More R&D spending in Norway leads to higher productivity as firms improve their capacity to learn from other domestic firms as well as from firms in other countries. As a result, GDP, real wages and consumption will increase in the long run.
Spring 2020 has been different in OSIRIS, as everywhere else. But through digital spaces the team has in many respects been closer than ever before, and we had a successful consortium workshop 8-9 June.
The corona pandemic may have a greater impact on Norwegian childbirth statistics than previous pandemics, according to researchers.
TIKs forskningsprosjekt LITTLE TOOLS søker 1-2 vitenskapelige assistenter som kan jobbe 50-100% i perioden juni – desember 2020.
Do you want to make Oslo more sustainable and at the same time gain credits and work-related experience? Collaboration, urban development and sustainability are keywords for the course CityStudio Oslo, which is now recruiting a new cohort of students for autumn 2020.
Read what students in literary studies and psychology say about LCE courses.
The ProjectSTEP group (also referred to as "Critical Friends" in the project's English description) is included in the project's RRI design and has now had its first meeting.
The University of Oslo's board has decided that the initiative UiO:Life Science will be continued for a new five-year period.
Kristin Asdal and Bård Hobæk write about parliamentary politics in new issue of Social Studies of Science.
OSIRIS is fundamentally about understanding the process through which research makes some kind of difference in society. These strange and dramatic times highlight why we need such knowledge. In our most recent blog post, we reflect upon how our work touches on the current coronavirus situation.
The blog post can be found here.
“I believe that there are many leaders around the world who are currently at risk of putting a foot wrong,” says Tore Wig. As a political scientist he has been conducting research on the reasons for the collapse of regimes.
"We may find that systems that seem natural are really just unnecessary constructs," says Karen O'Brien, professor of human geography, who has researched what it takes for people to make changes in their lives.
The journal packages from PsycARTICLES and the ProQuest Health Research Premium Collection are no longer available after March 1, 2020. At UiO and OUS, we have had access to these journal packages through "Helsebiblioteket". Update as of March 23: The library has now set up the Get It Now service to access articles.
UiO:Energy will fund a number of summer research projects within sustainable energy for students. The projects must be carried out between April and October 2020. All students currently enrolled in their last year of a bachelor program, in a master program or relevant professional degree program at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply. The students selected for summer research projects will each receive a stipend of NOK 40 000.
Early interactions with caregivers can dramatically affect your beliefs about yourself, your expectations of others, and how you cope with stress and regulate your emotions as an adult.
A PhD course on the bioeconomy was held in Oslo 9-13 December as part of the ERC Little Tools project.
TIK*s PhD candidate Henrik Schwabe has won the prize for best PhD paper at the annual meeting of the Norwegian Association for Economists.
Earlier this fall, PROMENTA was joined by two new doctoral research fellows at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. Liridona Gashi and Eirik Jerven Berger are both part of the Drug Policy Reform research group at PROMENTA, and will be supervised Professor Willy Pedersen and Professor Sveinung Sandberg.
Most likely yes, but removing barriers is not the same as opening the floodgates, says OSIRIS ph.d candidate Lars Wenaas.
Did you know that around one third of global food produced for human consumptions is wasted?
The Little Tools team met for two days of lively discussions on the project and works in progress.
On November 8th, professor Barry Bozeman (Arizona State University) visited the OSIRIS consortium meeting and gave a keynote speech titled Public values criteria in science policy and evaluation: Challenges of moving from theory to application.