Research groups

The Comparative Institutions and Regimes (CIR) research group comprises researchers working on various political institutions and regimes – studying what they look like, how they function, how they emerge, and what effects they may have. This large and internationally leading research environment study political systems – in different countries across the world.

Infrastructure for survey experiments (SURVEY) is an academic network coordinated by the Department of Political Science. The goal is to facilitate more and better use of surveys and survey experiments at UiO.

This departmental research group brings together researchers who study international governance, the global politics of energy and international resource and environmental politics. Its research agenda covers topics such as international diplomacy and institutions, energy policies and markets, and the role of institutions at various levels of governance in accelerating transitions towards sustainable production and consumption.

The digitalization of records of political data, historical and current, has the potential to substantively enrich, and challenge, our understanding of political phenomena. The Political Data Science (PODS) research group brings together scholars interested in the collection and exploitation of these new sources of data.

The ‘Research in Social Climate Science’ network aims to create more contact across the various social climate research communities in the Oslo area.

The Security, Peace and War research group (SPW) comprises researchers who study international security, wars and other forms of armed conflict, as well as peace processes and peacebuilding after war.