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Latest news from UiS

UNESCO Chair: Diversity, Inclusion, and Education

The University of Stavanger has extended its UNESCO professorship on diversity, inclusion, and education. This time, it ...

Greenhouse co-founder Dolly Jørgensen receives prestigious Swedish award

Dolly Jørgensen was awarded the 2025 Swedish Gad Rausing Prize for her groundbreaking research in environmental history ...

Like tuning forks in space: A final pure tone reveals mysterious interior of neutron stars

Scientists at University of Stavanger and Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of...

Impact Case: WiKIT: Transforming Children’s Learning with evidence-based EdTech

WiKIT is a social enterprise that was spun off from the University of Stavanger, and was created with the goal to bridge...

Upcoming events

Bjergsted Party 2025

Thu. 24.04 17:00

sun. 27.04 17:00

Bjergstedparken

Students play the jazz history

Mon. 28.04.2025

18:00-19:30

Fakultet for utøvende kunstfag
Hetland-salen

Presenting your Research with Confidence

Tue. 29.04.2025

09:30-11:30

Online

Drop-In: Get your computer ready for digital school exam

Tue. 29.04.2025

14:00-16:00

Arne Rettedals hus
AR V-102

Student concert at the library

Tue. 29.04.2025

14:15-14:45

Universitetsbiblioteket, campus Ullandhaug

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 30.04.2025

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

Chamber music at Ledaal

Sun. 04.05.2025

13:00-14:00

Ledaal

Disputation for Kaia Stødle

Tue. 06.05.2025

10:00-15:30

Digital on Teams

Memorializing trees: emotional responses to species ‘lost’ to disease

Wed. 07.05.2025

14:15-15:30

Hulda Garborgs hus
HG N-106

Researcher Breakfast: From dance to artistic research

Thu. 08.05.2025

09:15-10:00

University Library, Ullandhaug Campus

Are We Living in a New Interwar Period? (NO)

Thu. 08.05.2025

12:15-13:15

Universitetsbiblioteket, campus Ullandhaug

Skills4Justice Workshop

Fri. 09.05.2025

09:30-14:00

Hulda Garborgs hus
HG N-107

Book launch: Terrorism in Memory Culture

Mon. 12.05.2025

12:15-13:15

Universitetsbiblioteket, Campus Ullandhaug

Graduation ceremony for bachelor students at UiS School of Business and Law

Mon. 12.05.2025

15:00-17:00

Elise Ottesen Jensens hus
Stort auditorium EOJ 101 og foaje 1. etg

How to Revise Your Paper: Editing and Proofreading Strategies

Tue. 13.05.2025

09:15-12:00

Universitetsbiblioteket
KE A-253

Econ and Finance Seminar: Chris Veld

Tue. 13.05.2025

12:15-13:15

Elise Ottesen-Jensens hus
EOJ 276/277

PhD Skills Course: Career planning and development

Tue. 13.05.2025

13:00-16:00

Online

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 14.05.2025

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

Latest research news

Like tuning forks in space: A final pure tone reveals mysterious interior of neutron stars

Scientists at University of Stavanger and Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of...

Hosting international conferences and seminars 2024

During 2024 SHARE hosted and organized a series of international conferences and seminars.

Impact Case: WiKIT: Transforming Children’s Learning with evidence-based EdTech

WiKIT is a social enterprise that was spun off from the University of Stavanger, and was created with the goal to bridge...

Is a nurse assisted remote monitoring intervention useable?

This article reports on the findings from a study which looked at the acceptability and usability of this intervention ...

Promoting resilient healthcare – Insights from SHARE researchers at ISQua 2024

Several of the SHARE research teams recently traveled to Istanbul to attend the 40th ISQua conference, hosted by the Int...

The Resilient Health Care Society Summer Meeting 2024

Sunday 9th of June the SHARE Centre for Resilience in Healthcare hosted the annul Resilient in Healthcare Society Meetin...

The Greenhouse at the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History

The Fourth World Congress of Environmental History will take place at the University of Oulu, Finland from 19 to 23 Au...

Literary Birding in Taiwan

Endre Harvold Kvangraven describes the experience of a research trip to Taiwan as part of his PhD studies at the Univers...

Could scented books encourage more kids to read?

Do you remember the scented erasers you had as a child? ‘Scratch and sniff objects’ have now made a comeback.

Are Sámi schoolchildren more involved in online bullying than other students?

A new research project is going to look into whether Sámi students in Norwegian schools are more involved in online bull...

New methods for characterization of impurities in chalk

Tine Vigdel Bredal has investigated different methods for analyzing chalk at core level and right down to the smallest s...

Detects cerebral stroke using artificial intelligence

She is a radiologist at Stavanger University Hospital, he is a computer scientist. Now they have teamed up to develop a ...

Successful UiS Aerospace rocket launch

The UiS Aerospace rocket launch took place successfully 27 April in Helleland.

The Osage, Automobility, and the Environment in Sundown (1934)

UiS post-doctoral researcher Daniel Bowman writes about John Joseph Mathews’s 1934-novel Sundown, and the use of automob...

The Mongoose on the Loose in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica

"A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–190...

The impermanence of permafrost: learning how to be discontinuous

"Earth Ice Bone Blood" by Charlotte Wrigley.

Why get involved in a research study?

Doctors and surgeons from Stavanger University Hospital participate in the eHealth @ Hospital-2-Home project. This blog ...

Protocol for the randomised control trial

The eHealth@hospital-2-home-project has published the protocol for the randomised control trial of the nurse-assisted eH...

The impact of nurse assisted digital intervention on the participants family members

Master’s research in the eHealth@Hospital-2-Home project explores the impact of the nurse assisted digital health interv...

New evidence for quark matter cores in massive neutron stars

Researchers at the University of Stavanger are now one step closer to finding out what is in the core of neutron stars. ...