Key facts 2009
ISS covers the disiciplines sociology and human geography, and in addition the department administrates the Culture and Communication (kulkom) and Development studies programmes.
| Sociology | Human Geography | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic publications (publication points) | 72 | 20 | 92 |
| Master progamme | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Bachelor progamme | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Courses | - | - | 75 |
| Academic man-years worked | 20 | 10 | 30 |
| Research fellows (postdoc. og PhD.) | 17 | 6 | 23 |
| Administrative man-years worked | |||
| Budget (total) | 72,3 mill. | ||
| External financing | 21,5 mill. | ||
| Reseach projects with external financing (postdoctor projects not included) |
Areas of research
- Human Geography
- Development, politics and the environment (UPM)
- Urban and regional research (BR)
- Sociology
- Culture
- Social inequality
- Gender, daily life and intimate relations
- Organizations
National areas of focus
- Cannabis: Subculture, economy and social marginality
Project leader: Willy Pedersen - Measuring and Explaining Discrimination in the Labour Market: New Understandings and Political Solutions (DISCRIM)
Project leader: Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund - Segregering i Osloskolen
Project leader: Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund - Involverende planlegging
Project leader: Tian Sørhaug - The Social Meaning of Children
Project leader: Anne Lise Ellingsæter, An-Magritt Jensenog Merete Lie - Den sosiologiske diskursen om det moderne: En faghistorisk rekonstruksjon med systematiske intensjoner
Project leader: Ragnvald Kalleberg - Friends or Foes?
Project leader: Arne Mastekaasa - PLAN - The Potentials of and Limits to Adaptation in Norway
Project leader: Karen O'Brien - Industrial relations under global stress: fragmentation and the potential for representation of workers in the Norwegian hospitality sector
Project leader: Hege M. Knutsen og Sylvi Endresen
International areas of focus
- Critical Journalism in China
Project leader: Elin Sæther - GECHS - Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Project leader: Karen O'Brien - Nordic welfare states and the dynamics and effects of ethnic residential segregation (NODES)
Project leader: Terje Wessel - EUMARGINS - Inkludering og ekskludering av unge voksne innvandrere i 7 europeiske land (Norge, Sverige, Storbritannia, Estland, Spania, Italia og Frankrike)
Project leader: Katrine Fangen - SOLAR TRANSITIONS - THE INDIA-KENYA PROJECT. Village scale solar systems for development: Transfer of social and technological innovations between India and Kenya
Project leader: Karen O'Brien
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