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Migrants boarding a ship in the Mediterranean.
A world in refuge (17.06.2021)
Global displacement has reached an all time high in 2021. The world has never needed the UN Refugee Convention more than in its 70th anniversary year.
Bilde professor Jens E. Kjeldsen
Jens E. Kjeldsen - The Rhetorical Power of Images (17.06.2021)
Professor Jens E. Kjeldsen has delivered a keynote at the Association for Visual Pedagogies (AVP) 2021 Conference
Petter Krogh Nilsen, hovedtaler MA
Congratulations with your master's degree (17.06.2021)
We would like to congratulate everyone who has completed their master's degree at the Faculty of Social Sciences autumn 2020 and spring 2021.
Ishtiaq Jamil
New book and article from professor Ishtiaq Jamil (15.06.2021)
Professo‪r Ishtiaq Jamil with a newly published book (Palgrave) and article (Public Administration) with empirical examples from Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
Sami activist and artist Andy Somby, Aaron John Spitzer and Per Selle, UiB
Arctic research comes in from the cold (14.06.2021)
How SAMPOL is on the frontier of polar political science
Katja Enberg and Gabriella Ljungström, BSRS 2021
Gathered PhD candidates from 49 countries around the SDGs (09.06.2021)
For the second time, the annual Bergen Summer Research School was an online event — this time with special sessions on systems-thinking and innovative digital social activities.
Stein Rokkan
Stein Rokkan 100 years (08.06.2021)
Stein Rokkan would have been 100 years old on 4 July 2021. He was one of the world’s leading political sociologists during the first decades after the Second World War and he played a core role in the development of the social sciences at the University of Bergen in the late 1960s. He established the subject ‘comparative politics’.
Medborgerstipendet
Recipients of The Citizen Scholarship (07.06.2021)
One master student from psychology and one from geography receive DIGSSCORE’S Citizen Scholarship for 2021. They are both interested in climate change and behavior changes and will receive 25.000 NOK each. Read more about them here!
drone photo of an abandon buliding site, showing several houses built in a circle formation. Those that have a roof has a bright red roof.
The state of public housing in Ghana (04.06.2021)
Housing has remained one of the fundamentals of every society. However, in Ghana, most of the population lacks decent and affordable housing; the current housing deficit in Ghana is over 2 million.
Students in the museum garden
Master's theses in geography 2021 (02.06.2021)
This year we have two submission deadlines each semester for the master's thesis in geography: 19 May and 2 August in the spring semester and 15 November and 3 January in the autumn semester. 19 students have submitted the thesis this year.