Rie Hjørnegaard Malm

• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard; Madsen, Lene M. & Lundmark, Anders Mattias (2020). Students’ negotiations of belonging in geoscience: experiences of faculty–student interactions when entering university. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.  ISSN 0309-8265.  44(4), s 532- 549 . doi: 10.1080/03098265.2020.1771683 Show summary

  In this study, we explore how interactions with faculty influence first-year geoscience students’ negotiations of belonging in a study programme. We situate the study within the field of retention and use the concepts of belonging and culture to analyse our empirical material, collected through ethnographic fieldwork. We explore how faculty–student interactions during geoscientific fieldwork and in an “interview exercise” give students access to explicit and tacit knowledge about doing geoscience research, the department culture and possible careers in geoscience. The analysis shows that faculty–student interactions offer important avenues for the students’ negotiations of how they belong in the study programme (who they are) and in assessing their future possibilities (who they want to become). However, while positive for some students, the perceived needs to be highly devoted to the discipline and to perform in the field poses challenges for other students’ sense of belonging in the geoscience programme. By situating activities in the wider context of the culture of the study programme and analysing the combined effect of different faculty–students interactions, we find that institutions must offer first-year students possibilities for creating a sense of belonging that are varied, authentic and inclusive.

• Senger, Kim; Betlem, Peter; Birchall, Thomas; Buckley, Simon John; Coakley, Bernard; Eide, Christian Haug; Flaig, Peter P.; Forien, Melanie; Galland, Olivier; Gonzaga, Luis Jr.; Jensen, Maria; Kurz, Tobias Herbert; Lecomte, Isabelle; Mair, Karen; Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard; Mulrooney, Mark Joseph; Naumann, Nicole; Nordmo, Ivar; Nolde, Nils; Ogata, Kei; Rabbel, Ole; Schaaf, Niklas W. & Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra (2020). Using digital outcrops to make the high Arctic more accessible through the Svalbox database. Journal of Geoscience Education (JGE).  ISSN 1089-9995.  s 1- 16 . doi: 10.1080/10899995.2020.1813865 Show summary

  The high Arctic is a remote place, where geoscientific research and teaching require expensive and logistically demanding expeditions to make use of the short field seasons. The absence of vegetation facilitates the use of modern photogrammetric techniques for the cost-effective generation of high-resolution digital outcrop models (DOMs). These georeferenced models can be used in pre-fieldwork activities to help prepare for traditional geological fieldwork, during fieldwork to record observations, and post-fieldwork to conduct quantitative geological analyses. Analyses of DOMs range in scale from mm-cm (e.g., size and spacing of dinosaur footprints), to hundreds of meters (e.g., seismic modeling of outcrops and outcrop-well-seismic correlations) and can advance research objectives. This integration is strengthened if key geoscientific data, like geological and topographical maps, subsurface profiles, borehole data, remote sensing data, geophysical data and DOMs can be integrated through a common database, such as the Svalbox database that we present in this commentary. Svalbox geographically targets the Svalbard archipelago, where fieldwork is challenging due to the harsh polar environment, risk of polar bear encounters and demanding transport to the field area. The University Centre in Svalbard nonetheless relies on utilizing the natural Svalbard environment for its field-based education, and now makes use of Svalbox to make geological fieldwork more efficient and post-fieldwork analyses more quantitative. Experience and usage of such tools in geoscientific education, particularly in the polar regions, is not well documented. Therefore, we share experiences on both developing and optimizing Svalbox, and on student and lecturer usage. Svalbox includes a web-based interface through which DOMs are shared and displayed together with relevant public-domain geoscientific data sets. Svalbox also serves as a platform to share student and teacher experiences on the entire DOM workflow, from acquisition to data distribution. For the Svalbox users questioned by the project group, DOMs were found to provide many benefits, including quantitative analyses, extended field season, appreciation of scale and data sharing that significantly outweigh present-day challenges, such as the need for expensive hardware and lack of easily accessible interpretation software, the latter being surmountable within the near-term

• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard; Lundmark, Anders Mattias & Lilleøren, Karianne Staalesen (2017). Interviewing researchers – introducing first year bachelor students to their scientific discipline. Nordic Journal of STEM Education.  ISSN 2535-4574.  1(1), s 140- 144 . doi: https://doi.org/10.5324/njsteme.v1i1.2248
• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard & Madsen, Lene Møller (2017). Geovidenskab skaber omverdensbevidste studenter. Geografisk Orientering.  ISSN 0105-4848.  42(2), s 42- 48 Show summary

  Geovidenskab blev med den seneste gymnasiereform gjort til permanent fag i den danske gymnasieskole. Faget har eksisteret som forsøgsfag siden 2011 (de første hold blev igangsat januar 2013) og er blevet udbudt på en række skoler, både stx og htx. Af to omgange har vi opsamlet lærer- og eleverfaringer med faget (Malm og Madsen 2014, 2015). I denne korte artikel har vi fokus på eleverne: hvem er det der vælger geovidenskab? og hvad ser de af muligheder i faget? Desuden giver vi et bud på hvad lærere og skoler skal arbejde med for at få geovidenskab gjort til et attraktivt valg.

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• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard & Lundmark, Anders Mattias (2020). What are the future challenges of geoscience higher education in Norway?.
• Håkansson, Lena & Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard (2019). Aligning a course in Arctic Geology through analysing student participation and challenges.
• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard (2019). Doing fieldwork in geology: processes of negotiations and identity. Show summary

  Invited talk in symposium. 13th ESERA Conference, Bolonga, Italy.

• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard (2019). Fieldwork in Higher Education Geoscience. Show summary

  Invited talk in Special Interest Group Seminar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard & Martens, Iver (2019). Exploring the teaching environment in a higher education geoscience programme. Nordic Journal of STEM Education.  ISSN 2535-4574.  3(1), s 95- 98 . doi: 10.5324/njsteme.v3i1.2992 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  This paper explores the teaching environment among the teaching staff in thegeoscience programme at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The findings in this paper are based on a large baseline study conducted in 2018. This paper operationalises the teaching culture by analysing the teachers’ ideas, collaborations, and attitudes towards teaching. In-depth interviews with selected teachers provide insights into the individual teacher’s conceptions of teaching and teaching experience in the department. The study focusses on how the teaching environment is constructed and perceived in the department. Teachers’ tacit or implied notions influence the teaching environment, and we explore how this becomes visible, at one specific department. Combining survey data and interviews provides insights into the structures and culture in the department. We show that a supportive teaching environment has been established at the department. The teachers often discuss teaching and alignment of courses. However, most of the discussions are limited to small sub-disciplinary groups within thedepartment. This creates a barrier for discussing teaching and alignment of courses across thecurriculum. The analysis also shows that the teachers receive little feedback on their teaching. The paper further discusses how the department can use the existing structures to improve theteaching environment, the culture for feedback and alignment of courses in the programme

• Martens, Iver & Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard (2019). Martens, I. & Malm, R. H (2019). Baseline undersøkelse av studiekvalitet og undervisningskultur på Institutt for geovitenskap ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet.. Full text in Research Archive.
• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard (2018). Fieldwork in Higher Education Geoscience: why should we improve teaching in the field?. Show summary

  Invited talk. Teaching seminar at Lund University, Sweden.

• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard (2018). What do we actually teach students in the field?. Show summary

  Fieldwork has a central position in the geosciences and is typically an integrated part of the study programme, where it is considered by many as a crucial part of the learning process and linked to the process of becoming a professional geoscientist (King, 2008; Raab & Frodeman, 2002). Fieldwork is suggested to be an effective learning arena to teach the scientific method and reasoning (Mogk & Goodwin, 2012). Educational research shows great opportunities for learning, but how do we know what the students learn? And how does our teaching in the field affect the students’ opportunities to learn? In this piece of research I follow students closely in the field and explore how and what they learn. By seeing teaching from the students’ perspective I am able to show in detail how the organization of teaching has an influence on the learning potentials for the students. When the students are given the freedom to explore and collect data on their own they experience a learning situation that simulates an authentic research situation. In this process it proves to be crucial that the students are allowed to make mistakes and are given enough time to discuss their data collection. If we only show students how to work in the field great learning opportunities are lost. I present results from my research on students working in the field in mainland Norway, Svalbard, the Orkney Islands, and the Spanish Pyrenees and discuss how we can construct teaching in the field that promotes learning. Presentation at the 33rd Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, 2018.

• Indrevær, Kjetil; Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard & Lundmark, Anders Mattias (2017). Nye karttjenester for mobil gjør det enklere å undervise geologi i skolens nærmiljø.. Show summary

  Talk at Vinterkonferansen 2017, Oslo, Norway.

• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard (2017). Hvilke potentialer for læring skaber feltarbejde?. Show summary

  Invited talk at Teaching Seminar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard (2017). Integrating first year geoscience bachelor students in academia. Show summary

  Talk at The Geological Society of London Higher Education Network, UK.

• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard & Elmose Vad, Karsten (2017). Naturvidenskab er vigtigere end fjollede forsøg. Dagbladet Politiken.  ISSN 0907-1814.
• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard; Lilleøren, Karianne Staalesen & Lundmark, Anders Mattias (2017). Linking students and lecturers – a first year student-staff interview project.
• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard; Lundmark, Anders Mattias & Lilleøren, Karianne Staalesen (2017). Interviewing researchers-­‐introducing first year bachelor students to their scientific discipline.
• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard & Madsen, Lene Møller (2017). Using inquiry to facilitate high school teachers’ use of fieldwork in their future teaching. Show summary

  Invited talk at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.

• Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard (2016). Det første år på Naturressourcer: En undersøgelse af studerendes oplevelser på det første år af bacheloruddannelsen i Naturressourcer på Københavns Universitet.

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