High North Academy
High North Academy
High North Academy (HNA) coordinates intensive PhD courses in transferable skills. HNA courses are an opportunity to strenghten your research skills as well as to enhance your future career opportunities.
HNA courses are designed for PhD candidates from all faculties at UiT, regardless of scientific background. The courses are taught either online or at UiT’s Campus in Tromsø and in most courses you will use your own research data and results.
HNA offers
- multidisciplinary courses in transferable skills for PhDs from all faculties at UiT
- credit-awarding for use in the mandatory PhD training component
- online or at Campus Tromsø
Our courses
Suggested for first or second year students:
- GEN-8001 Take control of your PhD Journey (2 ECTS) digital course (spring) - physical course (autumn)
- HEL-8045 Innovation and public science communication (3 ECTS) physical course in English (spring) and Norwegian (autumn)
- SVH-8005 Research Ethics (3 ECTS) digital course (autumn) - physical course (spring)
- TEK-8507 Data stewardship (3 ECTS) hybrid course (spring)
- SVH-8008 and SVH-8009 Philosophy and Theory of Science (3/5 ECTS) - physical course (autumn 2027), digital course (spring 2028)
Suggested for second or third year students:
- FSK-8002 Scientific writing (3 ECTS) physical course (fall)
- BED-8004 Academic innovation and entrepreneurship (3 ECTS) (spring)
PhDs at UiT apply through Studentweb by September 1st (for Autumn semester) and by February 1st (for Spring semester)
PhDs outside UiT register through Søknadsweb by August 9th (for Autumn semester) by January 6th (for Spring semester)
We also recommend other multidisciplinary PhD courses at UiT
- FSK-8005 Funding your research – why and how? (autumn)
- HEL-8041 Disability and Inclusion in Research (autumn)
- HEL-8048 Advanced data analysis and visualization using programming (autumn)
- HEL-8026 Scientific Writing and Publishing in Health Sciences (autumn)
- HEL-8031 Systematic Reviews (spring and autumn)
- HEL-8040 Theory of science, research ethics and research design (spring)
- SVF-8072 Collaborative Research in the Arctic: Methods, Theory, and Practice (autumn)
- Introductory course in teaching and learning in higher education (open course)
Contact information
Reach us via email at hna@uit.no.
