Related research experience and competence Oddrun Sæter

Project management and coordination

• Project leader at larger research projects in collaboration with researchers and master students 1981-84 (4 members), 1995-97 (7), 2002-2004 (6)
• Scientific coordinator for the research group working on issues of urban- and housing conditions, Byggforsk, 1997-1999
• Coordinator for the five art public institutions (Norwegian Film Institute, “the Norwegian Writers’ Center", the public concerts, the public theatre and the public exhibitions), art education for children and young people in cities, part time, autumn of 1993
• Member of the board of The Norwegian Association of Researchers at the University of Oslo (UiO), 2001-2005
• Leader of the focus group mapping employees’ working conditions at the University of Oslo related to the quality reform, the Norwegian Association of Researchers, 2003-04
• Leader for the Norwegian Association of Researchers at Byggforsk in 1999

Other relevant experience

• Responsible for a public action plan (prevention of home accidents among elderly people, 1986) and a county action plan (policy of the visual arts in Nordland County Council, 1987 - 88)
• Elaboration of an information folder about accidents among elderly people in collaboration with UNI insurance, 1986
• Several art exhibitions and illustration works in magazines and books, participated in several artist workshops. Separate exhibition in Atelier Lofoten/ Svolvær art association in May 2006

Video films and TV- production

• On art and nature in Vestvågøy – about public art installations in a municipality of Lofoten. In collaboration with Lofoten video-workshop by Kine Aune, Nordland County Council
• On pictures. A film about the artist Kaare Espolin Johnson, in collaboration with Kine Aune, commissioned by the Espolin museum, Vågan municipality, funded by Art Council Norway. Script responsibility, filmed conversation and survey together with the artist during two years
• Norwegian landscapes – responsible for the idea and script. Part of a series of 10 programmes about research in KULT/ the Research Council of Norway. Practical assistance for the other programmes in the series, Infinitiv Television/NRK 2, supported by the Research Council of Norway
• Thoughts about the city, script consultant for a TV-programme developed from the VISROM- project, Infinitiv Television, showed at NRK1 6th and 7th September 1999
• It was always a longing, film about the artist Kaare Espolin Johnson, in collaboration with museum director Kine Aune, elaboration of earlier archive material Showed at Tromsø international film festival 2006, the Festival of North Norway in Harstad 2006, at a film festival in Russia 2006. To be showed at theTV channel NRK 1 at Christmas 2006.                        Distribution/invitations in 2007:
  - the Norwegian Film Institute
  - the Art Museum of Northern Norway
  - The Festival of Northern Norway  
  - Finnmark-Barents agreement in Murmansk
  - Oslo City Council 
• DokumentOslo (DokOslo). Participation in a film group making documentaries about Oslo. Two different movies have been showed: Oslo Art Academy, May 2005; Shanghai 2006; organised by the municipality of Oslo.

Courses and grants

• Young artists’ grant of visual arts from the Arts Council Norway, 1988
• Research course by Nordplan, urban planning, December 1994 and 1995
• Travel grant from Byggforsk, studies in urbanity, Paris 1996
• Travel grant from The Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association 1995, 2000
• Publication grant by the Research Council of Norway: Hospitation at a TV-production by Infinitiv Television/ NRK 2, autumn 1996
• Course in essay writing, the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association, March 1997
• Travel grant, Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association, 2000
• Project grant, Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association,         4 months, 2003
• Courses in university education by the Department of Criminology, UiO,2003/ 04
• Writer grant, Can Serrat/ Barcelona, 2005

International studies

USA:     

Three weeks residence in 1985 for the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority, security research

Paris:

Periodical studies 1986, 87, 89, at art schools

Two weeks of research exchange in 1995, scholarship from the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association

Three weeks of research exchange in 1996, scholarship from Byggforsk

Three weeks of research exchange in 2001, project funds

Two weeks of research exchange in November 2006

Stockholm:  

Research course at Nordplan, December 1993 and 1994

Berlin:

A week’s study of urban development in May 2000, by “the Friends of Contemporary Art”

Barcelona:      

Three weeks of study in October 2000, a week in 2002, one month in 2005 (Can Serrat)