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Norsk Medietidskrift (NMT) has conferred the Research Paper of the Year award to ph.d fellow Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus.
In the end of May Infomedia signed a memorandum of understanding with units at Dublin City University and Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City.
In this podcast, keen mediators and experienced professionals share their best tips on how you can work with mediation. Use their advice and expertise as a tool in your own communication work!
We have two deadlines this year: 1 June and 1 December. Congratulations to all who completed the degree this year!
The Media Teacher Seminar was May 10th, and took place in Grieghallen in Bergen. The seminar's themes revolved around "New technology in the classroom" and "Courage and freedom of speech".
Member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Jens E. Kjeldsen, as well as Mette Paust-Andersen and Elisabet Kolbrun Hansen, took nine high school students to the Nordic speech festival in Denmark.
Catherine Woollard, Director of the European Council for Refugees and Exiles, visited the students of EUR105.
The memorial prize was awarded by group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Jens E. Kjeldsen.
“The University of Bergen has very strong credentials in our part of the world,” said Australian international relations expert, Ian Kemish.
Did you miss Dhayalan Velauthapillai's BEL Lunch seminar presenting on research on nanomaterials for solar cells, Hydrogen and energy storage applications at Western Norway University of Applied Science? Watch it here!
The public debate is commonly criticised for lacking deliberation. Therefore, the group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Ida Vikøren Andersen, argues that we need a better understanding of the rhetorical modes occurring instead of deliberation
In this paper, group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Ida Vikøren Andersen, discusses rhetorical studies’ contribution to the study of environmental communication.
“What is missing in the selective exposure theory is the fact that most likely people are reading a lot of information that they don’t agree with. Which is why I am shifting the attention to that,” Erik Knudsen says.
PhD candidate Devyn Remme on the social and environmental consequences of the transition to electric cars from a global perspective.
Read the latest updates on the OceanStates front in our research blog.
Assistant professor at UiB, Aaron Spitzer says his «life’s work» has involved seeking to understand, and trying somehow to be useful to, Arctic peoples and places.
The students at the Faculty of Social Sciences shall be seen and followed up. — This works, says the dean, Jan Erik Askildsen.