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Energy anthropology network
Launch of Energy Anthropology Network (01.03.2017)
Bringing together scientists and practitioners with common interest on energy, and to support new approaches to energy questions is at the core of the new Energy Anthropology Network that was launched at University of Bergen in March.
Michaël Tatham and Yvette Peters
Assessing democracy in the ‘Bergen tradition’ (18.02.2017)
New work by Michaël Tatham and Yvette Peters at the Department of Comparative Politics grapples with European changes.
UiB to participate in world-leading media innovation project (16.02.2017)
With support from the Research Council of Norway, the graphics company Vizrt and the University of Bergen are developing a world-leading tool for online video editing.
Workshop with mobile journalist Yusuf Omar at the University of Bergen in Norway in January 2017.
How mobile took over the media – and education (14.02.2017)
The mobile phone has become the journalist's primary tool. New technologies are being integrated in the journalism and new media studies at the University of Bergen.
Stefan Dahlberg
‘Survey methodology is always important’ (09.02.2017)
New comparative politics associate professor, Stefan Dahlberg, is an expert at gathering, analyzing public opinion.
Photo of a taxi, used to accompany a news article about the so-called sharing economy.
How to regulate and tax the sharing economy (07.02.2017)
A Norwegian government committee looking at the sharing economy proposes that sharing platforms such as Uber, Airbnb and others should be subject to regulations and taxation.
Complexity Results for Aggregating Judgments using Scoring or Distance-Based Procedures. (07.02.2017)
Illustrasjon
Crisis or Chronic Strain? Gender and Age Differences in Sickness Absence following Early Spousal Loss (31.01.2017)
PhD candidate Bo Wignes has published an article on effects of spousal loss in Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
What do the rocks say? (27.01.2017)
A new film category at the department opens with a paper by Professor Olaf H. Smedal given at the AAA Conference in 2014. With the help of anthropological film producers and colleagues Rolf Scott and Frode Storaas, the paper is now available as a screen version.
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Welfare and digitalization (27.01.2017)
Hans-Tore Hansen, Liv Syltevik (UiB) and Kjetil Lundberg (UNI Rokkan) have published an article titled "Digitalization, Street-Level Bureaucracy and Welfare Users' Experiences" in Journal of Social Policy & Administration
Illustrasjon
Class and food (27.01.2017)
Johs. Hjellbrekke and Vegard Jarness, in cooperation with Magne Flemmen from University of Oslo, have recently published an article in Sociology. The title is "Class, Culture and Culinary Tastes: Cultural Distinctions and Social Class Divisions in Contemporary Norway."
Photo of cows in a green, green field.
EU funding for climate dynamics project (26.01.2017)
Birgit Kopainsky is partner in a project about sustainability and resilience in European agriculture. The project recently received more than 4.8 million Euros from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme.
Ice flakes adrift in the Arctic seas under a grey-clouded sky.
Social scientists strengthening their climate engagement (16.01.2017)
The sociologist Gisle Andersen wants the climate debate to be viewed more from a societal aspect. For this to happen, he believes the social sciences should get more actively involved in both research and the public debate.
A Balancing Act
Mining experiences shapes the petroleum sector in Tanzania (13.01.2017)
New study in Tanzania shows that previous experiences in the extractive industries are a central factor for public sentiments and debates on resource nationalism and local content in the petroleum sector.
Johanna Söderström
All about keeping the peace (13.01.2017)
Comparative politics associate professor Johanna Söderström's study of state building was inspired by experiences in Africa.
Social media influencer Yusuf Omar and Professor Astrid Gynnild from the University of Bergen at the Mobile spotting in the media conference in Bergen on 12 January 2017.
The rise of the selfie journalist (12.01.2017)
Selfie journalist and social media influencer Yusuf Omar inspired the audience at the Mobile spotting in the media-conference in Bergen.
Jana Birke Belschner
Comparative politics researcher examines diversification of parties (10.01.2017)
“It is going to be interesting to look at tools for achieving greater political diversity,” says Jana Birke Belschner.
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What drives economic preferences of regional bureaucrats? (06.01.2017)
Comparative politics professor Michaël Tatham reveals new insights into decisions on the European recovery.

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