Research blogs at University of Bergen

Here is the list of UiB researchers who blog in English, organised by subject. We have also included some pages of interest that are not strictly blogs, but where our researchers present their work and research or other initiatives that may be of broader interest.

This is not a comprehensive list. If you know of any UiB researchers who are blogging in English and who do not feature on this list, please send us an email.

Marine sustainability

SEAS programme blog

Shaping European Research Leaders for Marine Sustainability (SEAS) is a career and mobility fellowship programme for 37 postdoctoral research fellows within marine sustainability. 

Medicine and Dentistry

Nanomedicine

Improving cancer therapy with nanocarriers, is the tagline Researcher Lars Herfindal from the Translational Signalling Group at the Department of Biomedicine has chosen for this blog documenting his nanomedicine project.

International Health Research

This is Professor Bernt Lindtjørn’s research blog, where he presents findings from his work. He writes about diseases ranging from malaria to HIV/AIDS, and also the intervention research and work he and his colleagues are doing, mainly in Ethiopia.

International Health Newsletters

Not strictly a blog, but this collection of IGS Newsletters is a handy place to get an update on what is going on at UiB’s Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care.

Mathematics and Natural Sciences

ClimateSnack

PhD Candidate Mathew Alexander Reeve is the driving force behind this climate blog, which brings together young climate researchers from around the world.

M2Lab.org

Climate Dynamics Researcher Michel D. Santos Mesquita came up with the idea for this website when he was trying to find an alternative way to teach climate sciences.

Haakon Fossen website

The homepage of Professor Haakon Fossen, gives us insight into his research in structural geology and tectonics. He also stresses the importance of field work.

Humanities and Social Sciences

Mediaeval immigration

Postdoctoral Fellow Stian Suppersberger Hamre has created a blog to document the progress on his Research Council of Norway funded project Immigration and mobility in mediaeval and post-mediaeval Norway.

Networks in the Roman Near East

This blog of Researcher Eivind Heldås Seland’s NeRoNE project, which is funded by the Research Council of Norway, keeps you up to date with the project’s look into how cross-cultural networks in early history Near East and how these networks still resonate today.

Nugatorius scriptor

In his Scribblings on textual culture, Associate Professor Aidan Conti keeps the reader up to date on his research on the textual culture of the Middle Ages.

Gender & Computing

Associate Professor Hilde G. Corneliussen, from the Digital Culture Research Group, blogs about gender and technology, about theory and practice, and other stuff that occurs in the world of academia.

Darfur Before

Subtitled Technologies, Symbolisms, and Multiple Identities, this site by archaeologist Professor Emerita Randi Håland and social anthropologist Professor Emeritus Gunnar Håland, shows the extensive work the pair have done in Sudan for half a century.

Csaba’s site

Associate Professor Csaba Veres’s primary interest are in the semantic and social web, and there is a link onwards to two blogs, both currently non-active, but which show some of his early research.

jill/txt

Professor of digital culture, Jill Walker Rettberg, is a long-time blogger and also active in social media. She has written books on both blogging and digital culture.

Medieval Saï Project

Postdoctoral Fellow Alexandros Tsakos and Assistant Professor Henriette Hafsaas Tsakos's blog is a study of the Medieval period of the island of Saï in Sudan. The blog also functions as a forum for discussions related to Medieval and post-Medieval Nubia, as well as the future of the Nile Valley and the protection of its natural and cultural landscape.

Law Studies

IntLawGrrls

UiB Researcher Maja Janmyr is one of the contributors to this blog, which brings together women from around the world who teach and work in international law, policy and practice. In the blog, Janmyr is listed as an expert on International Human Rights Law.

Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

Professor Jørn Jacobsen and Postdoctoral Fellow Annika Suominen are editors of this open-access electronic journal, which aims at strengthening the communication between the Nordic criminal law science and the international arena.

UiB Competition and Public Procurement Law

PhD Candidate Ignacio Herrera Anchustegiu of the Research Group for Competition and Market Law writes this blog, where he both writes about his research project and also muses upon life in Norway from the viewpoint of an international researcher.

Psychology

Bjørn Sætrevik’s research

Sætrevik is a clinical psychologist and an associate professor at the Department of Psychosocial Science at UiB’s Faculty of Psychology. He blogs about his research projects.

University Museum of Bergen

The Invertebrate Collections

The blog of the Invertebrate Collections at the University Museum of Bergen is used to inform those interested about the contents of the collections and about their past and current activities.