Programme committee for the PhD programme Health, Function and Participation

The committee is appointed for four years. A PhD student representative is appointed every two years. 

The programme committee has a mandate as follows 

The committee has delegated authority from the board in the following matters: 

• Approve changes in the programme description within the scope of the accreditation
• Decide which Master’s degrees qualify for admission to the given PhD programme 
• Approve admission to the PhD programme 
• Approve supervisors, project description and work plan 
• etermine criteria to rank qualified applicants when the number of applicants exceed admission capacity
• Follow-up of the candidate’s progress
• Appoint evaluation group for the midterm evaluation 
• Receive and present cases regarding the evaluation of the doctoral thesis for procedure 
• Nominate evaluation committee members to the central PhD committee 
• Decide on matters regarding the individual doctoral candidate 

Committee members 

Vice dean of research, professor Marjolein M. Iversen is chair of the committee.  

• Professor Oddvar Førland
• Professor Kjetil Grimastad Lundberg
• Professor Bente Frisk
• Professor John Roger Andersen
• PhD fellow: Malin Håland Kleppe
• Substitute: Professor Milfrid Tonheim
• Substitute: Professor Tone Merete Norekvål
• Substitute: PhD fellow Kenneth Chance-Larsen

In addition, professor Tobba Therkildsen Sudmann (Academic Head of Programme) and senior advisor Anne Dall-Larsen Bjørndal (administrative coordinator of programmme).

Meeting dates spring 2025

Meeting date:                     Deadline for submitting cases:

• 20 January                        1 January
• 4 March                             11 February
• 1 April                                 11 March
• 6 May                                 15 April
• 10 June                              20 May

Deadline for sending applications and other topics to the programme committee: Three weeks before the meeting date. Send an email to anne.dall-larsen.bjorndal@hvl.no.  

Please note that applicants to the PhD programme financed by the Resaearch Council of Norway through either Industrial PhD Scheme or Public Sector PhD scheme may ask to have their applications considered by the programme committee earlier than the first upcoming meeting date. The same applies for applications for evaluation of doctoral thesis, and proposal of members for the assessment committee.