Research groups at Faculty of Social Sciences

Department of government 

(previously Department of Administration and Organization Theory)

• Governing global challenge
• Knowledge, politics and organization
• Political Organization and Multi Level Governance
• Law, Politics and Welfare
• Citizens and democracy

Department of geography

• Environment and Landscape Geography
• Physical Geography
• System dynamics
• Human geography

Department of information science and media studies

• DARS research group
• The Interaction Research Group
• Journalism studies
• Logic and AI
• Media Aesthetics
• Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture
• Intelligent Information Systems (I2S)
• Bergen Media Use Research Group

Department of comparative politics

• Citizens, Opinion, Representation
• Challenges in Advanced Democracies

Department of social anthropology

• Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group
• Egalitarian Futures Research Group
• The SEATIMES Project
• ASMOG Collaborative Project
• Technoscientific Immortality: A study of Human Futures
• Environmental sustainability, marine economies and gendered socio-economic inequalities (ENMARINE)
• Urban Enclaving Futures
• Frontlines of Value
• Island Lives, Ocean States
• Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons
• Global Research Programme on Inequality

Department of economics

• Competition and finance
• Welfare, labour and health
• Political economy

Department of sociology

• Welfare, Inequality and Life Course
• Migration, Environment and Development
• Work, Knowledge, Economy and Education