News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons (28.04.2017)

Egalitarianism and Experimentation in a new Global Reality. Read about the Egalitarianism Project here.

Professor Jan Erik Askildsen and Professor Ragnhild Louise Muriaas photographed outside the Faculty of Social Sciences building at the University of Bergen in April 2017.

New dean and vice-dean at faculty from autumn 2017 (27.04.2017)

Jan Erik Askildsen and Ragnhild Louise Muriaas want to strengthen the emphasis on external financing and facilitate the growth in the number of students at the faculty.

Political scientist Julie Ane Ødegaard Borge at the Bergen final of 2015 Science Grand Prix during the National Science Week in Norway.

Learn how to become a good communicator (26.04.2017)

Are you a PhD candidate? Do you want to improve your communication skills? Science Grand Prix offers you free advice on how to do just this.

NEW BOOK: Against Exoticism: Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology (26.04.2017)

Professor Bruce Kapferer, at the Egalitarianism project and Professor Dimitrios Theodossopoulos from the University of Kent, have recently published a new edited book.

Portrait of Postdoctoral fellow Marija Slavkovik, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen (UiB).

In love with the machines (25.04.2017)

Marija Slavkovik has always been attracted to machines. In fact, she has turned artificial intelligence into the core theme of her research.

Political scientist Yvette Peters from the University of Bergen photographed in Bergen’s City Hall in March 2017.

Fighting for democracy (21.04.2017)

Thomas Piketty's bestseller about capitalism made it clear to Yvette Peters what her next research project would focus on: political inequality.

Close-up of Dean Knut Helland from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen.

An invite to EU innovation (21.04.2017)

Research-based knowledge about society should be the focal point when addressing the major societal challenges in a turbulent era. The EU’s next research programme needs to take on these challenges.

Professor Kristine Jørgensen, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen (UiB), photographed in her office in April 2017, when she was made professor of media studies.

Gaming her way to professorship (20.04.2017)

Kristine Jørgensen has been appointed professor at the University of Bergen. She is Norway’s first woman to become a professor focusing on computer game studies.

Anna Szolucha, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (UiB), photographed in March 2017.

Dealing with the future of energy (20.04.2017)

In her new project, social anthropologist Anna Szolucha wants to look at citizen engagement in climate and energy transformation. In particular, she asks: how do you involve people from the bottom and up?

Professor Ole J. Mjøs from the University of Bergen outside the new media cluster, Media City Bergen, in March 2017.

Media education in front in Bergen (06.04.2017)

In August, six new and innovative media study programmes are launched in Media City Bergen. Academic Director Ole J. Mjøs looks forward to welcoming new media students to Bergen.

New PostDoc at SpaceLab (06.04.2017)

Siddharth Sareen started his position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow this week. He will work on energy sector governance, with a focus on solar energy transitions in Southern Europe.

Labour market reform in Italy and Spain (03.04.2017)

UiB political scientist finds diversity in state austerity responses