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The Caring Futures research project invited five regional participants to a panel discussion at Sølvberget Library and Culture House, to discuss challenges related to future health and welfare services, with the spotlight on technology, ethics and care.
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In the end of September, Health Campus Stavanger, in collaboration with the Caring Futures research project invited researchers, clinicians, technology suppliers and next of kin to share their perspectives on ethics in the development and use of care technologies in the health and welfare sector.
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This is a theme of interest to both the author Cathrine Knudsen and the artist Kari Telstad Sundet. The event, Science Fiction from the Welfare State was hosted by the Kapittel festival on the premises of the art exhibition CARING FUTURES at Sølvberget Galleri. Associate Professor Ingvil Hellstrand (UiS) led this conversation between the two artists before an eager and engaged audience.
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After a long and close collaboration, Ingvil Hellstrand (UiS) and curator Hege Tapio were able to deliver their opening speeches to mark the opening of the art exhibition CARING FUTURES at Sølvberget Galleri.
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The CARING FUTURES ART EXHIBITION takes place at Galleri Sølvberget 17 September –18 December 2022. The exhibition raises questions about ethics, technology and care at a time when the welfare state is changing.
What ethical challenges can arise when implementing technological solutions in healthcare services? The research group E-DigiCare aims to explore the ethical aspects and consequences of developing and implementing digital health and healthcare services.
22 August 2024 to 23 August 2024 at the University of Stavanger, Norway.
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The UiS researcher moves elegantly between equal opportunities and gender diversity, welfare and caring sciences research and artificial intelligence and science fiction.
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Environmental changes from generation to generation aren’t always visible. A new research project exploring natural resources on our coasts aims to open our eyes to what we are losing.
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Students and researchers at UiS are convinced that exoskeletons can be a useful aid for operating room nurses during long operations.
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Researchers from “Caring Futures: Developing Care Ethics for Technology-Mediated Care Practices” were interviewed and quoted for an article and television segment in TV2 News about challenges to the implementation of welfare technology.
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Archaeologists at the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger could hardly believe their eyes when dress accessories typical of a Viking Age woman was delivered to the museum. Now the archaeologists may have traced the origin of the jewellery.
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A unique type of Viking Age sword with spectacular ornamentation has been found in Stavanger. The closest parallel is a sword from the island Eigg in Scotland found in a grave from the 800s.
The project will investigate beacons or warning fires that were lit during attacks on the country in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages. We will uncover the deeper social organisations at work when a society is facing recurrent threats and explore how war and fear-driven reactions affects and institutionalises societies.
Future Literacy Lab on digital healthcare was carried out on 8 October 2021 in collaboration between NIFU and UiS as a part of the research project “Releasing the power of users: articulating user interest to accelerate new innovative pathways in the digital health and welfare sector”.
In this project the main aim is to procure knowledge about the concept user participation applied on infants.
UiS researchers at the Faculty of Health has identified the urgent need to develop an educational program for Breast Cancer (BC) survivors. Known as Breast Cancer School, it has enhanced breast cancer survivors' quality of life based on patient participation and interaction with experts and peers.
Health and social services in Norway have adapted recovery as base for the mental health and substance use services. Research shows that this is easier said than done.
Research shows that occupational health services may be an abeyant asset for alcohol prevention, but need competence, time and resources.
How do migrant nursing home staff relate
to religion in their work with patients who
are approaching death?
A study showed that 15 % of the employees had high-strain jobs. Being female, having low education level, doing shift work and work outside the regular workplace increased the risk of having a high-strain job.
With an expanded model for IPS, 63% of people with severe mental illness who were unemployed found a job or started education. This is a higher rate than what earlier research on IPS-programs have achieved in the past.
A review of research conducted on more than 92 000 employees in 15 countries suggests that employees characterized by high levels of alcohol consumption may experience greater work impairments than employees who drink less.
This research project examines how humans in the past approached, and formed relationships with, animals as a physical reality and as a source of creativity in the realm of ideas.
The project "Life Sheet" maps the use of patients’ personal life stories as part of care work practices in nursing homes in the region.
At the Museum of Archaeology, you meet the past in new and modern exhibitions. Here you get the story of all those who have lived and worked here before us, and experience how they have lived their lives and adapted to the changing climate and natural environment through the millennia.
A paved road from the Viking Age was found during an archaeological excavation at Madla in Stavanger. The road dates all the way back to 850 AD.
People have wandered in the mountains of Gjesdal in the western part of Norway since time immemorial. Archaeologists have discovered a new addition to the site-complex from the Stone Age at the lake Stora Myrvatnet.
The research project Caring Futures: Developing Care Ethics for Technology-Mediated Care Practices will further develop care ethics in an increasingly technological health and welfare sector.
What was life like in Rogaland in the Middle Ages?
There is much that is yet to be explored about medieval Stavanger and the region Rogaland. That is something researchers at the Museum of Archaeology hope to do something about.
Visit the Iron Age Farm at Ullandhaug and experience life in the Late Iron Age. Sit around the open fire and hear stories about everyday life 1500 years ago. As the only one of its kind in Norway, the Iron Age Farm has been rebuilt on the original remains and ruins of a farm that dates back to the Migration Period, approximately 350 – 550 AD.
The research group PARTAKE focuses on community participation as a goal and means to achieve health, coping, good services and participation in working life.
The aim of our interdisciplinary research is to develop new knowledge of relational work in health and welfare professions such as nursing, medicine, and social work.
Knowledge of patients' life experiences strengthens patient care. By exploring the patient's own experiences of health, illness and suffering, we want to strengthen patient care with a special emphasis on meetings between patients, health care professionals and carers.