AHO covers the cost of printing 50 copies of the dissertation. The candidate can order additional copies at their own expense and will be directly invoiced by the printing company.
The printed dissertations will be distributed as follows:
Seven copies to the library (for lending)
The thesis is not for sale but will be available electronically in ADORA.
Author’s addresses have an important function in relation to crediting the research institutions to which the authors are affiliated. It is very important that AHO’s researchers credit their affiliation to AHO in their publications in order for the publication to confer publication points in connection with DBH (Database for Statistics on Higher Education) reporting. If a publication has several co-authors, the publication points are divided between the authors. The Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR) recommends that, as a rule, the address of the institution must be given in a publication if it has made an essential and substantial contribution to, or provided a basis for an author’s contribution to, the published work.
When an AHO employee is the author or co-author of a publication, the address ‘The Oslo School of Architecture and Design’ or ‘Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo’ should be used, provided that the publication is a product of work performed in his or her position at AHO. In addition, the name of the institute or research unit should appear.
The rule may also include works and design products (results of artistic research), provided that they are the results of work performed in the position at AHO.
AHO employees employed in secondary positions at other institutions should normally credit both AHO and the other institution for work carried out as part of the secondary position, and AHO alone for work carried out as part of their primary position. The same applies to persons employed in secondary positions at AHO.
Please note that if several institutions are credited as an author's address, the publication points shall be distributed equally among the institutions. This concerns both researchers in secondary positions at AHO and AHO employees who have secondary positions elsewhere.
The author's address of externally paid researchers should be clarified when a contract is entered into with the individual researcher. Responsible party: the project manager
PhD candidates at AHO shall comply with the main rule and state AHO as their author’s address. Unless otherwise agreed, externally financed PhD candidates shall give both AHO’s and the primary employer’s address as their author's address, provided that both parties have actually made an essential and substantial contribution (cf. UHR's Recommended guidelines for crediting academic publications to institutions).
Landscape and Urban Planning is an international journal aimed at advancing conceptual, scientific, and applied understandings of landscape in order to promote sustainable solutions for landscape change.
See the national guidelines for open access to scientific publications.
The Research Administration is responsible for the template for theses (Con-text thesis).
The library can help with quality assuring bibliographic data for publications that do not follow a fixed template.
Publications by AHO can be assigned an ISBN if expedient for identification and sales/dissemination purposes. ISBNs are normally not assigned to student work.
The library administers ISBNs and ISSNs. ISBNs for theses are assigned to the Research Administration, not to the individual candidates.
For the library:
Give 7 copies of all publications to the library.
For the National Library of Norway:
The duty to legally deposit material is set out in the Act relating to the legal deposit of generally available documents.
From January 2023 it is only the digital file (print file) that shall be deposited.
Cristin is a national research documentation system that encompasses the higher education sector in Norway, as well as the institute sector and the regional health authorities. Data reported in Cristin is the basis for reporting publication points to the DBH database (Database for Statistics on Higher Education), reporting publication data for projects under the auspices of the Research Council of Norway, and for internal allocation of budget funds.
Furthermore, academic staff can use Cristin to keep an overview of their own publications, activities and results, and to link to and publish data on websites, for application purposes etc.
Everyone who conducts research and/or produces scientific/artistic material as part of their employment relationship with AHO:
Employees without research obligations (e.g. part-time teachers) are not obliged to report research.
Teaching and supervision should not be reported.
Project applications should not be registered in Cristin, but must be reported to the Research Administration.
Cristin is a self-explanatory system, and researchers enter their data themselves. Data are registered on a running basis throughout the year.
The superuser (the library) creates profiles in Cristin on the basis of data from the payroll system SAP.
Researchers edit their own researcher profiles. Researchers and others who register in Cristin must enter all co-authors and the author's addresses for their publications.
Requirements for scientific publications
There are three categories of scientific publications:
The publication must be published in an approved publication channel (see the Norwegian Centre for Research Data’s (NSD) Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers). The criteria are described more closely in the Norwegian Association of Higher Education's report A Bibliometric Model for Performance-based Budgeting of Research Institutions. In order to qualify for publication points, AHO must be referred to as the author’s address in the publication itself; see the Guidelines for crediting academic publications to AHO. The year of publication shall be the same as the year of reporting and be stated in the publication. Only first editions count. Researchers must submit a copy of the publication (in hardcopy or as a PDF) where the title, author's address (institutional affiliation), the year and the source of publication is stated. Copies shall be submitted to the AHO library (bibliotek@adm.aho.no) on a running basis.
Reported works, products, productions etc. must have been peer-reviewed and have been made available to the public/published. The heads of institutes are responsible for ensuring that everything reported as the results of artistic research meets these basic quality requirements. See also AHO’s guide for registering research in Cristin.
Cristin provides a general registration guide. If user support is required for reporting in Cristin, the Research Administration can help with the registration of projects, and the library can help with publications and other results.
Data are registered on a running basis throughout the year. The annual deadline for registering data for the previous year in Cristin is 31 January.
The heads of institutes have special responsibility for ensuring that all academic employees report their research and for ensuring that the reported artistic research meets the quality requirements. The library is the institution’s superuser and quality assures all NVI (the Norwegian Scientific Index) items:
The research at AHO shall comply with the relevant regulations for the handling of various data and research issues.
AHO has procedures in place in relation to guidance and internal control of student and research projects that fall within the scope of special legislation and/or process personal data.
Sikt – The Service Provider for the Knowledge Sector is the Data Protection Official/ for research at AHO. Here, you can register projects that involve personal data.
The Data Protection Official at Sikt provides information and advice. You can easily check whether your project requires notification by visiting Sikt's website.
The project leader or supervisor is responsible for determining whether the project needs to be reported to Sikt and obtaining the necessary approvals. Sikt is an advisor for AHO and does not decide whether projects should be carried out. AHO makes this decision.
If you have any questions, please contact AHO’s Data Protection Officer at personvernombud@aho.no or the Research Administration.
The National Research Ethics Committees have ethical guidelines at a general level and for various disciplines and topics. You can read more about this on their website.
AHO also follows the guidelines from NESH, the National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
The idea behind the fund is to stimulate research activity and develop projects in collaboration across AHO. Projects can be research applications, seminars, educational activities, courses, networking and other.
Formal requirements:
Send application by e-mail to Annette Medhus
The purpose of the Research Leave is to provide permanent employees in teaching and research positions exempt from teaching and administrative tasks in order to be able to concentrate on research activities (including artistic creative activities).
Research Leave is an offer that employees in teaching and research positions can apply for and be awarded according to specific guidelines, not a right employee accrues automatically after a certain number of years. It is a precondition that the employee has had normal teaching and administrative duties.
All permanent employees in a minimum 50% position can apply for 1 year of Research Leave after a minimum of 6 years of service, or ½ year after a minimum of 3 years of service.
All applicants must complete the application form for Research Leave. The applicant shall provide a description of the research project, specify goals and outline the work plan for the Research Leave. Four main criteria shall be fulfilled and documented in the application.
The application should consist of a project with expected results that can be presented or documented. The project can be research project, teaching project or development project.
The application's professional quality and realism must be elaborated and explained
The application must document relevance to AHO
A written recommendation or approval from the head of Institute must be attached when the application is submitted. Here it must be stated that the Institute supports the application and that the application is connected to the Institute's strategic goals for research and education.
Furthermore, previous work efforts and previous research results should be discussed, as well as academic networks and any connection to major research projects. Applications for Research Leave should include a project that the researcher or employee will not be able to carry out in their regular working day.
The employee receives full pay during the Research Leave, and is exempt from the teaching obligation, attendance obligation and administrative duties unless something else has been agreed upon by granting a Research Leave. The person who is given the Research Leave is obliged to concentrate his / her efforts on the project that forms the basis for the application for Research Leave. It is not allowed to undertake other kinds of work or other things that may hinder the planned research tasks without the consent of AHO.
The department is responsible for arranging temporary temps for its employees.
The Institute are responsible to monitor the research leave. Anyone who has had a Research Leave, shall within one month after the termination of the term, submit a concise report to the Institute, and copy FU about goal achievement etc. in the period. The report is public and will be made available to other employees at AHO. This is done to inform about what has been achieved, but to be used as inspiration for later applications for Research Leave.
When awarding a Reserach Leave, emphasis is placed on the following:
Assessment criteria
The application must contain a concrete project where the objective is a concrete result that can be described, documented or presented.
The application's professional quality and realism
The application must be relevant to AHO
Additional criteria to be taken into account in the assessment of the applications
Competence building at AHO
Gender equality, including women's opportunity to qualify for promotion.
Special workload and effort for AHO
Service time and previous Research Leaves (and result of this)
When calculating the service time for Research Leave, the number of semesters / years in ordinary service is based on the previous term. For permanent employees with reduced working hours, the time is converted to the entire earning year.
When calculating the service time, time in a temporary scientific position with teaching duties, which is followed by direct appointment in a permanent position same place, shall count on the same basis as service time as a permanent employee.
Leave without pay is not included in the service time, nor buy-out from all or some part of the permanent position. Sickness and pregnancy, welfare permits etc. in accordance with the wage regulations' common provisions are included in the service time period.
Reserach Leave with full pay is normally limited to one year's duration.
Applications for Research Leave are processed once a year with a fixed application deadline on 10 October
The earliest starting point for Reserach Leave is the spring semester in the following year.
It must be clarified in advance who covers any costs associated with the application before it is passed on to FU. This can be the cost of travel, infrastructure, equipment etc.
The Research Committee makes a prioritized recommendation to the Rector who makes the decision in the case.
AHO has established a guiding upper limit of 2 full-time Research Leaves per year.