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Open data on adolescent health in 41 countries released (10.02.2016)
A WHO-project on health in the adolescent population is now giving researchers access to data collected in 41 countries worldwide. The data gives insight on matters concerning health, well-being, social environment and health related behaviour of 11, 13 and 15 year old boys and girls.
Screenshot of video made by Robert Gray
UNIPED offers course on making instructional videos (04.02.2016)
The course is for teachers at UiB who want to create and publish online short videos to supplement their teaching.
Group of Muslim women walking down the street
PMTO and mental distress among immigrant mothers (16.10.2015)
Former investigations have shown that PMTO-interventions have positive effects on the parenting of immigrant mothers and the behaviour of their children. A new article by researchers in the UiB research-group Child Welfare, Equality and Inclusion suggests that PMTO may not be effective in relieving mental distress among immigrant mothers.
The text 'Let's work together' on a black-board
Collaboration between school and child welfare services (28.09.2015)
How do teachers and social workers use multidisciplinary teams as part of a collaborative effort to support children living in difficult conditions? This question was investigated by researchers affiliated with the research group Child welfare, equality and social inclusion, UiB.
Black man looking down with head in hand
Ethnic minorities and fear for child welfare services (01.06.2015)
The Norwegian child welfare services’ ways of addressing multicultural challenges is a recurring topic in national and international debates. Fear of the child welfare services among ethnic minority parents are under researched in Norway, and has been addressed in a new article by researchers from the research group Child welfare, Equality and Inclusion, UiB.
Visiting researcher Mohammad Salehin
Emancipation or entrapment: An analysis of women empowerment of secular and faith-based NGOs in Bangladesh (29.12.2014)
Presentation by visiting researcher Mohammad Salehin 10 December 2014
Researcher Gaby Ortiz Barreda
Climate Change: Links to Health, Gender and Sustainable Development (29.12.2014)
Workshop TPB meets SEM
Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) Meets Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) workshop. (10.07.2014)
Theorizing Gender and Development in and through teaching challenges and Possible Futures (30.01.2014)
Scholars teaching from different continents, will give their presentations in addition to short comments related to the main topic of the day.
Gender in Aid and Development Conference (29.01.2014)
Nordisk rapport om forskning på utdanning i kriminalomsorgen er tilgjengelig på engelsk (28.10.2013)
Det er gjennomført en spørreskjemaundersøkelse av opplæringen i kriminalomsorgen i alle de nordiske land. Undersøkelsen er støttet av Det Nordiske Ministerråd. Rapporten represnterer et pionerarbeid, og rapporten er også oversatt og utgitt på engelsk.
Acquisition of quantifiers (18.10.2013)
Cross-linguistically similar order of acquisition of quantifiers have been found
New report on Nordic prison education (18.10.2013)
New report on educational background, needs and motives among ethnic minorities in Nordic prisons
Utdaningsbakgrunn, -ønsker og -behov blant utenlandske innsatte (17.10.2013)
Educational background, wishes and needs, have been investigated in a qualitative study among prisoners from Iraq, Poland, Russi, Serbia and Somalia
The 9th Biennial Congress of the International Academy for Intercultural Research (04.10.2013)
Realizing the potential of cultural diversity in the society and at the workplace
University of California, Berkeley.
Part-time professor – fulltime commitment (16.05.2012)
A highly dedicated part-time professor gives the PhD-students at the Faculty of Psychology a great opportunity to visit a highly recognized sleep lab at the University of California, Berkeley. - An important resource to our doctoral education, says the vice-dean of research at the faculty.
Liv E. Falkenberg (front), Karsten Specht (from left), René Westerhausen and...
Bergen fMRI-group in PNAS (14.03.2012)
What started as a spin-off study by researchers in the Bergen fMRI-group, has now been published in the highly recognized scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The study demonstrates the effect of glutamate on cognitive control mechanisms.
Exchange of information on the International day at The faculty of Psychology.
An international experience (19.01.2012)
The Faculty of Psychology held its third International Day on Wednesday 18 January. More than 50 former and present exchange students shared their experiences with students interested in studying abroad.

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