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The world is characterized by turbulence, crises and unruly problems, oftentimes increasing a ‘fear factor’ in citizens. At the same time, threats and crises have always been upon us in one form or another. This makes crisis management and societal security important for political leaders as well as public administration.

The Department of Comparative Politics has a new professor, but she’s no junior staffer. Until recently she was the University of Bergen’s second-in-command.

Benjamin Aubrey Robson started working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography in October. He will continue to research glaciers using remote sensing analyses, but will also focus on rock glaciers, degradation of permafrost, and how changes in the cryosphere are influencing water resources.

Department’s new lecturer brings creativity to the classroom.

The future - the orientation towards a time yet to come - is fundamental for understanding contemporary global society. Read more about the researchers here.

On 26 October 2017 Mads Solberg from the Department of Social Anthropology defended his thesis.

Henry Bartelet, a graduate from the European Master Program in System Dynamics, received an Honorable Mention, by the Dana Meadows Award committee at the 2017 International System Dynamics Conference.

Tonje and Tom explain the benefits of an ambassador project and beeing an exchange ambassador (english text)