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24.04.2009Sick plant suffering for Parkinson patients
The research plant Arabidopsis thaliana is currently a patient in a laboratory at the University of Stavanger. Researchers hope it can give the answer to how Parkinson patients can achieve a better quality of life.
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18.06.2008Bullying on the menu
The restaurant business is twice as prone to bullying as other businesses. And apprentices are particularly vulnerable.
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31.03.2008Eat Yourself Healthy
It is not enough to choose healthy foodstuff if you are to eat healthily. You also have to pay attention to how the food is prepared, Wenche Frølich says, who is professor at the University of Stavanger.
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16.11.2007Lifesaving Bioteque at UiS
By using revolutionary methods the Plastid Company will produce proteins. Professor Simon Geir Møller heads the company which is the first bioteque company at the University of Stavanger.
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20.12.2006Taking the pulse of health
Long days in front of a computer can be unhealthy. Such problems prompted a Statoil department to forge a close collaboration with the University of Stavanger, Norway, over exercise, motivation and diet.
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02.11.2006Life-saving training at Safer
People who make their living from saving lives can never get enough training. Professional lifesavers have now obtained their own research and education centre for acute medicine in Stavanger.
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02.11.2006Norway needs nursing researchers
Today’s young Norwegians will refuse to consider a future in nursing unless conditions improve, says University of Stavanger professor Elisabeth Severinsson. And she adds that research in this area depends on attracting more nurses with the necessary skills.
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02.11.2006Failing to learn from mistakes
Norway’s health service fails to pay enough attention to patient safety and has inadequate routines for learning from mistakes, according to a study from the University of Stavanger.
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Health and welfare represents one of six priority areas at the University of Stavanger, and research in this field is being pursued today at several of its departments and faculties.
This work is well established in some departments, with several major projects and PhD students as well as extensive external networks.
At other institutes, activity is more in the early stages. Research teams have been created to contribute to a build-up of expertise, and new research programmes and projects established.
The UiS cooperates with other research institutes involved with health and welfare in its region, including the Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger Health Research, Lærdal/Safer and the International Research Institute of Stavanger (Iris).
UiS academic staff involved in this work belong to national and international research networks. Through in-house expertise and good networking, the UiS will play an active role in relation to the European Union’s seventh framework programme on health.
Contact: Sverre Nesvåg
