Research

Important research areas

Here is an overview of some of the most important research areas and venues at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

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Selected research activities

Center for Digital Narrative

Center for Digital Narrative, UiB: Humanities-driven research in electronic literature, games studies, digital culture, and computation to advance understanding of digital narrative.

Digital Social Science Core Facility (DIGSSCORE)

The Digital Social Science Core Facility (DIGSSCORE) is an infrastructure for advanced digital social science data generation and multi-disciplinary research. DIGSSCORE’s main components are the Norwegian Citizen Panel and the Citizen Lab.

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MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation

Researchers, media and technology companies in Media City Bergen will establish a centre for developing responsible media technology for the future. The University of Bergen (UiB) and partners from research and industry have now been granted status as Centre for Research-Based Innovation (SFI) .

Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP)

The Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP) is a radically interdisciplinary research programme that views inequality as both a fundamental challenge to human well-being and as an impediment to achieving the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda.

Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism

Research centre at the Department studying the relationship between the state and its citizens, with a particular focus on child protection and children's rights.

Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET)

Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) is led from the Faculty of Social Sciences. The goal of the centre is to produce actionable knowledge about how to achieve sustainable transformation of society to prevent climate change.

Centre on Law and Social Transformation

In 2014, the Centre on Law & Social Transformation – LawTransform – was opened in collaboration between the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the University of Bergen. Researchers from law studies, social sciences and a number of other disciplines work together at the centre to look at how the...

Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE)

Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) was established in 2011, and is a meeting place for economists and lawyers interested in competition policy questions.

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