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Special issue in Digital Journalism: Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism (21.03.2022)
Special issue in Digital Journalism: Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism features articles from professor II Irene Costera Meijer, and professors Hallvard Moe and Brita Ytre-Arne
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New OceanStates blogpost! (10.03.2022)
Read the latest updates on the OceanStates front in our research blog.
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Arjan Schakel participates in a new Horizon Europe project (03.03.2022)
The research project, LEGITIMULT, has recently received funding from Horizon Europe to investigate the measures taken during the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe. Arjan Schakel, at the Department of Comparative Politics will lead one of the work packages based on the data from his research project funded by the Trond Mohn foundation. We stopped by his office to hear some more about this new and... Read more
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New postdoctoral project at MUCS (02.03.2022)
Hilde Sakariassen has joined the MUCS team with her postdoctoral project "The tale of two cities – the duality of digital technology for inexperienced users in a societal crisis"
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CET partner in new research school (17.02.2022)
NMBU will be leading the new PhD School Empowered Futures.
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Designing Audio/Visual Narratives (16.02.2022)
Recovering from serious illness involves a bodily and psychosocial reorientation in everyday life. Survivors of gynecological cancer often experience bodily changes, fear of cancer recurrence, and changes in sexual health...
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Proceedings of the ACM on Human- Computer Interaction (16.02.2022)
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to this issue of the Proceedings of the ACM on Human- Computer Interaction...
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Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) (16.02.2022)
This paper explores performing Go-along interviews in Immersive Virtual Reality (VR).
Devyn Remme
The global social and ecological impacts of the Nordic electric vehicle transition (14.02.2022)
In this project, I trace the value chains of the Li-ion batteries upon which EVs depend.
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Calls for contributions (25.01.2022)
GRIP has several miniseries and projects which are open to contributions. Please check this site for our most recent calls.
Job opening
Senior consultant in communications and administration (25.01.2022)
A one year position as senior consultant is available. Application deadline February 13th.
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Exciting position available at Department of Economics (20.01.2022)
The Department of Economics, University of Bergen, has a vacancy for a PhD research scholar position in economics. The position is open for any field of economics or finance and is for a period of 4 years, of which 25% will be dedicated to teaching, supervision, and administrative tasks at the Department.
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New PhD candidate has started at MUCS (14.01.2022)
Ida Kvilhaug Sekanina has started as a PhD candidate at the MUCS project.
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Aksel Sundström: Youth without representation (13.01.2022)
Aksel Sundström, Associate professor (docent) and senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, gave a short lecture on Youth without representation.
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Lena Wängnerud: Cleaners from Venus? Gender and anticorruption stereotypes across European regions (13.01.2022)
Lena Wängnerud, professor at the University of Gothenburg, gave a short lecture on Cleaners from Venus? Gender and anticorruption stereotypes across European regions The presentation builds on a paper with colleagues Monika Bauhr og Nicholas Charron.
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Bo Rothstein: Controlling Corruption - The Social Contract Approach (13.01.2022)
Bo Rothstein, professor at the University of Gothenburg, gave a short lecture on Controlling Corruption: The Social Contract Approach. The presentation builds on Rothstein's new book by the same name.
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Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz: Interest groups across different political arenas (13.01.2022)
Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz, professor at Aarhus University, gave a short lecture on Interest groups across different political arenas: the role of group type, resources and context. The presentation was based on work from the INTERARENA project - Interest Groups across Political Arenas, including the paper From Policy Interest to Media Appearance: Interest Group Activity and Media Bias, co-... Read more
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Stein Rokkan’s Legacy: The Past and Future of Comparative Politics (13.01.2022)
Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture Symposium “Stein Rokkan’s Legacy: The Past and Future of Comparative Politics” was held on Friday, October 29th. The symposium follows the 2021 Stein Rokkan memorial lecture on Thursday and commemorates the 100th birthday of Stein Rokkan The symposium re-evaluated Rokkan’s work on nation-building, citizenship, democratisation, mobilisation and comparative politics... Read more

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