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We invite scholars and researchers to contribute to a research workshop retreat exploring the imperial continuities within the North Sea's extractive activities.
22 August 2024 to 23 August 2024 at the University of Stavanger, Norway.
How can the tunnel safety industry benefit from the use of 5G networks and V2X communications? What challenges do road tunnels introduce for the deployment of such solutions, and how can they be solved?
This research initiative aims to shed light on imperial logics and practices of extractive activities in the North Sea during the 20th and 21st century.
The research group FLUENT approaches multilingualism from a variety of perspectives by investigating child and adult first, second and third language acquisition and development.
FLUENT means "FLerspråklig Utvikling og Endring i Nyere Tid" (multilingual development and change in society today).
Over the last 15 years, research by the Department of Safety, Economics and Planning (ISØP) at The University of Stavanger has enhanced knowledge about risk management and risk regulation among policymakers and risk authorities in the Norwegian petroleum sector.
Mezzosoprano Bettina Smith, Professor of singing at the Faculty of Performing Arts, University of Stavanger, is during the spring of 2022 initializing her project highlighting women in the arts.
The artistic research dance project All Tomorrows Parties by Brynjar Åbel Bandlien aims to investigate the impact that the HIV and Aids pandemic had on the Norwegian dance scene, the performing arts and cultural life in 1980s and 1990s.
The PAN-FIGHT researchers publish a number of research articles and reports. Here is an overview of all related publications.
The project consists of five separate, but interconnected work packages (WPs).
The UNESCO Chair is a collaboration between The University of Stavanger and the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) with a purpose to enable leadership, innovation and anticipation in support of the delivery of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals - and beyond - through the application of futures literacy.
Do you need help finding literature for your assignment or thesis? Or help getting started with referencing? Check out our resources and guides for your assignments, laboratory reports, exams, and thesis at this library resource page for the Faculty of Science and Technology.
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In December 2020 the Research Council of Norway announced that KATS will receive funding for phase 2, and the project will therefore continue until March 2024.
This research group is dedicated to the theoretical and empirical study of social and spatial justice from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
The PlaySpace (PS) editorial team now calls for new submissions dedicated to artistic research focusing on decolonization.
A digital exhibition chronicles the reintroduction of beavers in Scandinavia 100 years ago.
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With her latest book " The Future of the Self: Understanding Personalization in Childhood and Beyond ", Natalia Kucirkova addresses the opportunities, but also the threats, implied by a personalized reality.
The PhD programme in artistic research provides for the three research disciplines dance, music and documentary film.
Why are Vikings and the Norse past increasingly popular?
We congratulate Professor Bettina Smith on her new release. Together with pianist Jan Willem Nelleke, Smith has released the CD "The Artist's Secret" with works for song and piano, written by female composers.
This page contains A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents, with all accompanying materials
Ana Llopis Alvarez defended her thesis December 2nd. She has investigated how living conditions affect how well we are doing. And why is it that immigrants generally experience a poorer quality of life than Norwegians, even though they live in the same neighborhood?
This page contains the Middle English Grammar Corpus (MEG-C) and its accompanying materials (Manual and Catalogues).
MELD is a text corpus consisting of local documents: administrative texts and letters that can be related to specific locations. It is intended as a resource for linguists and historians alike, and for anyone interested in the everyday life of people in late medieval England.
This and much more was discovered by Gunnar Nerheim when he dived deep into the history of the first Norwegians in Texas.
The ROADMAP project has the overall objective to establish a European «doctrine on disaster risk and crisis management», funded on the mutual cooperation between scientific communities and disaster risk management authorities.
The RISKSEC 2.0 project studies local climate change adaptation – from risk governance to securitisation strategies?
Aiming to promote innovation and achieving increased tunnel safety, a research group has been established at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (IDE) at the UiS with its members and collaborators representing the fields of ICT and tunnel safety.
New ideas and concepts are the key to prosperity and to the wealth and wellbeing of nations, regions and individuals. As the world becomes more globalized, the advanced, high-wage economies must rely on their applied inventiveness to maintain their future prosperity. This has become an imperative for a rich country like Norway and its energy capital the city region of Stavanger.
The Queer Research Group organizes seminars addressing current research topics and projects under development, mainly based at institutions in Norway, but with transnational and interdisciplinary reach.
Now you can do a Minor in Gender Studies at UiS. The minor is a 30 ECTS in-depth study programme consisting of three courses that critically engage with contemporary questions about power, (in)equality and discrimination.
The Cognitive Lab is the only arena at UiS where all faculties meet and collaborate on research at the highest level. The lab provides the natural sciences with a meeting place for the health sciences, psychology and various disciplines that study social conditions, human behaviour and learning.
A dance performance by Hagit Yakira, associate professor at the Faculty of performing arts.
A book project about improvisation, by Petter Frost Fadnes
(Routledge, 2020)
The entanglement of choreographic and pedagogic practices is the theme of the PhD project of Mari Flønes at The Faculty of Performing Arts.
The PhD programme in Educational Sciences and Humanities encompasses two research disciplines that overlap in some areas, but which also each have their own distinctive characteristics.
The connection between traditional research and Artistic Research keeps growing stronger and internationally, Artistic Research is a field under great expansive development.
The ProCrits project will reveal the effects of tendering on the resilience of critical services.
Funded by the European Union's H2020 research and innovation programme, BuildERS works on increasing the social resilience capital of European communities and citizens.
The PAN-FIGHT project studies how to fight pandemics with enhanced risk communication. Messages, compliance and vulnerability during the COVID-19 outbreak are central themes.