Global and Development related Research

Global and development-related research is one of two priority areas for research at the University of Bergen.

PhD SV: VITSV900 2013: 12-.15 February, 2013 (plus a start-up course in Bergen)

New book: Climate, Affluence, and Culture

As a warm-blooded species, humans thrive in temperate climates and must take more adaptive measures if they are living in colder or hotter regions of the world. But how do human societies create links between climate and culture? And what cultures do they create?

BSRS 2013: application deadline 12 March

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

UiB Global to Award Scholarships for the Development of Project Applications

A new call for applications offers an opportunity to prospective post-doctoral researchers who plan to develop a project in the spring of 2013. The deadline is 15 April.

Academic Transformers

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

Broad involvement and many success stories in global health

Many Norwegian stakeholders work actively to improve the access to and the quality of health services at a global scale. The Centre for International Health is one of them.

Celebrating the First Open Access Textbook on African Neurology

When the neurologist William Howlett could not find medical textbooks his students in Tanzania could recognise themselves in, he decided to write his own. On 14 December the UiB hosts a seminar to mark the occasion.

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.

UiB Global Launches Newsletter to Highlight Research on Development Challenges

Global and development-related research is one of UiB’s two priority areas. UiB Global's newsletter highlights the scope and diversity of this field at the University of Bergen.

Strong UiB Presence in NORHED Applications

The University of Bergen is a project partner in more than a quarter of the applications sent to Norad.

BSRS 2013: Food as a Global Development Challenge

The Bergen Summer Research School 2013 will take place from June 17th to June 29th. The deadline for applications has been extended to 17th of March.

A primer in life and death

Who receives medical care when resources are scarce? To make those hard decisions, researchers at UiB have worked on a guide with the World Health Organization.

Poverty is a complex issue

– There is no simple or unambigious connection between population growth and poverty, according to Vigdis Broch-Due. Her research in northern Kenya questions stereotypical views of poverty.

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.

66 NORHED applications from UiB

More than 20 per cent of the 300 applications to Norad were submitted by the University of Bergen.

Facing up to non-communicable diseases

University of Bergen researchers have contributed to an international declaration on the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Now the UN is discussing the issue.

A Life’s Work: Building Norway’s Largest Library on Development Studies

The leader of the CMI library and the Bergen Resource Centre for International Development has retired after more than forty years, but students, researchers and the public will continue to enjoy the fruits of her labour.

Building international ties that last

Rector Sigmund Grønmo looks with satisfaction at how UiB has contributed to capacity building at our collaborating universities in the south.

Migration narratives

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

A promising start for 25 UiB projects in the NORHED programme

More than a quarter of the projects which have been granted seed funding by Norad have the University of Bergen as their main partner.

In Restless Cairo, a Workshop on Poverty and Social Transformations

An international workshop on “The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South” took place in the Egyptian Capital, December 10-12.

Academia: a brake on UN development goals

Creating transdisciplinary dialogue between academia and experts from outside will help in the work to achieve the United Nation’s millennium development goals.

A world without poverty

CROP works to challenge a status quo that keeps 1.2 billion of the world’s population in extreme poverty.

Women's situation and human rights under militarisation of society: the case of Sri Lanka

The University of Bergen, through its involvment in the Scholars at Risk Network, present a lecture by SAR Scholar and human rights defender Sunila Abeysekera. The lecture is part of Scholars at Risk Norway's Speaker Series.

Bridging Disciplines to Enhance Human and Environmental Well-Being

A new transdisciplinary project led by Professor Maurice Mittelmark at the University of Bergen has received funding from the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).