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FNUG Research Seminar October 22, 2026

FNUG invites participants in this research seminar to produce posters presenting their projects or recent work, such as networking activities, new research interests, research findings, and similar.

FNUG’s Poster Sessions provide participants with an opportunity to network and explore potential collaborations with researchers, staff, and students affiliated with FNUG. The format is open and informal and works well as an entry point into the research environment.

The Poster Session will conclude with an exhibition and mutual presentation of the posters created during the session.

We begin with a presentation by Maria Kirstine Østergaard, Postdoctoral Researcher, DPU:

Interdisciplinary Work with Models in Science Education

 

PROGRAM

12:00-13:00

FNUG joint lunch. Bring your own food

13:00-13:45

Presentation by Maria Kirstine Østergaard

Interdisciplinary Work with Models in Science Education

Abstract
Models play a central role in science, but they are used and understood differently across disciplines.

In this talk, experiences and findings from an intervention project in upper secondary school will be presented, in which students work with models across physics, chemistry, and biology.

The project investigates how encounters between different disciplinary modelling traditions can contribute to developing and nuancing students’ understanding of the concept of models, and how models can at the same time serve as a shared focal point for interdisciplinary work. Drawing on concrete teaching activities and examples of students’ work, the talk discusses how students’ understanding of models develops through both modelling activities and reflection on the purpose, function, and use of models.

The project’s preliminary findings and perspectives for interdisciplinary science education will also be presented.

13:45-14:00

Break

14:00-14.45

Poster Session, facilitated by Associate Professor Dorte Moeskær Larsen.

Students are invited to create individual posters presenting their projects. Researchers will create posters presenting their most recent or ongoing work.

14:45-15:00

Break

15:00-15:45

Exhibition of posters. Presentations and knowledge sharing

15:45-16:00

Wrap up and thank you for today

Presenter

Maria Kirstine Østergaard, Postdoctoral Researcher, DPU

Read more about Maria Kirstine Østergaard here

Last Updated 12.08.2026