Home
University of Bergen
Faculty of Social Sciences

News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Image of the group
Available postdoctoral position: Citizens, media and democracy (27.06.2024)
The PREPARE project is looking for an ambitious scholar who wants to help develop a new agenda for researching citizens’ relations to the public sphere.
bilde av robot
Pilot project on imaginaries of AI (27.06.2024)
UiB's Humanities Strategy awards professor Brita Ytre-Arne funds for research into artificial intelligence and how we assess what is real and true.
Photo of the main researcher on top of a photo of a city that is highly polluted.
UiB Researchers Illuminate the Hazards of Air Pollution (14.06.2024)
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.
Olena and Gidske
Embracing Copernicus: Enhancing Remote Sensing and GIS Education (07.06.2024)
The inaugural General Assembly of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) marked a significant milestone in the realm of Earth Observation (EO), particularly in the field of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Group of people walking
Hope, science and summer research school (04.06.2024)
“There is hope in science and research”, said Rector Margareth Hagen in her welcome address to the one hundred PhD candidates from more than thirty countries taking part in the seventeenth Bergen Summer Research School.
Portrait of Margrethe Brekke and Siddharth Sareen smiling to the camera
Impact beyond academia (03.06.2024)
CET Professor II Siddharth Sareen will receive the Nils Klim Award this week for his research in environmental social sciences. What makes his research unique is a commitment to impact beyond publication points and citations.
Masterseremoni
Master's theses in Geography 2024 (03.06.2024)
We have two deadlines this year: 1 June and 1 December. Congratulations to all who completed the degree this year!
Kvinne med halvalngt hår i grå jakke
This Argument Makes Young People Supportive of Gender Quotas (03.06.2024)
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.
Picture of Itay in Oslo
Came to Bergen and Norway to examine the private education market (31.05.2024)
Itay is taking a PhD at UNC Chapel Hill. This semester he is visiting Sampol.
Picture of Jana Birke Belschner
Jana Belschner’s TMF project is about to begin (31.05.2024)
– I want to understand very specifically which electoral reforms can contribute to making democracy in aging societies more generationally equitable.
Man in blue jumper infront of stair case
Unexpected Findings about Survivors of Sexual Violence (16.05.2024)
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.
Picture of Aaron Spitzer
Setting out to build a new research field (13.05.2024)
Aaron Spitzer’s ERC project, CONFRONT, has started. Over a period of five years, the project will explore arising conflicts between settlers and indigenous peoples.
Maritime worker
Automation at sea; an anthropological perspective (08.05.2024)
The introduction of new automated technologies promises to help improve the sustainability of the maritime industry, yet this trend is also likely to affect the numbers of people employed at sea and change the nature of their role. EU-Research spoke to our own Professor Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard about her work in looking at the impact of automation on the maritime industry and its workforce.
Dalia Grybauskaitė.
Breakfast meeting with former Lithuanian president (06.05.2024)
Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the Christie Conference and the Institute of Comparative Politics this week.
Picture of Georg Picot in his office.
Illuminated the politics of low-wage employment (06.05.2024)
Georg Picot’s WAGEREG project has come to an end.
Man in a dark space
Bringing Crises into Focus (30.04.2024)
«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.
Pictures of Muriaas, Peters, and the top of the journal article.
Attitudes to gender quotas: Why and where to adjust gender imbalance in leadership (30.04.2024)
Professors Ragnhild Muriaas and Yvette Peters have published a new article in European journal of Political Research. They use survey experiments for both the Norwegian Citizen Panel and the Panel of Elected Representatives.
the_journey_of_gas_podcast.
New podcast: The Journey of Gas (24.04.2024)
🌍 At a time when the energy debate focuses mainly on economic and geopolitical aspects, we want to bring attention to other fundamental dimensions: the human and social.

Pages