News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Determining the Best Interests of the Individual Child (31.03.2022)

Senior Researcher Jenny Krutzinna proposes a new child-centric approach for determining the best interests of the child as an individual.

Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funding 2022 (29.03.2022)

Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions for 2022-2023. Deadline 15 June, 2022.

ERC Grant for new research project (28.03.2022)

How prepared are we to get correct information and be engaged when it is needed? Media professor Hallvard Moe has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to better understand citizen’s ability to get information and be engaged in democracy.

Most innovative master thesis in Human Geography (23.03.2022)

Congratulations to Devyn Remme who was awarded the prize for the most innovative master thesis in Human Geography for 2022!

New PhD candidate at NORCE (22.03.2022)

Rune Søholt has started as a PhD candidate at the Media Poverty research project at NORCE lead by Torgeir Uberg Nærland.

Technology and knowledge transfer in innovation ecosystems (22.03.2022)

PhD Candidate Randi Elisabeth Taxt presents her PhD Project.

Visiting scholar Maria Faust at the Bergen Media Use Research Group (21.03.2022)

Maria Faust, a doctoral candidate from University of Leipzig, visits the Media Use Research Group in March

Special issue in Digital Journalism: Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism (21.03.2022)

Special issue in Digital Journalism: Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism features articles from professor II Irene Costera Meijer, and professors Hallvard Moe and Brita Ytre-Arne

New OceanStates blogpost! (10.03.2022)

Read the latest updates on the OceanStates front in our research blog.

Arjan Schakel participates in a new Horizon Europe project (03.03.2022)

The research project, LEGITIMULT, has recently received funding from Horizon Europe to investigate the measures taken during the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe. Arjan Schakel, at the Department of Comparative Politics will lead one of the work packages based on the data from his research project funded by the Trond Mohn foundation. We stopped by his office to hear some more about this new and... Read more

New postdoctoral project at MUCS (02.03.2022)

Hilde Sakariassen has joined the MUCS team with her postdoctoral project "The tale of two cities – the duality of digital technology for inexperienced users in a societal crisis"