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  • 25.01.2013 14:06
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    Global and Development related Research

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

  • 22.03.2013 13:39
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    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.

  • 17.04.2013 09:18
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    Analysing the Linguistic Construction of Poverty in Latin American Media

    A new multidisciplinary project seeks to uncover how texts produce and reproduce notions of poverty in agenda setting media in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.

  • 21.06.2011 13:19 BERGEN SUMMER RESEARCH SCHOOL
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    Academic Transformers

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

  • 23.01.2013 11:22
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    CROP Newsletter December 2012

    The newsletter is a way of sharing with CROPNet, colleagues and friends the events and news that involved CROP during the second semester of 2012.

  • 10.08.2011 14:47 POVERTY
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    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.

  • 08.02.2013 09:41
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    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.

  • 23.01.2013 11:54
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    Poverty & the MDGs - A critical assessment and a look forward

    This new CROP Poverty Brief discuss how accurate the assessments of poverty reduction are, and if it is analytically correct to credit the MDGs with being a major driver of poverty reduction.

  • 28.06.2011 13:02 GLOBALISATION
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    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.

  • 20.06.2013 07:50 BERGEN SUMMER RESEARCH SCHOOL 2013
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    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.

  • 12.10.2012 10:53
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    New CROP Poverty Brief: The Social Protection Floor

    Member of CROP Scientific Committee Prof. Bob Deacon argues that the UN Social Protection Floor Initiative is one of the most important developments in global policy in recent years.

  • 19.06.2012 09:57 BERGEN SUMMER RESEARCH SCHOOL 2012
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    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.

  • 30.10.2012 11:52
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    Development and Sustainability Science

    The Challenge of Transdisciplinary Knowledge for Social Change

  • 23.02.2011 14:03 Bergen Summer Research School
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    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.

  • 02.06.2010 08:26 News
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    - Fight against poverty is cosmetic

    Thomas Pogge believes that politicians juggle numbers to appear as successful combaters of poverty.

  • 15.02.2013 15:03
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    The Role of Religion in Conceptualising and Dealing With Poverty

    How does religion play into the conceptualisation of poverty, and how can it inspire or inhibit political action? This was the subject of a recent conference in Bergen.

  • 08.01.2013 13:04
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    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.

  • 10.06.2013 10:38 CROP AT 20
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    A world without poverty

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

  • 09.01.2013 09:41
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    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).