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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
Students play the jazz history
Mon. 28.04.2025
18:00-19:30
Presenting your Research with Confidence
Tue. 29.04.2025
09:30-11:30
Drop-In: Get your computer ready for digital school exam
Tue. 29.04.2025
14:00-16:00
Student concert at the library
Tue. 29.04.2025
14:15-14:45
Shut up & write for PhDs
Wed. 30.04.2025
09:00-11:30
Chamber music at Ledaal
Sun. 04.05.2025
13:00-14:00
Disputation for Kaia Stødle
Tue. 06.05.2025
10:00-15:30
Memorializing trees: emotional responses to species ‘lost’ to disease
Wed. 07.05.2025
14:15-15:30
Researcher Breakfast: From dance to artistic research
Thu. 08.05.2025
09:15-10:00
Are We Living in a New Interwar Period? (NO)
Thu. 08.05.2025
12:15-13:15
Skills4Justice Workshop
Fri. 09.05.2025
09:30-14:00
Book launch: Terrorism in Memory Culture
Mon. 12.05.2025
12:15-13:15
Graduation ceremony for bachelor students at UiS School of Business and Law
Mon. 12.05.2025
15:00-17:00
How to Revise Your Paper: Editing and Proofreading Strategies
Tue. 13.05.2025
09:15-12:00
Econ and Finance Seminar: Chris Veld
Tue. 13.05.2025
12:15-13:15
PhD Skills Course: Career planning and development
Tue. 13.05.2025
13:00-16:00
Shut up & write for PhDs
Wed. 14.05.2025
09:00-11:30
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. ...