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Norwegian-Brazilian partnerships in teaching and research development (17.02.2021)
How can we better understand the gendered dimensions of marine economies and environmental sustainability? I invited Associate Professor and project leader Iselin Åsedotter Strønen for a coffee and a conversation to elucidate the core focus of her new teaching- and research development project, ENMARINE.
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Realistic Expectations and Prosocial Behavioural Intentions to the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic (05.02.2021)
A recent publication by Bjørn Sætrevik employs data collected through the Norwegian Citizen Panel to study how Norwegians experienced the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CET at Day Zero 2021 (03.02.2021)
CET researchers are active in several workshops at this year's Day Zero. Be sure to register for the event happening on February 10th, 2021.
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Language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in regional and international organizations? (02.02.2021)
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Researcher combines lab and panel data (29.01.2021)
This recent publication by Nina Serdarevic presents data obtained from both DIGSSCORE's Citizen Lab and the Norwegian Citizen Panel.
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Three projects granted CET Accelerator seed funding (27.01.2021)
Anand Bhopal, Esmeralda Colombo and Siddharth Sareen have recently been granted seed funding through the CET Accelerator funding scheme. CET congratulates these young researcher talents on their successful applications!
Associate Professor Eeva Mauring
Eeva Mauring appointed as CEPR Research Affiliate (26.01.2021)
The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is a network of economists who collaborate through the Centre on a wide range of policy-related research projects and dissemination activities.
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Explaining landscape preference (22.01.2021)
Xiaozi Liu et al. demonstrate how public preferences can be mapped via a national landscape survey.
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Who is responsible for protecting us against the consequences of climate change? (22.01.2021)
New data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel show who people think are responsible for protecting us against more extreme weather and other future consequences of climate change.
Zuzana Murdoch
How does changes in leadership positions affect staff attitudes? (20.01.2021)
Zuzana Murdoch co-authors a new article looking at how staff attitudes are affected by changes in top leadership positions.
Per Lægreid
ICT use in Central Government (19.01.2021)
Per Lægreid co-authors in a newly published article in the International Journal of Public Administration about the use of ICT tools in the central government.
New Research Project about Covid-19, climate change and media use
New research project about Covid-19, climate change and media use (08.01.2021)
Researchers from The University of Bergen have received funding for the project “Media Use in Crisis Situations: Resolving Information Paradoxes, Comparing Climate Change and the COVID-19 Pandemic”.
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Reaching for a new sense of connection: soft atheism and ‘patch and make do’ spirituality amongst nonreligious European millennials (08.01.2021)
In surveys a growing proportion of Europeans, especially young people, claim they have ‘no religion’, yet only a minority of these say they are atheist or agnostic; what then, do they believe, and how do their beliefs influence how they live their lives? And as religion’s influence diminishes for these groups, what takes the place of the psychological and social functions once performed by... Read more
Silicom Valley og marken over mediene
New book about tech giants and news consumption (23.12.2020)
Nordicom is out with a new book. “Silicon Valley och makten över medierna” is written by Carl-Gustav Linden where he deals with the tech giants’ power over our news consumption.
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Record funding for partnerships in the South (22.12.2020)
Building on years of collaboration with institutions of research and higher education, the University of Bergen ends year with funding for a record number of new projects with partner institutions in the South.
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Seven new positions at MediaFutures (18.12.2020)
Activities at MediaFutures are increasing and the center has just announced seven new positions. The positions in questions are all recruitement positions within media studies and information science.
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Good Public Governance in a Global Pandemic (16.12.2020)
Per Lægreid with chapter in special IIAS-report on the public governance of the COVID-19 pandemic
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The twin transition: Digitisation and low-carbon energy transitions (15.12.2020)
Digitisation enables the electrification of mobility. How can we ensure this transition is just? CET researcher Siddharth Sareen examines how digitisation can enable socially inclusive energy transitions in a new EU project.

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