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New post-doc
What factors shape voters’ views of female candidates? (27.10.2017)
New post-doc explores perceptions of women in politics.
Disputas Mads Solberg
Disputation at the Department of Social Anthropology (26.10.2017)
On 26 October 2017 Mads Solberg from the Department of Social Anthropology defended his thesis.
Linde, Dahlberg,Arnesen and Johannesson.
Do Polls Influence Opinions? (18.10.2017)
A new publication by Sveinung Arnesen, Mikael P. Johannesson, Jonas Linde and Stefan Dahlberg examines the potential self-fulfilling prophecy of public opinion.
Winners
Henry A. Bartelet received honor for his conference paper (16.10.2017)
Henry Bartelet, a graduate from the European Master Program in System Dynamics, received an Honorable Mention, by the Dana Meadows Award committee at the 2017 International System Dynamics Conference.
Bitcoin office
Meet the researcher: Matan Ilan Shapiro (13.10.2017)
Postdoctoral Fellow Matan's research revolves around value-making, 'trustlessness' and egalitarianism in cryptocurrency sociality. Read more about his project here.
The Ambassador Project (10.10.2017)
Tonje and Tom explain the benefits of an ambassador project and beeing an exchange ambassador (english text)
New Ph.D. Troy Saghaug Broderstad
Do the poor vote for politicians who favour the rich? (09.10.2017)
New Ph.D. researcher looks at whether voters’ and leaders’ positions match up.
Fabian Mardi - University of Melbourne
Book nominated for research award (05.10.2017)
The book "Managing Universities", edited by professor Ivar Bleiklie, has been nominated for a research prize for significant research on international higher education.
New Ph.D. Espen Stokke
Ph.D. researcher tackles transitional justice in the Middle East (05.10.2017)
“My research can help policy-makers maximize chances of reconciliation”
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Eirik S. Amundsen elected to a prestigious scientific academy (04.10.2017)
Professor Eirik S. Amundsen is one of a small number of Norwegian economists that have been elected to the prestigious academy, Academia Europaea.
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Extended deadline: Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation is now recruiting (04.10.2017)
Three PhD positions and one post doctoral position are now available at the CET centre.