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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".
On 26-27 September Dr. Thomas Däubler will hold a two-day workshop that provides an introduction to statistical methods for causal inference with observational data
New paper by Hallvard Moe, Torgeir Uberg Nærland and Brita Ytre-Arne discusses people’s news experiences before, during and after societal crisis situations.
As part of the NordMedia conference 2023 in Bergen, PREPARE organized a panel on the project's theoretical ambitions.
Who are the key actors in interest intermediation in higher education in Western Europe?
The Habitable Air project introduces a new pilot study to identify, monitor, and measure community-level emissions. The pilot study, led by Dr. Kerry Chance, will employ air quality sensors placed in key household and institutional sites.
New PREPARE postdoctoral researcher Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen explains turkish political twitter.
Are you working on a PhD thematically oriented towards environmental sustainability, environmental justice, ocean studies or marine economies?
Over the next 5 years, a large interdisciplinary project at UiB will advance the frontier of knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on reliable and ethical development in the field. The program is supported by the EU and aims to train 19 researchers from various disciplines to become the future leaders in AI research and technology.
(versão em português abaixo) Se invita a investigadores académicos a presentar una propuesta para una presentación académica para la conferencia de lanzamiento de ENMARINE, que tendrá lugar en Bergen los días 26 y 27 de octubre de 2023. Es la primera de un total de tres conferencias organizadas como parte del proyecto “Sostenibilidad ambiental, economías marinas y desigualdades socioeconómicas de... Read more
There is a vacancy for a permanent position as associate professor in Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
Jens Kjeldsen argues that much of what is considered traditional communication – such as lectures and presentations – is invisible, because it takes place in forums that are not public to everyone.
Young people struggle with permanent online connection that is associated with their generation. Ph.d fellow Mehri Agai has studied teenagers’ affective relationship to connectivity and disconnectivity, and how it is socioculturally influenced by the media, family, and peers.
Member of the Research Group Ida Andersen takes a closer look at the Children's New Year's speech from 2022 and discusses how children's speeches can and should be evaluated.
This week, more than 70 PhD students from all over the world assemble in Bergen for the annual Bergen Summer Research Schools—for the first time since the pandemic.
Should you 'like' everything you feel like liking on Facebook, or hold back? It depends, says associate professor in economics, Eeva Mauring.
Norsk Medietidskrift (NMT) has conferred the Research Paper of the Year award to ph.d fellow Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus.

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