Looking at questions like "How do we understand Agency and Reform in promoting Women’s empowerment in peacebuilding?" and "What are the challenges of women’s participation in local peace processes?" the ERC-project ResilienceBuilding, brought together scholars and practitioners for a 3-day conference with an interactive discussion format.
Will scientific progress slow down if more countries in the world become autocratic? That is one of the questions political science professor Tore Wig will seek to answer with two million euros from the EU’s prestigious Consolidator Grant.
Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after democratisation.
Eugene Finkel outlined why Russia attacked Ukraine during this year's Peace and Conflict lecture. He traced the lines back 200 years, when Russians were the ruling people.
Scott Gates at the Department of Political Science receives the ERC’s prestigious Advanced Grant of 30 million kroner. He will research the waging of war, and how internal organization affects the strategies used in warfare.
– It is a great honour to receive recognition for a doctoral dissertation on gender equality at a time when the American president is actively working against research in this field, says Anna Nordnes Helgøy, postdoctoral researcher in political science. She is awarded The King's Gold Medal for her PhD dissertation focusing on gender divisions in private and public spheres
As a fresh student, Sirianne Dahlum did not consider the possibility of a career in research. Today, she cannot imagine a better job. She is now receiving the University of Oslo’s Award for Young Researchers for her contributions to research on democracy.
Carl Henrik Knutsen is a pivotal figure in the development of political science studies on authoritarian regimes and has built a research environment that is regarded as one of the best in the world. The winner of the Research Award asserts that having fun at work has been essential.
Maryna Povitkina from the Department of Political Science and Karl Harmenberg from the Department of Economics are awarded a total of 16 million NOK in FRIPRO funds from the Research Council of Norway. She will research trust in society, and he will study labor contracts and economic cycles.
Academic environments at the Faculty of Social Sciences are among the top five UiO disciplines in the latest Shanghai ranking.
Tobias Bach is the deputy leader of a project aiming to collect great amounts of research data from key social groups. The ambition is to establish a national centre for social science research infrastructure.
Yves Steinebach at the Department of Political Science and Ines Wagner at ARENA have received prestigious EU funding to investigate public administration and the digital and green transition.
As part of the master’s course STV4447 – Education policies in theory and practice - Policymaking in Norway and around the world the students receive policy problems which they have to address by writing a policy brief outlining their solutions to a given problem.
A large international research network had its first in-person meeting of all working groups in Oslo with more than 90 online and in-person participants. This network studies political executives, senior-level bureaucrats, and political advisers in Europe and beyond.
Claes leads a project that will investigate the conflict of interest between energy markets and energy politics. It is one of nine projects at the University of Oslo funded through the new Academia Agreement between the university and Equinor.
