Tobias Bach is the deputy leader of a project aiming to collect great amounts of research data from key social groups. The ambition is to establish a national centre for social science research infrastructure.
Every year we report our main scientific outputs, divided into peer-reviewed publications, other publications, presentations for academic audiences, presentations at PhD courses, presentations for users, blogs, and some other items. We have now made the current list of outputs available at our web page.
OSIRIS is approaching the end of its funding from the Research Council of Norway. Three themes stand out across a lot of the empirical and conceptual work that we have carried out tied to the societal impact of research: preconditions, processes, and policies. This blog is the first in a series that will summarise key findings and emerging perspectives from our work, highlighting broad and important themes rather than providing summaries of single publications.
On 6 November, Postdoctoral Fellow at TIK Knut Jørgen Vie will give a talk titled "Denial and forgetfulness: The history and social practices of research ethics".
Ines Alisa Wagner at ARENA Centre for European Studies receives 1.5 million Euro in a Starting Grant from the European Research Council, thereby investigating gendered wage inequality.
The two research centers, R-QUEST and OSIRIS, are nearing the conclusion of their projects. On November 8th, they will hold a joint final conference at Domus Bibliotheca, located in the heart of Oslo.
For her PhD research with the AMBER project, Leni Charbonneau carried out preliminary fieldwork in central and northern Lebanon, where amber proliferates upon storied terrain.
From 19 to 21 June, the AMBER team hosted 23 international scholars from various disciplines in Oslo for a workshop titled Towards a Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene.
Andreas Lekkos has written a master thesis on the green transition on a Greek island. For his efforts, he receives this year's Sustainability Award.
Professor at TIK Susanne Bauer and Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Oriental Languages Ursula Münster are convening an interdisciplinary PhD course introducing participants to the environmental humanities of soils at NIBIO Svanhovd Conference Centre 12 - 16 August 2024.
Bård Lahn, Postdoctoral Fellow at TIK, has been interviewed by The Guardian.
The Department of Psychology congratulates our recently graduated students from the Bachelor's, Master's, and professional programs.
Two out of three master's students in social anthropology submit on time. Head of Department Thorgeir Kolshus points to specific measures as the reason for the positive trend.
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.
As a part of the AMBER project, Yayi Zheng attended the 9th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber in Xi’an, China, as well as visiting potential field sites in preparation for her fieldwork in 2025.
Last year TIK was awarded one of UiO's certificates, which is an addition to bachelor's education. Now students can apply for admission to both The Innovation Certificate and our brand new bachelor's course TIK2000 - Innovation and Society.
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.
As part of the master’s course STV4447 – Education policies in theory and practice - Policymaking in Norway and around the world the students receive policy problems which they have to address by writing a policy brief outlining their solutions to a given problem.
Read the special issue “Extractions: Data Infrastructures and the Public Good“ here.
Kari-Elisabeth Vambeseth Skogen, Ph.D. candidate at TIK and part of the OSIRIS team, is in the final stages of her Ph.D. work. In her thesis she looks at the use of research in policy. We decided to ask Kari-Elisabeth some questions about her project.
How can we manage the complex relationship between the need for extensive societal transformation and increased pressure on limited natural resources? This pressing dilemma will be one of the main questions at a large international conference TIK is organizing on campus from June 17-19.
Krister Fjermestad and Sophia Engel from the Department of Psychology are two out of eleven researchers from the University of Oslo who have received seed funding for innovation ideas from the UiO Growth House.
The University of Oslo and Innlandet Hospital have agreed in principle to make sure the population of Innlandet has access to qualified psychologists and specialist psychologists.
On May 13 the AMBER team organised a small workshop with Sarah Møller Christensen and SAI colleagues to watch and discuss the film "Land of Amber" and brainstorm Sarah's film project on Chiapas amber.
The seminar on 17 June 2024 is part of the Belgian economic mission's Academic events series, and will be followed by an Introduction to key actors and activities in the Oslo Science City Innovation District. Program and registration below:
