Jan-Ola Östman

Research administration and university administration & Academic positions of trust

2019

May–June

Scandinavian languages, Uppsala university

Examiner of two BA-theses

2018

February-March

Research quality assessment of the Department of English, German and Romance languages, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities.

On-site work in Copenhagen February 11-14, 2018, final report submitted March 2018.

Member of the assessment panel

2017

December 2017

Evaluation of the Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the Social Sciences and Humanities (VABB-SHW)

On-site visit in Brussels on December 12, 2017; final report submitted to the Flemish Department of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI) on December 18, 2017

Member of the International Expert Panel

2016

June 8

Chair of and introductory presentation (in English, Swedish and Finnish) at the General Meeting of the University of Helsinki Doctoral Program for Language Studies (Helslang), University of Helsinki

2015

March 23, 2015

Presentation (in Finnish) of the new University of Helsinki Language Policy to the Council of the Facutly of Arts, University of Helsinki

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Not-so-academic positions of trust

Some of my positions of trust are not strictly academic, since they are related to non-university institutions and organizations.

2019, spring

Chair, Prize committee, Hugo Bergroth-sällskapet, Språkpriset, Språksporren

2016-2018

Svenska litteraturens främjande; member, representing Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten