Press and public affairs

«UiS and Stavanger are amazing!»

University of Stavanger (UiS) is welcoming more than 200 students from 11 ECIU University partner institutions this seme...

Closer collaboration on health technology

UiS has strengthened its collaboration with Laerdal Medical. One of the projects aims to make emergency calls to 113 eas...

Funding for research on marine ecosystems and climate change

UiS has received 6 million NOK in EU funding for a new research and innovation project addressing the combined impacts o...

UiS reduces tuition fees for international students

University of Stavanger (UiS) is introducing lower tuition fees for international students from outside the EEA and Swit...

One Ocean Expedition

40 students and staff from the University of Stavanger will sail from La Paz to Herradura Bay with the Staatsraad Lehmku...

10 years with a 24-hour library

August 26, 2025 marks ten years since UiS opened Norway’s first 24-hour library. Back then, many were skeptical, but it ...

Discontinues involvement in ECIU University

The UiS board decided in its June 12 meeting to end activities related to ECIU University. However, the board wants memb...

UiS board decides faculty change for NHS - DMSI

The university board decided on June 12 to move NHS – Department of Management and Service Innovation – from the Faculty...

ECIU students found new solutions for wind power

Over 30 students from six countries gathered at the University of Stavanger to develop solutions that could make the win...

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...

Open seminar on health communication

Greenhouse online environmental humanities book talks series: "A Dirty History of Photography" by Michelle Henning

Extraterritoriality in EU Law: Understanding the EU AI Act

Drop-in writing guidance and learning support at the library

Opera Café: 20 years with opera

Get Your Message Across: How to Present an Argument

Multi-level leadership perspectives for the common good

Making Meaning of Energy Dilemmas through Hydropower Media

Interviewing Children for Research: Improving Interview Skills Using AI

Workshop: Prepare yourself for your exams

Disputation for Norman Urrez

Producing alternative green futures

Greenhouse online environmental humanities book talks series: "The Idea of Waste" by John Scanlan

Bjergsted Series

Shut up & write for PhDs

Situating Environmental Humanities in the Arctic, in institutional contexts, and in communities

Disputation for Solveig Kristina Hammonds

Disputation for Hadi Pezeshki

Programme Launch: Stavanger Chamber Music Festival 2026

Book Launch: (Un)Silencing Academia in Times of Epistemic Conflicts

Researcher Breakfast at the Library

Researcher Breakfast is a monthly event where you can start your day with both breakfast and academic insight.

One Ocean Expedition

40 students and staff from the University of Stavanger will sail from La Paz to Herradura Bay with the Staatsraad Lehmku...

New research puts Einstein to the test

Researchers at the University of Stavanger have recently made observations of the strongest gravitational wave signal ev...

New Research from Synapse Lab: Teaching Coping Skills in Schools Improves Youth Mental Health & Academic Outcomes

New research shows that a school-based coping skills program improves youth mental health, increases motivation, and enh...

New Research from Synapse Lab: The Social Gradient in Social and Emotional Skills

A new working paper analyzes four large datasets to examine the social gradient in a comprehensive set of social and emo...

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 ...

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.