Global and Development related Research

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

SPIRE

The Strategic Programme for International Research and Education (SPIRE).

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

Extreme Weather Report

A new UN report shows that the number of extreme weather events has increased, in part because of man-made climate change.

Gambler’s Paradise

Since the division of Cyprus in 1974, one of the few arenas for social contact between the Greek and the Turkish has been the casinos of the island nation.

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.

The ethics of global health

A research project looking at how to achieve more equal health distribution on a global basis has received a grant from Worldwide Universities Network.

Local forum, global issues

Next week 75 students and young scientists from all over the world gather for the fourth annual Bergen Summer Research School. Once again the aim is to focus on global issues, and to promote dialogue and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

Academic Transformers

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

Academia meets the community

This year’s Christie conference is just around the corner. Wednesday 25 April Grieghallen will resound with conversations inspired by panel discussions and lectures.

Preserving Sudan’s television archive

The University of Bergen (UiB) is set to lead a project to scan, digitise and preserve the audio-visual archives of the Sudan Radio and Television Corporation.

Redefining poverty

– If we are to fight poverty, we need to communicate more clearly through the media and to get across that poverty is a human rights issue, says Alberto Cimadamore.

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.

A foreign welcome

More than 500 international students arrived in Bergen last week to start or continue their studies at the University of Bergen.

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.

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.

Arctic science goes tropical

Climate change in Asia is the latest focus area for researchers at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.

Culture vs commerce: the eternal fight

Economics professor Victor Norman was in a provocative mood when he addressed the students and young researchers at the Bergen Summer Research School this afternoon.

A local global forum

This year the Bergen Summer Research School takes place for the fifth time. Once again, issues of globalisation are discussed in this interdisciplinary forum. We traced the roots of the summer school with founding mother Kjersti Fløttum.

Summer Here Kids

It was an emotional farewell for students and lecturers alike as this year’s Bergen Summer Research School came to an end last Friday.

Arabic to the masses

This week’s international Arabic workshop could hardly take place at a more suitable time, given the interest in Islam and the uprisings in the Middle East.

The world comes to UiB

Norms, values, language and culture is the theme for the 2011 Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS). This international, interdisciplinary research School attracts participants from all over the world. The deadline for applications is getting closer.

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.

Celebrating 25 years together

A delegation from UiB headed by Rector Sigmund Grønmo visited Makerere University to celebrate 25 years of collaboration between the two universities.

Migration narratives

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

Design success for UiB and partners

Thousands of guests were attracted by the stunning design of the UH Nett Vest stand at the EAIE conference in Copenhagen.

Iron Man

Mahmoud Suliman Bashir’s love for the weapons and ornaments of the Iron Age made him one of the stars of the BBC series “Lost Kingdoms of Africa”.

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.

Rewarding academic quality

Ancient Philosophy and Global Health may be two quite different subjects, but these two courses nevertheless share UiB’s Owl Award for 2012.

Work in the Balance

The Chinese are not content with economic growth alone. To create the perfect society they now want to learn how to improve their quality of life too.

Fleeing the water

– Three hundred million people will become climate refugees by 2050. This will lead to political changes in Europe, thinks Atiq Rahman, director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.