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Accra
Insiders and outsiders of Accra’s gated communities (17.09.2020)
For years Edwige Yekple used to walk past the area where she is now doing research. One day, however, the gated community in the middle of the village caught her attention. Asking herself “why is there a gated community inside the village?” Edwige started developing her research project. Gradually, she became both a researcher and an interlocutor of her own project.
Maïlys Rouillé
Food security and the COVID-19 crisis: the importance of cross-border fish trade (17.09.2020)
In her master's thesis, Maïlys Rouillé studies the important contribution of cross-border fishtraders to food security in Ghana and its surrounding countries during the COVID-19 crisis.
Masterstudenter i Musehagen
Wish you a good summer! (26.06.2020)
Head of Department, Peter Andersen, summarize a special spring semester.
Master students in the Museum Garden.
Master's theses in Geography 2020 (03.06.2020)
20 students have submitted their theses this semester.
Screenshot of online teaching
COVID19 can’t stop remote sensing (27.05.2020)
Over the last month, 16 students have participated in GEO316 Practical Skills in Remote Sensing.
Agbogbloshie, Accra
Urban Enclaving delves into Accra’s urban spaces (04.03.2020)
The interdisciplinary research project Urban Enclaving Futures explored during its second workshop how enclaving is found in various forms around Accra’s urban spaces – from population dense informal settlements, to grand but empty gated cities, to the green and quiet University campus.
The social impact of the renewable energy transition (12.02.2020)
In her master's project Amber Nordholm is looking at the social impact of the renewable energy transition through a case study in Portugal.
Cityscape
Sustainability in an urbanising world (19.12.2019)
The future is urban – and the future is already here!
Portrettt Håvard Haarstad
Doing time for the climate (04.11.2019)
According to Håvard Haarstad, scientists have to commit to doing everything they can to get society moving in the right direction. His own commitment to saving the world earned him a night in prison in New York.
Hannah with fellow students in Bergen
From Bonn to Bergen (29.05.2019)
Hannah Pilgrim studies M.Sc. in Geographie at the University of Bonn. This semester she continued her geography studies as an exchange student in Bergen.
Teacher group
New course in Practical Skills in Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (23.05.2019)
Fifteen students from across the University of Bergen are now working on their final assignments following ten intensive days of teaching.
Tapado Glacier
Research stay in Chile (29.03.2019)
La Serena is a city approximately the same size as Bergen, but since the city has only a few days of rain each year, the city relies on the melting of snow and ice in the summer to provide water resources. This means that the region is especially vulnerable to changes in future climate.
Victoria W. Thoresen (right) and Jakob Grandin at the UN high-level political forum in July 2018, where they co-arranged a workshop on SDG11 as part of building a global network for sustainability.
Building a sustainable world (06.02.2019)
In February 2018, Victoria W. Thoresen and Jakob Grandin were key participants in the inaugural SDG Conference Bergen. The first national conference in the world bringing the university sector together in critical debate to engage with the UN's 2030 Agenda.
Stipendiat Randi Taxt.
Knowledge transfer in Regional Innovation Systems (03.12.2018)
PhD Candidate Randi Elisabeth Taxt presents her PhD Project.
Field area
Holocene glacier and climate variability at Sulitjelmaisen, northern Norway and Sweden (27.11.2018)
For my master project I reconstructed the last 11,500 years worth of glacier and climate changes at a glacier complex called Sulitjelmaisen in the subarctic, focusing on the largest glacier called Salajekna.
Sentinel 2 image of the Lena Delta, Russia
Practical Skills in Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (16.11.2018)
Remote sensing and GIS are some of the most sought after skills in geography graduates, following demand from students, Gidske Andersen and Benjamin Robson are launching the first Remote Sensing course at the University of Bergen.
Nina Bergan Holmelin
Farming flexibility, changing gender relations, and subsistence production contribute to better adaptive capacity to climate change in Himalaya (31.10.2018)
PhD Candidate Nina Bergan Holmelin presents her PhD project.
Siddharth Sareen (left) and Jakob Grandin from the University of Bergen outside Conference Room 5 in the UN building in July 2018.
On the road to sustainable cities and energy (13.07.2018)
UiB-researchers Siddharth Sareen and Jakob Grandin were among the speakers at events during the 2018 UN High-level Political Forum in New York.

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