Contact information
- E-mail: vitenskapsombudet@uio.no
- Phone:
- 22 85 70 34 (office)
- 947 95 836 (mobile)
Cases may also be reported to UiO’s Science Ombud via the Speak Up System
Employees
- Grethe Netland is Science Ombud at UiO.
- She holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Oslo with a dissertation on human rights.
- She is a member of the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics, and serves as an elected external representative on the Professional Ethics Council in Fellesorganisasjonen (FO).
- In the years 2021 through the spring semester of 2026, she held a temporary position as head of the University of Inland Norway's Committee for Research Ethics. Netland was Head of department at the Department of Social Work and Guidance at the same university (2016-2021). She has extensive experience as an administrative leader and senior advisor at various units at UiO, including the Department of Philosophy/Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (1993-2008); UiO's Ethics Programme (2009-2011); Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (2012-2017).