Forskningsarrangementer
Kommende 5 dager
Master in Science Horticulture Sveinung Grimsby will be defending his dissertation: Radical innovation in a conservative industry. Selected cases of new product development in the Norwegian food industry
Optical character recognition (OCR) promises to open vast bodies of historical data to scientific inquiry, but OCR can be cumbersome when documents are noisy. The past 18 months have seen the launch of new OCR processors with vastly improved accuracy. In this seminar, Thomas Hegghammer will give an overview of the latest tools and present a new R package that offers access to the most powerful of them all, Google Document AI.
Department seminar. Dave Donaldson is Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will present the paper: "Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence".
Speculative Presences and Temporal Disjunctures: Exploring Landscapes for Truffles, Water, and Gas in the Kalahari Desert
Master i sosiologi Rikke Iren Tokle vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor) ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi.
The Culture of Vaping and Meaning of E-cigarettes – A study unpacking experiences and patterns in Norway
Sixth webinar: 18 June 2021
PLATO will organise an Award Ceremony for the 15 Early Stage Researchers who have successfully completed its 3-year intensive research and training programme.
PLATO will organise an Award Ceremony for the 15 Early Stage Researchers who have successfully completed its 3-year intensive research and training programme.
Flere kommende arrangementer
We invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from Norwegian Universities and Research Institutes to present their ongoing research and discuss them in a friendly and supportive environment. Given the pandemic and absence of collective activities, we aim to bring visibility to this emerging field of research in Norway, facilitate networking and create opportunities for collaborations.
Master i psykologi Thomas Engell vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d:
Co-design and implementation of common elements-based academic support in Norwegian Child Welfare Services
Why is it so difficult to do conclusive research on extremism? How is studying far-right extremism different from Islamist and other types of extremism? What are the ethical dilemmas when working with young people in milieus that are frequently targeted by stereotypes and racism? And what are the dangers researchers face when conducting fieldwork?
The Summer School on Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics will take place virtually from 28 June to 2 July 2021.