News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Air travel quotas - are they realistic? (20.12.2018)

CET has started a podcast - CET Klimasnakk (english: Climate talks). The first episode is a recording of a public conversation we had at Literaturhuset i Bergen the 13th of November.

Master students make artificial speech robots (19.12.2018)

Students in the Master in Media and Interaction Design programme at UiB in Media City Bergen presented their artificial speech prototypes. The result is: Robot Buddy, Easysleep, Masebotten and Albert the kitchen assistant.

Can our digital performance be understood by a theoretical formula? Marija Slavkovik hopes to find the answer. (11.12.2018)

The rule of building a perfect algorithm translates to a common experience of the real world: If you want something to be beautiful, it must handle complexity.

Encountering refugees beyond Europe: Panel at the University of Copenhagen (10.12.2018)

Exploring the potentials for an empirical, theoretical, and methodological cross-hatching of 'migration' and 'non-urban spaces.'

IMISCOE-panel: Temporalities of migration and integration (10.12.2018)

Engaged discussions about the usefulness of drawing on time and temporalities as analytical tools in migration studies at the IMISCOE conference in Barcelona, July 2018

Could information about herd immunity help us achieve herd immunity? (04.12.2018)

A recent article in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, using data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel, suggests that people's decision about whether to vaccinate is influenced by concern for others. Thus, stressing the collective benefits of vaccination could increase the effectiveness of health campaigns.

Knowledge transfer in Regional Innovation Systems (03.12.2018)

PhD Candidate Randi Elisabeth Taxt presents her PhD Project.