Colleague Relay: Meet Inge Andersen

: 06.02.2023

As an AAU staff member, it’s a good idea to prioritise participating in the cross-disciplinary activities – and always remember your access card, says Inge Andersen, Digital Learning Consultant at the Center for Digitally Supported Teaching. She is the first participant in the Colleague Relay. A new series of articles from AAU Update that lets you know what your AAU colleagues spend their time on, and gets their best AAU tips that can make the workday easier or more fun.

Af Lea Laursen Pasgaard, AAU Communication. Translated by LeeAnn Iovanni, AAU Communication

Who are you? And where do you work at AAU?

My name is Inge Andersen and I’ve been employed as a digital learning consultant at the Center for Digitally Supported Teaching (CDUL) for a year and a half. We’re located in AAU INNOVATE at Thomas Manns Vej 25 in Aalborg East.

Name three things you spend the most time on in your work?

Most of my working time is spent preparing various materials for CDUL to spread the word about who we are and what we do. I’m the one who takes care of the website and also produces various interactive materials for it. Also, I work on communication for the Institute for Advanced Study in PBL (IAS PBL), and I particularly work on managing the LinkedIn profile and producing the website so that it embraces all the different research groups and activities in IAS PBL. Lastly, I produce the podcast ‘Den Digitale Agora’, which is about how the different members of the teaching staff use digitalised teaching at AAU.

What would you like more of at AAU?

When I look out over AAU, I would like to see the different research cultures collaborate more across differences and so that they jointly lift each other and the students.

And what would you like to change at AAU?

If I had to change one thing, I would – as a former Danish teacher – make sure that everyone could use present tense in Danish correctly - with an ‘r’!

What is your best AAU memory?

My best AAU memory is probably from my student days. This was both a time for academics as well as a time for festivities where I learned more about myself and the society around me in so many ways.

What is the best AAU tip you would give a new colleague?

The best AAU tip I can give is that you should prioritise participating in the cross-disciplinary activities – and remember your access card!

Who are you passing the baton to and why?

I’m passing the baton to Mikkel Jensen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture and Learning, because he has an exciting research profile and is a skilled teacher. Mikkel is always good for a professional talk over a cup of coffee where his sharp observations are spiced up with an amazing sense of humour in singing Aalborg dialect.

About the Colleague Relay

What exactly are your 3,800 colleagues doing? What do we have in common at AAU?

With this series of articles, AAU Update will give you the opportunity to get to know some of your colleagues better. Get insight into what they do, along with their best AAU anecdotes. And in what they want more – and less – of at AAU.

The writers have free rein in answering the questions. The only requirements are that they attach a picture of themselves in their AAU office and pass the baton on to a colleague from another department or unit. Preferably to someone doing something completely different from them and who belongs to a staff group that has not already been featured.