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This research groups mission is to promote a sense of mattering and belonging where people can connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in ways that also contribute to the common good at a societal and global level.
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.
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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.
In his PhD work, Mehul Vora has contributed to new knowledge about the environmental risk related to shortlisted products and processes in improved and enhanced oil recovery.
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.
Solar Energy Research Group seeks to overcome barriers to world solar adoption by connecting solar energy researchers from different disciplines and perspectives at the University of Stavanger. The research group is a place to share research, projects, dissemination, and ongoing activities. The group also helps researchers find ways to work together and promote joint initiatives.
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.
– I carry out risk analyses and assessments related to accident incidents/accident loads for Ferry-free E39, says Daniel.
– You are given the opportunity to study risk analysis in one of the most internationally acknowledged research environments within this discipline, says Ingrid Glette-Iversen.
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Two years, up to four different countries, several class committees, two births and a pandemic. The MFamily class of 2020 have shared a lot and had many learning experiences. Maria Martinsson believes it has made them more resilient and flexible.
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Associate Professor Ari Tarigan from the Department of economics, safety and planning is part of a group of researchers from Polish and Norwegian universities that was awarded almost 2 million euros for their project “Greencoin”, an interactive system that will promote environmentally friendly behaviour among citizens through a reward system.
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 ROADMAP project has the overall objective to establish a European «doctrine on disaster risk and crisis management», funded on the mutual cooperation between scientific communities and disaster risk management authorities.
The RISKSEC 2.0 project studies local climate change adaptation – from risk governance to securitisation strategies?
Aiming to promote innovation and achieving increased tunnel safety, a research group has been established at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (IDE) at the UiS with its members and collaborators representing the fields of ICT and tunnel safety.
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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.
Risk Management and Societal Safety is a subfield within the doctoral programme in Science and Technology at UiS. The subfield has specialisations in risk management, societal safety, industrial economics, and city and regional planning. The doctoral programme is linked to the research within each of these specialisations.
The Department of Social Studies trains social workers and child care welfare officers.