News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

The research project ConFront, based in the Department of Comparative Politics, successfully held its inaugural workshop last month, launching an international collaboration on the study of “contested frontiers.”

It's the early fall of 2024, and this is my first time in a court setting on Swedish territory. I was told by a court employee that there would be a hearing today. I figured I’d show up to see the setting and to get a lay of the land, so I know my way around for next week, where there are multiple hearings scheduled. Seeing as the courts are ‘open to everyone’, why not?

In March/April 2025, the Prepare project team visited Södertörn University for three days of seminars, paper workshops and collaboration.

Project members present two papers at the Rome conference: On Gender diversity revalued - a comparison of the implementation of the AVSMD in Lithuania, Spain, and Sweden, and on French banlieues and female identities on-screen.

The University of Bergen is represented by four of the 19 finalists in the national competition to establish new AI centres. Discover the candidates here.

"Curious Norway" visited the center to ask about us, our research and what digital narratives actually are.

Aftenposten has a big story about research from UiB's Department of Economics.

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.