My teaching history started in 1997, when I joined a secondary school as a part-time teacher (teaching math and social science) while I was studying for my Bachelor’s degree in Nepal. After I got a Master’s degree in Geography, I worked as an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Geography Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal for 18 months (2003 – 2004). There, I was responsible for, and main teacher on, courses in GIS, Remote Sensing, Physical Geography, and Climatology. In 2004, I moved to Norway to study for my M. Phil. degree. As a student, I was supervising undergraduates in GIS practical lab sessions. As a PhD student, I gave presentations at conferences and the occasional lecture in my field of study for students at UiB.

During my post-doctoral research period at the University of Bergen, I began to teach GIS and Quantitative Methods courses at the undergraduate level in 2012. I played a major role in re-designing the GIS course, in particular to include a remote sensing module and to prepare hands-on exercises and assignments. In the autumn of 2013 and 2014, I was the course coordinator and main lecturer for the GIS course. I was also involved as a lecturer in a PhD course, The Global Food System, at the Bergen Summer School, UiB in 2013.

In 2016, I began teaching at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Now, I am teaching GIS and Research Methods courses at the undergraduate and Master’s levels, and am also responsible for the GIS course. I have also been involved in teaching GIS-related topics as part of other Master’s level courses, such as Coastal Planning and Governance and Advances in Aquaculture.  I have designed and developed a Master’s-level GIS course (FSK-3012: Geographical Information Systems for Coastal and Marine Resource Management), which started running in autumn 2018.

An overview of my teaching history can be found here, in tabular form.

Teaching history| Basic repertoire | Assessment methods | Ethical dimension