NORHED project featured in Nature
One of UiB's NORHED projects is presented in a recent article in Nature on how university partnerships that let PhD students split their time between two countries and keep jobs at home have many benefits.
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On April 3, 2023, Nature reports on how split-site doctorates are helping to build Africa’s research base, talking to among others, Bernt Lindtjørn, project leader of the SENUPH project at UiB and Hawassa University, Arba Minch University and Dilla University in Ethiopia.
Nature also cites Hiwot Abera Areru (currently a postdoc at Hawassa and UiB), who says she chose to enrol in the split-site PhD programme in public health at Hawassa University — where she is now an assistant professor — and the University of Bergen, specifically because of the limited time she would be required to spend in Norway. “I was in the middle of establishing my own family,” she says. “I preferred this joint PhD because of the prestigiousness of the University of Bergen over local universities, but also because it would have been difficult for me to go totally abroad.”
Learn more about the project South Ethiopia Network of Universities in Public Health (SENUPH) here.
