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What ethical challenges can arise when implementing technological solutions in healthcare services? The research group E-DigiCare aims to explore the ethical aspects and consequences of developing and implementing digital health and healthcare services.
Activities within the research group EduWorkSoCo exhibit a thematic coherence centered around the following three perspectives: Graduate employment and entrepreneurship, international higher education and female researchers within the academic working environment.
This research groups mission is to promote a sense of mattering and belonging where people can connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in ways that also contribute to the common good at a societal and global level.
22 August 2024 to 23 August 2024 at the University of Stavanger, Norway.
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The UiS researcher moves elegantly between equal opportunities and gender diversity, welfare and caring sciences research and artificial intelligence and science fiction.
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Environmental changes from generation to generation aren’t always visible. A new research project exploring natural resources on our coasts aims to open our eyes to what we are losing.
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Students and researchers at UiS are convinced that exoskeletons can be a useful aid for operating room nurses during long operations.
At the Stavanger Baby and Child Lab, within the Department of Social Studies at UiS, we investigate how infants and toddlers develop their understanding of the (social) world.
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Researchers from “Caring Futures: Developing Care Ethics for Technology-Mediated Care Practices” were interviewed and quoted for an article and television segment in TV2 News about challenges to the implementation of welfare technology.
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Archaeologists at the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger could hardly believe their eyes when dress accessories typical of a Viking Age woman was delivered to the museum. Now the archaeologists may have traced the origin of the jewellery.
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A unique type of Viking Age sword with spectacular ornamentation has been found in Stavanger. The closest parallel is a sword from the island Eigg in Scotland found in a grave from the 800s.
The project will investigate beacons or warning fires that were lit during attacks on the country in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages. We will uncover the deeper social organisations at work when a society is facing recurrent threats and explore how war and fear-driven reactions affects and institutionalises societies.
Future Literacy Lab on digital healthcare was carried out on 8 October 2021 in collaboration between NIFU and UiS as a part of the research project “Releasing the power of users: articulating user interest to accelerate new innovative pathways in the digital health and welfare sector”.
In this project the main aim is to procure knowledge about the concept user participation applied on infants.
UiS researchers at the Faculty of Health has identified the urgent need to develop an educational program for Breast Cancer (BC) survivors. Known as Breast Cancer School, it has enhanced breast cancer survivors' quality of life based on patient participation and interaction with experts and peers.
The project shall improve the quality and internationalization of education in social work and sociology at the partner institutions, through student and staff mobility between Cuba and Norway in both directions.
Research shows that occupational health services may be an abeyant asset for alcohol prevention, but need competence, time and resources.
How do migrant nursing home staff relate
to religion in their work with patients who
are approaching death?
A study showed that 15 % of the employees had high-strain jobs. Being female, having low education level, doing shift work and work outside the regular workplace increased the risk of having a high-strain job.
With an expanded model for IPS, 63% of people with severe mental illness who were unemployed found a job or started education. This is a higher rate than what earlier research on IPS-programs have achieved in the past.