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Masterstudenter i Musehagen
Wish you a good summer! (26.06.2020)
Head of Department, Peter Andersen, summarize a special spring semester.
Hallvard Moe og Brita Ytre-Arne
Moe and Ytre-Arne leads new project on media experiences (25.06.2020)
The project is a part of the new Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI)
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Highlights from 2019 (17.06.2020)
We are pleased to share with you the CET Annual Report 2019. The centre keeps growing its activities, and in 2019 there were a good number of publications, including some high-impact journals. Read our highlights pamphlet below and download the full annual report.
Master students in the Museum Garden.
Master's theses in Geography 2020 (03.06.2020)
20 students have submitted their theses this semester.
Portrait of Bruce Kapferer
An energetic and indefatigable octogenerian (03.06.2020)
An indefatigable fieldworker and a firm critic of facile and commonsensical understandings of global phenomena, our own Prof. Bruce Kapferer turns 80 on 4 June 2020!
Screenshot of online teaching
COVID19 can’t stop remote sensing (27.05.2020)
Over the last month, 16 students have participated in GEO316 Practical Skills in Remote Sensing.
BSRS live
Bergen Summer Research School goes digital (26.05.2020)
Bergen Summer Research School opened 8 June with a record number of participants. Together with some of Bergen's best research milieus, they will explore how their research can contribute to solving global challenges. This year they meet online - watch the many public lectures on YouTube.
Virtual Reality
What are the prospects of immersive journalism? (13.05.2020)
How will news stories be told with new technologies such as 360 degree video, virtual reality and augmented reality? What are the opportunities for new, groundbreaking stories, and what ethical issues are put into in flux? That is amongst the questions asked by researchers at the University of Bergen in new book by Routledge.
freight
NHH & CET unravelling the freight logistics tangle. (06.05.2020)
Urban population growth, internet shopping and demand for fast delivery services are increasing the amount of freight travelling through our cities. How we plan freight logistics is an important measure in creating sustainable cities.
Front page of Political Studies
Moe & Holst with article on deliberative systems theory (04.05.2020)
The article reviews studies of online democracy in Norway and argues for a more nuanced theory.
Brita Ytre-Arne
Brita Ytre-Arne awarded professorship. Congratulations! (04.05.2020)
Ung gutt spiller dataspill
New research project on what it means to be a gamer (04.05.2020)
Researching young men, gaming and identity
Groupwork
Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2020 (29.04.2020)
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions. Deadline 20 June, 2020.
Prof. Broch-Due utnevnt som meldem av DG
Vigdis Broch-Due appointed new member of the DNRF board (16.04.2020)
Professor Vigdis Broch-Due has been appointed to the board of the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. The term started on January 1. 2020, after nomination by the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters.
Atingting
Atingting holds the fort (25.03.2020)
At a locked-down University of Bergen, staff and students are not able to access university campus. Teaching, science and administrative tasks are taking place online. In our absence the iconic drum Atingting from Ambrym island in Vanuatu stands lonely guard at the Department.
image of a digital meeting and presentation
CET Lunches are now virtual! (24.03.2020)
CET has adjusted to the new situation we are in and moved our weekly lunch seminars online. Connect with our network every Wednesday!
Hakan Sicakkan
A vital moment to study international refugee protection (23.03.2020)
UiB professor Hakan G. Sicakkan’s newly launched project Protect will study refugees’ rights to international protection. A vital moment for projects like Protect, UN Refugee Agency says.
Presentation by Dr Austin D. Ablo
Joint public lecture at the University of Ghana (11.03.2020)
The Department of Geography at the University of Ghana and the Urban Enclaving Futures project arranged in February 2020 a successful public lecture at the Department of Geography and Resource Development.

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