News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

In a new work, comparative politics scholar Hakan Sicakkan shines light on the European public sphere.

Students, anthropologists and other invited guests had found their way to the University of Bergen for this year’s Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture held by Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

On 9 December Espen Helgesen from the Department of Social Anthropology defended his thesis.

Consumption of fish and its contribution to the diets, especially of low income populations and vulnerable groups, offers important means for improving nutrition. Despite this, fish is strikingly missing from strategies for reduction of nutrient deficiency, for example among pregnant and lactating women, children and poor people.

New UiB digital-research laboratory makes its debut

Comparative politics professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten finds fossil-fuel workers support renewable energy while opposing constraints on oil and gas.

- Diverse groups are more likely to succeed.

November 1 the project "Adoption as a child welfare measure" is starting up at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory.