Research

Our researchers

On this page you will find interesting and relevant interviews with some of the researchers at Faculty of Social Sciences.

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Leif Ove Larsen, professor at Department of Information Science and Media Studies, is one of our researchers to watch. In 2023 he was given the Christie Award for his work with establishing the international knowledge and innovation cluster, Media City Bergen.

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Eivind Senneset, UiB

Unveiling the Societal Impacts of Climate Change

What happens to societies when climate change erases their traditions? This is a compelling question driving Daniel Puig, a researcher at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation.

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Professor Slavkovik: AI is Key to a Better Future

One of UiB's leading AI researchers, Marija Slavkovik, thinks there is a cost to not leaning into artificial intelligence.

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Study Reveals Key to Successful Climate Policies: Addressing Economic Inequality

«If climate policies want to be successful, they must be about more than climate,» professor Michaël Tatham says.

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UiB Researchers Illuminate the Hazards of Air Pollution

Researchers at UiB are doing comprehensive research on the unequal distributions of air pollution. Young children, people who are already sick, and elderly people are the most affected.

This Argument Makes Young People Supportive of Gender Quotas

Some Norwegian politicians that are skeptical about gender quotas in politics are positive about gender quotas in the leadership of religious organizations, according to new research.

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Unexpected Findings about Survivors of Sexual Violence

More than 10,000 interviews and a new method show that survivors of conflict-related sexual violence are actually more engaged in their communities afterwards.

Bringing Crises into Focus

«Is there a response pattern that cuts across different crises? We don’t really know,» UiB researcher Pierre-Georges Van Wolleghem says. Now he wants to study just that.

«Migration, productivity, education and urbanization are not making everybody happy»

Capitalism is not just an economy, it is a type of society, according to professor in social anthropology, Don Kalb. For the past few years, he and his team have tried, through field work and research, to understand what is happening to people and communities in areas that have recently become...

«A formal, methodical approach to artificial intelligence suits me well»

Rustam Galimullin is one of several experts in artificial intelligence at UiB. Learn more about him and his research here.

«Populist far-right parties hinder EU climate policies»

Populist far-right parties portray fossil fuel phase-out as a threat to traditional family values, regional identity, and national sovereignty, according to researchers at UiB.

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Behavioral problems in childhood linked to lower voter turnout

This may contribute to the political marginalization of individuals with a strong need to be heard, according to researchers.

Kvinne peker på noe vi ikke ser. Bak henne ser vi ulike grafer og mennesker på en konferanse.

10 years of measuring trust in politicians and political attitudes in Norway

Having authoritative data created by independent researchers, who have focused solely on quality, and have no commercial interests, will only become more important in the future, says professor and Academic Director of the Norwegian Citizen Panel at UiB, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten.

Stressful digital disconnection

Ph.d candidate Mehri Agai has spoken to El Paìs about how digital disconnection is more demanding for adolescents than adults.

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New study: Working from home may have negative effects on your career

A new study from UiB provides the first empirical evidence that 'implicit competition' in the workplace has an impact on job promotions and salary increases.

Study: The trust in child welfare services varies greatly between European countries

Somewhat surprisingly, Norway finds itself at the bottom alongside Romania, in a study of trust in child welfare services in six European countries.

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Erik Knudsen Wants Media Researchers to Focus More on Thresholds

“What is missing in the selective exposure theory is the fact that most likely people are reading a lot of information that they don’t agree with. Which is why I am shifting the attention to that,” Erik Knudsen says.

ERC Grant for new research project

How prepared are we to get correct information and be engaged when it is needed? Media professor Hallvard Moe has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to better understand citizen’s ability to get information and be engaged in democracy.

She Studies How Valuable the Information Facebook has on You Is

Should you 'like' everything you feel like liking on Facebook, or hold back? It depends, says associate professor in economics, Eeva Mauring.

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Spitzer has been awarded the prestigeous ERC Starting Grant

«This is an opportunity to tackle prominent but largely-overlooked challenges plaguing the frontiers of developed liberal democracies» Aaron Spitzer says.

08.10.2024