News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Low-carbon conferencing: CO2e, experiments and lessons learned. (31.10.2019)

How can we organize an international conference and at the same time, reduce our climate impact? This became the central question while organising our third edition of the Beyond Oil conference. We are happy to reveal that our 2019 conference halved the emissions of the previous conference in 2017.

CET Accelerator funding (29.10.2019)

Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation ready for a new round of CET Accelerator seed funding. Send in applications before November 29.

Media Futures christoff Trattner spaserer i gangen med robot

30 mill Euro plan to develop responsible media technology (23.10.2019)

Researchers at Media City Bergen and key media partners seek to establish a centre for developing responsible media technology. – As the robots enter the editorial rooms, the need to guard issues like ethics and data protection is urgent, says centre leader.

Celebrating Barth: On Home and identity in Southern Arabia (23.10.2019)

Students, anthropologists and other invited guests had found their way to attend the Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture 2019, held by Dr. Mandana Limbert.

Digsscore granted national responsibility for European Social Survey ESS (22.10.2019)

– We are very happy to mark our position as a national competence centre on survey data and development of the survey method, says deputy dean Ragnhild Muriaas.

Beyond Oil 2019: Deep and Rapid transformations - keynote presentations (18.10.2019)

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Beyond Oil: Deep and Rapid Transformations. The live streams for the keynote sessions are now available.

BSRS 2020: Actionable knowledge to meet global challenges (16.10.2019)

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organised as a virtual research school.

Inequality research programme launch (15.10.2019)

The University of Bergen and the International Science Council sign today a new agreement for the Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP).

The dark side of resilience (01.10.2019)

What kind of subjectivities are produced by the urban order? How are they resisted and contested? These were some of the central questions in the presentations held by Prof. Bjørn Enge Bertelsen in September.