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Below you can find the detailed programme for the 32nd Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research.
Here you can find the programme for the The 32nd Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research.
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.
The Responsible Tourism online seminar week (18th-22nd March 2024) organized in Nordic cooperation deals with current topics of responsible tourism, such as climate change and tourism, accessibility and ethics in tourism, concrete actions to promote responsibility and future of tourism.
Radicalization of Gender and Anti-democracy: the Case of Incels in Nordic-Europe. INCELNOR-MA aims to generate and share insights into incel communities, shedding light on the broadcasting strategies employed by incels and exploring the visual culture that serves as a medium for communication and mobilization in the context of gender-radicalization and political masculinities.
Students from different study programs across UiS were invited to engage in a challenge-based learning activity, aiming at generating new ideas for developing the future hotel.
On 18-20 September 2024 NHS – Department of Leadership and Service Innovation
at the University of Stavanger, will host the Nordic Symposium 2024 under the theme “The roles of humans and technology in shaping the future”.
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A portable, low-magnetic MRI machine gives researchers an indication of whether a child is going to follow typical or atypical cognitive development. The results will be used to implement measures adapted to each individual child.
Safety and Resilience Through Digital Technologies: A Participatory Study with Women at the Intersection of Gender-Based Violence and Immigration in Norway (SaRe-DiGT) is a Marie Curie research project on the interconnectedness of digital technologies, gender-based violence, and immigration in Norway.
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An ongoing project between University of Stavanger and Metropolitan University of Prague addresses an important topic that has received little attention in the past, that of accessible tourism. The 2-year collaboration has led to knowledge exchange, curricula and course development and learning for all stakeholders, and will impact both future education and research.
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The Norwegian Hotel School’s master’s students were welcomed to UiS with a three-day kickoff at Viste Strand Hotel.
A delegation from The University of Havana visited UiS to discuss Norwegian/Cuban conference and how to increase the numbers of Norwegian exchange students to Cuba and vice versa.
The UNESCO Chair is a collaboration between The University of Stavanger and the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) with a purpose to enable leadership, innovation and anticipation in support of the delivery of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals - and beyond - through the application of futures literacy.
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After 15 years at British universities followed by two years at the UiS Business School, Rune Todnem By joins the established leadership and organisational change community at the University of Stavanger Faculty of Social Sciences as Professor of Leadership.
Here you’ll find links to statistical and market data resources, and links to databases where you can find the newest research in hospitality and tourism. The Library can help you search for literature and give you access to research and academic resources useful for students and staff at NHS – Department of Leadership and Service Innovation.
Information and useful links to scientific and subject-relevant sources for research and studies in media and social sciences. The library gives you access to resources in sociology, political science, change management, media studies, documentary production and energy, environment, and society.
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As part of the very first ECIU University pilot, students Arne Kragseth and Elisabeth Stene came up with a triple solution for a better mobility in the Stavanger region.
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.
Cultural sociology studies the repertoires of meaning and interpretation that people deploy when they navigate everyday life, work life, lifestyles, family, and civil society. The research group explores the significance of micro interaction.
This research program area is aimed at preparing better graduate and postgraduate candidates.
By developing a new joint curriculum of PhD courses, candidates will be better equipped in areas of innovation and science.
The Cognitive Lab is the only arena at UiS where all faculties meet and collaborate on research at the highest level. The lab provides the natural sciences with a meeting place for the health sciences, psychology and various disciplines that study social conditions, human behaviour and learning.
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The Cognitive Lab provides the natural sciences and research on cognition and artificial intelligence with a meeting place for the health sciences, psychology and various disciplines that study social conditions, human behaviour and learning.
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Two Cuban master students at Nordic Master of Social Work and welfare came on a three month stay to Stavanger one week before Norway closed down.
NHS – Department of Leadership and Service Innovation has educated hotel managers and other leaders in the tourism and service sector since 1912, and is the second oldest school of hotel and tourism in the world.
The Department of Social Studies trains social workers and child care welfare officers.
The Department of Media and Social Sciences offer academic programmes within, and do research on, media, sociology and political science as well as change management and energy, environment and society.
Education and research at the Faculty of Social Sciences is diverse, and includes hotel and tourism management, media studies, sociology, social sciences, gender studies, management, psychology and social studies.