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Researcher Daniel Quintana receives UiO Young Researcher Award for his research on the hormone oxytocin and its importance for physical and mental health.

The Nordic Branding project has now finalized its results in a report to the UiO:Nordic.

New research shows that oxytocin system dysfunction contributes to both mental disorders and cardiovascular and metabolic health. A researcher says that oxytocin has the potential to treat mental disorders and the associated risk of cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders.

Through the collective effort of this Special Feature of Sustainability Science, the editors and the authors offer key insights on how we can overcome the inertia and work deliberately with transformative change.

Professor Eivind Ystrøm at the Department of Psychology has been awarded a prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to investigate why one fifth of Norwegian children do not complete secondary education, and need one fifth need treatment for a mental disorder before they reach adulthood.

Centre director, Taran Thune, has contributed to a new report on how missions can be used for tackling grand societal challenges in Norway.

We have an open position as PhD fellow in INTRANSIT. The position is connected to research stream 5 on innovation policy and sustainability transitions, and the place of work is the Center for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo.

If Russia manages to occupy Ukraine, it will be extremely difficult for the occupying forces to control the country, according to Michael Gentile, Ukraine researcher.

INTRANSIT offers students access to a vibrant research community, the opportunity to work with and be supervised by leading scholars and industry partners, access to data and partners.

Researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) have found that some people feeling lonely over time may have declining verbal memory. The study is part of the Lifebrain consortium led by the University of Oslo.

Hør senterleder Taran Thune i en paneldebatt om evolusjonær økonomi og innovasjons rolle i grønn omstilling.

The prospect of experiencing symptoms of cognitive or mental decline was a key motivation to undertake lifestyle changes, even more so than having been diagnosed with a brain disorder – an important finding from the second public report of the Global Brain Health Survey.

The number of UiO students attending The International Summer School has gradually increased during the past years. This summer, ISS has established ‘Political Data Science Hackathon’, a new six week Bachelor level course to be offered exclusively for UiO’s own program students.

Osiris is happy to welcome two new members to the team: Mayra Morales Tirado from University of Manchester and Gemma Derrick from University of Bristol.

In this newly published book, authors Kristin Asdal and Hilde Reinertsen  present a framework for studying documents that enables you to conduct a rich and systematic analysis of documents in all their diversity.

Five new teams have been admitted to UiO´s innovation programme SPARK Norway. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society.

Q&A with Valuethreads project members Nassima Abdelghafour and Liliana Doganova about their recent fieldwork in French Guyana.

Senterleder Taran Thune har gjestet programmet Ekko på P2. I panel med Bjørn Samset (CICERO) og Thina Saltvedt (NORDEA) snakker hun om 'Energikildene vi bør satse pengene på'.

Rapporten vil samle kunnskap fra hundrevis av ledende internasjonale eksperter på tap av biologisk mangfold og betingelsene for transformativ endring til ei mer bærekraftig framtid.

Processing grant applications and assigning them to an appropriate group of experts for evaluation, is one of the challenges of the Research Council of Norway (RCN). At a recent OSIRIS meeting, representatives of the RCN gave insights into their use of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for optimizing case handling.

Prof. Susanne Bauer (TIK) is research partner in the project "Anthropogenic Soils. Recuperating Human-Soil Relationships on a Troubled Planet", funded by the Norwegian Research Council’s program for Large-scale Interdisciplinary Projects. 

Call for applications for the three-day course on writing academic English is due midnight 16.01. The workshop is hosted by ReNEW, and takes place from 31th of March to 2nd of April in Stockholm.

Are you a PhD student, postdoc or Master’s student in life sciences and interested in career opportunities beyond academia? Sign up for Young Talents on 15 February!