Actionable knowledge to meet global challenges
How can your research contribute to solving global challenges? How do you design, conduct and communicate research to stimulate social change? And how do you create actionable knowledge?
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The annual Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) is an interdisciplinary venue for PhD candidates who want to explore some of the greatest challenges of our time. This summer we will look at the interfaces between science, society and global challenges.
Bergen, Norway, from 8-18 June, 2020
Five parallel courses will explore key global challenges, including climate governance, sustainable cities, media & democracy, food systems, and migrant health.
Together with cross-cutting keynotes and social events, the courses will help 100 PhD candidates to develop skills to create actionable knowledge.
Scientific Director for BSRS 2020 is Professor Håvard Haarstad, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET), Department of Geography.
Our courses this summer:
Cities in climate and energy transformations
Global climate governance regime
Determinants of migrants’ health
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Bergen Summer Research School is a joint effort by the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Chr. Michelsen Institute, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, and the University of Bergen.
BSRS courses 2020
Online, 8-18 June, 2020
Cities in climate and energy transformations
Siddharth Sareen, CET/UiB
Håvard Haarstad, CET/UiB
Global climate governance regime
Siri Gloppen, LawTransform/UiB
Danielle Hanna Rached, Fundacao Getulio Vargas Law School
Determinants of migrants’ health
Esperanza Diaz, UiB
Global food systems
Ragnhild Overå, UiB
Peter Andersen, UiB
Media for democracy?
Hallvard Moe, UiB
Jan Fredrik Hovden, UiB
