News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences
Congratulations to Jill Loga, Laila Nordstrand Berg and Kjersti Halvorsen for their new book release!
KODEM announces a position as research coordinator in the national KODEM research infrastructure.
The national research infrastructure KODEM calls for applications to pre project funding with a deadline 6th of May 2025 at 14:00. Do you have questions you want to pose to one of our surveys? Read and apply to this call.
A new working paper explains how such a study could be approached, and provides access to a few basic models programmed in Python.
Corentin Poyet has contributed to a special issue on 2024 European Parliament Election with a piece on Finland.
The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters' awards are given to young researchers in Norway who have documented outstanding talent, originality and effort, and who have achieved exceptionally good results within their field.
Subina Shrestha defended her PhD thesis on 17.12.2024 at the University of Bergen. The thesis title is Sustainability Beyond Optimization - Public-private actor interactions in urabn logistics governance.
Researchers Hallvard Moe, Emilija Gagrcin and Andreas Roaldsnes receive over 1.5 million from the Norwegian Media Authority for the projects MedBarn and "The family as a source of media literacy"
In the spring semester of 2024, Charles Haines stepped out of his comfort zone in Chapel Hill to study comparative politics at the University of Bergen. Read about his exchange experience here.
News about climate change can seem intangible and difficult to grasp. Two new studies reveal how we understand and interpret climate news.
The article finds significant counterevidence for one of the key claims of the administrative burden framework in the official data from Germany.
The University of Bergen (UiB) will host another seven international research fellows after a very successful application round in this year’s competition for MSCA funding from the EU. The grants will fund the researchers' stay at UiB for two years.
The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.
In the side event “License to Operate – The Arctic Energy Transition” at Arctic Frontiers 2025, stakeholders from across sectors joined forces to discuss the challenges lying ahead for the Arctic and the green transition of energy markets in a geopolitically challenging situation.
PhD candidates Anja Tucker, Andrew Newman and Postdoctoral fellow Ragnhild Nilsson have recently taken up their positions at the department and are all part of Aaron Spitzers ERC Starting Grant project "Contested frontiers: Understanding the metapolitics of settler-state peripheries" (ConFront)
Veera Ylipieti graduated with a master's degree in Geographies of Sustainable Development in 2022. She is now working as climate and energy specialist in Regional Council of Lapland.
Professor Andreas Opdahl, one of Norway's leading experts in artificial intelligence (AI), is spearheading an ambitious initiative: Insight, a research center focused on AI in local democratic ecosystems. With a clear objective to develop technology that enhances local democracy, researchers and industry partners are now seeking funding from the Research Council of Norway.
The edited volume "Egalitarian Dynamics: Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process", has recently been published, offering fresh perspectives on the anthropologist’s enduring influence. Edited by renowned scholars Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold, the book delves into Turner’s concept of liminality and its relevance to contemporary social dynamics... Read more
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