2025

Master of Social Sciences in Political Science Sofi Granö will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

Economic inequality and electoral participation: A register-based study on the effects of contextual factors and economic disparities in Norwegian neighbourhoods.

Master in Political Science and Cand. Psychol. Tor Syrstad will be defending his dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

Trouble in Paradise? - Studies on Fear and Anger in the Norwegian Electorate

Masters in Development Studies Ankita Barthwal will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

Partisanship in Unlikely Places: Causes and Consequences of Partisan Attachment in Developing Democracies

Master in Political Science Karen-Anna Eggen will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

Russia’s Contemporary Grand Strategy: The Use of Information and Other Unconventional Means Towards the Nordic Region

Master in Political Science Solveig Bjørkholt will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

The Politics of International Standardization

Master of Science in Political Science Palina Kolvani will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

The State of Numbers: Political Economy of Official Statistics

Master of arts in Conflict Resolution Sarah Cechvala will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

Small Businesses in Conflict Systems: Advancing analytic understanding of business agency and impact with respect to peace through systems thinking

Master in Political Science Lise Rødland will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

Interest Groups and Political Representation in Long-established European Democracies

Master in Political Science Even Hellan Larsen will be defending his dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

The Determinants of Nuclear Use, Coercion, and Strategy