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Time and place: –, Campus Kristiansand, Room Clara Holst, Building 46

Andreas Waaler Røshol will defend the thesis 

Unpacking the DAW experience - The self-producing tracker-topliner-artists and aesthetic ideals of vocal-driven electronic popular music-making

Røshol has followed the Ph.D. programme at Faculty of Fine Arts, Specialisation in Popular Music Performance.

Time and place: –, Campus Kristiansand, Room 46 118

Anette Therese Pettersen will defend the thesis 

A Critical Practice for Youth: An Exploration of Creative Criticism for Young People Experiencing Performing Arts through DKS

Pettersen has followed the Ph.D. programme at Faculty of Fine Arts

Time and place: –, Kristiansand, Videre 1 (building 19)

PhD candidate Marius Trandheim Kristiansen will defend the thesis "Exploring Adoption of Digital Servitization". Marius has followed the Ph.D. programme at the School of Business and Law, UiA.

Time and place: –, Campus Kristiansand, Room 46 118

Anne Elmies-Vestergren will defend the thesis 

Det digitales plass i kunst og håndverk - En samtidskunstinspirert a/r/tografisk utforskning i barneskolen

Emies-Vestergren has followed the Ph.D. programme at Faculty of Fine Arts, Specialisation Art in Context.

Time and place: –, Campus Kristiansand, Room Clara Holst, Building 46

Bodil Kvernenes Nørsett will defend the thesis 

Sustainable Assessment in Higher Popular Music Education: A Study of Vocal Assessment Practices from a Learning Perspective

Kvernenes Nørsett has followed the Ph.D. programme at Faculty of Fine Arts, Specialisation in Popular Music Performance.

Time and place: –, Campus Grimstad, C2 040

Svein Anders Tunheim will defend his PhD thesis: Hardware Acceleration of Convolutional Tsetlin Machines for Image Classification.

Time and place: –, Campus Grimstad, C2 040

Ajay Vishwanath will defend his PhD thesis "Engineering Artificial Morality: Virtues, Reinforcement Learning, and Game Environments".

Time and place: –, Campus Grimstad, C2 040

Mahmoud Sayed Mahmoud Eid will defend his PhD thesis Data-driven Models for Robust Fault Diagnosis of Inverter-fed Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors.

Time and place: –, Kristiansand, B1001

PhD candidate Magnus Ivar Aagard Skeie  will defend his thesis "Understanding Choice Architecture Impacts on Stated Environmental Preferences from a Psychological Perspective: An Application to Coastal Zone Management". Magnus has followed the PhD programme at the School of Business and Law, University of Agder.

Time and place: –, Kristiansand, B1-001

PhD candidate Sileshie Semahagne Kumlachew will defend the thesis The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in the media. Recent religious controversies for the PhD degree. Kumlachew has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in religion, ethics, historie and society.

Time and place: –, LUT University, and Zoom

PhD candidate Maryam Hina at the School of Business and Law will defend her dissertation “Blockchain for sustainability: A multilevel perspective connecting consumers and organisations”.

Maryam has followed the PhD programme at the School of Business and Law, University of Agder (UiA), and the PhD programme at LUT University in Finland, as part of a cotutelle agreement.

Time and place: –, Campus Kristiansand, Room G1 051

Joachim Aagaard Friis will defend the thesis 

Embracing Ambivalence in “Art-Work” - A Practice-led Account of Curating Within an Ecological Framework

Friis has followed the Ph.D. programme at Faculty of Fine Arts

Time and place: –, Kristiansand, Videre 1 (building 19)

PhD candidate Armande Nabami Mahabi will defend the thesis "The Role of Facilitators in Savings Groups: An Empirical Analysis of Human Factors and Group Performance". Armande has followed the Ph.D. programme at the School of Business and Law, UiA.

Time and place: –, Campus Grimstad, C2 040

Wei Zhao will defend his PhD thesis: "Development of Motor-Controlled Hydraulic Cylinder Systems for Offshore Crane Applications".

Time and place: –, Kristiansand B3-007

Solomon Kebede Gebremeskel will defend the thesis:
"Between the Global North and the Global South. Journalists’ Role Perception in the Ethiopian Diaspora Evolving Hybrid Media Practices". Solomon has followed the Ph.D. programme in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Global Development and Planning.

Time and place: –, Campus Kristiansand, B3 001

Linn Flaten will defend the thesis "Students’ mathematical reasoning in a playful inquiry-based context in early mathematics in school" for the PhD degree.

Time and place: –, Campus Kristiansand, B1 001

Eva-Grethe Befus defends her thesis “Health-related quality of life in children and adolescents in Agder, Norway”. Eva-Grethe Befus has followed the PhD program at the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences.

Time and place: –, Campus Kristiansand, Room K1 041

Andreas Røst will defend the thesis

Minnekommisjonen - Agonisme som verdi, praksis og prosess i en kunstnerisk intervensjon på et norsk minnested for 2. verdenskrig

Røst has followed the Ph.D. programme at Faculty of Fine Arts.

Time and place: –, Kristiansand, Videre 1 (building 19)

PhD candidate Riccardo Losa will defend the thesis "Circular economy practices in the battery sector: Assessing EU policies, motivations and digital tools".

Riccardo is a cotutelle candidate, and has followed both the Ph.D. programme at the School of Business and Law, UiA and the PhD programme at Solvay Business School.

Time and place: –, Kristiansand, Sørlandet auditorium

PhD candidate Richard Sebaggala will defend the thesis "Essays on Econometric Analysis of Disability-Inclusive Savings Groups". Richard has followed the Ph.D. programme at the School of Business and Law.

Time and place: –, Kristiansand, B1-001

PhD candidate Ingrid Breilid Gimse will defend the thesis The Publication History of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Series: A Book Historical Investigation for the PhD degree. Gimse has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in religion, ethics, history and society

Time and place: –, Kristiansand, Sørlandet auditorium

PhD candidate Benjamin Akatabanuse will defend the thesis "Financial Inclusion for People With Disabilities: The Role of Savings Groups". Benjamin has followed the Ph.D. programme at the School of Business and Law.

Time and place: –, Campus Kristiansand, B1 001

Lena Hansen Malnes defends her thesis "Active travel among Norwegian adolescents". Lena Hansen Malnes has followed the PhD program at the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences.

Time and place: –, Kristiansand, Sørlandet auditorium

PhD candidate Avaz Mammadov will defend the thesis “The Interplay of Individual Competencies in SME Internationalization”. Avaz has followed the Ph.D. programme at the School of Business and Law, specialization in International Business

Time and place: –, Kristiansand, Sørlandet auditorium

PhD candidate Daniël van Hemert will defend the thesis  "Contextual performance of informal financial associations". Daniël is cotutelle candidate, and has followed both the Ph.D. programme at the School of Business and Law and the Ph.D. programme in Economics and Business at KU Leuven