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Kristine Engebretsen Illøkken of the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Agder has submitted her thesis entitled «Breakfast and school lunch as pathways for enhancing educational outcomes and promoting public health» and will defend the thesis for the PhD-degree Friday 16 September 2022.
She has followed the PhD programme at the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences.
The trial lecture and the public defence will take place in Gabriel Scotts Auditorium B1 001, Campus Kristiansand and online via the Zoom conferencing app - registration link below.
Professor Stephen Seiler, Department of Sport Science and Physical Education, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Agder, will chair the dfsputation.
Given topic for trial lecture: «Public health nutrition and school meals - Critical review of theories and public policies» (in Norwegian:) «Folkehelseernæring og skolemåltider – En kritisk gjennomgang av teorier og offentlig politikk»
Thesis Title: «Breakfast and school lunch as pathways for enhancing educational outcomes and promoting public health»
Search for the thesis in AURA - Agder University Research Archive, a digital archive of scientific papers, theses and dissertations from the academic staff and students at the University of Agder.
The Candidate: Kristine Engebretsen Illøkken (1990, Harstad – grown up in Trondheim and Lier) Bachelor degree in Public health nutrition action, UiA (2012), masters degree in Public Health Science, UiA (2015). Title of Master Thesis «Effects of a free school meal on lunch habits in Norwegian elementary school children The School Meal Project in Aust-Agder». From 2016 til 2019 she was working in NAV (the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) and in Iveland muniocipality with public health. Present position: Adviser for social sustainability and public health in Lyngdal municipality.
First opponent: Professor Christel Larsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Second opponent: Professor Hege Wergedahl, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Associate Professor Dag Tomas Sagen Johannesen, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Agder, is appointed as the administrator for the assessment committee.
Supervisors in the doctoral work were Professor Frøydis Nordgård Vik, University of Agder (main supervisor), Professor Nina Cecilie Øverby, University of Agder and Associate Professor Berit Johannessen, University of Agder (co-supervisors)
The disputation is open to the public, but to follow the trial lecture and the public defence digitally, transmitted via the Zoom conferencing app, you have to register as an audience member on this link:
https://uiano.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5AufuihqTopGdc4bCBhNXLpRMlXiCrI-4Gs
A Zoom-link will be returned to you. (Here are introductions for how to use Zoom: support.zoom.us if you cannot join by clicking on the link.)
We ask online audience members to join the virtual trial lecture at 10:05 at the earliest and the public defense at 12:20 at the earliest. After these times, you can leave and rejoin the meeting at any time. Further, we ask online audience members to turn off their microphone and camera and keep them turned off throughout the event. You do this at the bottom left of the image when in Zoom. We recommend you use ‘Speaker view’. You select that at the top right corner of the video window when in Zoom.
The chair invites members of the public to pose questions ex auditorio in the introduction to the public defense. Deadline is during the break between the two opponents. The person asking questions should have read the thesis. For online audience the Contact Persons e-mail are available in the chat function during the Public Defense, and questions ex auditorio can be submitted to Eli Margareth Andås on e-mail eli.andas@uia.no.