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Podcaststudio med Kristopher Schau, Scott Rettberg og Jill Walker Rettberg

Center for Digital Narrative stars in Research Council podcast (07.04.2025)

"Curious Norway" visited the center to ask about us, our research and what digital narratives actually are.

Version 4.0.0 of the cna R package released on CRAN (06.04.2025)

Mathias Ambühl and Michael Baumgartner released version 4.0.0 of the cna R package on CRAN. Many new measures for sufficiency and necessity evaluation are now available for CNA model building.

Johanna Gunn, Øyvind Gjerstad, Anje Müller Gjesdal

Teachers' Day 2025: French research disseminated (20.03.2025)

Teachers' Day was once again organized at the University of Bergen. French research was presented by several employees of the French department, IF.

Professor Céline Poudat, Christophe Charlier and Kjersti Fløttum

Conference in Nice, France: Keynote by Kjersti Fløttum (20.03.2025)

In December 2024, Nice, France, became a meeting place for researchers on the occasion of the research conference "Enjeux socio-environnementaux et territoires".

Jason Nelson Promoted to Professor (18.03.2025)

We are delighted to announce that Jason Nelson has been promoted to full Professor at the University of Bergen's Digital Culture department.

CNA applied in Implementation Science (07.03.2025)

Emmeline Chuang and colleagues applied CNA in a mixed methods analysis to identify the conditions under which collaboration strategies affect implementations of cross-systems interventions for child welfare and substance use treatment.

CNA applied in Cancer Medicine (07.03.2025)

Mandi L. Pratt-Chapman and colleagues applied CNA to identify key difference-makers distinguishing oncology institutions that collect sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data across a sample of American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) members.

Picture of Nathan Hopson in front of Sydneshaugen skole

Research must be shared, says prize winner (18.02.2025)

Nathan Hopson is awarded the Faculty of Humanities' Dissemination Prize 2024. In addition to being a popular and engaging lecturer in Japanese studies, he has hosted more than 60 podcast episodes on Japan-related books in the series New Books in Japanese Studies.

Image of Stefan Riedener Assosiate professor at DEpartment of Philosophy UiB and winner of Young Researcher's Prize 2024

Stefan Riedener wins Young Researcher’s Prize 2024 (13.02.2025)

“I experience this prize as an enormous encouragement to believe in the things I am doing, and a profound motivation to try and continue my work,” says the award winner who hopes to one day write something that can have a real impact on how we live our lives.

Seven EU-funded postdocs to Bergen (12.02.2025)

The University of Bergen (UiB) will host another seven international research fellows after a very successful application round in this year’s competition for MSCA funding from the EU. The grants will fund the researchers' stay at UiB for two years.

SEAS postdoctoral fellows at a workshop in autumn 2024.

UiB’s SEAS programme gets Ocean Decade status (07.02.2025)

The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.

Joe Tabbi on the book launch of "Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism"

Call for contributions for special issue “Celebrating Joseph Tabbi and 30 Years of electronic book review” (07.02.2025)

Joseph Tabbi is the founder of electronic book review, which is now celebrating 30 years of continuous publication, making it one of the first scholarly open access journals on the web.

Scientist Sorin Bangu at the UiB Campus. Standing in the street and you can see parts of the yellow Sydneshaugen skole in the background

An innovative approach to understanding mathematical proofs (28.01.2025)

A groundbreaking philosophical approach to understanding proving in mathematics is on the horizon. Sorin Bangu does research that can change how we teach mathematics, making it more engaging.

Image of that the world's oldest ochre mine, Ngwenya in eSwatini

Ochre's Role in Early Human Societies (13.01.2025)

SapienCE scientist Elizabeth Velliky and her team have uncovered that the world's oldest ochre mine, Ngwenya in eSwatini, wasn't the only source of ochre pigment as we once thought. Instead, people used a variety of local ochres, showcasing unique cultural traditions and social interactions in Stone Age communities in Eswatini.

Post-normal science founders awarded for contributions to ecological economics (10.01.2025)

University of Bergen guest researcher Silvio Funtowicz and his long-time colleague and friend Jerome Ravetz receive 2025 Boulding Award for lifetime contributions to ecological economics.

Image of Linda Fletcher on the left and Dt Wilhelm de Beer on the right. Christopher Henshilwood is in the middle.

Mother Africa – Welcome Home (20.12.2024)

The Blombos Museum of Archaeology has launched the much-anticipated exhibition Origins of Early Southern Sapiens Behaviour marking a significant milestone in understanding early human prehistory.

AHKR203: Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (17.12.2024)

Apply for admission to our new course Introduction to the Environmental Humanities! Through lectures, seminars, and fieldwork, the course explores cultural, historical, political, and creative engagements with the environment at local, national, and global scales.

CNA course at the University of São Paulo (05.12.2024)

On October 10 and 11, 2024, Dr. Jonathan Freitas (UFMG/Brazil) conducted an introductory CNA course at the Clinical Hospital of the School of Medicine at the University of São Paulo (HC/FMUSP). The course brought together approximately 30 members of HC’s Digital Health team. The event received exceptional feedback, sparking follow-up research initiatives centered on the CNA method.

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