Lone Holst

I am running for election to the University Board because I am passionate about study quality and the study environment. Quality is important at all levels of an organization, and it is important that the University Board also takes a position on this and sees the consequences of its decisions on the study quality.

I am a pharmacist, an excellent teacher practitioner and an associate professor in Pharmacy Practice at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care. Since 2011, I have been the head of the program committee (PU) for pharmacy. The study program is cross-faculty with teaching at both the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science and Technology, so program management has given me important insight into what hinders and promotes collaboration across departments and faculties. As the head of PU, I am part of the faculty's study management group where decisions about the study programs are made, and I have been deputy for the vice dean for education in the university's education committee for 3 periods. Nationally, I have participated in several working groups on pharmacy education, most recently in the RETHOS work with the preparation of "Regulations on national guidelines for pharmacy education". I thus have varied experience at different levels.

In 2020, my research group received DIKU funding for the teaching development project FREMFARM. As project manager in FREMFARM, I have helped to make pharmacy education even better adapted to professional life, developed the teachers' competence and introduced student-active learning forms in several different subjects. Since autumn 2023, I have also been involved in the project FPD-Include, an Erasmus+ project on inclusive teaching, where we also learn a lot from colleagues in the Netherlands, Finland and Spain. An inclusive and diverse university is important both for equalizing social inequality, and for ensuring a breadth of ideas and opinions, which is important for producing innovative and socially relevant research and teaching.

While my research is now mainly focused on pedagogy and teaching, I have experience with both laboratory research and clinical research and understand what this requires in terms of resources and infrastructure.

In the University Board, I will work to promote active learning, student participation and a good study environment at UiB.