News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

- Norwegian readers don't avoid political news (31.08.2023)

Compared to many other countries, Norwegian readers do not shy away from news about politics. This and other insights from the Reuters Digital News Report and its Norwegian sub-report were presented by Janne Bjørgan at Fritt Ord.

Battling deepening inequality: GRIP’s Annual Report 2022 embraces collaborative and multidimensional research (28.08.2023)

March/Olsen Honorary Lecture (H23): Professor Walter W. Powell (25.08.2023)

On Friday, August 25th 2023, the Department of Government was pleased to host this year's March / Olsen Honorary Lecture with Professor Walter W. (Woody) Powell as the distinguished speaker. The title of the lecture by Professor Powell was called "The Iron Cage Redux - Looking Back and Forward".

New PhD course in Causal Inference with Observational Data (22.08.2023)

On 26-27 September Dr. Thomas Däubler will hold a two-day workshop that provides an introduction to statistical methods for causal inference with observational data

News in crisis situations (17.08.2023)

New paper by Hallvard Moe, Torgeir Uberg Nærland and Brita Ytre-Arne discusses people’s news experiences before, during and after societal crisis situations.

NordMedia23 Panel on democratic theory (10.08.2023)

As part of the NordMedia conference 2023 in Bergen, PREPARE organized a panel on the project's theoretical ambitions.

Lobbying on higher education issues in Western Europe - mapping of interest groups and intermediary structures (10.08.2023)

Who are the key actors in interest intermediation in higher education in Western Europe?

Monitoring and Measuring Emissions: The Habitable Air Project (02.08.2023)

The Habitable Air project introduces a new pilot study to identify, monitor, and measure community-level emissions. The pilot study, led by Dr. Kerry Chance, will employ air quality sensors placed in key household and institutional sites.