Three new convergence environments at the University of Oslo will receive funding to research how volcanic eruptions can trigger climate crises, explore circular solutions for CO₂ and H₂O, and examine crime in international shipping. With interdisciplinary approaches, the researchers aim to find new answers to some of today’s pressing challenges.
On 21 September 2025, Yayi Zheng joined a seminar organised by Fushun Shuxiang (抚顺书香), a Fushun-based Book Club. The event was hosted by Ludong Shuwu (路东书屋), an independent bookstore.
The faculty board convened for their first autumn meeting on Thursday, 25 September. The agenda included the annual plan for 2026–2028, a discussion on centre policies, and the adoption of a new allocation model for the faculty.
Alessandro talked about the AMBER and RURALEX projects on the podcast of the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
The Faculty of Social Sciences encourages all staff to have a new portrait taken and to update their staff profile. In Eilert Sundts hus, you can be photographed by a professional photographer – with high-quality lighting and upgraded equipment.
The new PhD fellows at ARENA study the EU’s promotion of human rights and the EU in international climate change negotiations.
Sociology professor Magne Flemmen captures students’ attention with humour and memes. Now he recieves the Student Parliament’s award for teaching.
- It is a great honor to receive this award. I am grateful for the support of my supervisors at University of Oslo and Modum Bad, and my wonderful colleagues, says Omid Ebrahimi, who has received the award for his dissertation on the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 13 July, 2025, Yayi Zheng, Laur Kiik, and Fushun-based artist Yong Li joined the seminar “Amber in flux: Art, anthropology, and fieldwork,” organised and hosted by Wu Space, an independent art institution in Shenyang, China.
Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after democratisation.
While the rest of us have been on holiday, Mesut Kasikci has been swapping screws and parts on chairs in our auditoriums to ensure everything runs smoothly at the start of the semester. – I like challenges and try to save as much of the furniture as I can, he says.
What do the current changes in the world mean for the EU and Norway? That was the topic of two panel debates during Arendalsuka.
Eugene Finkel outlined why Russia attacked Ukraine during this year's Peace and Conflict lecture. He traced the lines back 200 years, when Russians were the ruling people.
An exchange agreement with Colombia's largest public university was at risk of falling through. However, a couple of enthusiastic employees at the SV faculty took action and ensured the agreement was made.
Vilde Marie Skulstad Henriksen is one of three winners of the University of Oslo's sustainability award for the best master's thesis in 2025. She has explored the contradictions between the tourism industry and sustainable development, using waste as a starting point.
In July Alessandro visited Cortina d'Ampezzo to learn more about the local amber -- some of the oldest ever found
For two weeks in June, Leni traveled between Bristol in England, and Edinburgh, Scotland to visit palaeontology labs and to share the AMBER project in the Progressive Palaeontology conference.
The professional programme in psychology, the bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics, the one-year study in economics, the bachelor's degree in economics and data science, and the Honours programme in social sciences are among the most attractive study programmes at UiO.
In its first two publications, the ARENA Policy Brief series covers EU-Mercosur negotiations and democracy in Hungary.
Professor Øyvind Østerud passed away on 23 June after a short illness.
As part of the pilot of a new interview model, Annika Melinder from the Department of Psychology has taught twelve experienced child welfare experts a new methodology for conversing with children involved in child protection cases.
In the end of April, 2025, Laur visited the city of Munich (München) in Germany—to explore the surprisingly diverse Burmese amber worlds there.
A group of administrative staff working in the research education department at the faculty visited the University of Belgrade as part of an ERASMUS staff exchange. There, they encountered a university blocked by the students.
Markus M. Bugge at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture has been awarded NOK 12 million from the Research Council to examine the role of public administration in the ongoing energy transition.
Scott Gates at the Department of Political Science receives the ERC’s prestigious Advanced Grant of 30 million kroner. He will research the waging of war, and how internal organization affects the strategies used in warfare.
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