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Catherine Woollard, Director of the European Council for Refugees and Exiles, visited the students of EUR105.
The memorial prize was awarded by group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Jens E. Kjeldsen.
“The University of Bergen has very strong credentials in our part of the world,” said Australian international relations expert, Ian Kemish.
Did you miss Dhayalan Velauthapillai's BEL Lunch seminar presenting on research on nanomaterials for solar cells, Hydrogen and energy storage applications at Western Norway University of Applied Science? Watch it here!
The public debate is commonly criticised for lacking deliberation. Therefore, the group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Ida Vikøren Andersen, argues that we need a better understanding of the rhetorical modes occurring instead of deliberation
In this paper, group member of the Research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture, Ida Vikøren Andersen, discusses rhetorical studies’ contribution to the study of environmental communication.
“What is missing in the selective exposure theory is the fact that most likely people are reading a lot of information that they don’t agree with. Which is why I am shifting the attention to that,” Erik Knudsen says.
PhD candidate Devyn Remme on the social and environmental consequences of the transition to electric cars from a global perspective.
Read the latest updates on the OceanStates front in our research blog.
Assistant professor at UiB, Aaron Spitzer says his «life’s work» has involved seeking to understand, and trying somehow to be useful to, Arctic peoples and places.
The students at the Faculty of Social Sciences shall be seen and followed up. — This works, says the dean, Jan Erik Askildsen.
Did you miss Finn Gunnar Nielsens presentation of NVE's report on new areas for renewable energy production at sea? Watch it here! Please note that the presentation was given in Norwegian language.
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions for 2023-2024. Deadline 7 June, 2023.
Did you miss Kristin Margrethe Flornes presentation of Eviny's pilot project from PILOT-E to develop solutions for increased flexibility in the power system? Watch it here!
A doctoral fellowship in social anthropology is available at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway.
In this presentation, Ingvald Torblå, CEO of Odda Technology, presents the plans and current status of the Green energy project Hardanger Hydrogen Hub.
Do you want to learn more about how anthropologists approach the ocean? Or about how our senses – sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch – can be experienced differently in different cultures? What about understanding how anthropologists theorize capitalism and how people resist against systems of inequality? Then you should take one or more of this fall’s elective courses at the Department of... Read more
Erick Alvarez Barreno is the department's newest PhD candidate

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