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Adriana Buena portrait
ERC grant holder Adriana Bunea left the UK for UiB (15.04.2019)
– The UK is heading towards very uncertain times. It is hard to push the scientific borders when you feel that you are under siege, says Adriana Bunea. The former lecturer at The University of Southampton made a swift exit from Brexit and brought a prestigious grant to Bergen.
Professor Sigve Tjøtta
More or less money? An experimental study on receiving money (12.04.2019)
A recent article in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, using data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel and the Citizen Lab, finds that a substantial minority in seven experiments with 3,500 participants overall, decided to receive less over more money. This result may compromise the interpretation of many experiments.
Professor Fredrik Barth
PhD Fellowship in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (12.04.2019)
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Imagining and experiencing through normality and crisis (10.04.2019)
In January 2019, the IMEX project organized an international workshop with presentations by project participants and invited guests from across Europe. The workshop fostered interesting discussions and new insights.
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A collective sigh of relief (08.04.2019)
Bygnes with a new publication in Acta Sociologica: "A collective sigh of relief: Local reactions to the establishment of new asylum centers in Norway".
Kreativ problemløsning
The UN provides PhD candidates at the UiB with a challenge (05.04.2019)
PhD candidates at UiB will be able to solve a specific SDG challenge provided by the UN Environment Programme. Through a new course in creative problem-solving, PhD candidates learn and apply methods that can help them establish connections across disciplines and solve problems that they could face in working life.