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New publication from the CNA group (14.12.2020)
The CNA method has been showcased in the flagship journal of implementation science.
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Meet the climate challenge in new UiB course (11.12.2020)
Take on the transformative challenges of our time together with motivated students from around Europe in the new course "Facing Grand Challenges: A European research program"
Comment parler de l’environnement ?
"Heroes in Climate Discourse" (10.12.2020)
Kjersti Fløttum has given a keynote at the international symposium “How to talk about the environment?” / ”Comment parler de l’environnement?”.
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Cultural Histories of Ageing: Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self (09.12.2020)
Drawing on 16th- to 21st-century American, British, French, German, Polish, Norwegian and Russian literature and philosophy, this collection teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity and selfhood.
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Citizen science project wins 3rd place (12.11.2020)
The project Meet je Stad (Measure your City), which has links to two UiB research projects, has been named the 3rd most sustainable Dutch initiative.
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Stories of climate adaptation across Europe (06.11.2020)
UiB researchers Scott Bremer and Diana Wildschut have together with Werner Krauss co-edited a special issue about narratives in the journal Climate Risk Management.
Bokframside Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration
Waiting as analytical perspective provides new insight (06.11.2020)
Researchers from UiB’s WAIT project have published a new book about waiting as both a social phenomenon in migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes.
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Bergen School of Global Studies launched (04.11.2020)
The launch at the University Aula concluded with two large panels representing the diversity of scientific milieus tackling global challenges in Bergen. Together they will work to make Bergen the place of choice for students seeking knowledge and skills to help solve global challenges.
Alterskapet fra Austevoll, ca. 1520, med St. Sunniva i midten
Northern European Reformations (03.11.2020)
Northern European Reformations. Transnational Perspectives. Edited by James E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud, Salvador Ryan.
Frontpage of book The Nexus Times - images of fruits, vegs and plants
Thought-provoking new book about sustainability (28.10.2020)
Researchers at UiB launch a new book in connection with the completion of the MAGIC project. The publication consists of the project members’ thought-provoking and radical ideas about sustainability.
Ida Andersen
"Establishing Rhetorical Agency by Framing Sustainable Lifestyles as Acts of Rebellion" (28.10.2020)
On the general meeting of the Institute for Foreign Languages on 21st October 2020, postdoctoral fellow Ida Andersen gave a presentation on her planned study associated to the CLIMLIFE project.
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CNA method applied in implementation science (27.10.2020)
CNA has been applied in a study on factors influencing the implementation of a colorectal cancer screening improvement program in community health centers.
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Making a primstav of today (03.10.2020)
As part of our local communication and engagement work, we developed a creative exercise centered on the traditional Norwegian calendar stick, the primstav.
Laura Saetveit Miles på kontoret
The Mystical Middle Ages: Meet Laura Saetveit Miles (02.10.2020)
Laura Miles forteller om sin forskning, forskerhverdag og veien inn i forskningen.
Bilde ab bokens cober samt en collage av Wittgenstein, hans litterære arvinger og Erbacher
New book: "Wittgenstein's Heirs and Editors" (30.09.2020)
When Wittgenstein died, he had commissioned his good friends and students Rush Rhees, Elisabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright to publish his surviving manuscripts as they saw fit. In this book, Christian Erbacher gives us an insight into how this work ended in what we know today as the late Wittgenstein's philosophy.
Bergen seen from Floien
BSRS 2021: Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)
Digital summer research school.
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Autoethnography as a research method (28.09.2020)
In March 2020 most of the world went into lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Challenging times lay ahead for everyone, including the research community.
Cultural roots - scientists at work in the SapienCE project
The Cultural Roots Of Human Cognition (21.09.2020)
The hominin line shares most of its genetic makeup and a great deal of its behavioral repertoire with its closest primate relatives. At some point in the past, however, it set off on a different evolutionary trajectory, culminating in cognitive skills that are impressive both in extent and in the speed at which they have evolved. One goal of SapienCE is to shed light on when this process began... Read more

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