Home

Faculty of Social Sciences

Main content

Our international students on campus

Social sciences at the University of Bergen

There are seven departments at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Bergen. We offer various courses and master's programmes taught in English.

News
Picture of Aaron Spitzer

Setting out to build a new research field

Aaron Spitzer’s ERC project, CONFRONT, has started. Over a period of five years, the project will explore arising conflicts between settlers and indigenous peoples.

News
Man in a dark space

Bringing Crises into Focus

«Is there a response pattern that cuts across different crises? We don’t really know,» UiB researcher Pierre-Georges Van Wolleghem says. Now he wants to study just that.

News
Mann med briller i blå klær

Professor Trond Petersen gets an honorary doctorate from UiB

«The efforts of professor Trond Petersen has been really important in developing research collaboration and student exchange between Norwegian universities and the University of Berkeley,» says Jan Erik Askildsen, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Professor Don Kalb asks the difficult questions
Man with a black t-shirt

«Migration, productivity, education and urbanization are not making everybody happy»

Capitalism is not just an economy, it is a type of society, according to professor in social anthropology, Don Kalb. For the past few years, he and his team have tried, through field work and research, to understand what is happening to people and communities in areas that have recently become...

Research talk
Mann med briller og mørkt hår

«A formal, methodical approach to artificial intelligence suits me well»

Rustam Galimullin is one of several experts in artificial intelligence at UiB. Learn more about him and his research here.