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A comprehensive course in global mental health started for the first time on Monday 17th of August at the Faculty of Psychology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What can ease fear and pondering when we are flooded by information about dangers and risks we cannot influence much?
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.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organised as a virtual research school. 
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.
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.
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 14 June, 2019.
Professor Janne Grønli received “studiekvalitetsprisen” for the subject “Circadian rhythms, sleep and behavior” at "Undervisningsdagen" 2019.
RoMOMatteR is a transnational project which aims to empower Roma girls’ mattering in order to help them envision their own futures and choose motherhood only if and when they are ready.
Erica Seelemann and Zaria Connors have come all the way from Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada to follow courses at the University of Bergen, and they will write up their Bachelor in Psychology here.
Antarctic winters trigger psychological hibernation so people can cope with isolation and darkness.
This mixed-methods study focuses on how late radiation tissue injury (LRTI) influences the quality of life (QOL) and psychosocial health of pelvic cancer survivors before, during, and after hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT).

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