High North Academy
High North Academy
High North Academy (HNA) organizes 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.
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 courses are designed for PhD candidates from all faculties at UiT, regardless of scientific background. PhDs outside UiT, Postdocs and others may participate if there are available spaces.
Some courses are handy early on in your PhD, whereas others are more useful towards the end.
Course portfolio
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) digital course (spring) - physical course (autumn)
Suggested for second or third year students:
- FSK-8002 Scientific writing (3 ECTS) physical course (fall)
- BED-8004 Academic innovation and entrepreneurship (3 ECTS) next course spring 2027
PhD candidates who want to gain ECTS credits for our HNA courses need to take the exam and register through Studentweb (PhDs at UiT) or apply in Søknadsweb (PhDs outside UiT). See registration/application deadlines in the UiT course catalogue.
We also recommend PhD candidates to check further multidisciplinary courses organized by UiT:
- FSK-8005 Funding your research – why and how? 3 ECTS (autumn)
- SVF-8602 Changing Arctic Seminar (hybrid on request)
- BIO-8621 Sustainability science (hybrid on request)
- Introductory course in teaching and learning in higher education
Contact information
Reach us via email at hna@uit.no.
Fact box
- PhD courses for all disciplines and PhD Programs at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Focus on transferable skills relevant for your PhD and your future career
- Courses are online or at Campus Tromsø
- Credit-awarding courses for use in the mandatory PhD training component
Next courses
Autumn 2026
- SVH-8008 Philosophy and Theory of Science (core version)
- SVH-8009 Philosophy and Theory of Science (expanded version)
- SVH-8005 Research ethics
- GEN-8001 Take control of your PhD journey
- FSK-8002 Scientific writing
- HEL-8045-NO Innovation and public science communication (in Norwegian)
Spring 2027