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Syrian civil war at 10: 5,6 million Syrians have fled the country (07.05.2021)
Still, a handful of neighboring states continue to host the majority of Syrian refugees.
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CORE Lecture Series (07.05.2021)
The CORE Lecture Series invites leading international scholars to present their ongoing research.
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Department of Economics at Christie Conference (28.04.2021)
The Christie Conference is one of Norway's most important meeting places for academia, business, culture and society. UiB invites decision makers and key people from business, cultural life, public sector, NGO's and the media. This year associate professor Eeva Mauring, assistant professor Nina Serdarevic and head of Department Tommy S. Gabrielsen participated with engaging lectures.
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Five years of the city as a living laboratory (21.04.2021)
The end of 2020 marked the close of our major project European cities as actors in climate and energy transformation project, funded by the Trond Mohn Foundation. Among the achievements, we are particularly proud of how the project has helped to develop the careers of researchers across the fields of sustainable city planning, governance, communications and media and social movements.
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Highlights from 2020 (20.04.2021)
We are pleased to share with you the CET Annual Report 2020. Although 2020 was a year with huge global challenges, the centre continues to grow and develop new projects and engagement in societal transformation. Read our highlights pamphlet below and download the full annual report.
Ashneel Kumar
New OceanStates blogpost! (13.04.2021)
Read the latest updates on the OceanStates research front in our blog.
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Enclaving and neo-liberal city development (30.03.2021)
Detachment and separation continue to be central to urban development across the globe, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Will enclaving—the construction of these detached societies—further fuel socio-economic differences?  
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Bridging higher education and the world of work? (02.03.2021)
Hanne Kvilhaugsvik examines employer panels in Nordic university governance.
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Master thesis analysing protests against rhetorics in the immigration debate (24.02.2021)
Nikolai Skorge Bogre has finished his master thesis, that he wrote under supervision of Susanne Bygnes.
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Intergroup Relations During the Refugee Crisis (24.02.2021)
Høivik Bye with a new open-access publication on individual and cultural stereotypes and prejudices and their relationship with behavior toward asylum seekers, using data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel.
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Norwegian-Brazilian partnerships in teaching and research development (17.02.2021)
How can we better understand the gendered dimensions of marine economies and environmental sustainability? I invited Associate Professor and project leader Iselin Åsedotter Strønen for a coffee and a conversation to elucidate the core focus of her new teaching- and research development project, ENMARINE.
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CET at Day Zero 2021 (03.02.2021)
CET researchers are active in several workshops at this year's Day Zero. Be sure to register for the event happening on February 10th, 2021.
Språk
Language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in regional and international organizations? (02.02.2021)
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Three projects granted CET Accelerator seed funding (27.01.2021)
Anand Bhopal, Esmeralda Colombo and Siddharth Sareen have recently been granted seed funding through the CET Accelerator funding scheme. CET congratulates these young researcher talents on their successful applications!
Associate Professor Eeva Mauring
Eeva Mauring appointed as CEPR Research Affiliate (26.01.2021)
The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is a network of economists who collaborate through the Centre on a wide range of policy-related research projects and dissemination activities.
Zuzana Murdoch
How does changes in leadership positions affect staff attitudes? (20.01.2021)
Zuzana Murdoch co-authors a new article looking at how staff attitudes are affected by changes in top leadership positions.
Per Lægreid
ICT use in Central Government (19.01.2021)
Per Lægreid co-authors in a newly published article in the International Journal of Public Administration about the use of ICT tools in the central government.
New Research Project about Covid-19, climate change and media use
New research project about Covid-19, climate change and media use (08.01.2021)
Researchers from The University of Bergen have received funding for the project “Media Use in Crisis Situations: Resolving Information Paradoxes, Comparing Climate Change and the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

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