Title of research project:

Field Methods in Danish Urban Archaeology - Innovations, Developments, and Movements

I had a wonderful time in Leiden, although it was cut short by the Covid-lockdown. The colleagues there were welcoming and interested in one's projects. In Archaeology, they have a PhD-organization, which helped me organize a talk, and introduced me to the various social groups within the department(s). A potential challenge is the language barrier - while most Dutch people are good at speaking English, signs, bus schedules, etc., are primarily in Dutch.

Title of research project:

Skalds and 'skjaldskab': A Comparative Analysis of the Old Norse Skald within Adam Oehlenschläger's and N. F. S. Grundtvig's Authorships

- I knew people from York due to my master's research. - I had the opportunity to visit York and meet my contacts a year before my research stay. - I contacted other PhD's who had visited/stayed in York to hear about their experiences about cost of living, accommodation, study environment, etc. - Together with colleagues at Arts, I organized a meeting between PhDs who were planning their visit and a PhD student, who had finished his research stay. He shared with us details about funding, costs of living, how to bring the family and find accommodation. I highly recommend doing this. - I started planning relatively early and regularly visited the institution's website and wrote to my contacts to be prepared. - In hindsight, I think I spend too much time writing on my own project, relatively secluded from the University. If I were to visit again, I would get more involved in PhD activities etc., but then again, I was only there for 3 months.

Title of research project:

Intergenerational socialization into Danish Language and Culture

Benefits: - Inspiring and being inspired (in terms of theoretical frames, methods of research or analysis, and presentation) - Exchanging ideas with new research networks/PhD fellows & in other research unites - Exploring cultural events - Courses you can attend Challenges: - Accommodation: London is expensive; landlords rarely provide a key to your rented room (apparently a tax issue) - There may always happen industrial strikes. Your access to institutions will be limited. You will need a plan B or C.

Title of research project:

Interventions tranformantes: le discours et le changement social dans deux conflits sociaux contemporains.

I conducted a research stay as a visiting doctoral student at EHESS in the spring 2020 (february thru june). EHESS has a great amount of open research seminars, generally with a interdisciplinary (social sciences/humanities) perspective and with high profiled researchers. As I am doing a transdisciplinary project, I could benefit from a lot of these seminars. EHESS is not a very transparent institution in terms of administration and organization. I felt that, as a doctoral student, I was very much left to myself, so I would definately see loneliness as a potential challenge. Also, the pedagogical means are very old-fashioned: when the covid19 crisis hit France in March 2020, none of the seminars were rescheduled to online. Of course, this might have changed since.

Title of research project:

Accusatory Rhetoric across Media Platforms

Great possibilities for networking, conferences, workshops, and participation in research groups.

Title of research project:

Syntax in interaction

I never managed to meet my "supervisor" there, and through out the two-month stay I met other people for a total of six times: two lunches and four datasessions/presentations. I might as well has come for a week.

Title of research project:

Intercultural Ecclesiology

The main purpose of my stay was visiting my co-supervisor. The major benefits were continuous supervision for a two month period on concrete written products. Moreover, I was invited to present at a couple of department seminars and participating in a couple of interdisciplinary seminars with themes in relation to my research topics. I also followed a master's course con amore in relation to my research topic. Another benefit was the change of environment as a leave from ordinary departmental obligations and other things at home, thereby a lot of time for work. The stay was also inspirational concerning "office-everyday-life" and interchange with other PhD-students. Theology at UiO was a very welcoming place to visit. I was seated in an office with other PhD students, there were regular lunches with all employees, and practical matters such as internet access, key cards etc. were effectively arranged. Challenges: I was lucky to find external funding for my stay. Otherwise I would have spent my whole travel account on the stay. It was also a bit challenging to find reasonably prized accommodation. Practical arrangements took some time!

Title of research project:

The role of reflection in a Pedagogy of Play

I had a very thought provoking time at Project Zero and truly enjoyed working with the Pedagogy of Play team so closely. I gained a lot of new insights for my work during my time abroad and felt directly adopted into the research family I was working with. As a Visiting Scholar, I had the opportunity to audit a wide variety of courses and seminars at Harvard and MIT, and attended a Developmental Psych class in my faculty for the whole semester. I also got to present my work during two lunch talks and got valuable feedback and input. During the week, I worked most of the days in the faculty offices, but also spend some time working from home and in the libraries around. The office spaces are rather small and so it was nice to spend non-meeting days exploring a bit more of the city/campus and getting some quiet time at home. It also took me some time to get used to no lunch breaks and the fast pace environment around, but quality time with my colleagues outside of work helped me balance.

Title of research project:

The Art of Disappearing - Masks and Biopolitical Resistance in a Context of Biometrics

I visited the department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths in fall 2019. It was a great and inspiring experience to be at Goldsmiths and in London in general, but also very challenging. I did not have an office and was not enrolled in any programs, research groups, or PhD courses, so I had to build my own schedule every week. I put together my stay by meeting with a lot of different researchers, auditing BA and MA lectures, attending public lectures, seminars, and talks in the city, visiting lots of art museums and galleries, and giving a couple of guest lectures. It was hard work, since you are pretty much left to yourself, but in the end it turned out to be a very fruitful and academically rewarding stay. I have received new and interesting perspectives on my project, lots of inspiration, new insights, and established a small international network of people, some of which I keep in touch with.

Title of research project:

’Being out of one’s mind’ – a study of the use and perception of the mediated phenomenon ASMR

I started out my research stay in Finland by feeling a bit isolated (because of the language barrier as well as the Finnish way of being rather reserved at first). However, this all changed, as soon as I decided to take initiative. I asked to be added to the local mailing list, I asked the local PhD students to have lunch meetings with me, and I sat in on courses and seminars (even the ones not really related to my own research). All of this payed off, and I ended up filling my calendar with coffee meetings that were extremely fruitful (with both junior and senior researchers) – and I even managed to headline a research seminar during my stay.