Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor for Campus Gotland
Jenny Helin, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business Studies, is Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor on Campus Gotland.
The Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor for Campus Gotland has a strategic and coordinating role for Campus Gotland. Amongst other things, this means that she is chief rapporteur and will work for the Campus Gotland Board. At the same time, she chairs the Gotland Committee - a body that consists of members of the academic staff who work at Campus Gotland.
Jenny Helin is taking on the role at a time of governance reorganisation for Campus Gotland. In addition, it's ten years ago that Campus Gotland became part of Uppsala University - a period during which Olle Jansson has been Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor.
'During this time, we have built up high-quality activities at Campus Gotland, so we are moving forward from a very strong position. With our wonderful staff and the new organisation in place, we are well placed to continue to enhance our activities. To begin with, I will be working to highlight our strengths in areas such as sustainable development, but I will also continue to focus on our interdisciplinary research and education through collaboration between the departments that have operations at Campus Gotland. We are in an interesting phase, where I will have a coordinating role in development, and this is a task I am very much looking forward to. Moreover, I think it's inspiring to work in an academic environment that attracts and welcomes international students and staff. Together, we will do our part in working for a better world' says Jenny Helin.
Grew up on Gotland
Jenny Helin came to Uppsala University as a postdoctoral researcher 10 years ago. She did her undergraduate work at Stockholm University and took a doctoral degree at Jönköping International Business School, with a thesis on dialogue in organisations. Helin grew up on Gotland at a time when no higher education was available on the island.
'Perhaps that’s why I’m so committed to research and education on Gotland. I see how much our University contributes to local development, but also that the environment on campus offers opportunities for cooperation across disciplinary lines within the University. That’s something I want to continue to promote,' Helin concludes.
Realise the potential of Campus Gotland
Campus Gotland is one of six development goals in Goals and strategies for Uppsala University within the area 'renewing education and research'. Above all, it deals with the fact that education and research environment at Campus Gotland offers particularly good opportunities for testing new paths and realising the potential of multi- and interdisciplinarity and regional collaboration. Campus Gotland will contribute to the capacity of the University to meet the challenges facing society in the future, for example in the area of sustainable development.
The Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor leads this strategic development work on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor and will represent Uppsala University in the region.
Represents Campus Gotland
The Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor on Campus Gotland
- promotes the coordination and profiling of the University’s activities at Campus Gotland,
- works to support and develop collaboration with the wider community,
- represents Campus Gotland, raises its visibility and markets its activities,
- assists the Vice-Chancellor and operational managers in the disciplinary domains and the University Administration in the planning and follow-up of activities at Campus Gotland,
- is chief rapporteur to the Campus Gotland Board,
- chairs the Gotland Committee and in this capacity forwards views and proposals from the Gotland Committee to the Campus Gotland Board.
