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We have two new research assistants joining our team this year. Hanna Fylkesnes has a master from the Department of Psychosocial Science and Hans Martin Lundgaard Corneliussen from the Department of Comparative Politics.
GRIP has several miniseries and projects which are open to contributions. Please check this site for our most recent calls.
A one year position as senior consultant is available. Application deadline February 13th.
The article by Tobias Bach, Jarle Trondal, and Jacob Aars provides a summary of some preliminary findings in the first wave of the Norwegian Panel of Public Administrators.
With responses from the Norwegian Citizen Panel, researchers at the University of Bergen have found that the restrictions on social life and interaction have been the most burdensome.
The Department of Economics, University of Bergen, has a vacancy for a PhD research scholar position in economics. The position is open for any field of economics or finance and is for a period of 4 years, of which 25% will be dedicated to teaching, supervision, and administrative tasks at the Department.
Ida Kvilhaug Sekanina has started as a PhD candidate at the MUCS project.
Aksel Sundström, Associate professor (docent) and senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, gave a short lecture on Youth without representation.
Lena Wängnerud, professor at the University of Gothenburg, gave a short lecture on Cleaners from Venus? Gender and anticorruption stereotypes across European regions The presentation builds on a paper with colleagues Monika Bauhr og Nicholas Charron.
Bo Rothstein, professor at the University of Gothenburg, gave a short lecture on Controlling Corruption: The Social Contract Approach. The presentation builds on Rothstein's new book by the same name.
Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz, professor at Aarhus University, gave a short lecture on Interest groups across different political arenas: the role of group type, resources and context. The presentation was based on work from the INTERARENA project - Interest Groups across Political Arenas, including the paper From Policy Interest to Media Appearance: Interest Group Activity and Media Bias, co-... Read more
Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture Symposium “Stein Rokkan’s Legacy: The Past and Future of Comparative Politics” was held on Friday, October 29th. The symposium follows the 2021 Stein Rokkan memorial lecture on Thursday and commemorates the 100th birthday of Stein Rokkan The symposium re-evaluated Rokkan’s work on nation-building, citizenship, democratisation, mobilisation and comparative politics... Read more
– We can now likely improve our understandings about the typology of family caregiving, children’s safety and well-being, and state roles in supporting both. So says Principal Investigator Marit Skivenes as the research project “Child Protection Systems Across the World" has been granted funding.