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The RVS Spring course 2025 is hosted by VID Oslo in cooperation with University College Stockholm, and held at the Diakonhjemmet campus in Oslo.

This year's theme is: What is A.I. – and what’s in it for the PhD student? Critical and promising implications for researchers, academia and society. 

Keynotes and responsible for introductions are: Ingeborg Hognestad Krange (Østfold University College), Rikard Roitto (University College Stockholm/EHS), Marianne Schleicher (Århus University) and Atle Søvik (MF). The course will discuss A.I. and the impact on new techologies through the following, inter-related lenses:

1. A.I. and its consequences for soceity. Most RVS members do projects within institutional fields such as health, education, social work, religion. Many of them also have som experience working as professionals in these areas. Relevant, and pressing, issues are vulnerable groups, pluralism, power, etc. What are the implicationss of A.I. here? 
2. A.I. and our research practices: 

1. A.I. as useful ‘servant’ helping us in many of our activities, e.g., transcriptions, literature reviews, language, teaching. Emphasis on practical issues, but also some basic research ethics. 
2. A.I. and fundamental consequences for research practices and identities. Core ethical and exitential issues around the future of research as we know it. 

A more detailed program, and registration fee, will be published in not too long.  

This is the first course for the continued RVS 2025-2029, and we look forward to seeing you in Oslo in May! 

Planning committee: Anne Austad, chair (VID), Jonas Ideström (EHS), Tomas S. Drønen (VID), Stine Madsen Kvaløy, PhD student (VID), Annette Leis-Peters (VID), Fredrik Saxegaard (RVS).