News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Researcher combines lab and panel data (29.01.2021)

This recent publication by Nina Serdarevic presents data obtained from both DIGSSCORE's Citizen Lab and the Norwegian Citizen Panel.

Three projects granted CET Accelerator seed funding (27.01.2021)

Anand Bhopal, Esmeralda Colombo and Siddharth Sareen have recently been granted seed funding through the CET Accelerator funding scheme. CET congratulates these young researcher talents on their successful applications!

Eeva Mauring appointed as CEPR Research Affiliate (26.01.2021)

The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is a network of economists who collaborate through the Centre on a wide range of policy-related research projects and dissemination activities.

Explaining landscape preference (22.01.2021)

Xiaozi Liu et al. demonstrate how public preferences can be mapped via a national landscape survey.

Who is responsible for protecting us against the consequences of climate change? (22.01.2021)

New data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel show who people think are responsible for protecting us against more extreme weather and other future consequences of climate change.

How does changes in leadership positions affect staff attitudes? (20.01.2021)

Zuzana Murdoch co-authors a new article looking at how staff attitudes are affected by changes in top leadership positions.

ICT use in Central Government (19.01.2021)

Per Lægreid co-authors in a newly published article in the International Journal of Public Administration about the use of ICT tools in the central government.

New research project about Covid-19, climate change and media use (08.01.2021)

Researchers from The University of Bergen have received funding for the project “Media Use in Crisis Situations: Resolving Information Paradoxes, Comparing Climate Change and the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

Reaching for a new sense of connection: soft atheism and ‘patch and make do’ spirituality amongst nonreligious European millennials (08.01.2021)

In surveys a growing proportion of Europeans, especially young people, claim they have ‘no religion’, yet only a minority of these say they are atheist or agnostic; what then, do they believe, and how do their beliefs influence how they live their lives? And as religion’s influence diminishes for these groups, what takes the place of the psychological and social functions once performed by... Read more