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ERC grant holder Adriana Bunea left the UK for UiB (15.04.2019)
– The UK is heading towards very uncertain times. It is hard to push the scientific borders when you feel that you are under siege, says Adriana Bunea. The former lecturer at The University of Southampton made a swift exit from Brexit and brought a prestigious grant to Bergen.
Professor Sigve Tjøtta
More or less money? An experimental study on receiving money (12.04.2019)
A recent article in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, using data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel and the Citizen Lab, finds that a substantial minority in seven experiments with 3,500 participants overall, decided to receive less over more money. This result may compromise the interpretation of many experiments.
Professor Fredrik Barth
PhD Fellowship in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (12.04.2019)
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Just keep silent… (10.04.2019)
Lægreid, Wynen, Kleizen, Verhoeat and Rollande connects data from the Norwegian Staff Surveys and of a structural reform database in a new article in Public Management Review.
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Imagining and experiencing through normality and crisis (10.04.2019)
In January, the IMEX project organized an international workshop with presentations by project participants and invited guests from across Europe. The workshop fostered interesting discussions and new insights.
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A collective sigh of relief (08.04.2019)
Bygnes with a new publication in Acta Sociologica: "A collective sigh of relief: Local reactions to the establishment of new asylum centers in Norway".
Kreativ problemløsning
The UN provides PhD candidates at the UiB with a challenge (05.04.2019)
PhD candidates at UiB will be able to solve a specific SDG challenge provided by the UN Environment Programme. Through a new course in creative problem-solving, PhD candidates learn and apply methods that can help them establish connections across disciplines and solve problems that they could face in working life.
Ivar Bleiklie
Student funding, study debt and free higher education in Norway (03.04.2019)
Professor Ivar Bleiklie interviewed by BBC World Business Report.
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Research stay in Chile (29.03.2019)
La Serena is a city approximately the same size as Bergen, but since the city has only a few days of rain each year, the city relies on the melting of snow and ice in the summer to provide water resources. This means that the region is especially vulnerable to changes in future climate.
Strike for climate in Bergen
Towards sustainable futures: students discuss solutions to global environmental issues (22.03.2019)
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CET Carbon Tracker Pilot (19.03.2019)
Last autumn, CET affiliates were invited to participate in a pilot study using the CET Carbon Tracker to register CO2 emissions from their own travels and meeting that they organize. The data from the pilot study has now been collected and analyzed.
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Does the wickedness of policy areas matter? (09.03.2019)
Tom Christensen, Ole Martin Lægreid & Per Lægreid examines administrative coordination capacity in new article published in “Policy and Society”.
Helge Renå
Renå with chapter in book on the blind spots of public bureaucracy (07.03.2019)
Helge Renå have contributed to the book "The Blind Spots of Public Bureaucracy and the Politics of Non-Coordination (Palgrave Macmillan) edited by Tobias Bach and Kai Wegrich.
Stipendiat Hege Helland og professor Marit Skivenes foran instituttbygningen i Christies gate.
Adoption as a Child Welfare Measure (25.02.2019)
Adoption provides better living conditions, but is seldom used in the Norwegian child welfare system.
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Two projects granted CET Accelerator funding (19.02.2019)
We are happy to announce the first round of CET accelerator seed funding for 2019 are granted to CET Affiliates Esmeralda Colombo and William Helland-Hansen.
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To prosjekter tildelt CET Akselerator midler (19.02.2019)
Vi har gleden av å annonsere at CET Akselerator såkornsmidler er tildelt til CET affiliates Esmeralda Colombo og William Helland-Hansen.
Hjellum and Lægreid
From master thesis to scientific publication (19.02.2019)
Magnus Sirnes Hjellum and Per Lægreid with new publication in Safety Science.
Masterstudenter på medie- og interaksjonsdesign blir presentert for ideer til masteroppgaver av bedrifter
Media and media tech companies pitch ideas for master's projects (15.02.2019)
Would you like to do your master´s project with companies such as the streaming service TV 2 Sumo or the media tech company Mediability? This is possible in the media cluster Media City Bergen.

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