BSRS 2022: Understanding and addressing inequality
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The annual Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) is an interdisciplinary venue for PhD students who want to explore some of the greatest challenges of our time. Due to the COVID pandemic and the persisting restrictions on international travel, BSRS 2022 will be organised as a virtual research school.
Understanding and addressing inequality
Sustainability, social justice and hope
Online 7-17 June, 2022
Scientific Director for BSRS 2022 is Professor Haldis Haukanes, Department of Health Promotion and Development, UiB.
This summer, six parallel disciplinary courses will focus on key global challenges, including climate change and mobility; governance and inequality; economic experiments in developing countries; higher education and the arts; food security; and gender, justice and environmental crises.
In addition, there wil be special interdisciplinary sessions connecting the participants of the six PhD-courses around systems thinking and creative interdisciplinary problem-solving and project management.
Together with cross-cutting keynotes and virtual social events, the courses will help 100 PhD students develop skills to create actionable knowledge.
Bergen Summer School 2022
Our courses: Gender, Justice and Environmental Crises, Food security for 8 billion, Governance and Inequality, Climate change and inequality of mobility, Economic Experiments in Developing Countries, Global Inequalities in Higher Education and the Arts
Joint sessions: Systems thinking, creative problem-solving and project management
Bergen Summer Research School is a joint effort by the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Chr. Michelsen Institute, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, and the University of Bergen.
APPLICATION
Find out how you can apply to be part of BSRS 2022.
Deadline: 15 February 2022 (extended deadline).
BSRS 2022 is a virtual research school with lectures, seminars, groupwork between 9am - 5pm (CET).
BSRS is offered free of charge.
BSRS COURSES 2022
Gender, Justice and Environmental Crises
Redi Koobak (UiB)
Kari Jegerstedt (UiB)
Food Security for 8 Billion
Hanne Rosendahl-Riise (UiB)
Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen (UiB)
Governance and Inequality
Lise Rakner (UiB)
Ragnhild Louise Muriaas (UiB)
Climate Change and Inequality of Mobility
Johannes Servan (UiB)
Christine Straehle (University of Hamburg)
Economic Experiments in Developing Countries
Catalina Franco (NHH)
Global Inequalities in Higher Education and the Arts
David G. Hebert (HVL)
Erlend Eidsvik (HVL)
Joint sessions:
Systems thinking, creative problem-solving and project management
Birgit Kopainsky (UiB)
Ingunn Johanne Ness (UiB)
Hiwa Målen (UiB)
