Master's student in economics, Knut Håkedal Overskeid, has just returned from an eight-week internship at the National Audit Office: – It's great to leave the university with more than just a transcript.
TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Culture has been appointed as the coordinator for the SPARK programme at the University of Oslo (UiO), and this week hosted the kick-off for five SPARK projects – two of which are from the Faculty of Social Sciences.
On Friday, a faculty board meeting was held at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Among other matters, the board decided to allow the Department of Economics to establish a new bachelor's programme in economics and finance.
In May, new representatives will be elected for the university board. Suggest others or nominate yourself as a candidate. The deadline is April 22.
During a solemn ceremony in the Aula on 13 March, eight candidates from the faculty were conferred. Below is the Dean's presentation of the candidates.
On March 6-7 Laur and Alessandro took part in two events dedicated to discussing the ethics of conducting research on amber extracted in Kachin State.
On December 2, 2024, the AMBER team organised a small gathering with Burma Studies colleagues to watch and discuss the film Blood Amber (2017) by LEE Yong-chao
In February the Oslo-based AMBER team spent a few days in the Norwegian mountains writing and planning the project's next milestone events.
The Norwegian University Center in Paris is a great opportunity for employees at the Faculty of Social Sciences to expand and develop their research and build valuable networks.
– Many people use the label "climate conflict" to characterize the violent uprisings in Mali and the Sahel region of West Africa. However, the conflict(s) is just as much about previous conflicts and historical divisions, says Tor Arve Benjaminsen. He was this year's Tschudi lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography.
SV-students are generally very satisfied but desire an even stronger connection to the job market: "We must give students the opportunity to experience, rather than just be told, that the skills from social sciences are in demand in the job market."
The TIK researcher receives 12 million Norwegian kroner from the Research Council of Norway to map the long-term societal consequences of artificial intelligence in Norway and other European countries.
How can we create belonging and unity in a time of increasing inequality and social exclusion? That was the overarching theme of the PROMENTA conference, which took place at the end of January.
The research support team within the faculty administration is now fully staffed. It’s a team with extensive experience and great enthusiasm that is now ready to assist researchers and research advisors at the faculty.
One of Norwegian anthropology's brightest stars ceased to shine.
Three of the four most-read articles from the University of Oslo (UiO) in Store Norske Leksikon in 2024 had an academic supervisor from the Faculty of Social Sciences. The articles that researchers at UiO are responsible for were read 19.3 million times over the past year.
After four years as Secretary General of Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund feels it's time to move on. She is proud to have opened the Academy more to society.
Would you like to study how geopolitical change affects the EU's global role? A PhD position in the doctoral network EUFOG is an opportunity to start your academic career with leading European researchers and institutions.
The AMBER team participated in the 68th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association (PaLAss) in the city of Erlangen in Germany from 9 to 13 December. After the conference, the team visited the Paleobotany Group at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN).
– We are concerned that open science may have unintended undemocratic consequences. Some knowledge projects may be idealized while others are pushed out, says psychology professor at the University of Oslo, Åshild Lappegard Hauge.
Maryna Povitkina from the Department of Political Science and Karl Harmenberg from the Department of Economics are awarded a total of 16 million NOK in FRIPRO funds from the Research Council of Norway. She will research trust in society, and he will study labor contracts and economic cycles.
During ARENA’s 30th anniversary conference, panellists discussed the future of Nordic cooperation in Europe and the EU.
Watch the recordings of the ARENA researcher presentations during ARENA's anniversary conference on 21 November 2024.
– The researchers at TIK have managed to demonstrate how collaboration across disciplines can contribute to generating new ideas and methods that are extremely important, especially in research on major societal issues, says Vice-Rector at the University of Oslo, Mette Halskov Hansen.
– To address environmental challenges in a fair and sustainable way, we need to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the causes of the problems. The measures must be equally comprehensive, says Karen O'Brien, professor and climate researcher, and one of the three editors behind the Nature Panel's latest report: IPBES Transformative Change Assessment.
