News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

University of Bergen Professors, international Ph.D. students, and UiB’s Master students Dive into Cryospheric Monitoring at an Elite Summer School in the Lyngen Alps.

Solveig Høegh-Krohn joins the PREPARE research team to study people's connection to public sphere in rural Norway.

«This is an opportunity to tackle prominent but largely-overlooked challenges plaguing the frontiers of developed liberal democracies» Aaron Spitzer says.

Compared to many other countries, Norwegian readers do not shy away from news about politics. This and other insights from the Reuters Digital News Report and its Norwegian sub-report were presented by Janne Bjørgan at Fritt Ord.

On Friday, August 25th 2023, the Department of Government was pleased to host this year's March / Olsen Honorary Lecture with Professor Walter W. (Woody) Powell as the distinguished speaker. The title of the lecture by Professor Powell was called "The Iron Cage Redux - Looking Back and Forward".

New paper by Hallvard Moe, Torgeir Uberg Nærland and Brita Ytre-Arne discusses people’s news experiences before, during and after societal crisis situations.

Who are the key actors in interest intermediation in higher education in Western Europe?

New PREPARE postdoctoral researcher Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen explains turkish political twitter.