About the unit
The department’s academic and administrative management The Department of Psychology (IPS) has elected a Department Board including the Head of Department. The board is the highest organ at IPS. The department also has a Programme Board and a PhD Committee.
Head of Department:
Professor Magne Arve Flaten 
Deputy Head of Department (Research):
Professor Frode Svartdal
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching):
Associate Professor Susanne Wiking
Head of Office: Svein Are Tjeldnes
Deputy Head of Office: Janne Gärtner
The Board for the Department of Psychology is elected among staff for a four-year term. The sitting board is in office from 2006-2009. The board also includes student representatives. The following is an overview of the board's current members:
Academic staff:
- Professor Magne Arve Flaten (Head of Department)
- Professor Knut Waterloo
- Professor Frode Svartal (research period)
- Associate Professor Susanne Wiking
- Associate Professor Catharina Wang (research period)
- Professor Anders Ågmo (substitute)
- Professor Bente Træen (substitute)
- Assistant Professor Jørgen Sundby (substitute)
- Professor Martin Eisemann (substitute)
- Associate Professor Oddgeir Friborg
- Associate Professor Torstein Låg
Temporary staff/Research Fellows: - Research Fellow Espen Bjørkedal
- Research Fellow Marianne Halvorsen (substitute)
Student representatives: - Italo Profeti
- Anne Sofie Bentzen Storvik
Board secretary: Head of Office Svein Are Tjeldnes
Contact
Phone: +47 77 64 52 90
Fax: +47 77 64 52 91
E-mail: hus5@list.sv.uit.no
Address:
University of Tromsø
Department of Psychology
9037 TROMSØ
Visiting address:
Huginbakken 32 (Teoifagbygget House 5)
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