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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.
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Seminar on microcelebrities' online political engagement (30.06.2023)
New PREPARE postdoctoral researcher Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen explains turkish political twitter.
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Are you a PhD-candidate at the UiB and want to spend two months in Brazil? (30.06.2023)
Are you working on a PhD thematically oriented towards environmental sustainability, environmental justice, ocean studies or marine economies?
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Training future leaders in artificial intelligence (27.06.2023)
Over the next 5 years, a large interdisciplinary project at UiB will advance the frontier of knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on reliable and ethical development in the field. The program is supported by the EU and aims to train 19 researchers from various disciplines to become the future leaders in AI research and technology.
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Llamada para presentaciones academicas: Mujeres y mar: ENMARINE 2023 (22.06.2023)
(versão em português abaixo) Se invita a investigadores académicos a presentar una propuesta para una presentación académica para la conferencia de lanzamiento de ENMARINE, que tendrá lugar en Bergen los días 26 y 27 de octubre de 2023. Es la primera de un total de tres conferencias organizadas como parte del proyecto “Sostenibilidad ambiental, economías marinas y desigualdades socioeconómicas de... Read more
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Vacancy as associate professor (19.06.2023)
There is a vacancy for a permanent position as associate professor in Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
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Communicating with the people - where the people are (13.06.2023)
Jens Kjeldsen argues that much of what is considered traditional communication – such as lectures and presentations – is invisible, because it takes place in forums that are not public to everyone.
Welcome week for master students in System Dynamics (12.06.2023)
We welcome all new master students!
Welcome week for master students in Geography (12.06.2023)
We welcome all new master students!
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Dis/connecting among Norwegian and Portuguese teenagers (09.06.2023)
Young people struggle with permanent online connection that is associated with their generation. Ph.d fellow Mehri Agai has studied teenagers’ affective relationship to connectivity and disconnectivity, and how it is socioculturally influenced by the media, family, and peers.
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Children's speeches (06.06.2023)
Member of the Research Group Ida Andersen takes a closer look at the Children's New Year's speech from 2022 and discusses how children's speeches can and should be evaluated.
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A face-to-face summer research school, at last! (05.06.2023)
This week, more than 70 PhD students from all over the world assemble in Bergen for the annual Bergen Summer Research Schools—for the first time since the pandemic.
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She Studies How Valuable the Information Facebook has on You Is (02.06.2023)
Should you 'like' everything you feel like liking on Facebook, or hold back? It depends, says associate professor in economics, Eeva Mauring.
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Article on algorithm-driven front pages wins prize (26.05.2023)
Norsk Medietidskrift (NMT) has conferred the Research Paper of the Year award to ph.d fellow Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus.
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Infomedia signs memorandum of understanding (25.05.2023)
In the end of May Infomedia signed a memorandum of understanding with units at Dublin City University and Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City.
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Forskning til Folket! (24.05.2023)
In this podcast, keen mediators and experienced professionals share their best tips on how you can work with mediation. Use their advice and expertise as a tool in your own communication work!
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Master's theses in geography 2023 (24.05.2023)
We have two deadlines this year: 1 June and 1 December. Congratulations to all who completed the degree this year!
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Jens E. Kjeldsen spoke for the Norwegian media educators during Media Days (23.05.2023)
The Media Teacher Seminar was May 10th, and took place in Grieghallen in Bergen. The seminar's themes revolved around "New technology in the classroom" and "Courage and freedom of speech".

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