News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

New Collaborative Project Explores Trust in Research (27.02.2024)

Professor Hallvard Moe is participating in a new project on trust in research led by the Institute for Social Research

When The Elderly Navigate the Digital Landscape (27.02.2024)

New research from MUCS uncover the challenges faced by elderly people as they navigate the internet and digital services in their everyday lives.

Recognition Theory and Public Connection (26.02.2024)

Leif Hemming Pedersen visited PREPARE for a seminar on Axel Honneths Recognition Theory.

Two GOV staff members visited our new Erasmus partner (22.02.2024)

Postdoctoral Fellow Juliana Tappe Ortiz and Associate Professor Corentin Poyet participated to the "6th international week" of the Catholic University of Lille.

First Session in Bergen for the new Executive Master in Public Administration (21.02.2024)

Head of the course Lise Rykkja and Jill Loga welcomed the first cohort of leaders from the ministries and affiliated units to Bergen and to the political science course on wicked problems, collaboration, and coordination in the public sector.

Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections (09.02.2024)

As part of the Breaking Bad Understanding Backlash to Democracy in Africa, Lise Rakner with Marja Hinfelaar , Sishuwa Sishuwa and Nic van de Walle (2023) published the following article in a special issue of Journal of Eastern African 大象传媒 focusing on Zambia's most recent elections.

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Sustainability in focus: Should researchers be activists? (01.02.2024)

芦We are well aware that a significant change is necessary. We have the knowledge that is needed. Now we must figure out what to do,禄 professor H氓vard Haarstad at UiB says. The seventh SDG Conference in Bergen will be held from 7.-9. February. We ask: What should be the role of universities?

Leading the way for subnational voting (01.02.2024)

Arjan Schakel鈥檚 project is coming to an end: 鈥揥e have cracked open the black box of regional voting.