Dear Future, I am Ready, to generate quantum social change…With this opening Karen O´Brien starts off in an inspiring conversation in this episode of the 21for21 podcast hosted by Digital Society School.
The differences in wealth between Norwegians is now far greater than in several other European countries. Marianne Nordli Hansen and Maren Toft have been interviewed by sciencenorway.no after writing about Norwegian inequality in American Sociological Review.
The "Transformations Conference 2021: Enabling Positive Tipping Points in an Uncertain World" took place 17 and 18 June 2021. This biannual conference started off in Oslo in 2013, grew via Stockholm in 2015, Dundee in 2017, and Santiago in 2019. As always a wonderful gathering, bringing together researchers and practitioners searching for new perspectives around climate and sustainability solutions.
Grete Brochmann believes that the Danes’ latest experimental policy to return refugees to Syria is also an extreme line in the European context.
Far right actors often rely heavily on traditional narratives about gender and family, whilst simultaneously weaponizing women’s rights and gender equality in pursuit of an anti-immigration and anti-Islam political agenda. In a recently published article, Katrine Fangen and Lisanne Lichtenberg explore this tension within the rhetoric of various German far right organizations.
Twenty-seven social scientists have contributed to the book Arbeiderklassen (The working class).
In many countries, the current political opinions of different groups firmly oppose each other. A new study of two Norwegian Facebook forums points out how group discussions on social media may be pushing the boundaries.
Karen O’Brien has been awarded the prestigious BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award for her contribution to climate change science.
Professionals in psychology and psychiatry have long regarded them as a risk group. Parents have become anxious about how they will fare in adulthood. Now a long-term study shows that the concern for the shy and well-behaved teenagers has been unnecessary.
The corona pandemic may have a greater impact on Norwegian childbirth statistics than previous pandemics, according to researchers.
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.
"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.
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.
How does the rising discontent affect political behavior in the EU? And how do people from the so-called "places that don't matter" - vent their anger against the system at the ballot box?
Nine short stories, rooted in the complex reality of the climate crisis, are presented in this inspiring book.
The green shift is creating losers in the labour market. David Jordhus-Lier is investigating what people who are in danger of losing their jobs think about Norwegian climate policy.
Emma Arnold explored much of Oslo and Stavanger on foot and through a camera lens. She intended to look for graffiti and street art, but advertisements interfered.
The Transformations Conference started in Oslo in 2013 and has now traveled via Stockholm in 2015 and Dundee in 2017, and now to Santiago.
- It is the university of life that people engage in in their leisure time, says Lise Kjølsrød. In her new book the sociologist argues that "adults’ play" such as rock climbing and art collecting are not only important for the individual, but also for society.
Torkild Hovde Lyngstad has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant
There are major differences in people's wealth in Norway, and the biggest differences are in Oslo, according to Associate Professor Øyvind N. Wiborg.
More than 400 climate change adaptation experts gathered at the Nordic Conference on Climate Change Adaptation in Nordköping from 23-25 October 2018. The conference provided an excellent arena for exchanging insights and experiences on what successful climate change adaptation means in both theory and practice.
We congratulate Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Kristian Heggebø and Jon Rogstad with second place in the prestigious ESR best article of the year Prize 2018.
"Having goals for the future is important, but if they remain nothing more than targets and objectives, we'll never get there". In her presentation at the University of Oslo’s 207th Anniversary celebration September 3, 2018, Professor Karen O´Brien got people thinking about the relationship between time and sustainability.
Rogers Brubaker has recently started his 4-year position as Eilert Sundt Professor II at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. He will hold three public lectures during the two first weeks of September, as well as participating in several internal research seminars.