News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Picture of students at a school in Tanzania

Empowerment of School Committees and parents in Tanzania (27.11.2013)

- Public administration is about everything we are doing in national development, says ph.d. candidate Orest Masue. His project is about empowerment of school committees and parents in Tanzania. - It seems that the assumption “the more opportunity, the more empowerment” does not work here.

A guy looks at his cell phone before a concert in Havana.

Winner in Kula Kula's photo competition published (15.11.2013)

The editors of Kula Kula announced the winner of the ever popular photo competition at the release of the new Kula Kula magazine at Kvarteret on Thursday.

Ane is posing with local fishermen, standing in knee deep water

Finally Medical Anthropology at UiB (08.11.2013)

This fall, a 'con amore' course in Medical Anthropology has created a lot of positive attention. Amongst the students, medical anthropology has been a requested sub-genre within anthropology that UiB previously have not offered. Now, the course is finally here – led by PhD candidate Ane Straume. But Straume, why all the buzz?

A fleet of small fishingboats on the horizon

New PhD candidate : Michael Vina (06.11.2013)

Environmental Anthropology, Ethnobiology, Maritime Anthropology, Political Ecology. US born and Venezuelan raised Michael Vina has recently begun his PhD project here in Bergen, where he focuses on environmental knowledge and perspectives on climate change amongst fishers in coastal Ecuador. Read more about him here!

New article from Marit Skivenes and Sissel Trygstad (04.11.2013)

"Is the Type of Misconduct Decisive for the Perceived Legitimacy of Whistleblowing? A Study of Municipal Managers’ Assessments of Whistleblowing in Cases of Harassment and Corruption"