Today we are discussing the impact of artificial intelligence, or AIm on knowledge workers, the topic of Trym Berger’s master’s thesis which he completed from the University of Oslo in June, 2024. At the time he was writing his thesis, Trym was also working at UiO’s Faculty of Educational Sciences on innovation initiatives - which is how the THESIS team met him and learned about his work. This gave Trym some perspective on the implications of his thesis findings for higher education. Trym is now a consultant at Ernst and Young in Oslo.

Trym's masters thesis (Norwegian): “Den Generative Kunnskapsarbeideren" - En case-studie av hvordan Generativ AI påvirker læring hos kunnskapsarbeidere i Posten Bring

https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/113005

We are wrapping up our third season on international student mobility today with our guest, Tijmen Weber. Tijmen recently obtained his PhD focused on the movement of international students and how immigration, institutional characteristics, programs, and funding policy influence their migration trajectories. He works at the international business program of HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, where he mostly teaches courses in quantitative research and data science and does (applied) research on sustainability for the Research Center International Business at the HAN.

You can view Tijmen's website for his research here: Global Campuses? Mapping the Influence of Location on International Student Mobility

Check out the related sources below:

de Haas, Hein. (2021). A theory of migration: the apsirations-capabilities framework. (open access)

Charles, Maria & Bradley, Karen. (2009). Indulging Our Gendered Selves? Sex Segregation by Field of Study in 44 Countries.

Today we’re talking about Iceland, a small country of almost 400,000 people considered a “remote” location for students studying abroad. We speak with Rúna Gudmarsdottir, Erasmus+ National Agency Director at RANNIS (The Icelandic Centre for Research), about how Iceland both attracts incoming students and works to support students going abroad.

In her role as the Director of the National Agency, Rúna oversees the implementation of the Erasmus+ programme in Iceland, which covers all sectors on education, youth and sport. Rúna also manages projects that support implementation of the Bologna process in Iceland. She is a co-leader of a working group on social inequalities in international student mobility in a COST action and a member of the administrative board of ACA - the Academic Cooperation Association.