PhD News

PhD News is newsletter made by the Department of Research Management. The target group is staff working with PhD.-education, supervisors as well as PhD.-candidates.

Climate research school

The Geophysical Institute is the host of The Norwegian Research School in Climate Dynamics.

Research School Blog

Seminars - Guest lectures

Graduate School of Clinical and Developmental Psychology (CDP) will on a regular basis offer seminars with national and international guest lecturers. The seminars are open to PhD candidates.

Norwegian-Swedish Research School in Biosystematics

Norwegian Natural History Museums join forces with Swedish institutions to establish research schools in biosystematics

Gambler’s Paradise

Since the division of Cyprus in 1974, one of the few arenas for social contact between the Greek and the Turkish has been the casinos of the island nation.

BSRS 2013: application deadline 12 March

The sixth Bergen Summer Research School will focus on food as a global development challenge.

Local forum, global issues

Next week 75 students and young scientists from all over the world gather for the fourth annual Bergen Summer Research School. Once again the aim is to focus on global issues, and to promote dialogue and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

Academic Transformers

The higher education system needs to transform itself to solve the global challenges of poverty reduction, health policy, and climate change.

Research focus on Migration

Now in its fifth year, Bergen Summer Research School will this time focus on transnational migration. The application deadline is 15 February.

Poverty: the truth behind the numbers

Professor Thomas Pogge opened this year’s Bergen Summer Research School with a keynote lecture, where he put the fight against hunger into perspective.

Candidates Offer Different Visions for Strengthening Global and Development-Related Research

At a debate on 19th March both rectoral candidate teams committed to securing and strengthening global and development-related research at UiB.

Culture vs commerce: the eternal fight

Economics professor Victor Norman was in a provocative mood when he addressed the students and young researchers at the Bergen Summer Research School this afternoon.

A local global forum

This year the Bergen Summer Research School takes place for the fifth time. Once again, issues of globalisation are discussed in this interdisciplinary forum. We traced the roots of the summer school with founding mother Kjersti Fløttum.

Summer Here Kids

It was an emotional farewell for students and lecturers alike as this year’s Bergen Summer Research School came to an end last Friday.

The world comes to UiB

Norms, values, language and culture is the theme for the 2011 Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS). This international, interdisciplinary research School attracts participants from all over the world. The deadline for applications is getting closer.

Research presentations from 2011

Researchers from all three clinical departments (Clinical Medicine, Medicine, and Surgical sciences) are hereby invited to present their work to fellow researchers and the general audience. If you have presented a poster or had an oral presentation at a scientific meeting or a conference in 2011, you are welcome to submit your work. It is possible to submit several abstracts, but each abstract can only be submitted once (either as a poster or as an oral presentation).

Ny bok: Lars Sætre, Patrizia Lombardo og Anders M. Gullestad (eds.): Exploring Textual Action

Exploring Textual Action spør korleis vi analyserer litteratur, teater og film etter den performative vendinga, og initierer grunnforsking på performativitet (textual action), topografiar/rom og konvergeringa mellom sjangrar og kunstformer. Einskildartiklane er nærlesingar av ei rekkje kunstverk, media og kultur i historisk og nyare modernitet.

Migration narratives

The subject of the fifth Bergen Summer Research School is «Transnational Migration and Global Development».

Summer researchers have arrived on campus

115 PhD-students from 42 countries have arrived to take part in Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS). This year's theme is global health.