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An increasing number of applicants to the MA in Politics and Governance of Global Challenges! (08.05.2024)
The master's program in Politics and Governance of Global Challenges at our Department is experiencing growing popularity, with more applicants from both Norway and abroad.
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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.
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Breakfast meeting with former Lithuanian president (06.05.2024)
Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the Christie Conference and the Institute of Comparative Politics this week.
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Illuminated the politics of low-wage employment (06.05.2024)
Georg Picot’s WAGEREG project has come to an end.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An etnographic report from Malmö (23.04.2024)
Postdoctoral fellow in the Bergen Media Use Group Katharina Wuropulos presents her research in a seminar on multicultural recruitment.
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Is Rising Inequality Fueling a Global Rise of the Far-Right? (17.04.2024)
Right-wing populism and authoritarian tendencies are on the rise around the world. Renowned sociologist Walden Bello will explore this topic in this year’s GRIP lecture.
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PhD: Systems approaches to sustainability (16.04.2024)
Brooke Wilkerson defended her PhD thesis on 19.12.2023 at the University of Bergen. The thesis title is "Systems approaches to sustainability: Innovation and social-ecological-technological systems.
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PhD: Practicing urban climate governance (16.04.2024)
Jesse Benjamin Schrage defended his thesis PhD thesis on 20.2.2024 at the University of Bergen. The thesis' title is: "Practicing urban climate governance: Organisational work and energy demand reduction in Nordic cities"
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Professor Trond Petersen gets an honorary doctorate from UiB (09.04.2024)
«The efforts of professor Trond Petersen has been really important in developing research collaboration and student exchange between Norwegian universities and the University of Berkeley,» says Jan Erik Askildsen, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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"The Biggest Problem We Have Now Is That Our Feelings Have Ended”: Solar Energy Frontiers in Western India, A Political Ecology Inquiry (02.04.2024)
In my PhD project, I study the imaginaries and praxes around solar energy rollout in Rajasthan, India.
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International visiting professors to Bergen Media Use Group (26.03.2024)
Bergen Media Use Research Group is looking forward to welcoming three international visiting professors in 2024; Joëlle Swart, Tim Kormelink and Anna Feigenbaum.
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«Migration, productivity, education and urbanization are not making everybody happy» (21.03.2024)
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 capitalist.
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Annual Report 2023 (15.03.2024)
Wondering what our centre did in 2023? Our Annual Report for 2023 is now ready for download.
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The Post-growth Group at UiB (13.03.2024)
This post looks at the new student led group looking at the socioeconomic concepts of post-growth and degrowth and how they relate to System Dynamics. It provides insight on how students can engage more deeply in the System Dynamics methodology outside of the classroom and relate it to issues of sustainability, a major focus for many students in this program.
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Siddharth Sareen named Nils Klim Laureate 2024 (12.03.2024)
Today it was announced that CET Professor II Siddharth Sareen is the Nils Klim Laureate 2024 for his work in environmental social sciences.

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