Teaching portfolio

You can read more about my teaching philosophy here. I can teach in English, Danish, or Romanian. At the bottom of this page, you can watch a video of my usage of Mentimeter as a digital teaching activity when teaching large classes.

Lectures:

• Lecture: “Leadership and Technostress”, Course: IT-Ledelse og IT-organisationens rolle, Level: Executive, IT University of Copenhagen,Level: Graduate, September 2020;
• Lecture: “Leadership and Social Intelligence”, Course: Digital Change Management, IT University of Copenhagen,Level: Graduate, September 2019;
• Lecture: “Leadership and Social Intelligence”, Course: Digital Change Management, IT University of Copenhagen,Level: Graduate, September 2019;
• Lecture: “Historical evolution of concept of human, and its impact on leadership”, Course: Digital Change Management, IT University of Copenhagen,Level: Graduate, September 2019;
• Lecture: “Leadership in the digital age”, Course: IT-Ledelse og IT-organisationens rolle, Level: Executive, IT University of Copenhagen,Level: Executive, September 2018;
• Lecture: “Digital Leadership and Governance”, Course: Digital Governance, Management, and Accountability, Level: Graduate, IT University of Copenhagen,Level: Graduate, April 2018;
• Lecture: “Digital Leadership and Enterprise Systems”, Course: Enterprise Systems and Information Management, Level: Undergraduate, IT University of Copenhagen,Level: Undergraduate, October, 2017;

Course engagement:

• Co-teacher (20%), Course: Digital Change Management, Level: Graduate; Autumn 2019, Class size: 130 students.
• Teaching assistant, Course: Digital Change Management, Level: Graduate; Autumn 2018;
• Teaching assistant, Course: Navigating Complexity: Mapping vizualization and decision-making, Level: Graduate, Autumn 2016.

Pedagogical training:

• Diploma – Introductory Teacher Development Programme for PhDs, Raluca Stana
  • A 1-day workshop
  • Crafting an individual lecture plan for a course I teach
  • Participation in one teaching workshop
  • Video recording of a lecture I teach with following peer feedback
  • Make a reflective teaching portfolio
• Teaching workshops:
  • Framing feedback: Diploma- teachIT – Framing feedback A2018 – Raluca Stana
  • Teaching large classes
  • Exam legislation

Students’ feedback:

For employment purpose, I can provide more detailed feedback reports. Here are a few snippets:

• “I really appreciated Raluca’s lectures which brought in fresh wind”
• “New ways of teaching – modigt. Jeg elsker Mentimeter og det blev anvendt godt (brave. I love Mentimeter, and it was used well) “
• Velvagt præsentationsteknik. Bruger alternative metoder til plenumdiskussion, hvilket øger involveringen – også fra de mere stille på holdet. (Well-chosen presentation technique. Uses alternative methods for plenary discussion, which increases involvement – also from the quieter members of the team)
• Underspillet humor og stort engagement, god ide at bruge et digitalt værktøj til fælles brainstorm og kommentarer (Subtle humor and big engagement, good idea to use a digital tool for plenary brainstom and discussion)

Below, you can watch a conversation piece about using Mentimeter, as a digital teaching activity for  large classes.

This is a podcast recorded at the IT University of Copenhagen, and a discussion with Assistant Prof. Martin Aumuller.

Academic conferences with paper presentation:

• 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 2021
• The future of digital work: the challenge of inequality, IFIP Joint working conference, Online due to Covid-19, 2020
• The 43rd Information Systems Research Conference in Scandinavia (IRIS43) – Digitalization in times of transition, Nokia, Finland 2020
• The 41st Information Systems Research Conference in Scandinavia (IRIS41), Århus, Denmark 2018
• 8th Midterm Conference of the ESA Sociology of Emotions Research Network (RN11), Edinburgh, 2018. Presentation available here.

Theses supervised so far

• “The impact and management of technostress”, Level: Graduate, Autumn 2018;
• “Effective Digital Leadership and Emotional Intelligence”, Level: Graduate, Spring 2018.

Press articles about my research and/or opinions

Technostress spreder sig hastigt i kølvandet på corona, finans.dk and Jyllands-Posten

På hjemmet kontoret er du din egen it-medarbejder – og det stresser, ITU News

IT-Universitetet vil hjælpe ledere med at omfavne den digitale revolution, Science Direct

Vi står overfor en stadigt dybere digital generationskløft, SAMDATA/HK

Møder og email er for de gamle, SAMDATA/HK

Vi er ikke biologiske programmeret til at kommunikere online, ITU News

We are not biologically programmed to communicate online, ITU News

Email and Skype meetings are forcing leaders to shake up their communication habits, ITU News

Courses taken during my PhD:

• Affectivity and Affective Theories, Doctoral course, 2019, Roskilde University, Denmark
• Advanced Leadership Topics, Doctoral Course, 2019, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Sociology of Emotions, Doctoral Course, 2018, Collaboration between Ålborg University, Copenhagen University, and Gothenburg University, Denmark and Sweden,
• Qualitative research methods, Doctoral Course, 2019, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark,
• Writing Bootcamp, Doctoral Course, 2019 & 2020, Denmark.
• PhD Symposium: The art of writing and presenting research, 2018 & 2019, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Research projects:

Between 2017 and 2019, I have been part of the I4L (Innovation for Leadership) research project, funded by the Danish Industry Foundation. The program’s objective was to inspire leaders to enhance their leadership capacities in the digital economy. In the first six months, I have functioned as a Project Manager and Researcher. As part of the project, I have coordinated and created material for the first workshop, as well as communicated and nurtured an industrial community around the project in a Linkedin group. Here are a few of my outputs:

• Workshop: “Digital Leadership Toolbox”. Event: Digital Leadership and Communication Workshop. September, 2017. Copenhagen, Denmark. Read reflections here.
• Normative tools for practitioners: A social intelligence framework.
• Research articles: Stana, R., Richter, A., Trier, M., Nicolajsen, H.,W., (2017). Digital Leadership practices: A social intelligence perspective. Not published. Read full article here.
• Final report – This report was created by  Prof. Alexander Richter, Assoc. Prof. Hanne Westh Nicolajsen, Assoc. Prof. Lene Nielsen, Prof. Oliver Müller, and Assoc. Prof. Oliver Krancher, and some of it is based on my research (for example, page: 7), and presentation (for example, page: 5).
• Follow up interviews with the participants, for example: “A case study of digital kindness factor“.
• Press interviews, read more under “In press“.
• Linkedin community: Innovation for Leadership.
• Master theses, some of which I have supervised as well. See more in “Thesis supervision“.
• Long term collaborations, leading to more research insights.

Events for practitioners:

• Presentation: “Technostress”. At: National Center for Workplace Researcher (Den Nationale Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmiljø), November 2019, Denmark
• Talk: “Technostress”. Event: Culture Night, October 2019, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Talk: “Leadership and Communication in the digital age”. Event: Trends and Visions. March, 2019. Copenhagen, Denmark
• Talk: “Digital Leadership and future research”. Event: Innovation for Leadership Conference. September, 2018. Copenhagen, Denmark
• Talk: “Transformative leadership”. Event: Transformative Leadership and Disruptive Innovation Workshop. April, 2018. Copenhagen, Denmark

Online presence:

Additionally to my personal website, I also disseminate research through the following:

• Twitter: I interact with academic communities.
• Linkedin: I interact with practitioners.
• Medium: Here, I write more personal pieces for scientists, for example: “Five minutes meditation for the busy scientist“
• Blog: Here, I write research-based articles for practitioners, for example: “How to write like a leader“

Upcoming:

• Currently, I plan a Twitter and Linkedin campaign based on my latest articles. The purpose is to disseminate research to practitioners and to raise awareness about technostress.