Maka Suarez has just finished a book manuscript on the lives of Latin-American migrants in Spain and the housing problem. Unfortunately for us, she is also about to leave SAI and SV-faculty for the benefit of The University of Amsterdam in January 2027.
Magne Paalgard Flemmen leads ISS’s partnership in the EU Horizon project CIDAPE, which began in January 2024. The first results are now rolling in, so we got in touch to hear how things are going.
Åshild Lappegard Hauge received UiO:Democracy funding at the end of 2024 to lead the project ReDemOS, on open science. She is now well underway with that work. In between, she supervises PhD candidates on projects within her field of environmental psychology.
Jacob Nyrup is just getting started with his new ERC project GETGOV. He has hired four people to the project, which he hopes will deepen our understanding of who governs us, both today and historically.
Siri Leknes juggles research projects that are wrapping up, ongoing and just beginning at PSI. The common denominators are strong painkillers, healthy curiosity, and skilled, friendly colleagues who together drive the research forward.
Although Tore Bjørgo is approaching retirement, he is working on several projects and is currently involved in the podcast series Formers, which consists of conversations with former right-wing extremists.
Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe has a lot of exciting things in the works these days. In addition to being Head of the Department of Economics, she will establish and lead the new centre for international economics - NORCIE.
Magnus Gulbrandsen has a busy year ahead at TIK. The research centre OSIRIS, which he has led, is coming to an end. At the same time, he is well underway with the RCN project Organising Impact, where a new PhD candidate has recently been recruited.
Ines Alisa Wagner started up her ERC Starting Grant project "WAGE" in January last year. This year looks even more intriguing, because two postdocs are in the making and will give the project a boost.
Alessandro Rippa is almost midway in his ERC Starting Grant project "Amber" at SAI. It is exciting times for him, because all members of his project are scattered all over the world on fieldwork, and he receives continous reports on how their doing.
Andrea Joslyn Nightingale is starting up her ERC Advanced Grant project UNRULY at ISS. She completed appointing her team for the project this autumn and has a lot of thrilling research about to happen.
Scott Gates got an ERC Advanced Grant in June this year. Here he tells how the project "Waging of War" is doing.
Sverre Urnes Johnson at PSI has relocated to Boston with his family of five. From there, he reports on exciting times as a visiting researcher at Harvard from PSI.
Katinka Kristine Holtsmark is researching the role of gas in the climate transition and investments in renewable energy. She is also part of the Norwegian Fiscal Studies at ØI and collaborates with several colleagues there.
Graham Macklin is a researcher at C-REX and wants to understand how the terrorist attacks on 22 July affected a new generation of right-wing extremists. Despite the bleak nature of the research area, he finds that people recognise there are solutions and optimism.
Fulvio Castelacci is in the early stages of a FRIPRO project, which will examine the economic and societal implications of AI and how public policy can help regulate this development.
Marianne Riddervold enjoys solving puzzles and asking questions related to unexpected things. This is one of the reasons why she finds researching European integration at ARENA exciting.
Elina Hartikainen from the Department of Social Anthropology has done ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, adressing the country's religion and politics. According to her, one of the most important questions of our time is understanding how the turn to religious arguments in conservative politics threaten and reconfigure liberal politics.
Professor Laavanya Kathiravelu at ISS researches whether citizenship has an impact on integration and belonging in Singapore and Qatar. Her own upbringing in multicultural Singapore contributed to her interest in this area of research.
Andrea Joslyn Nightingale from ISS is a social geographer. She is currently looking at the politics of sociomaterial entanglements which shape how efforts to govern uncertainty unfold in a project called ’Unruly Energy Frontiers’.
Katherine Kondor is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA-IF) Fellow at the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX).
Alessandro Rippa from SAI got an ERC Starting Grant recently. He's set to study amber in all it's richness. The project's called “Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene (AMBER)" and kicks off next fall.
– For me it is important to have partners who have interdisciplinary, or different disciplinary, perspectives. This helps challenge my way of thinking and how I approach research questions, says Nicole Marie Ostrand, postdoctoral fellow at ARENA Centre for European Studies, investigating immigration, asylum policy and international norms in deportation.
– For me, key to collaboration is shared curiosity and an interest in inventive approaches across disciplines – and at times to dare and do things differently, with or despite the pressures of academia or funding regimes, says Susanne Bauer, professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture.
