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Externally funded research projects

Here we present some of the research projects at the Faculty of Humanities, primarily larger, ongoing projects with external funding.

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Research projects with external funding, managed by researchers at the Faculty of Humanities.

European Framework Programme (Horizon 2020)

European Research Council  (ERC)

The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields, on the basis of scientific excellence.

Projects funded by ERC:

Jill Walker Rettberg  |  Machine Vision  |  Consolidator Grant

  • Project Manager: Professor in Digital Culture, Jill Walker Rettberg
  • Project: MACHINE VISION – Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media
  • The aim of the project is to explore explores how new algorithmic images are affecting us as a society and as individuals.
  • Project period: 2018–2023
  • See project page

The Consolidator Grant is awarded by ERC to researchers with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.

Scott Bremer  |  CALENDARS  |  Starting Grant

  • Project Manager: Researcher Scott Bremer
  • Project: CALENDARS – Co-production of seasonal representations for adaptive institutions
  • The project will empirically explore the relationship between different institutions’ ideas of seasons and their successful adaptation through an in-depth comparative study in two local communities in Norway and New Zealand.
  • Project period: 2019–2024
  • See project page

The Starting Grant is awarded by ERC to researches with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.

Vadim Kimmelman  |  NONMANUAL  |  Starting Grant

  • Project Manager: Professor Vadim Kimmelman
  • Project: Fundamentals of formal properties of nonmanuals: A quantitative approach
  • The project will study facial expressions and body and head movements in five different sign languages, using large datasets, Computer Vision and advanced statistical analysis.
  • Project period: 2023–2027
  • More about the project

The Starting Grant is awarded by ERC to researches with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.

Marry-Anne Karlsen  |  ASYNOW  |  Starting Grant

  • Project Manager: Researcher Marry-Anne Karlsen
  • Project: Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation (ASYKNOW)
  • The project want to find out how knowledge about asylum seekers and migration is mobilised, contested and constituted in asylum litigation.
  • Project period: 2023–2027
  • More about the project

The Starting Grant is awarded by ERC to researches with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) provide grants for all stages of researchers' careers - be they doctoral candidates or highly experienced researchers - and encourage transnational, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility.

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships:

Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif  |  MALAYMATRIMONEY  |  European fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Social Anthropology, Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif
  • Project: MALAYMATRIMONEY – The Division of Matrimonial Wealth in Malay Polygyny & the Codification of Culture in Malaysian Islamic Family Law
  • The project is an anthropological investigation into the division of matrimonial assets in the Malaysian Islamic family law (IFL) from a socio-legal and gendered perspective. 
  • Supervisor: Researcher in Arabic, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, Eirik Hovden
  • Project period: 2024–2026

European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between two and three years.

Laura Cayrol-Bernardo  |  VETULAE  |  European fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Medieval studies, Laura Cayrol-Bernardo
  • Project: VETULAE – 'Vetulae'. Depicting women's ageing bodies in 15th century Florence
  • The project aims to provide a holistic and comparative view of ideas and materializations regarding women’s ageing bodiesin 15th c. Florence at the intersection of art, art theory, and medicine.
  • Supervisor: Professor of Italian Literature, Margareth Hagen
  • Project period: 2021–2023

European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between two and three years.

Completed projects 2020–current date

Tomas Glomb  |  ASCNET  |  European fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in History of Religion, Tomas Glomb
  • Prosject: ASCNET – Favorable Conditions of the Spread of the Cult of Asclepius across the Transportation Network of the Roman Mediterranean: A Quantitative Evaluation
  • The main research question of the ASCNET project is how the Roman army and infectious diseases such as the Antonine or Cyprian plague could have contributed to the popularity of the cult of Asclepius.
  • Supervisor: Professor of History, Eivind Heldaas Seland
  • Project period: 2021–2023  
  • See project page

European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between two and three years.

Francesca Mazzilli  |  RENE  |  European fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Archaeology, Francesca Mazzilli
  • Project: RENE – Regional Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
  • RENE investigates the diffusion of religious traditions and architectural style in rural and urban cult sites in relation to the regional mobility of elite and interactions between rural and urban communities in the Hauran and in Lusitania through social network analysis and spatial analysis. 
  • Supervisor: Professor of History, Eivind Heldaas Seland
  • Project period: 2020–2022   
  • See project page

European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between two and three years.

Arnald Puy Maeso  |  SIZE  |  Global fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow Arnald Puy Maeso
  • Project: SIZE – The role of size in the sustainability of irrigation systems
  • The project aims at assessing the risks and benefits of promoting "large" and "small" irrigation systems through dynamic models and uncertainty/sensitivity analysis.
  • Supervisor: Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, Andrea Saltelli
  • Project period: 2019–2022
  • See project page

Global Fellowships fund positions outside Europe for researchers based in the EU or associated countries. The researcher has to come back for one year to an organisation based in the EU or associated countries. Last between two and three years.

Simon Meisch  |  CANALS |  European fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow Simon Meisch
  • Project: CANALS – Changing Water Cultures
  • Climate change is putting significant stress on EU water infrastructures. The CANALS project will investigate new ways of mobilising knowledge of water infrastructures to promote adaptive decision-making.
  • Supervisor: Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, Scott Bremer
  • Project period: 2021–2023 (project ended)
  • See project page

European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between two and three years.

Álvaro Seiça  | ARTDEL  |  Global fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Digital Culture, Álvaro Seiça
  • Project: ARTDEL - The Art of Deleting: A Study of Erasure Poetry, Practices of Control, Surveillance, and Censorship
  • Álvaro Seiça er en Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow ved Universitetet i Bergen, University of California, Los Angeles og Universidade de Coimbra, hvor han undersøker den poesikken og politikken av sletting innen det EU-finansierte prosjektet ARTDEL: The Art of Deleting.
  • Supervisor: Professor in Digital Culture, Jill Walker Rettberg
  • Project period: 2018–2021

Global Fellowships fund positions outside Europe for researchers based in the EU or associated countries. The researcher has to come back for one year to an organisation based in the EU or associated countries. Last between two and three years.

Sofie Laurine Albris  |  ARCNAMES  |  European fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Archaeology, Sofie Laurine Albris
  • Project: ARCNAMES – Individuals, social identities and archetypes – the oldest Scandinavian personal names in an archaeological light 
  • The project sets out to investigate the oldest Scandinavian personal names from an archaeological perspective.
  • Supervisor: Professor of Archaeology, Randi Barndon
  • Project period: 2019–2021
  • See project page

European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between two and three years.

Maud Ceuterick  |  AFFIRMATIVE  |  European fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow Maud Ceuterick
  • Project: AFFIRMATIVE – Affirmative Post-Cinema: Narrative and Aesthetic Responses to Gender and Power
  • The project will look at how post-cinematic art counteracts and aims to change current gender norms through affirmative narratives and aesthetics.
  • Supervisor: Professor in Digital Culture, Jill Walker Rettberg
  • Project period: 2018–2020
  • See project page

European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between two and three years.

Benjamin Martin  |  EPILOG  |  European fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Philosophy, Ben Martin
  • Project: EPILOG – The Unknown Science: Understanding the Epistemology of Logic through  
  • The project brings together broad fields of Martin's research expertise: solutions to self-referential paradoxes and logical epistemology.
  • Supervisor: Associate Professor in Philosophy, Ole Hjortland
  • Project period: 2017–2020
  • See project page

European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between two and three years.

Claus Halberg  |  FEMSAG  |  Global fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow, Claus Halberg
  • Project: FEMSAG – Feminist theory after sex and gender: The nature-nurture complex in contemporary feminism reconsidered in light of the Developmental Systems Theory approach to the philosophy of biology
  • The project seeks to develop conceptual tools with which to address nature-nurture issues pivotal to the current philosophy, science and politics of sex and gender.
  • Supervisor: Professor Christine M. Jacobsen 
  • Project period: 2017–2020
  • See project page

Global Fellowships fund positions outside Europe for researchers based in the EU or associated countries. The researcher has to come back for one year to an organisation based in the EU or associated countries. Last between two and three years.

Jan Kozak  |  SYMBODIN  |  European fellowship

  • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Old Norse, Jan Kozac
  • Project: SYMBODIN – The Symbolism of the Body in Northern Europe. Cognitive Metaphors and Old Norse Myth from the Viking Age to Late Medieval Times 
  • The aim of the research is to investigate the integrative function of bodily metaphors in ancient Norse literature and culture.
  • Supervisor: Associate Professor in Old Norse, Jens Eike Schnall
  • Project period: 2018–2020
  • See project page

European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between two and three years.

MSCA COFUND:

Shaping European Research Leaders for Marine Sustainability (SEAS) is an interdisciplinary career and mobility fellowship programme for postdoctoral research fellows within marine sustainability, managed by the University of Bergen. The project has received funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement.

Asia Alsgaard  |  MSCA SEAS 

Asia Alsgaard studies early human marine subsistence in South Africa at the Centre of Excellence on Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE) 

For her postdoctoral research, she is identifying changes in the coastal environment and human harvesting practices of fish and seals during the Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age along the southern Cape of South Africa using stable isotope analyses. She will also use these data to address present day issues in marine sustainability along the southern Cape.

SEAS aims to recruit and bring together highly talented experienced researchers who will provide knowledge crucial for a more sustainable marine future. With expertise in a broad range of fields, this group will strengthen and facilitate UiB’s strong commitment to marine science and ocean sustainability.

Aistė Klimašauskaitė  |  MSCA SEAS 

Aistė Klimašauskaitė studies epistemic, value-based, and societal aspects of marine sustainability, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities.

She explores the ideas and imaginations of blue growth. In particular, she tryes to figure out why and how blue growth aspirations are implemented in the SEAS programme and in the Norwegian venture of deep-sea mining. She uses guiding topics such as knowledge, expertise, power, and the notions of damage. 

SEAS aims to recruit and bring together highly talented experienced researchers who will provide knowledge crucial for a more sustainable marine future. With expertise in a broad range of fields, this group will strengthen and facilitate UiB’s strong commitment to marine science and ocean sustainability.

Thomas Völker  |  MSCA SEAS 

Thomas Völker studies responsible and circular aquaculture at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities.

His research focuses on environmental governance and on attempts of transitioning towards more sustainable aquacultures. More specifically, Völker is interested in the development of novel feeds as a case of implementing circular economy policies and introducing principles of responsible research and innovation (RRI) in Norway.

SEAS aims to recruit and bring together highly talented experienced researchers who will provide knowledge crucial for a more sustainable marine future. With expertise in a broad range of fields, this group will strengthen and facilitate UiB’s strong commitment to marine science and ocean sustainability.

The Research Council of Norway (NFR)

The Research Council works to promote research and innovation of high quality and relevance and to generate knowledge in priority areas to enable Norway to deal with key challenges to society and the business sector.

Projects funded by NFR:

Scott Rettberg  |  Digtal Narrative  |  Centre of Excellence (SFF)

  • Project Manager: Professor in Digital Culture Scott Rettberg
  • Project: CDN – Centre for Digital Narrative
  • The centre will investigate how the interactions of human authors with non-human agents result in new narrative forms, how the materiality of digital narratives have changed, and how cultural contexts are reshaping the use and function of digital narrative.
  • Project period: 2023–2033
  • See project page

The SFF scheme gives Norway’s best researchers the opportunity to organise their research activities in centres that seek to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and with long-term basic funding. The research conducted at the centres must be innovative and have major potential to generate ground-breaking results that advance the international research frontier. 

Christopher Henshilwood  |  SapienCE  |  Centre of Excellence (SFF)

  • Project Manager: Professor in Archaeology Christopher Henshilwood
  • Project: SAPIENCE – Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour
  • International researchers from a variety of disciplines are researching how modern man originated and evolved 100,000 to 50,000 years ago.
  • Project period: 2017–2027
  • See project page

The SFF scheme gives Norway’s best researchers the opportunity to organise their research activities in centres that seek to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and with long-term basic funding. The research conducted at the centres must be innovative and have major potential to generate ground-breaking results that advance the international research frontier. 

Ingrid Halland  |  NorWhite  |  Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal

  • Project Manager: Førsteamanuensis i kunsthistorie, Ingrid Halland 
  • Project: How Norway Made the World Whiter (NorWhite)
  • The project will explore how the Norwegian innovation titanium white has changed surfaces in art, architecture and design – something that has made the world look whiter, brighter, and superficially cleaner.
  • Project period: 2023–2028
  • See project page

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

Scott Rettberg  |  XDN  |  Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal

  • Project Manager: Professor i digital kultur, Scott Rettberg
  • Project: Extending Digital Narratives (XDN)
  • The project is essentially about the narrative applications of three newer technologies: XR, generative systems that use AI and other algorithms to author narratives, and conversational interfaces such as smart speakers.
  • Project period: 2022–2026

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

Kyrre Kverndokk  |  GARDENING  |  Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal

  • Project Manager: Professor of Cultural Studies, Kyrre Kverndokk
  • Project: Gardening the Globe: Historicizing the Anthropocene through the production of socio-nature in Scandinavia, 1750-2020
  • The project aims to examine historical processes through which nature has been conquered, controlled and commodified in Scandinavia from the mid-18th century to the present.
  • Project period: 2021–2025
  • See project page

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

Michael Baumgartner  |  Coincidence Analysis  |  Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal

  • Project Manager: Professor in Philosophy, Michael Baumgartner
  • Project: Advancing Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis
  • Coincidence Analysis (CNA) is a method of causal data analysis first introduced in 2009, substantively generalized since then, and now available as an open source software package. The development of CNA is not finished. This project will address four remaining weaknesses and limitations of the method.
  • Project period: 2021–2025
  • See project page

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

Anne Bang  |  MprinT@EAST_AFRICA  |  Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal

  • Project Manager: Professor of History, Anne Katrine Bang
  • Project: MprinT@EAST_AFRICA. Islamic Manuscript, Print and Practice: Textual adaptations in coastal East Africa, c. 1880-2020
  • The project is designed to explore one central hypothesis: Reforms in Islamic textual tradition and ritual practice during the 19thand 20th centuries took place within existing authority structures and led to a series of adaptations rather than breaks from tradition.
  • Project period: 2021–2025
  • See project page

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

Ann-Kristin H. Gujord  |  ALAN  |  Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal

  • Project Manager: Associate professor in Norwegian as a second language, Ann-Kristin H. Gujord
  • Project: Adult Acquisition of Norwegian as a second language (ALAN)
  • The study will contribute new insights into how a hitherto understudied group adults develop their communicative abilities in a second language in a specific educational context.
  • Project period: 2021–2025
  • Se project page

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

Tone Hellesund  | QUEERDOM |  Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal

  • Project Manager: Professor in Cultural Studies, Tone Hellesund
  • Project: Ordinary lives and marginal intimacies in rural regions. Contrasting cultural histories of queer domesticities in Norway, ca 1842–1972.
  • The project will investigate how queer women and men lived and organized their everyday lives across a complex domestic terrain in ways that unsettles customary understandings of private life and family organization in modern Norway (1842-1972).
  • Project period: 2021–2025
  • See project page

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

Kjetil Rommetveit  |  Co-Pol  |  Researcher Project

  • Project Manager: Associate Professor in Theory of Science, Kjetil Rommetveit
  • Project: Covid-19: Digital Politics and the Role of Expertise (Co-Pol)
  • The primary objectiv is to describe and analyse how Covid-19 as a political emergency triggers new expert relations and networks across political, regulatory,technological and scientific institutions in Norway (WP4).
  • Project period: 2021–2024
  • See project page

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

Bjørn Ola Tafjord  |  GOVMAT  |  Researcher Project

  • Project Manager: Associate Professor in Study of Religion Bjørn Ola Tafjord
  • Project: The Governmateriality of Indigenous Religions (GOVMAT)
  • The project researches articulations of indigeneities and religions of different settings and their political roles today. How and why are they shaped, and how do they work in their environments?
  • Project period: 2020–2024
  • See project page

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

Kjersti Fløttum  |  CLIMLIFE  |  Researcher Project

  • Project Manager: Professor in French Language, Kjersti Fløttum
  • Project: Living with climate change: motivation and action for lifestyle change
  • The project investigates how people relate the political and existential challenges of climate change to their normal, day-to-day life choices.
  • Project period: 2020–2023
  • See project page

The KLIMAFORSK programme provides funding for research on societal transformation in response to climate change. Research activities are to enhance basic understanding of natural variability and human influence on the climate system, the impacts of climate change on nature and society, climate change adaptation, and instruments and measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Mimi Lam  |  MENSA  |  Researcher Project

  • Project Manager: Researcher Mimi Lam
  • Project: MENSA – Managing Ethical Norwegian Seascape Activities 
  • The project aims to develop an integrated ethical approach to the sustainable management of Norwegian seascape activities.
  • Supervisor:
  • Project period: 2020–2024
  • See project page

The MARINFORSK programme provides funding for research on the marine environment and seeks to generate knowledge about ecosystems in ocean and coastal areas and the impact of pressures from human activity. Research activities are to strengthen the basis for sustainable management and value creation based on marine resources and other ecosystem services.

Sorin Bangu  |  Mathematics with a Human Face  |  Researcher Project

  • Project Manager: Professor in Philosophy, Sorin Bangu
  • Project: Mathematics with a Human Face: Set Theory within a Naturalized Wittgensteinean Framework
  • The project investigates the reasons why concepts such as ‘set’ and ‘number’ have remained philosophically obscure – nobody really knows what these things are – despite the immense success of mathematics over centuries.
  • Project period: 2019–2023 
  • See project page

The funding scheme for independent projects (FRIPRO) is an open, national, competitive arena that provides funding for basic, ground-breaking projects in all fields of research. The project ideas originate with the researchers themselves.

Kari Kinn  |  Norwegian across the Americas  |  Researcher Project for Young Talents

  • Project Manager: Professor in Norwegian Language, Kari Kinn
  • Project: Norwegian across the Americas
  • The project investigates the Norwegian language as spoken across the Americas – and how it has developed over generations.
  • Project period: 2020–2027
  • See project page

Researcher Project for Young Talents is intended to give talented young researchers under the age of 40 in all disciplines and research areas the opportunity to pursue their own research ideas and lead a research project. This call is targeted towards researchers in the early stages of their careers, 2–7 years after defence of an approved doctorate, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.

Laura Saetveit Miles  |  St. Birgitta of Sweden |  Researcher Project for Young Talents

  • Project Manager: Associate Professor in English Literature, Laura Saetveit Miles 
  • Project: Re-assessing St. Birgitta of Sweden and her Revelations in Medieval England: Circulation and Influence, 1380–1530 
  • A research project on Sancta Birgitta of Sweden and her revelations in medieval England, reassessments of their circulation and influence between 1380-1530.
  • Project period: 2019–2026
  • See project page

Researcher Project for Young Talents is intended to give talented young researchers under the age of 40 in all disciplines and research areas the opportunity to pursue their own research ideas and lead a research project. This call is targeted towards researchers in the early stages of their careers, 2–7 years after defence of an approved doctorate, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.

Synnøve Myking  |  FLANDRIA  |  Researcher Project with international mobility

  • Project Manager: Post Doctor, Synnøve Myking
  • Project: Flanders, Norway, and Denmark: Relations and Intertextual Exchanges in the High Middle Ages (ca. 1080-1383)
  • The project examines the contact between Flanders, Norway, and Denmark in the High Middle Ages, and how this contact influenced Scandinavian manuscript culture. The project studies Norwegian and Danish manuscript material, focussing on fragments.
  • Project period: 2020–2023 

The purpose is to promote international mobility and career development among researchers early in their careers, and to contribute to knowledge transfer to Norwegian research environments. Postdoctoral researchers will spend two years at a foreign research organization and the third year at a Norwegian research organization.

David G. C. Vogt  |  SOCRIM  |  Researcher Project with international mobility

  • Project Manager: Post Doctor in Philosophy, David G. C. Vogt
  • Project: Social Injustice and Criminal Justice
  • SOCRIM is a philosophical research project that studies the normative relevance of social injustice for criminal justice.
  • Project period: 2021–2024

The purpose is to promote international mobility and career development among researchers early in their careers, and to contribute to knowledge transfer to Norwegian research environments. Postdoctoral researchers will spend two years at a foreign research organization and the third year at a Norwegian research organization.

Koenraad De Smedt  |  CLARINO  |  INFRASTRUKTUR

  • Project Manager: Professor in Computational Linguistics, Koenraad De Smedt
  • Project: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure Norway
  • The project aim is to make existing and future language resources easily accessible for researchers and to bring eScience to humanities disciplines.
  • Project period: 2012–2021
  • See project page

The National Financing Initiative for Research Infrastructure seeks to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the Norwegian research community and trade and industry. New infrastructure contributes to research and innovation at the international forefront in areas of importance for Norwegian society.

Kyrre Kverndokk  |  SAMLA  |  INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Project Manager: Professor in Cultural Studies, Kyrre Kverndokk
  • Project: SAMLA: National Infrastructure for Cultural History and Tradition Archives
  • SAMLA will digitize and make accessible the archival material of three Norwegian tradition archives. These archives contain a rich source material that will be made accessible at the web page samla.no as a joint digital archive. 
  • Project period: 2020–2024
  • See project page

The National Financing Initiative for Research Infrastructure seeks to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the Norwegian research community and trade and industry. New infrastructure contributes to research and innovation at the international forefront in areas of importance for Norwegian society.

    Completed projects 2020–current date

    Margery Vibe Skagen  |  Historicizing the ageing self  |  Researcher Project

    • Project Manager: Associate Professor in French Literature, Margery Vibe Skagen
    • Project: Historicizing the ageing self: Literature, medicine, psychology, law 
    • Changes in cultural and scientific views of old age will be studied in literary, medical and legal texts.
    • Project period: 2016–2021
    • See project page

    The Programme for Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL) provides funding for research on cultural prerequisites for societal development and societal challenges. The programme’s objective is to expand the knowledge base and better equip society to address major societal challenges. 

    Marie von der Lippe   |   School of Opportunities   |   SAMKUL

    • Project Manager: Marie von der Lippe
    • Project: School of Opportunities. Democratic understanding and prevention of group-based prejudices
    • In order to develop the school as an opportunity arena for democratic understanding and prevention of group-based hatred and prejudices, this project aims to provide new knowledge about the common mechanisms behind the different prejudices in schools today and how these have been addressed in earlier times.
    • Project period: 2018–2021
    • See project page

    The Programme for Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL) provides funding for research on cultural prerequisites for societal development and societal challenges. The programme’s objective is to expand the knowledge base and better equip society to address major societal challenges. 

    Kyrre Kverndokk  |  The future is now  |  Researcher Project

    • Project Manager: Professor in Cultural Studies, Kyrre Kverndokk
    • Project: The Future is Now: Temporality and Exemplarity in Climate Change Discourses 
    • This project will examine understandings of multiple temporalities in climate change discourses within vernacular culture, media culture and climate research.
    • Project period: 2017–2021
    • See project page

    The KLIMAFORSK programme provides funding for research on societal transformation in response to climate change. Research activities are to enhance basic understanding of natural variability and human influence on the climate system, the impacts of climate change on nature and society, climate change adaptation, and instruments and measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

    Ole Hjortland  |  Anti-Exceptionalism About Logic  |  Researcher Project for Young Talents

    • Project Manager: Associate Professor in Philosophy, Ole Hjortland
    • Project: Anti-Exceptionalism About Logic
    • The project will develop a new method for identifying argumentative standards. This method is called Anti-Exceptionalism.
    • Project period: 2016–2020
    • See project page

    Researcher Project for Young Talents is intended to give talented young researchers under the age of 40 in all disciplines and research areas the opportunity to pursue their own research ideas and lead a research project. This call is targeted towards researchers in the early stages of their careers, 2–7 years after defence of an approved doctorate, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.

    Frode Helmich Pedersen  |  A Narratology of Criminal Cases  |  Researcher Project

    • Project Manager: Associate Professor in Scandinavian Literature, Frode Helmich Pedersen
    • Project: A Narratology of Criminal Cases
    • The project’s principal aim is to gain a better understanding of the way stories work within the Norwegian legal system through narratological theory and analyses.
    • Project period: 2016–2021
    • See project page

    The Programme for Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL) provides funding for research on cultural prerequisites for societal development and societal challenges. The programme’s objective is to expand the knowledge base and better equip society to address major societal challenges. 

    Christine M. Jacobsen  |  WAIT  |  Researcher Project

    • Project Manager: Professor in Social Anthropology, Christine M. Jacobsen
    • Project: WAIT – Waiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration 
    • The project uses theories of temporality and the concept of 'waitinghood' as tools for producing new and critical insights into the cultural conditions and implications of migration.
    • Project period: 2016–2021
    • See project page

    The Programme for Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL) provides funding for research on cultural prerequisites for societal development and societal challenges. The programme’s objective is to expand the knowledge base and better equip society to address major societal challenges. 

      Trond Mohn Foundation (TMS)

      Trond Mohn Foundation gives grants towards research and research supporting activities at the University of Bergen (UiB) and Haukeland University Hospital (HUS) , and other Norwegian research institutions who cooperate with institutions in Bergen. The foundation also gives grants to support translational research at UiB and HUS.

      Projects funded by TMS:

      Michael Baumgartner  |  Coincidence Analysis  |  The Toppforsk programme

      • Project Manager: Professor in Philosophy, Michael Baumgartner
      • Michael Baumgartner has developed a method that finds answers to complex questions in all fields, called "Coincidence Analysis" (CA).. It is a method that measures the interaction between different causes and identifies the role they play in complex causal structures.
      • Project period: 2017–2023
      • See project page

      With the support of the Trond Mohn Foundation, the University of Bergen has recruited five international top researchers to strengthen leading research environments. By providing top researchers with excellent conditions and administrative support, the collaboration has strengthened UiB in the international competition for outstanding researchers. 

       

      Eirik Hovden  |  How does Islamic law change?  |  Starting Grant

      • Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow Eirik Hovden
      • Project: How does Islamic law Change? Canonization and Codification of Islamic Legal Texts (CanCode)
      • The project will study processes of change in islamic legal texts by starting with two terms, or concepts: "Canonization" and "Codification".
      • Project period: 2020–2024
      • See project page

      The TMS Starting Grant is the foundation's "flagship", a recruitment program that has helped recruit outstanding researchers from around the world to the University of Bergen since 2005.

      Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen  |  Transformations of Medieval Law  |  Starting Grant

      • Project Manager: Researcher in Medieval Philology, Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen
      • Project: Transformations of Medieval Law: Innovation and Application in Early Modern Norwegian Law Books 
      • The project explores how medieval and Early Modern law books in Norway and Iceland reflect the legal and cultural contexts in which they were written and compiled.
      • Project period: 2018–2023
      • See project page

      The TMS Starting Grant is the foundation's "flagship", a recruitment program that has helped recruit outstanding researchers from around the world to the University of Bergen since 2005.

      Completed projects

      Åslaug Ommundsen  |  From manuscripts fragments to book history  |  Starting Grant

      • Project Manager: Professor in Medieval Latin philology, Åslaug Ommundsen
      • Project: From Manuscript Fragments to Book History. Norway and the European Manuscript Culture 1100–1300.
      • The focus of the project was analysis of the rich fragmentary material from Norwegian medieval manuscripts, mainly stored in the National Archives in Oslo.
      • Project period: 2012–2016
      • See project page

      The TMS Starting Grant is the foundation's "flagship", a recruitment program that has helped recruit outstanding researchers from around the world to the University of Bergen since 2005.

       

      Projects financed by other funding sources

      Stefan Drechsler  |  NordicLaw  |  NOS-HS

      • Project Manager: Postdoctoral Fellow in Old Norse Philology, Stefan Drechsler
      • Project: Nordic Law Books: The Production and Use of Vernacular Law Manuscripts in the North from 1100 to 1600 (NordicLaw)
      • The project will investigate common aspects of the best-preserved genre of writing of the medieval North: the laws.
      • Project period: 2023–2026
      • See project page

      NOS-HS fremmer og finansierer nordisk samarbeid innen forskning. Utlysningen skal gi forskere på et tidlig stadium i karrieren muligheten til å bygge nordiske nettverk og fremme nordisk merverdi i forskningen, basert på nysgjerrighetsdrevet forskning innen humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap.

      NordForsk funds and facilitates Nordic research cooperation. The purpose is to give researchers at an early stage in their careers the opportunity to build Nordic networks and promote Nordic added value in research, based on curiosity-driven research in the humanities and social sciences.

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