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Gambling is Knut Rio's research
Meet the researcher: Knut Mikjel Rio (06.06.2017)
Professor Knut Rio's contribution to the Egalitarianism project concerns the question of wealth. Read more about his research project here.
Newroz Celebration in Slemani
Meet the researcher: Axel Rudi (06.06.2017)
PhD Candidate Axel has conducted transnational, multi-sited fieldwork among Kurdish people for a total of 21 months. Read more about his research project here.
Intentional communities in the US
Meet the researcher: Mari Hanssen Korsbrekke (06.06.2017)
PhD Candidate Mari's research revolves around intentional communities in the US. Read more about her project here.
African mining conference
Meet the researcher: Maria Dyveke Styve (06.06.2017)
PhD Candidate Maria Dyveke Styve's research revolves around the finance sector in London and the mining sector in South Africa. Read more about her project here.
From the performance Moana: the Rising of the Sea at Oseana Art Centre in Os, south of Bergen, in 2015.
UiB expands collaboration in the Pacific (01.06.2017)
At the United Nations Ocean Conference in the first week of June 2017, anthropologist Edvard Hviding established new partnerships between Norway and the Pacific island nations in marine and climate research.
Keyboard showing the shift key marked in blue with the imprint 鈥済overnment鈥�. Used to illustrate news article about e-government.
Does digitalisation enhance collaboration? (01.06.2017)
The international research project TROPICO has received support from the EU's programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020. The project is coordinated by the University of Bergen.
Rope-walker (illustration photo)
How do political parties address precarious labour? (19.05.2017)
SAMPOL researcher examines stances on 鈥榥on-standard employment鈥�
In October 2015, image of migrants on a boat are landing on the Greek island of Lesbos.
A renewed focus on migration (16.05.2017)
Professor Hakan G. Sicakkan wants to strengthen research on migration and transnationality in Bergen as part of the University of Bergen's focus on global challenges, which is one of three focus areas in the university's strategy for 2016-2022.
Social scientists St氓le Knudsen, Siri Gloppen and Hakan G. Sicakkan (from left) at the launch of the University of Bergen focus area, Global Challenges, in the University Aula on 15 May 2017.
New focus area successfully launched (15.05.2017)
The Faculty of Social Sciences contributes strongly within all three pillars of the focus area Global Challenges: global health, inequality and migration.
Kristof Vlaeminck
Opportunity at the UiB Brussels Office (09.05.2017)
The Department of Comparative Politics has a new collaboration in Brussels. BA students in Comparative Politics and European 大象传媒 are encouraged to apply for a semester at the UiB Brussels Office.
Norway-China Flag
Bridging the Chinese Wall (03.05.2017)
SAMPOL postdoc Hans J酶rgen G氓semyr to present at UiB conference on China-Norway collaboration
Bruce Kapferer
Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons (28.04.2017)
Egalitarianism and Experimentation in a new Global Reality. Read about the Egalitarianism Project here.
Professor Jan Erik Askildsen and Professor Ragnhild Louise Muriaas photographed outside the Faculty of Social Sciences building at the University of Bergen in April 2017.
New dean and vice-dean at faculty from autumn 2017 (27.04.2017)
Jan Erik Askildsen and Ragnhild Louise Muriaas want to strengthen the emphasis on external financing and facilitate the growth in the number of students at the faculty.
Political scientist Julie Ane 脴degaard Borge at the Bergen final of 2015 Science Grand Prix during the National Science Week in Norway.
Learn how to become a good communicator (26.04.2017)
Are you a PhD candidate? Do you want to improve your communication skills? Science Grand Prix offers you free advice on how to do just this.
Against exoticism
NEW BOOK: Against Exoticism: Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology (26.04.2017)
Professor Bruce Kapferer, at the Egalitarianism project and Professor Dimitrios Theodossopoulos from the University of Kent, have recently published a new edited book.
Portrait of Postdoctoral fellow Marija Slavkovik, Department of Information Science and Media 大象传媒, University of Bergen (UiB).
In love with the machines (25.04.2017)
Marija Slavkovik has always been attracted to machines. In fact, she has turned artificial intelligence into the core theme of her research.
Political scientist Yvette Peters from the University of Bergen photographed in Bergen鈥檚 City Hall in March 2017.
Fighting for democracy (21.04.2017)
Thomas Piketty's bestseller about capitalism made it clear to Yvette Peters what her next research project would focus on: political inequality.
Close-up of Dean Knut Helland from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen.
An invite to EU innovation (21.04.2017)
Research-based knowledge about society should be the focal point when addressing the major societal challenges in a turbulent era. The EU鈥檚 next research programme needs to take on these challenges.

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