Interfaculty research areas
UiO is boosting its academic breadth with the establishment of seven interfaculty research areas. The high level of top-quality academic activity engendered by this interfaculty research collaboration will contribute new perspectives to the development of global knowledge. All of UiO's faculties and museums, as well as its two institutional centres, are involved in at least one of these areas.
The Democracy Programme
Central research themes are multi-level governance and democracy, cultural preconditions, constitutional governance and democratic participation.
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Knowledge in Schools (KiS)
Teacher training programmes are placing increasing emphasis on academic values and research links. Key areas of research include the place of sciences and languages in education and school governance, management and organisation.
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Cultural Transformations in the Age of Globalisation (Kultrans)
Kultrans investigates processes of change in society – similarity and difference, continuity and disruption, tradition and innovation – within different contexts of communication and opinion and in different cultures. The focus of the research is the local and global effects of globalisation, from both historic and contemporary perspectives.
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Livelihoods in Developing Countries - health, the environment and poverty (LEVE)
LEVE researches complex problems in developing countries. Examples may relate to environmental change, global warming, changes in population patterns, migration and urbanisation. LEVE has been established by the Faculty of Medicine (MED), the Faculty of Social Sciences (SV), the Faculty of Law (JUS) and the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM).
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Environmental Change and Sustainable Energy (MILEN)
Environmental change and energy-related issues represent some of the most significant challenges facing the world today, and climate change is expected to have a range of social, economic and ecological consequences. Environmental Change and Sustainable Energy is an interfaculty research area at UiO that involves collaboration between the academic environments of three faculties – the Faculty of Social Sciences (SV), the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MN), and the Faculty of Law (JUS) – and of the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM).
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Molecular Life Science (MLS)
Research in this field increases knowledge concerning the creation, development and functions of life - issues that are importance for health and quality of life, as well as for the environment and industrial development. Together with Oslo University Hospital, UiO has Norway's most advanced research environment within the biomedical sciences.
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Religion in Pluralist Societies (PluRel)
PluRel examines religion, values and society. What happens when religions and personal beliefs encounter, and are challenged by, other value traditions and altered social conditions? PluRel will consider this question in relation to the Western world today, as well as other parts of the world and other epochs.
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