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Vacant positions for students as conference coordinators (26.09.2017)
At CET (Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation) there are two vacant positions for students. Scandinavian language skills required.
Tatham receives award
Michaël Tatham wins the 2017 UACES Best Book Prize (26.09.2017)
Professor at the Institute of Comparative Politics, Michaël Tatham, wins yet another award for his outstanding work on European regions.
14 flags at the Department of Comparative Politics
Fourteen nationalities now represented at Comparative Politics (18.09.2017)
Diverse groups are more likely to succeed
Students on Vidden
BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)
City scape
New PhD course: Urban Transformations (14.09.2017)
Håvard Haarstad is co-organising a new PhD course on Urban Transformations to be held at the University of Oslo this fall.
Protestor removal team
Meet the researcher: Anna Szolucha (11.09.2017)
Postdoctoral fellow Anna Szolucha's research explores the intersections of energy and society, especially the role of unconventional natural resources and renewable energy. Read more about her project here.
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Symbolic boundaries in social space (11.09.2017)
Vegard Jarness has recently published the article “Viewpoints and Points of View: Situating Symbolic Boundary Drawing in Social Space” in the journal European Societies.
Yvette Peters and Mari Helliesen
In a bold new blog, scholars weigh in on current events (08.09.2017)
‘Saktuelt’ provides a forum for political scientists to grapple with topics in the news.
Ferrera lecturing at the 2017 Rokkan Lecture.
Can Europe become a ‘community of trust?’ (07.09.2017)
Maurizio Ferrera tackles EU integration in annual Rokkan Lecture.
Front cover Grassroots Politics
Grassroots politics in Chávez' Venezuela (07.09.2017)
Associate Professor Iselin Åsedotter Strønen's new monograph "Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture. The Revolutionary Petro-State" offers an in-depth understanding of grassroots struggles, state transformations and social change during the Chávez-years in Venezuela.
Bilde av gangen til de nye CET lokalene
CET is moving into new offices! (31.08.2017)
Centre for climate and energy transition is moving into new offices in the 6th floor of the Faculty of Social Sciences
Lyspære og vindmøller
Energy Director - new position at UiB (29.08.2017)
The University of Bergen has now announced a new position as Energy Director, where an overall responsibility for managing the interdisciplinary focus area on climate and energy conversion will be the candidate's main task.
Egalitarianism workshop at Rosendal
Egalitarianism seminar (29.08.2017)
Members of the Egalitarianism Project gathered at the Barony of Rosendal in Hardanger, 21.-24. August.
The U.S. Supreme Court
Seminar compares high courts in Norway and the US (28.08.2017)
American legal experts and Bergen scholars share perspectives on court structures, practices and trends.
Iraqi children playing, used as part of an article about the opening of a new child care research centre at the University of Bergen (UiB).
Millions awarded to child welfare research (22.08.2017)
Professor Marit Skivenes has received 10 million Norwegian kroner from the Research Council of Norway for her research on child care. The new grant is part of her new research centre, which will bring together world-class researchers in the field of law, child protection and children's rights.
For the fourth year, UiB researcher Siri Gloppen (right) gathered researchers across disciplines for the Bergen Exchanges conference. Here with the opening keynote speaker Rashida Manjoo from the University of Cape Town. Photo: Sver
Interdisciplinary debate on gender, sexuality and justice (21.08.2017)
On Monday 21 August, the fourth Bergen Exchanges conference opened with a special focus on legislation as a catalyst for social change regarding gender and sexuality.
Ritual figures and futuristisc park, Singapore
Meet the researcher: Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (17.08.2017)
Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen's research revolves around how political, social and cultural orders are expressed in changing cities. Read more about his project here.
Group of ukrainian students
More Ukrainian students studying system dynamics at UiB (07.07.2017)
Twenty-one students plus five instructors from the National University of Kyiv-Mohlya Academy and Ivan Franco National University of Lviv studied system dynamics in Bergen during the 2016-17 academic year.

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