We are recruiting 4-5 research assistants (RAs) for two research projects, involving several researchers at the Department of Political Science, UiO. The positions are part-time, tasks are varied, and training/work may begin already in October for some of the recruited RAs.
C-REX and CEP have organized an online public event on 30 August 2021 to commemorate the Oslo/Utøya and 9/11 attacks, analyze their long-term impact, and assess the current terrorist landscape emanating from the extreme right-wing terrorist milieu as well as the Islamist terrorist scene. The recordings of the webinar are now available online.
Sarah Mahoney is among the few anthropology students who have gone on fieldwork as normal during the pandemic. “The village is quite self-sufficient therefore I did not feel the impact of covid as much as in the city,” she says.
Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) is looking to hire two research assistants (20%) to update the Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence in Western Europe (RTV) dataset for 2021. Application deadline: 5 September 2021.
C-REX Postdoctoral fellow Graham Macklin has written the cover story of the newest edition of the CTC Sentinel, on the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan's Governor, Gretchen Whitmer.
C-REX is looking for a part-time research assistant to work with statistical analysis of a dataset on religion and discrimination. Application deadline 15 August 2021.
C-REX offers an MA grant for students writing a thesis on right-wing extremism, linked to one of three research projects. Application deadline: 20 August 2021
A first-of-its-kind ARENA project compares political attitudes about internal-market governance in the EU and the US.
Through the project DiCE, ARENA has launched the world's first comprehensive online directory on differentiation and differentiated integration - DifferentiGate.
In May 2021, ARENA organised a new PhD course, gathering doctoral students and leading scholars to discuss a differentiated Europe and its implications.
Container ships are getting ever bigger. Social anthropologists show in a new article that such growth is not financially, ecologically or socially sustainable.
New research at the Department of Psychology has revealed a dramatic increase in loneliness and symptoms of anxiety and depression as a result of the pandemic restrictions. Women and young people are the hardest hit.
Loneliness in adolescence affects future income, pioneering Norwegian study finds.
C-REX affiliate scholar Eviane Leidig and Postdoctoral Fellow Pietro Castelli Gattinara have contributed to the video series The Far Right Around the World, by the Research into Global Power, Inequality and Conflict (RGPIC) group at Macquarie University, Australia.
What kind of strategies does a population employ to persist in their territories when surrounded by militia groups, oil companies and drug dealers? Anthropologist Mónica Amador has undertaken field work in the Colombian swamps.
C-REX scholar Katrine Fangen is Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. In this article on the Ideology Theory Practice blog, she summarizes key findings of her previous work on anti-Islamic actors, ranging from social media groups and social movement organisations to political parties and individual politicians.
Anthropology students at the Department of Social Anthropology learn coding: "Knowledge of what makes us human is a prerequisite for the development of new technology".
New special issue of the journal Politics, Religion & Ideology, co-edited by Katrine Fangen and Inger Skjelsbæk.
Parts of the brain decline faster from age 30, researchers at the University of Oslo find. These brain changes are accelerated in people with Alzheimer’s disease.
The TiGRE project is organizing a series of research seminars to the scholarly community and the general public.
ARENA's Stine Hesstvedt has successfully defended her PhD thesis The Politics of Expert Advice: A study of governments’ use of policy advisory commissions in Norway, 1972-2018.
On January 6, 2021, a mob of far-right protesters broke through the weak police cordon and illegally entered the US Capitol. Here's an overview of analyses of the attack by C-REX scholars and members of our advisory board.
New special issue of the online journal Perspectives on Terrorism, co-edited by Joel Busher (Coventry University) and Tore Bjørgo (C-REX).
C-REX is calling for a PhD Research Fellow on Right-Wing Violence and Terrorism. Deadline: Monday, March 1, 2021