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Emilija Gagrcin is awarded DKNVS' prize for young researchers (28.02.2025)
The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters' awards are given to young researchers in Norway who have documented outstanding talent, originality and effort, and who have achieved exceptionally good results within their field.
Portrait of Subina Shrestha
PhD: Sustainability beyond optimization (21.02.2025)
Subina Shrestha defended her PhD thesis on 17.12.2024 at the University of Bergen. The thesis title is Sustainability Beyond Optimization - Public-private actor interactions in urabn logistics governance.
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1.5 million for research on children's media use and algorithms in the family (19.02.2025)
Researchers Hallvard Moe, Emilija Gagrcin and Andreas Roaldsnes receive over 1.5 million from the Norwegian Media Authority for the projects MedBarn and "The family as a source of media literacy"
Studenter foran musikkpaviljongen i Bergen
From Chapel Hill to Bergen (19.02.2025)
In the spring semester of 2024, Charles Haines stepped out of his comfort zone in Chapel Hill to study comparative politics at the University of Bergen. Read about his exchange experience here.
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New Research on Climate News: 'Something About the Climate is Hard to Put into Words'" (17.02.2025)
News about climate change can seem intangible and difficult to grasp. Two new studies reveal how we understand and interpret climate news.
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“Do Vulnerable Citizens (Really) Perceive Higher Bureaucracy Costs?” by Rick Vogel, Anne Dahlweg and Fabian Hattke (13.02.2025)
The article finds significant counterevidence for one of the key claims of the administrative burden framework in the official data from Germany.
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Seven EU-funded postdocs to Bergen (12.02.2025)
The University of Bergen (UiB) will host another seven international research fellows after a very successful application round in this year’s competition for MSCA funding from the EU. The grants will fund the researchers' stay at UiB for two years.
SEAS postdoctoral fellows at a workshop in autumn 2024.
UiB’s SEAS programme gets Ocean Decade status (07.02.2025)
The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.
Panel discussions at Arctic Frontiers 2025 on energy transition. From left to right, moderator Tor Eldevik and panellists Torjer Andreas Olsen, Maja Sojtaric, Geir Inge Sivertsen, and Mona Benjaminsen.
Discussing the Arctic’s future energy needs (06.02.2025)
In the side event “License to Operate – The Arctic Energy Transition” at Arctic Frontiers 2025, stakeholders from across sectors joined forces to discuss the challenges lying ahead for the Arctic and the green transition of energy markets in a geopolitically challenging situation.
Anja, Ragnhild and Andrew
Anja, Ragnhild and Andrew join Sampol and the ERC ConFront project (05.02.2025)
PhD candidates Anja Tucker, Andrew Newman and Postdoctoral fellow Ragnhild Nilsson have recently taken up their positions at the department and are all part of Aaron Spitzers ERC Starting Grant project "Contested frontiers: Understanding the metapolitics of settler-state peripheries" (ConFront)
Veera
Climate and Energy specialist at Regional Council of Lapland (04.02.2025)
Veera Ylipieti graduated with a master's degree in Geographies of Sustainable Development in 2022. She is now working as climate and energy specialist in Regional Council of Lapland.