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Trial lecture and public defence for Dag-Håkon Eriksen

- VID Oslo, D18-112 Auditorium, Diakonveien 18, 0370 Oslo
- June 11th 2025, 15:00 – June 12th 2025, 18:00
Event is over.
Dag-Håkon Eriksen holds his trial lecture and will publicly defend his PhD thesis:
Innovating organizations for sustained social impact
A collective case study of how organizational actors in global nonprofits work to stimulate and sustain continuous social innovation
The event will also be streamed on Zoom: Link to come.
The trial lecture and the public defence take place at VID Oslo, Diakonveien 18, in the library's lecture hall.
There will be a live stream on zoom: TBA
Programme
June 11
- 15:00 Dag-Håkon Eriksen will hold his trial lecture on a topic given to him by the evaluation committee: “Discuss the power dynamics between Northern and Southern FNPOs and explain how this influences their capacity to advance social innovation”
June 12
- 15:00 Dag-Håkon Eriksen will publicly defend his dissertation, Innovating organizations for sustained social impact. A collective case study of how organizational actors in global nonprofits work to stimulate and sustain continuous social innovation, for the PhD degree.
If you want a pdf copy of the thesis, please email: erlend.from@vid.no
Evaluation committe:
- Professor Kristina Jaskyte, University of Georgia
- Associate Professor Helen Haugh, University of Cambridge
- Associate Professor James Hathaway, VID Specialized University
The ordinary opponents are:
- Associate Professor Helen Haugh, University of Cambridge
- Professor Kristina Jaskyte, University of Georgia
Professor James McGuirk, james.mcguirk@vid.no, will chair the trial lecture and the public defence.
Supervisors
- Main supervisor: Professor Beate Jelstad Løvaas, VID Specialized University.
- Co-supervisor: Professor Marta Struminska-Kutra, VID Specialized University
- Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Warren Nilsson, University of Cape Town
Contact:
Erlend Hovdkinn From. E-mail: erlend.from@vid.no. Telefon: +47 22 96 37 49