosalind Gill, Posting a perfect life: Being watched and feeling judged on social media on 10 May, in the School of Education, Stakkahlíð.

The Prime Minister of Iceland, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, gives the opening speech of the event.

In this talk Dr. Rosalind Gill will share findings from a new research project conducted 2020-2. Dr. Gill surveyed and interviewed a diverse group of more than 200 young people about their lives and experiences. Topics ranged from experiences of the pandemic to #BlackLivesMatter, from camera culture to body positivity, and offer a rich insight into young people’s lives on and offline.

Welcome to our new international students 

25/08/2022 - 15:19

Over 800 international students are due to begin their studies at the University of Iceland this autumn. Almost a third of them are exchange students visiting for one or two semesters on the basis of partnership agreements between UI and other institutions, but the group also includes just over 500 degree students. There are currently around 1,600 international students hailing from more than 100 different countries studying at the University. 

Orientation days on campus 

Orientation days for new international students will take place 25-26 August. Due to the pandemic, orientation days have been mainly online these past two years, so it is wonderful to be able to welcome new international students with on-campus events once more.  

Introducing the Electrical Power Systems Laboratory (EPSLab) at the University of Iceland

13. October 2022 - 14:00 to 15:00

VR-II

Room 148

Event on Zoom

Dr. Zhao Yuan, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering gives the lecture Introducing the Electrical Power Systems Laboratory (EPSLab) at the University of Iceland

Abstract 

This talk will introduce the research and education opportunities at the newly established Electrical Power Systems Laboratory (EPSLab) in the University of Iceland. The research topics include battery energy storage systems (BESSs), power system operations and controls, electricity market and pricing issues, intelligent transportation and logistics.

OLA for shorter exchange studies - Instructions

Make your account 
Students log into the OLA system using their UI email address (xxx@hi.is).
Do not use “Log in with Google” or other personal emails 

Students have to choose the mobility type:

  • Undergraduate and graduate students going on short-term mobilities choose „Blended Mobility with Short-term Physical Mobility“.
  • PhD students choose „Short-term Doctoral Mobility“.
     

Chat with students at the digital University Day

25/02/2022 - 12:00

The University of Iceland will present its diverse range of studies at the Digital University Day on Saturday 26 February 2022, between 12 and 3 p.m. Students in all undergraduate study programmes will be willing to answer questions in a new chat system, Unibuddy. 

All universities in Iceland have organised the University Day together for a few years now, and this is the second time it is digital due to the coronavirus pandemic. There is currently an overview of all university studies in Iceland on the University Day website. 

BMC Seminar - Epitranscriptomic regulation of DNA repair genes

3. March 2022 - 12:00 to 13:00

BMC Seminar Thursday 3rd of March at 12:00 on Zoom: https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/65673891039

Speaker: Karen Kristjánsdóttir, Doctoral student under the supervision of professors Stefán Þ. Sigurðsson, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Science, University of Iceland and assistant professor Þorkell Guðjónsson, Biotech Research & Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen

Title: Epitranscriptomic regulation of DNA repair genes 

The role of legitimacy in good governance

24. May 2022 - 15:00 to 17:30

Oddi

Room 101

Institute of Public Administration and Politics presents the final conference celebrating the completion of “Does legitimacy make a difference?” project at the University of Iceland (supported by the Icelandic Research Fund).

At a time when trust in government is claimed to be declining in many countries’ legitimacy - the validity of claims to power - is clearly a relevant and important topic. Legitimacy is widely assumed to be a prerequisite for good governance. Non-legitimate rule, after all, often based on tyranny and arbitrary use of power, may cause conflict and civil disobedience, and eventually state failure. But how states earn legitimacy is less understood. The way legitimacy affects citizen behaviour is also and under-researched topic. We aim to shed light on these topics by critically examining the tenets of legitimacy theory considering empirical research.

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