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By Martin V. Melosi, Cullen Professor Emeritus of History and Founding Director of the Center for Public History, University of Houston
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Kathleen Murphy discusses "Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade"
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Ellen Arnold discusses her book "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c.300-1100"
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Leaders who support, listen to, and value their staff are extremely important for nurses' ambitions regarding further career choices in the health and care sector.
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Elin Svensen defended her Ph.D. in sociology, social work, culture, and society at the Faculty of Social Sciences on December 8.
Here you find relevant resources for study and research in the humanities.
The eXploring Leadership (eXL) research group at the University of Stavanger is a forum that facilitates exciting diversity in leadership research and development. eXL is an inclusive meeting place where you can meet across academic environments and institutional boundaries.
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UiS post-doctoral researcher Daniel Bowman writes about John Joseph Mathews’s 1934-novel Sundown, and the use of automobiles as signifiers of national identity.
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Charlotte Wrigley attends 'Thinking Through Permafrost' workshop
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Chatterjee elected on the Executive Committee of the International Committee for the History of Technology
"A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–1900" by Matthew Holmes.
"Earth Ice Bone Blood" by Charlotte Wrigley.
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.
We invite scholars and researchers to contribute to a research workshop retreat exploring the imperial continuities within the North Sea's extractive activities.
“Bringing Responsibility to Firm Practices: Strategies and Challenges”
The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities can help you develop your project.
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Professor Dolly Jørgensen has won funding to research the links between cultural heritage and petrocultures and their connections to green transitions.
22 August 2024 to 23 August 2024 at the University of Stavanger, Norway.
This research initiative aims to shed light on imperial logics and practices of extractive activities in the North Sea during the 20th and 21st century.
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Fitjar is a professor in innovation studies and comes from the position of Vice-Rector for Innovation and Society at the University of Stavanger. He will assume the role as head of the Center for Innovation Research (CIR) on August 1st.
The research group FLUENT approaches multilingualism from a variety of perspectives by investigating child and adult first, second and third language acquisition and development.
FLUENT means "FLerspråklig Utvikling og Endring i Nyere Tid" (multilingual development and change in society today).
"During my bachelor I realized that I wanted to learn even more about business and leadership which is why I pursued the master program, and I have not regretted my decision".
Reflections from the Green Transitions Fellows at The Greenhouse 2022
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The Greenhouse was established as a research group in 2017 and quickly distinguished itself worldwide as a leading professional environment for environmental humanities. On its fifth anniversary, The Greenhouse is moving on, now as a research centre at UiS.
Heating and cooling in buildings and industry are responsible for half of energy consumption in Europe. They have also put a severe pressure on the Norwegian electricity grid. There is a lot of waste heat released from data centres and other industrial processes in Norway, which is poorly mapped and utilized.
In the fall of 2022, University of Stavanger welcomed 12 guest researchers and artists from across the world to engage with each other and the UiS community in a semester-long exploration of the meanings of green transitions. Each fellow gave a talk to present their project and contributed to an international conference on green transitions.
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How can we understand animals as being at home with human-built infrastructure?
Smart Assets, Digital and Integrated Operations, and Condition monitoring and Maintenance Analytics.
The industry of aquaculture is a fast-growing industry. An international project from UiS will help solve sustainability issues in this industry by using economic theory.
Mezzosoprano Bettina Smith, Professor of singing at the Faculty of Performing Arts, University of Stavanger, is during the spring of 2022 initializing her project highlighting women in the arts.
CIIP’s goal is to become an international leading research centre with the primary objective to analyse how technological change and disruptive innovation are changing societies and their production systems – and how this is resulting in economic (low productivity growth, unsecure employment), social (inequality) and political (discontent) challenges in Europe and the USA.
The artistic research dance project All Tomorrows Parties by Brynjar Åbel Bandlien aims to investigate the impact that the HIV and Aids pandemic had on the Norwegian dance scene, the performing arts and cultural life in 1980s and 1990s.
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”.
Radioactive Waste Spatialities, Materialities and Societies in the Nordic Region, 1960s to 1990s
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Associate Professor and Head of Centre for Innovation Research, Marte C. W. Solheim at the University of Stavanger Business School is awarded the Stavanger-region Chamber of Commerce Award for Competence Sharing for 2021.