The University of Stavanger interacts with society and working life. We want to contribute so that society and working life can collaborate with both employees and students from UiS.
The PhD degree in Health and Medicine gives you the opportunity to further your career in research or in professions where a high degree of knowledge and competency is required.
Are you wondering where and when you can go on an exchange in your study programme? Or what you must consider before, during and after your stay abroad? Find everything you need to plan the journey of a lifetime!
The UiS based research centre SHARE was established in 2017. Together with the national partner at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Gjøvik (NTNU Gjøvik), the centre constitutes Norway’s largest research group studying quality and safety in healthcare.
In the rapidly evolving and complex field of engineering, engineers face the challenge of understanding the AI landscape within engineering applications, navigating ethical considerations, scoping AI projects, and identifying AI use cases within engineering workflows. This fully online course will tackle this challenge by introducing a big picture map of the field and by providing an intuitive understanding of how AI works.
The course is intended for anyone who is interested in learning about artificial intelligence (AI) in an intuitive way. The course is flexible and fully digital with recorded lectures, structured in modules that can easily be adapted to fit your schedule.
The Master of Science in Business Administration at the UiS Business School presents a comprehensive and dynamic curriculum, blending theory with practical tools to prepare you for the contemporary job market. With strong ties to the industry, our business school ensures you stay connected to real-world business scenarios, offering an engaging and international learning environment.
Digital Society and Societal Transformations educates social scientists who understand how data and AI work, and how technology impacts democratic society. This programme will not teach you coding - it will give you the analytical and critical tools to live and work in the digital society, and better understand how technologies shape society.
EMMIR is the European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations. It is the first African-European-Asian Erasmus Mundus programme in migration studies. Our students experience a multidisciplinary education between our 9 partners in Germany, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Sudan, Uganda, South Africa, and India.
ConductIT is a study programme designed to offer flexible conducting training to music students, music educators and music professionals. The programme consists of a number of individual courses in conducting. Each course represents a profile or specialization within conducting; fundamentals of conducting, orchestral conducting, wind and brass band conducting, school band conducting or choral conducting.
Unlock your potential and make an impact on our planet! This master programme in Environmental Engineering, features a unique emphasis on water resource management.
The world needs engineers to develop smart and sustainable technologies for the marine and offshore industries. Would you like to contribute to the green transition and the future of the blue economy?
The Master of Science in Business Administration at the UiS School of Business and Law presents a comprehensive and dynamic curriculum, blending theory with practical tools to prepare you for the contemporary job market. With strong ties to the industry, our business school ensures you stay connected to real-world business scenarios, offering an engaging and international learning environment.
The MSc programme in Biological Chemistry focuses on important areas of human, animal, and plant health, from the organismal to the molecular and cellular level.
Do you have a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics? Then this is the master's degree for you! Mathematics and physics are the foundation for all technological development, and are used in economics, in social studies and in health.
Is the book an endangered species? Are text messages destroying the English language? What were medieval books like? How do children learn to read and write? Who was Shakespeare and does it matter? What does reading do to our minds?
This study programme provides an education in either mechanical or structural engineering, giving you the necessary engineering tools to turn challenges into opportunities.
An intensive 1-year course in Norwegian Language and Culture aims to give students the Norwegian language proficiency required to enter Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes taught in Norwegian at the University of Stavanger.
The programme is aimed at musical talents with ambitions to develop their musical and instrumental technical skills. Postgraduate Diploma in Music Performance gives you the opportunity to build on and specialise further after your completed master's programme in music performance.
This programme is suitable for those who wish to complete an in-depth study as a performing or creative artist. Our goal is for you to realise your personal artistic profile and develop your insight and skills to a professional level. This means that the programme is open to all styles and genres within the four areas of dance, classical music, conducting and jazz/improvisation.
This programme is suitable for those who wish to complete an in-depth study as a performing or creative artist. Our goal is for you to realise your personal artistic profile and develop your insight and skills to a professional level. This means that the programme is open to all styles and genres within the four areas of dance, classical music, conducting and jazz/improvisation.
Do you want to develop your instrumental skills and your artistic profile on your main instrument? Extension studies gives you the opportunity to add and specialize further from a completed bachelor's programme in music performance. You will learn more about artistic dissemination on a professional level.
Do you want a challenging and exciting dance education? Do you want to develop your artistic and technical expertise, and establish yourself as a performing dance artist? Bachelor in Dance gives you the opportunity!
The programme provides practical opportunities for advanced audio students to expand their experience and professional network. The programme emphasizes the recording of acoustic music with a focus on jazz and classical performance.
Norway is recognised worldwide as a leader in the advances of offshore industry, and the University of Stavanger has close ties with the local and international industry.
Become a risk expert at a time when terrorism, pandemics, climate change and complex technological risks are some of the challenges facing society. With a master’s degree in Risk Analysis, you can analyse, assess, communicate, manage and govern all types of risk.
Industrial Asset Management brings a modern twist to engineering education. Through this Master's degree, you will acquire expertise in both technical engineering and management that is highly requested in various industrial sectors.
Are you interested in how cities can become more sustainable, efficient, safe and livable? This programme qualifies you to understand and shape the cities of the future.
The demand for quality in prehospital services is increasing. At UiS, we offer an interdisciplinary master's programme for health care professionals in prehospital emergency care and medicine.
In this study programme, you will be learning about sustainability. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent two of the greatest challenges of our time. They involve political, economic, developmental, security, social and ethical challenges, especially for the most vulnerable societies.
Did you know that over 80 percent of all added value in companies and the public sector is related to service production and service? In other words, the society needs more leaders with expertise on developing and leading new service solutions.
The demand for quality in prehospital services is increasing. At UiS, we offer an interdisciplinary master's programme for health care professionals in prehospital emergency care and medicine.
An international congress and contest aiming to disseminate and evaluate the recent advances in different topics of engineering science as well as modern research topics in the 21st century, structural health monitoring, smart structures, smart cities, and sustainability.
The University of Stavanger’s memory bank on the Alexander Kielland accident is widely used by the media, international experts, and researchers. Additionally, it serves as a unifying platform for families of the victims.
What can we learn from medieval craftspeople to help preserve our cultural heritage in an uncertain future? The Sticking Stones project investigates the use of wood tar as stone adhesive in cathedral construction and repair. The complex technology hidden within 700-year-old adhesives will be uncovered to develop more sustainable materials for the conservation of architectural stone heritage.
Several of the SHARE research teams recently traveled to Istanbul to attend the 40th ISQua conference, hosted by the International Society for Quality in Healthcare.
Chern Fong Lee has conducted research on the numerical modelling of Combined Wind and Wave Energy Systems for Intermediate Water Depths. On 30 October, he defended his doctoral thesis.
UiS has established an interdisciplinary PhD community within the green transition that facilitates networking, idea exchange, and collaboration across disciplines, with an aim of strengthening the candidates' research projects. The network serves as a forum for doctoral candidates from all academic fields!
With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), QuSTT leverages advanced Natural Language Processing to analyze open-ended textual responses, transforming qualitative language data into quantitative semantic representations.
A parasocial relationship is a one-sided relationship where individuals form emotional bonds with figures in the media, such as actors, influencers, and celebrities, who are unaware of the individuals' existence.
For over 30 years, the concept of subjective well-being has been traditionally understood as consisting of two components: affect and cognition, typically conceptualized as life satisfaction.
Noorhan Firdaus Pambudi and Kartika Nur Alfina have successfully completed their doctoral projects in the Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Materials Science, Unviersity of Stavanger.
Associate Professor Federico Fenaroli has reached a significant milestone in his career with the awarding of a major research project from the Norwegian Research Council (NFR).
Hyeonbin Park, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, reflects on a research visit to The Greenhouse
The research project Read to Me focuses on assessing children's reading as they read engaging texts aloud. The goal of the project is to provide teachers with more knowledge about the relationship between motivation and reading.
A new collaborative project on extinction histories has been selected for funding by The Research Council of Norway and the National Research Foundation of South Africa.
Despite political initiatives spanning four decades in the form of countless national, regional and local efforts to support teacher leadership in the classroom, we have not succeeded well enough.
MARGAIN uses environmental archaeology to explore life along the North Atlantic coasts in the past, and asks how we can use this knowledge to work towards a more sustainable relationship with the ocean in the present and future.
The International Network for Well-Being is a community of junior and senior researchers, along with students, who share a passion for the Science of Well-Being. Our goal is to promote health, health equity, and to study biopsychosocial resilience during the challenges of the 21st century.
FILIORUM- Centre for Research in Early Education and Care is proud to have two esteemed Professor IIs, both internationally recognized researchers in the field of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). With extensive experience and expertise, they bring valuable insights and global perspectives to our work.
Yara’s Birkeland Prize for 2024 in chemistry was given to doctor Song Lu for his thesis titled “Transition-metal-mediated electrocatalytic CO2 reduction: from nanoparticles to single-atom catalysts”.
Sunday 9th of June the SHARE Centre for Resilience in Healthcare hosted the annul Resilient in Healthcare Society Meeting of 2024. With presenters coming from a large international resilience in healthcare community such as Norway, Sweden, Brazil, USA, UK, Japan and Taiwan,
Do you want to present, participate in a workshop, symposium, or with a poster at the world’s largest conference on bullying? The “call for abstracts” for WABF 2025 closed November 11th.
In the dynamic realm of management, making informed and strategic decisions is key to driving success. "Strategic Decision Making" offers a comprehensive exploration of core business economics principles and their practical application.
On 7-9 August 2024, The Greenhouse is hosting an international conference on Storytelling for Environmental Futures, which brings together scholars from across the world to discuss how storytelling in the environmental arts and humanities can contribute to environmental futures.
We conceptualize advanced operational functions as well as explore optimization methods and physics-informed AI to address present and future operational hurdles, aiming for economic, resilient, and secure operations of electric power system.
The goal of the Sea Stories of Hope project is to shift the stories we tell about our oceans from ones of despair to ones of evidence-based hope, in order to foster greater environmental engagement. With funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers, this project aims to bring together the general public, teachers and students at all educational levels (from kindergarten to higher education), researchers, environmental experts, tourists, and commercial actors to create, collect, and tell different and more hopeful stories about the oceans.
The University in Stavanger offers 4 microcourses in Python programming. The courses are project based
with a combination of theoretical and practical approach.
Øyvind Time's master's thesis can help make everyday life easier for healthcare personnel who must learn how to take a fluid sample from the spinal cord or administer an epidural.
One of the world's foremost randomized controlled trial experts, Professor Eric Bettinger, will be back in Stavanger in the fall to teach a course on RCTs in the Social Sciences.
A new research project is going to look into whether Sámi students in Norwegian schools are more involved in online bullying than other students, as a result of their background. “There is hardly any research on Sámi schoolchildren and online bullying,” says Luisa Morello.
She is a radiologist at Stavanger University Hospital, he is a computer scientist. Now they have teamed up to develop a tool that can help doctors make better and faster decisions when a cerebral stroke is suspected.
In the eHealth @ Hospital 2- Home study we have asked two different patient populations and two different clinical groups to help us in exploring how a remote patient monitoring intervention with additional nurse support might alter people’s self-care abilities after a hospitalisation.
When the world-renowned writer Kathy Lette traced her roots in the Australian TV program "Who Do You Think You Are?", she ended up in Stavanger and at UiS.
The eXploring Leadership (eXL) research group at the University of Stavanger is a forum that facilitates exciting diversity in leadership research and development. eXL is an inclusive meeting place where you can meet across academic environments and institutional boundaries.
Innovation is a core challenge for organizations in all phases of their lives. For established organisations, the challenge is to come up with innovation, to be able to create and deliver a steady stream of new products and services, and to improve internal processes to be able to do this.
The world's largest anti-bullying conference, the World Anti-Bullying Forum, will be held in Stavanger, Norway, in 2025. The world's foremost researchers, kindergarten teachers, schoolteachers, kindergarten and school leaders, politicians and organizations will gather to find out how we can better research and work against bullying.
In a remarkable demonstration of applied learning and industry collaboration, master's students from the UiS School of Business and Law recently presented their projects to a group of industry representatives as part of the collaboration with InGenious Program.
As part of the Pedagogy Unit (Uniped), the focus of this research group is to work with educators on the critical assessment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education to explore AI’s implications and identify appropriate applications.
UiS post-doctoral researcher Daniel Bowman writes about John Joseph Mathews’s 1934-novel Sundown, and the use of automobiles as signifiers of national identity.
SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare recently gathered researchers and health care professionals to an open seminar about the future of leadership in healthcare. The seminar concludes a full week of activities related to the Support4Resilience project.
Attending childcare for the first time can be extra challenging for shy children. To support shy children's well-being as best as possible, the staff needs to recognize children’s needs in different situations. A good collaboration between parents and childcare staff is extra important when there are shy children in the group.
Stavanger University Library will be a driving force for knowledge development, value creation and welfare at the university and the society around us.
Is it a group or a singular person who has made a special effort to make your everyday study life better? Then you should nominate them to The Education and Learning Environment Award 2024!
Professor Merja Stenroos has been awarded the most prestigious grant from the EU, the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. It is the first time a UiS research project has been awarded a grant from the ERC.
What ethical challenges can arise when implementing technological solutions in healthcare services? The research group E-DigiCare aims to explore the ethical aspects and consequences of developing and implementing digital health and healthcare services.
Bridging between academia and industry, equipping students with knowledge and skills to make a meaningful impact in the transition towards a sustainable future.
Activities within the research group EduWorkSoCo exhibit a thematic coherence centered around the following three perspectives: Graduate employment and entrepreneurship, international higher education and female researchers within the academic working environment.
Radel James Gacumo, on behalf of the Sensory Books project, participated in the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) Conference in Malmö, Sweden, from March 6th to 8th, 2024.
Collecting and summarising earlier research within a specific clinical field is common and expected when developing new interventions. In the eHealth@Hospital-2-Home project, a literature review of patient experiences with eHealth interventions informed the research questions and shaped the design of the intervention.
The Responsible Tourism online seminar week (18th-22nd March 2024) organized in Nordic cooperation deals with current topics of responsible tourism, such as climate change and tourism, accessibility and ethics in tourism, concrete actions to promote responsibility and future of tourism.
At a time when healthcare is at a crossroads, the "Global State of Patient Safety 2023 – Supporting Leaders" seminar hosted by SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare, served as the perfect precursor to the week-long kick-off of the EU project, Support4Resilience.
This research groups mission is to promote a sense of mattering and belonging where people can connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in ways that also contribute to the common good at a societal and global level.
Doctors and surgeons from Stavanger University Hospital participate in the eHealth @ Hospital-2-Home project. This blog post features insights from two of these professionals, shedding light on their roles within the project and the motivation behind their involvement.
This course introduces the concepts and challenges associated with the implementation of CO2 Storage in geological porous media (depleted gas fields and saline aquifers).
The focus is on key aspects of
CO2 storage (storage capacity, injectivity, trapping mechanisms and containment),
, storage site selection
, well planning and integrity
, monitoring regulations
and CO2 utilization.
The aim of the programme is to stimulate childist research across the academy, test and evolve the concept of childism, and inform childist social and political justice processes.
In the EKCO-project, after school program staff, together with researchers, will examine how after school offerings in five countries currently operate, with the aim of developing new and improved practices in the field.
Radicalization of Gender and Anti-democracy: the Case of Incels in Nordic-Europe. INCELNOR-MA aims to generate and share insights into incel communities, shedding light on the broadcasting strategies employed by incels and exploring the visual culture that serves as a medium for communication and mobilization in the context of gender-radicalization and political masculinities.
Students from different study programs across UiS were invited to engage in a challenge-based learning activity, aiming at generating new ideas for developing the future hotel.
The HyTack project aims at developing and providing an educational base in the field of hydrogen technology to the students in the partner universities, partner countries, and to a wider community.
Special Networking Session during the Society of Experimental Finance Conference 2024 at the University of Stavanger Business School. The event is in cooperation with the Stavanger Chamber of Commerce.
The University of Stavanger and the Society for Experimental Finance invite you to join the Experimental Finance Summer School 2024 at the University of Stavanger, Norway, June 8 - 10, 2024. Students are also invited to attend the Experimental Finance 2024 conference from June 10 – 13.
The 14th Conference for the Society of Experimental Finance takes place at the University of Stavanger, School of Business and Law from June 10 - 13, 2024. Prior to the conference, the SEF PhD Summer School will be on campus Saturday, June 8th until Monday morning, June 10th, For the first time the main conference will include a networking session on women in finance on Tuesday, June 11th.
The eHealth@hospital-2-home-project has published the protocol for the randomised control trial of the nurse-assisted eHealth intervention for patients with heart failure and colorectal cancer post-hospital discharge.
A new service that makes it easier for anyone to find and read Norwegian research related to the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) has been launched.
Master’s research in the eHealth@Hospital-2-Home project explores the impact of the nurse assisted digital health intervention on the family members of participants in the feasibility study.
UiS School of Business and Law offers study programs in business subjects and law at all levels: one-year program, bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. We also offer executive education.
The Industrial Economics Master of Science (M.Sc.) programme equips students with the theoretical and practical understanding of engineering and natural sciences, and business and management sciences through the lens of economics.
SHARE - Center for Resilience in Healthcare recently hosted an international seminar titled “The future of quality and safety in healthcare – emerging topics and possible solutions” with good attendance and engagement.
Linn Tjemsland and Linn Elisabeth Furseth are both intensive care nurses who work in the cardiac intermediate unit at Stavanger University Hospital. In 2021 they took the opportunity to expand their nursing experience by being involved in the conduct of a research project.
Melissa Bond, associate professor 2 at the Knowledge Center for Education, has been appointed as a member of the editorial board of the journal Review of Education.
Omid Karari Karadeh is a student at City and Regional Planning, and had a project work in collaboration with local businesses. – Absolutely essential to make contact while they're students, a city planner in Stavanger Municipality says.
What factors make the relationship work well between the kindergarten and multilingual parents? A forthcoming, systematic review will address this topic. The research project is presented as a protocol in KCE's new journal - Nordic Journal of Systematic Reviews in Education.
SHARE – Center for Resilience in Healthcare at UiS is hosting Resilient Health Care Society’s summer conference at Sola Beach Hotel in 2024, which lasts from June 10th to 12th with a pre-conference on June 9th.
– I have been in Norway and Stavanger before, and I thought that it would be a great place to study because the city and the nature around it has so much to offer.
The Sustainable Futures in Education (SuFu) strategic research initiative is an interdisciplinary research programme which aims to expand our theoretical and practical understanding of how sustainability thinking and praxis can be integrated into higher education, and particularly within teacher education programmes.
Shalini Premachandran Frøiland has worked as a journalist and a bureaucrat. When she decided to get back to academia she was excited to start the master's program Digitial societies and societal transformations.
Professor Dolly Jørgensen has won funding to research the links between cultural heritage and petrocultures and their connections to green transitions.
Studies emotions, aiming to use innovative machine-learning and artificial intelligence approaches to develop new scientific understanding of human emotions.
Serving as a bridge between the experimental research performed at the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Lab and clinical research performed at Stavanger University Hospital and other local health facilities.
Mathematical models enable a scientific understanding of natural phenomena around us, and the study and optimization of processes in society and industry.
ReaLiTea stands for Research Literacy of Teachers. It seeks to enhance the research and teaching skills of pre-service and in-service English language educators.
In this selection of video abstracts, we provide a glimpse into exciting and important research topics about early childhood education, school, and learning, based on articles written by researchers at the Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment.
The National IOR Centre has provided cost efficient and environmentally friendly solutions for improved oil recovery on the Norwegian Continental Shelf through academic excellence and close collaboration with the industry.
As a new partner, Section for Acute and Pre-hospital care at Oslo University Hospital strengthens research on prehospital patient safety in SHARE – Centre for Resilience in Healthcare
In the economics major, you will develop a deep understanding of the market forces and economic principles that drive the behavior of firms, consumers, and government agencies. With a strong emphasis on practical application, you will learn how to leverage economic tools and analyses to make strategic business decisions that optimize outcomes for both individual stakeholders and society as a whole. This program will prepare you to be an insightful business leader, adept at navigating the complexities of the modern economic landscape to drive organizational success.
A major in management equips you with the tools to analyze and improve strategies, leadership styles, and operations across a variety of organizations. With a curriculum that spans digital marketing, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and economic transformation, this program provides a comprehensive framework to assess the effectiveness of business practices in achieving organizational and societal goals. By immersing yourself in this interdisciplinary and forward-thinking environment, you will be uniquely positioned to become a strategic leader in today's complex business landscape.
Offshore Wind is an area of rapid growth in Asia, the US, and partly in Europe. The course Offshore Wind
Law explores the main legal issues of offshore wind: leasing, permitting, transmission, financing, power
purchase agreements, and procurement.
Students with citizenship from outside of the EU/EEA and Switzerland are required to pay the tuition fee at the University of Stavanger. For the academic year 2025/2026, the following rates apply.
Assuring free access to scientific findings is the essence of Open Science. There are multiple ways of opening your research to the public, and the library can help you navigate the field of Open Science.
Elin, Linda, and John David at the Stavanger University Library are passionate about research being open and transparent. Each year they help hundreds of researchers with open access, choosing the right journal, and publishing on UiS Publishing Platforms.
SHARE – Center for Resilience in Healthcare is hosting an international seminar titled “The future of quality and safety in healthcare – emerging topics and possible solutions” at Ydalir Campus Hotel.
Students with citizenship from a country outside of the EU/EEA and Switzerland are required to pay tuition fees at the University of Stavanger. Some students may be exempt based on close connections with Norway.
Dr Laura Speed, Assistant Professor at Radboud University and the project Advisory Board Member, presented findings from Sensory Books project at the ECRO XXXIII conference.
Norway has a long tradition of using the outdoors and nature as part of the curriculum in kindergarten and primary school, and there is a continuous focus on maintaining and developing this tradition. International Week in Stavanger
offers an introduction to this approach to incoming one-week guest students from the Comenius network.
On 18-20 September 2024 NHS – Department of Leadership and Service Innovation
at the University of Stavanger, hosted the Nordic Symposium 2024 under the theme “The roles of humans and technology in shaping the future”.
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?
A portable, low-magnetic MRI machine gives researchers an indication of whether a child is going to follow typical or atypical cognitive development. The results will be used to implement measures adapted to each individual child.
In the months of August and September, professor Natalia Kucirkova had the pleasure to visit the University of Turku as part of the INVEST Fellowship Programme.
The artist Hans Baumann has received a Fulbright-scholarship to spend four months at the University of Stavanger working on his film project "Carbon Permanence". The project examines the complex ethics of Norway’s energy transition, with a particular emphasis on the role of oil in shaping a post-fossil fuel future.
The innovation projects should be within the three strategic focus areas simulation, integration of care services, and security and safety. The deadline is 13 September 2024.
Our new Viking exhibition, focused on myths and stories from the Viking Period, opens Friday 25th of August. The current Viking exhibition is closed until the opening.
This article describes the second major phase of an intervention designed to enhance patient experiences during the critical transition from hospital to home.
The UiS researcher moves elegantly between equal opportunities and gender diversity, welfare and caring sciences research and artificial intelligence and science fiction.
Safety and Resilience Through Digital Technologies: A Participatory Study with Women at the Intersection of Gender-Based Violence and Immigration in Norway (SaRe-DiGT) is a Marie Curie research project on the interconnectedness of digital technologies, gender-based violence, and immigration in Norway.
We are a research collective that aims to shed light on the imperial logics embedded in extractive activities in the North Sea and to develop a comprehensive research agenda for rethinking extractive activities in the region by considering the North Sea as a site of Northern European imperial ambitions.
Physics of Fluids (PoF) belongs to American Institute of Physics (AIP) academic journals and is traditionally known as one of the best fluid mechanic journals in the world.
In his PhD work, Mehul Vora has contributed to new knowledge about the environmental risk related to shortlisted products and processes in improved and enhanced oil recovery.
The IAI Research Group at the University of Stavanger (UiS) organized the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'22) in Stavanger, Norway. ECIR'22 holds a significant place in history as the northernmost ECIR ever and marked a milestone as the first major IR conference held in a hybrid format.
The IAI Research Group at the University of Stavanger (UiS) organized the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) in 2020. ICTIR serves as a premier platform for researchers to present and discuss cutting-edge research on the foundational aspects of Information Retrieval (IR) and explore its connections with related disciplines.
The year 2022 was filled with significant achievements and activities for IAI (Information Access and Interaction) research group at the University of Stavanger. From hosting conferences to welcoming new members and engaging in group activities, IAI made remarkable contributions to the field of information retrieval. Here are some of the highlights and accomplishments from IAI in 2022.
Prediction of subsurface multiphase or single-phase flow processes is challenging, but important for oil and gas production, carbon storage and hydrogen storage and production.
She joins the existing team of nurses who have developed and are testing the nurse assisted digital application that aims to support people with heart failure and colorectal cancer following a hospital admission.
New post-doctoral researcher joins the eHealth @H2H project. She will work on the analysis of data from the feasibility work, and help the team as they now deliver the next stage of the project.
Fitjar is a professor in innovation studies and comes from the position of Vice-Rector for Innovation and Society at the University of Stavanger. He will assume the role as head of the Center for Innovation Research (CIR) on August 1st.
The Faculty of Performing Arts offer study programmes taught in English, however, if you are interested in our undergraduate programmes you must meet our Norwegian language requirement.
Environmental changes from generation to generation aren’t always visible. A new research project exploring natural resources on our coasts aims to open our eyes to what we are losing.
Only 34 young researchers around the world were selected to participate in the OMAE2023 Outreach for Engineers Forum. Three UiS researchers got a scholarship.
The group conducts research in algebraic geometry, complex analysis and geometry, mathematical models and differential equations, and differential geometry and mathematical physics.
The InGenious programme serves as a platform to engage the industry in our study programmes and bridge the gap between the academic world and the corporate sector, complementing our strategy and mission.
Gitte Kolstrup has transformed Stavanger University Library (UBiS) into a unique library with color palettes, floral wallpaper, exotic birds, creative study rooms, a cartoon corner, sofa groups, and large plants.
In order to improve the quality and relevance of the MSc in Business Administration program, UiS Business School has established an advisory board for the program. The board consists of external stakeholders representing the business, societal, and academic communities.
How to reduce cost of energy for future large offshore wind turbines in free-wind and wake conditions by using full-scale wind and response data from offshore wind farms.
The University of Stavanger aims to ensure that students from underrepresented groups within student mobility and students who need accommodation can participate in Erasmus+ exchanges.
The use of digital apps and wearables to track our health information is on the rise. Thus, eHealth is a resource that may promote health management and patient engagement.
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).
During the conference “From Knowledge to Action – the role of carers is changing?” in Oslo on March 16 Stecy Yghemonos held the presentation “A European Care Strategy for caregivers and care receivers”.
WiKIT is a social enterprise that was spun off from the University of Stavanger, and was created with the goal to bridge academia and industry in the educational technology (EdTech) field by integrating scientific research into the development and implementation of digital learning tools for children.
The COVID pandemic has very quickly became a social crisis, from being a mere health crisis. Research led by the Risk analysis and governance group at UiS has provided valuable insights regarding the critical role of trust in authorities and collective responsibility in effective crisis management, advocating for comprehensive risk communication strategies across all governance levels.
Eco Inhibitors, a spin-off from the University of Stavanger, has brought breakthroughs to the oil and gas industry with its eco-friendly hydrate inhibitors. Under the leadership of Professor Malcolm Kelland and support from Validé (the innovation company of UiS), the research transitioned from labs to commercial success, culminating in the acquisition by Italmatch Chemicals. This case study highlights the significant environmental and economic impacts of this innovation, showcasing the pathway from fundamental research to market-ready solutions.
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.
In the INTERACT research project, teachers receive guidance from their own specially trained coaches. “I am lucky to be able to mentor such committed and skilled teachers”, says coach Liv Jorunn Byrkjedal-Sørby.
The Faculty of Health Sciences at UiS organized the course “Simulation-based learning in nursing education” from April 17th to April 21th, where nursing students from Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway participated.
As a part of the strategic priorities to improve the program’s quality and relevance, we seek to gain expert input from stakeholders from the business, societal and academic communities. One of the vehicles is the designated Program Advisory Board.
From autumn 2024 all students will receive an Erasmus+ travel grant based on travel distance and mode of transportation. The travel grant rate is higher if your travel with environmentally friendly modes of transportation.
Erasmus+ also offers you the opportunity to go on international traineeships. Through this program, you have a unique chance to gain international contacts and work experience.
Open discussions brought on by reading fiction, a sense of belonging, and a feeling of autonomy can be reasons why participating in reading groups is positive for people with cancer.
Computational engineering is a discipline that deals with the development and application of computational models and simulations, often coupled with high-performance computing, to solve complex physical problems arising in engineering analysis and design as well as natural phenomena.
From 2023, all applicants to studies at the Faculty of Performing Arts are required to upload a valid passport or national ID card to confirm citizenship. This is due to the introduction of tuition fees for applicants with citizenship outside the EU/EEA or Switzerland.
The objective of this project is to establish long-term excellent collaboration within Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) education and research groups in Norway and Brazil.
"UiS was the only University which offered Master of prehospital critical care. Also as a matter of fact, Stavanger has a nice weather as well as a nice beach" says Mona Rafiei.
"I had my heart set on coming to Norway for my education.UiS offered the master’s subject that I was interested in pursuing; it really felt like it was meant to be" says Nora Elizabeth Anise.
The Applied Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (AIxTech) research group
is dedicated to exploring the latest advances in AI, machine learning, and other intelligent
systems that are rapidly transforming the way we interact with technology.
"On a forum online I saw someone discussing a similar topic suggesting going to Stavanger. I applied and the UiS accepted" says Tristan Josphus Claude Tanghe.
"During my bachelor I realized that I wanted to learn even more about business and leadership which is why I pursued the master program, and I have not regretted my decision".
"I chose to continue at UiS after my BA because I knew there were very competent and knowledgeable professors, who love teaching the courses" says Kjersti Lauvik Byberg.
Patients and their families contribute to the resilience of healthcare systems. This is particularly evident as global health systems experience increased pressure. Dr. Harumi Kitamura and Carolyn Canfield shared their insights into how we can create environments that invite patient and family contributions to resilient systems in a recent webinar organised by the Resilient Health Care Society.
The UiS Biopsychology Research Group investigates the intersection between psychology and biology. The research group explores health and ill-health across the lifespan by going beyond biomedical models, to look at psychological well-being and behavioral components as they interact with biological predispositions.
The goal of the project Teachers for Futures, funded under the Erasmus+ Teacher Academies action, is to influence European teacher education and to contribute to more flexible, open and practical teacher training based on sustainability, digitalisation and inclusion.
The InvolveMENT project seeks to enhance mental health support for youth with national minority, indigenous and refugee backgrounds, by tailoring public eHealth services to their specific needs.
The InvolveMENT project addresses quality and safety of mental health services for adolescents with mental health disorders and challenges affecting their everyday life. As part of the research strategy, youth are involved throughout multiple stages of the research, ranging from planning, carrying out, and analysing the research, through to disseminating the results. They have also been involved in funding applications. Ten youth Co-Researchers have been involved over the last year.
In 2023, the SHARE centre expanded its collaborations, secured significant EU funding, and enhanced international mobility, and strategic efforts to position the Centre in the forefront of the international research.
SHARE is a multidisciplinary Centre with over 70 researchers affiliated including nurses, medical doctors, psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapist, lawyers, sociologist, engineers, radiographers, and safety scientists.
SHARE researchers strive to be present at a range of forums and to disseminate our research in a variety of forms to reach as many, and as a diverse body as possible. Throughout the year of 2023 SHARE researchers have therefore contributed to dissemination activities such as interviews, opinion papers, lectures, seminars and stand-up comedy contributions in addition to national and international conference attendances and peer review articles.
An important part of becoming an internationally recognized research centre is to disseminate scientific knowledge and results using a broad spectrum of appropriate arenas. It is equally important to disseminate research results to the general population, patients, healthcare professionals, research communities, students, leaders, and governmental bodies.
The Patient Safety Research Group, at the Institute of Health Science (IHG), Faculty of Medicine and Health, NTNU Gjøvik, is a long-standing partner in the SHARE Centre. Under the guidance of Associate Professor Kristian Ringsby Odberg and May Ingvild Sollid, the group focuses on human factors to understand and improve healthcare systems and processes.
The Patient Safety Research Group at the Institute of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health, NTNU Gjøvik, is a partner in the SHARE Centre. Led by Associate Professor Kristian Ringsby Odberg, the group focuses on human factors to enhance healthcare systems and processes for increased patient safety.
The Network is a facilitator for patient and stakeholder involvement in SHARE. The Network representatives participate in national and international program committees as well as contributing to stakeholder gatherings such as annual Network seminars.
The Network is a facilitator for patient and stakeholder involvement in SHARE. The Network representatives participate in national and international program committees as well as contributing to stakeholder gatherings such as annual Network seminars.
SHARE’s revenue is based on two components: basic funding from the University of Stavanger and reallocated overhead funds from externally funded research projects affiliated with SHARE.
SHARE’s revenue is based on two components: basic funding from the University of Stavanger and reallocated overhead funds from externally funded research projects affiliated with SHARE.
Thesis: Learning teamwork is not an event; It’s a journey. Implementing the TEAMSTEPPS® team training program in bachelor of nursing education to enhance patient safety
The Improving quality in clinical placement studies in nursing homes (QUALinCLINstud) project addresses the urgent need for improved quality and efficiency in clinical supervision and assessment of student nurses in nursing home placements. This will be approached through a novel, collaborative, co-productive, social innovation and learning process between the nurse education system, student nurses and nursing homes.
Tools4Teams MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS Doctoral Network aims to contribute to safer and more effective care by studying the innovative tools that teams need to perform optimally in complex healthcare situations both in centralized acute care settings and in decentralized chronic care settings.
The Improving quality in clinical placement studies in nursing homes (QUALinCLINstud) project addresses the urgent need for improved quality and efficiency in clinical supervision and assessment of student nurses in nursing home placements. This will be approached through a novel, collaborative, co-productive, social innovation and learning process between the nurse education system, student nurses and nursing homes.
The aim of the NORHED II project is to implement simulation-based education to strengthen the capacity and quality of nursing and midwifery education in Malawi and Tanzania. This will be accomplished by improving competencies and implement simulation-based education in study programs and produce research.
The aim of the NORHED II project is to implement simulation-based education to strengthen the capacity and quality of nursing and midwifery education in Malawi and Tanzania. This will be accomplished by improving competencies and implement simulation-based education in study programs and produce research.
The aim of the COVCOM project is to research the use of video for communicating complex, but important health messages about pandemics, primarily to the general population. The project is threefold: A qualitative study where we lay the groundwork through interviews and literature reviews; a creative study where we explore the creation of video communication; and a quantitative study where we test video communication in controlled experiments.
In 2023, the project finalized the Resilience in Healthcare theoretical framework and a digital learning tool, which proved effective in enhancing resilience awareness in nursing homes, homecare, and hospitals.
Resilience in healthcare is the diverse capacities of a healthcare system that allow it to maintain the delivery of high-quality care during and after events that challenge, change or disrupt its activities, by engaging people in collaborative and coordinated processes that adapt, enhance or reorganize system functioning in response to those events.
The SHARE research projects reflect the diverse topics and challenges facing healthcare systems and healthcare workers across a broad contextual and organizational spectrum. Here you can read more extensively about five of the SHARE centre's larger research projects and their respective activities and publications during 2023.