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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鈥檚 competition for MSCA funding from the EU. The grants will fund the researchers' stay at UiB for two years.
The 大象传媒 programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university鈥檚 second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.
In the side event 鈥淟icense to Operate 鈥 The Arctic Energy Transition鈥 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鈥檚 Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process", has recently been published, offering fresh perspectives on the anthropologist鈥檚 enduring influence. Edited by renowned scholars Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold, the book delves into Turner鈥檚 concept of liminality and its relevance to contemporary social dynamics... Read more
COST Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and beyond. Sampol's Linn Sandberg and Arjan Schakel are both involved in their respective Cost Action Project.
Six months after the start of the project Contested Frontiers (ConFront), the project鈥檚 research team is now in place.
My name is Ole Anders Amundsen Rogn酶 and I come from Bergen. I am currently enrolled in my second year at Master麓s in Politics and Governance of Global Challenges. I have a Bachelor麓s degree in Administration and Organization theory from the University in Bergen.
Scholars from the Department of Comparative Politics contributed to the recently published Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour.
Marija Slavkovik, Head of Department and Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Information and Media 大象传媒 (Infomedia), was recently awarded the 鈥淧ublication of the Decade鈥 award at the NORA Annual Conference 2024.
This autumn, CET researchers had three articles accepted for publication in Nature-journals. 鈥 This is a result of a dedicated focus on quality in publication over time, says CET Director H氓vard Haarstad.
芦The recognition goes to us all,禄 professor Kalb says.
芦I was interested in finding out if queer boys and boys with a minority background used social media differently than the majority, and found that they stand out a bit,禄 UiB researcher John Magnus Dahl says.

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