Yves Steinebach at the Department of Political Science and Ines Wagner at ARENA have received prestigious EU funding to investigate public administration and the digital and green transition.
Environmental scientists, campaigners, and shipping experts embark on a sailing ship and set out on the open sea for three days. Will they be able to figure out how shipping can contribute to a more sustainable future before they return?
Andrea Joslyn Nightingale from The department of sociology and human geography has received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. This is the fourth prestigious Advanced Grant to The faculty of social sciences and accounts for four of UiO's five grants this year.
A large international research network had its first in-person meeting of all working groups in Oslo with more than 90 online and in-person participants. This network studies political executives, senior-level bureaucrats, and political advisers in Europe and beyond.
Helene Sjursen at ARENA and Sascha Frühholz at the Department of Psychology receive prestigious funding to explore the global role of EU and voice technology in artificial intelligence.
There is an election in India, which, with its over 1.3 billion inhabitants, is the most populous country in the world. Many indications suggest that the incumbent Prime Minister Modi – also known as India's Trump – will be reelected. Why is that? And what is at stake?
Andreas Moxnes at the Department of Economics receives an Advanced Grant of 26 million kroner from the European Research Council (ERC).
Andreas Moxnes from the Department of Economics and Vegard Skirbekk from the Department of Psychology each receive a prestigious Advanced Grant of 26 million NOK from the European Research Council (ERC). This constitutes a quarter of all Advanced Grants from ERC given to Norway this year.
- I aim at filling the gap between different views about justice and concrete policy recommendations, says Paolo Giovanni Piacquadio, Associate Professor at the Department of Economy. He received an ERC Starting Grant for the project Value Judgements and Redistribution Policies.
Research infrastructure, researcher education, career support, and societal innovation. These are just some of the things characterizing Tore Nilssen’s years as the vice-dean for research at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Now it’s the end for the research dean, who is known for knocking on doors and talking to people.
Claes leads a project that will investigate the conflict of interest between energy markets and energy politics. It is one of nine projects at the University of Oslo funded through the new Academia Agreement between the university and Equinor.
The Fridtjof Nansen Awards for Younger Researchers are handed to two profiles from the SV Faculty. Tore Wig, who is a professor at the Department of Political Science, and Daniel Quintana, who is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology, are awarded this year's Fridtjof Nansen Awards for Younger Researchers: Wig in the category of humanities and social sciences, and Quintana in the category of science and medicine.
Spanish Adrián del Río has been awarded a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship to research the divisions within authoritarian governments that improve democratization prospects.
Martin Eckhoff Andresen's project "Behavioral Adjustments, Income Volatility and Attention to the Tax and Benefits Schedule" was awarded 7.997 million Norwegian kroner from the Young Research Talents fund of The Research Council of Norway.
Kolshus comes from a position as a professor at OsloMet and will assume the role of Head of Department on September 11, 2023.
Students at the University of Oslo are joining forces against screens to regain their concentration and improve their reading.
- The police violence was disproportionately brutal, says Maka Suarez. The social anthropologist is part of a special commission to deliver a report on the violent clashes between police and protesters in Ecuador earlier this year, in which several people died.
Anthropologists and biologists are combing the rivers on four continents in their search for a fish which has its origins in British imperialism.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is very concerned about the loss of biodiversity and cultural diversity: “We must rethink our relationship with the environment”.
What is considered to be knowledge, whose knowledge is recognised, and how is it actually taught at the university? The social anthropology academic community discusses the decolonisation of academia.
Sarah Mahoney is among the few anthropology students who have gone on fieldwork as normal during the pandemic. “The village is quite self-sufficient therefore I did not feel the impact of covid as much as in the city,” she says.
Container ships are getting ever bigger. Social anthropologists show in a new article that such growth is not financially, ecologically or socially sustainable.
What kind of strategies does a population employ to persist in their territories when surrounded by militia groups, oil companies and drug dealers? Anthropologist Mónica Amador has undertaken field work in the Colombian swamps.
Anthropology students at the Department of Social Anthropology learn coding: "Knowledge of what makes us human is a prerequisite for the development of new technology".
Rapid economic growth is driving up demand for real estate in India. New research reveals the techniques Indian authorities are using to transfer land from poor farmers to rich investors.
