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Bereavement Care
Loss in the family – A reflection on how schools can support their students (13.11.2020)
Professor Atle Dyregrov, associate professor Martin Lytje at the centre and professor Kari Dyregrov at HVL have published an article in "Bereavement Care"
Counting on fingers
Count – and I know who you are (10.11.2020)
Humans are the only species that uses symbols to express quantities, and researchers now want to find out why number systems vary so much between cultures.
Students UiB
Bergen School of Global Studies launched (04.11.2020)
The launch at the University Aula concluded with two large panels representing the diversity of scientific milieus tackling global challenges in Bergen. Together they will work to make Bergen the place of choice for students seeking knowledge and skills to help solve global challenges.
Bergen seen from Floien
BSRS 2021: Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)
Digital summer research school.
Jarle Eid, May Hauken og Arne Magnus Morken
Kick off for the course "Pandemic and crisis psychology" (28.08.2020)
This week, the Centre for crisis psychology initiated a new continued educational course focusing on human aspects of the pandemic. The course runs over six weeks and was fully booked within days. A second course is will take place later this fall.
Illustration photo: depression
New publications: Ethnic differences in coping with depression (17.08.2020)
Ragnhild Dybdahl og Unni M. Heltne
The Centre initiating a course in global mental health (17.08.2020)
A comprehensive course in global mental health started for the first time on Monday 17th of August at the Faculty of Psychology.
BSRS live
Bergen Summer Research School goes digital (26.05.2020)
Bergen Summer Research School opened 8 June with a record number of participants. Together with some of Bergen's best research milieus, they will explore how their research can contribute to solving global challenges. This year they meet online - watch the many public lectures on YouTube.
Two youths sitting on a beach
Being young during the coronavirus lockdown (06.05.2020)
The social needs of people are almost in line with the needs of food and drink. We are totally dependent on human contact. Young people maybe more than others.
Groupwork
Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2020 (29.04.2020)
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions. Deadline 20 June, 2020.
Magazin front page
How Nepalese psychology students are mobilized in facing the ongoing crisis (16.04.2020)
Familie ved gravsted
Burial in times of a pandemic (31.03.2020)
These days, we must constantly adapt to new situations and new ways to interact. We humans are adaptable and in many cases, we will do just fine. However, in some situations it will require more of us.
Marked i Dongola, Sudan
Global challenges and assitance during the COVID-19 pandemic (30.03.2020)
For the poorest countries and refugees, preventive measures will be very challenging, and a large number of people around the world will experience increasing psychological consequences of the pandemic.
Illustrasjonsbilde selvhjelp
How to ease fear and pondering (24.03.2020)
What can ease fear and pondering when we are flooded by information about dangers and risks we cannot influence much?
Seminar on Motherhood and Mothering by Raquel Herrero-Arias
Participation in the Third General Meeting of RoMoMatter Project (06.12.2019)
RoMoMatteR is a transnational project that tackles gender discrimination by empowering Roma girls. In December 2019, the project held its third general meeting with the special participation of Associate Professor Gaby Ortiz-Barreda and PhD Raquel Herrero-Arias.
Stacking rocks
BSRS 2020: Actionable knowledge to meet global challenges (16.10.2019)
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organised as a virtual research school. 
Jo-Anne Baird
- Educational assessment has a powerful effect upon people’s lives (02.10.2019)
With it comes a great deal of responsibility. The effects of educational assessments upon learning, and what we can find out about learning from these assessments, are both important facets of this responsibility that have not received enough attention.
University of KwaZulu-Natal
New Master Internship Possibilities (14.08.2019)
Centre for International Health (CIH) and the Department of Health Promotion and Development have received funding for a new internship project where master’s students will be able to get scholarships while on internships at partner institutions in Durban, South Africa.

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