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Latest news from UiS

Bjarte Engeset employed in temporary position

Bjarte Engeset is employed in a three-year temporary position as Professor in conducting.

A successful year for the PhD Community on green transition

2024 was the first year the PhD Community on green transition organized regular activities for candidates working on top...

16 million NOK for Research on Older Adults Living at Home

Many older adults living at home have health needs that can be difficult to detect early. Researchers at the University ...

New international research project on energy transitions

New international research project to explore energy transitions in the Nordic region over the past 150 years. The proje...

From Greenhouse to Cryobank: exploring planetary temporalities in Germany

Greenhouse member and Good Fire researcher Charlotte Wrigley gets fellowship at at the Panel on Planetary Thinking, host...

Winter School and Conference on Teamwork in Healthcare

invites you to the Winter School for doctoral candidates and a conference on teamwork in healthcare, taking place from N...

High interest in the memory bank on the Kielland disaster

The University of Stavanger’s memory bank on the Alexander Kielland accident is widely used by the media, international ...

The students Oda, Maren og Susanne learned about workplace motivation and won 40.000 NOK

Three groups of students from the Master of Science in Business Administration participated in the competition. The winn...

Impact Case: Eco-Friendly Hydrate Inhibitors: From University Research to Industry Innovation

Eco Inhibitors, a spin-off from the University of Stavanger, has brought breakthroughs to the oil and gas industry with ...

Impact Case: Enhancing Risk Communication for Pandemic Response

The COVID pandemic has very quickly became a social crisis, from being a mere health crisis. Research led by the Risk an...

Burning Questions: Korean student's research visit to The Greenhouse

Hyeonbin Park, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at the Korea Advanced Institute o...

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 ...

Professor Dolly Jørgensen wins funding for new collaborative project on extinction and museums

A new collaborative project on extinction histories has been selected for funding by The Research Council of Norway and ...

Melina Antonia Buns selected member of the Young Academy of Norway

Greenhouse member Melina Antonia Buns has been selected as member of the prestigious Young Academy of Norway (AYF).

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...

Teachers lack authority. Could coaching be a solution?

Despite political initiatives spanning four decades in the form of countless national, regional and local efforts to sup...

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...

Now you can register your contribution to WABF 2025

Do you want to present, participate in a workshop, symposium, or with a poster at the world’s largest conference on bull...

1.5 million euro for research on fluid dynamics

Guang Yin is the first researcher at the University of Stavanger (UiS) to receive the European Research Council's award ...

Ocean Energy in Japan

Aster Hoving tells about a study visit to Japan as part of her PhD studies.

Upcoming events

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 08.01.2025

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

Introduction to Zotero

Tue. 14.01.2025

14:15-16:00

The Ullandhaug Library
KE A-253

Book Launch: The Pedagogical Potential of Smell (NO)

Tue. 14.01.2025

14:15-15:00

Universitetsbiblioteket, Campus Ullandhaug

Shut up & write for PhDs

Mon. 20.01.2025

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

Workshop for TekNat students: find good sources for your thesis

Tue. 21.01.2025

10:15-12:00

Teams

Information meeting: Outbound exchange autumn 2025

Tue. 21.01.2025

14:15-14:45

Digital meeting in Teams

The Publishing Process from A to Z

Wed. 22.01.2025

09:00-13:15

Universitetsbiblioteket
KE A-253

Book club – The house across the lake by Riley Sagar

Wed. 22.01.2025

18:00-20:00

Universitetsbiblioteket, campus Ullanghaug
Kongsgårdsalongen

Hot Isostatic Pressing, a key technology to meet the challenges of Oil & Gas Subsea Sector

Thu. 23.01.2025

11:30-12:00

Webinar

Drop-in: Outbound exchange autumn 2025

Tue. 28.01.2025

11:00-15:00

Kitty Kiellands building
S344 Sommernatt

Industrial Symbiosis: Unlocking Your Organization's Potential

Thu. 30.01.2025

11:30-12:00

Webinar

Application deadline: Outbound exchange autumn 2025

Sat. 01.02.2025

23:59-23:59

Søknadsweb

Information meeting: Students who have applied for outbound exchange autumn 2025

Tue. 04.02.2025

14:15-14:45

Digital meeting in Teams

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 05.02.2025

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

Webinar: Workshop for TekNat students: find good sources for your thesis

Wed. 05.02.2025

09:15-11:00

Teams

NCS2030 February Innovation Sprint and Hackathon

Wed. 12.02 10:00

thu. 13.02 16:00

Stavanger, Norway

Get Your Message Across: How to Present an Argument

Thu. 13.02.2025

09:30-12:00

Universitetsbiblioteket
KE A-253

Webinar: Introduction to NVivo

Tue. 18.02.2025

09:15-12:00

Teams
Language: English

Beautiful and virtuoso

Tue. 18.02.2025

19:30-20:30

Fakultet for utøvende kunstfag
Eikenes-salen

Latest research news

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...

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. ...

Problem-solving in kindergarten

Problem-solving is about finding solutions to all kind of problems. It can be seen as a basic strategy for addressing bo...

Associate professor of KCE appointed new member of editorial board

Melissa Bond, associate professor 2 at the Knowledge Center for Education, has been appointed as a member of the editori...

What being involved in a research project is like as intensive care nurses in Norway

Linn Tjemsland and Linn Elisabeth Furseth are both intensive care nurses who work in the cardiac intermediate unit at St...