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Here you can find the programme for the The 32nd Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research.
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The largest, best, and most fun Nordic economic festival is being arranged for the eighth time!
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A conference for the future grandmasters of business.
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Stavanger
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Philip J. Grossman, Monash University
Elise Ottesen-Jensens building, University of Stavanger
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A recent collaboration between Lyse and researchers at the UiS School of Business and Law has proven to be highly beneficial for both parties. While the researchers were able to test their hypotheses in a real-world setting, the energy and telecommunications company received valuable input from employees in a structured manner.
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In a remarkable demonstration of applied learning and industry collaboration, master's students from the UiS School of Business and Law recently presented their projects to a group of industry representatives as part of the collaboration with InGenious Program.
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.
Special Networking Session during the Society of Experimental Finance Conference 2024 at the University of Stavanger Business School. The event is in cooperation with the Stavanger Chamber of Commerce.
The University of Stavanger and the Society for Experimental Finance invite you to join the Experimental Finance Summer School 2024 at the University of Stavanger, Norway, June 8 - 10, 2024. Students are also invited to attend the Experimental Finance 2024 conference from June 10 – 13.
The 14th Conference for the Society of Experimental Finance takes place at the University of Stavanger, School of Business and Law from June 10 - 13, 2024. Prior to the conference, the SEF PhD Summer School will be on campus Saturday, June 8th until Monday morning, June 10th, For the first time the main conference will include a networking session on women in finance on Tuesday, June 11th.
On 18-20 September 2024 The Norwegian School of Hotel Management 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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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.
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In order to improve the quality and relevance of the MSc in Business Administration program, UiS Business School has established an advisory board for the program. The board consists of external stakeholders representing the business, societal, and academic communities.
A workshop that stimulated a fruitful discussion.
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Hesam Salehi has a master's degree in business administration with a specialisation in strategic marketing and analytics from UiS Business School.
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The UiS Business School has announced the extension of its partnership with the business conference Norway Summit.
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That's why he chose to study Business Administration at the UiS Business School.
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UiS Business School has gotten permission to start up a two-year master's program in law. The language of instruction will be Norwegian.
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His research focuses on the theoretical and empirical study of companies' innovation and branding strategy and strategic consumer signalling.
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Elham Ghazimatin is awarded the «Robert Lusch Early Career Research Award» for her research in marketing.
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Two master students from UiS Business School have got their research published in an international journal
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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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In Economics of Motivations at UiS Business School, students participated in a case competition as consultants. The winning team received 40 000 NOK from Sandnes Sparebank.
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Three master students from UiS Business School are one of two finalists in the international marketing competition DMC.
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The academic environment in the Department of Accounting and Law at UiS Business School is strengthening.
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Op-Ed Columnist: We believe that master's students are our youngest researchers. We are therefore very worried that we will raise the threshold for recruiting international students to Norway.
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Marie Larsen Gellein holds three degrees at UiS Business School. After completing the MSc in Business Administration, she started working as an accountant.
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UiS Business Schools' «Clean Energy Law and Economics Conference» is a new yearly conference in Stavanger that will explore all aspects of clean and renewable energy in an understandable way.
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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.
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He is one of the foremost RCTs experts and has again taught PhD-students from all over Europe at UiS.
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It is impressive how she has qualified for tenure through this demanding tenure-track in a short amount of time, says Dean Ola Kvaløy.
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To be best prepared for two demanding years, the master's program in Business Administration at UiS Business School has started its own «BootCamp».
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The award comes from one of the worlds leading journals on management research.
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Professor in economics Magne Mogstad from the University of Chicago taught econometrics to PhD students from all over Europe at UiS Business School.
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The new expert group appointed by the Norwegian government is led by Mari Rege, an economics professor at UiS Business School.
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Nhi Le's goal was to study and find the answers to how she could make the world a better place for human beings. The economic courses at UiS Business School have helped her with her goal.
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My summer job: Navid is working with simulation-based learning for healthcare education.
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Professor of Marketing at UiS Business School, Kenneth Henning Wathne, has received the publication prize of the most eminent and productive researcher in 2015-2021.
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Anders Åkerman is promoted to Professor of Economics at UiS Business School. He is mainly working on issues related to the effect of globalization and new technology on income inequality and productivity.
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Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen Solheim is promoted to Professor in Innovation Studies at UiS Business School. Her research combines insights from organizational theory, innovation studies and economic geography.
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.
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Dengjun Zhang is promoted to professor of accounting at the UiS Business School. His recent research focuses on economic sustainability and sustainable finance.
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As a new professor at UiS Business School, Hongyan Shi wants to help students build their skills in decision-making.
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The number of international applicants to the Master of Science in Business Administration has increased by over 70 percent.
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Professor Kenneth H. Wathne from the UiS Business School is appointed member of the 2022 Louis W. Stern Award Committee.
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The Swedish Corona Commission released its report on February 24. Associate professor Anders Åkerman at UiS Business School was one of the researchers who worked on the economic part of the commission. Åkerman worked on analysing the recession and the efficiency of the economic policy that was introduced to mitigate the crisis.
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.
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Elham Ghazimatin's dissertation paper “Mobilizing the Temporary Organization: The Governance Roles of Selection and Pricing” has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious 2021 Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award. This award recognizes the article published in the Journal of Marketing that makes the most significant contributions to marketing theory in a given calendar year.
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Professor Mattias Hamberg is honoured with the Best Paper Award 2021 by the European Accounting Association for a paper published in the journal Accounting in Europe. The research study examines how companies distribute the purchase price in accounting in connection with acquisitions.
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Iryna Overko is studying in Stavanger for her master's degree in Business Administration, specialising in Strategic Marketing and Analytics.
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Iryna Overko is studying in Stavanger for her master's degree in Business Administration, specialising in Strategic Marketing and Analytics.
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Tanveer Ahmed has a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Stavanger Business School. He now works at Bolder AS as a project manager.
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Daniel André Hamre Bjørnstol has a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Stavanger Business School, majoring in Strategic Marketing and Analytics. He now works as a business consultant at EY.
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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.
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The Research Council of Norway is awarding NOK 28 million to a project entitled Biocircle: Increased Innovation Capacity and Innovation Rate for Circular Economy in Western Norway. This project is a collaborative venture between Norce, the UiS, the UiB and several businesses.
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Once again this year, students in the course "Economics of Motivation" had the opportunity to work as consultants in the workplace to test theories in practice. The assignments are based on how companies motivate their employees, and the students are tasked with analyzing and recommending measures that can increase motivation. The best reports were presented in the finals of the Sandnes Sparebank Case Competition at the UiS Business School on November 14th.
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In the course "Economics of Motivation" the students get to try themselves as consultants in working life to test theories in practice. The assignments are based on how companies motivate their employees, and the students must analyze and recommend measures that can increase motivation. The best report was awarded NOK 40,000 in the Sandnes Sparebank Case Competition on November 24.
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Several researchers from the UiS Business School feature in two different rankings of the world's most cited researchers. One of these rankings shows the top 2% of the world's most cited researchers in their field, and the other shows the top 1%.
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Doctoral research fellows from all over Scandinavia were gathered in Stavanger when Magne Mogstad taught econometrics at the University of Stavanger Business School last week. Mogstad is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field.
Find seminars on economics and finance. Seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:15 to 13:15 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.
Strategy 2021–2030 for the UiS Business School was adopted by the faculty board on 4 June 2021.
We are an internationally oriented business school with a regional identity. We aim to attract top
research faculty and motivated students to an international research and learning environment
in an attractive and vibrant region. Our strategic location, in a region at the heart of the
Norwegian energy industry, which is now embarking on a green transition, provides us with a natural
advantage in making sustainable changes to business and management practices.
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Professor Jennifer Clark of the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University is appointed adjunct professor at the UiS Business School and the Centre for Innovation Research and affiliated with the UiS Research Network for Smart Sustainable Cities.
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Former PhD Student at UiS Business School Jonathan Muringani has won this year's Paul Benneworth PhD Student Award from the Regional Studies Association for best paper in the field authored by a PhD student.
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.
Ola Kvaløy is dean and professor of economics at the University of Stavanger School of Business and Law. He received his PhD from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in 2003, and is currently affiliated with NHH as adjunct professor.
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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.
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Alina Isaevskaya holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Stavanger Business School. As a consultant at Korn Ferry, she helps companies and organisations design reward strategies that attract and motivate employees.
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 Hotel Management School.
Associate professor of Innovation and Regional Studies at the University of Stavanger Business School.
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Adnana Osmanbasic is studying to become an economist and has chosen to specialise in "Leadership in a Digital Economy". She believes that education will give her the tools she needs to solve the challenges of the future.
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Anja Fintland (26) has just completed her Master's degree in Business Administration at the University of Stavanger Business School. She is now starting work as a consultant at PwC.
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A look at how the Centre for Innovation Research in Stavanger has evolved in line with rapidly changing surrounds and shifting views on innovation policy. What has the Centre learnt through the last few years?
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The CIIP – Centre for Innovation, Institutions and Policy – will investigate to see how technological changes and innovation will change businesses and what the consequences of such will be. This time the UiS has submitted a total of six applications.
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– My dream of getting a consulting job became a reality through a master's degree in business at UiS
Kristoffer Svanes is studying for a master's degree in Business Administration at UiS and specialises in finance. Even before graduating, he has landed a consulting job at BDO.
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– Today's economics students will take up more innovative and less traditional positions than before
Gehan Skhmot has a master's degree in Business Administration and has specialised in economics. She now works as a consultant in finance and procurement at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (Nav).
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Cathrine J. Sønvinsen (26) is studying for a master's degree in Business Administration and is specialising in Strategic Marketing and Analytics.
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Einar Øglænd Torjusen took a master's degree in Business Administration at the University of Stavanger Business School.
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Torill Hebnes (23) is studying for a master's degree in Business Administration and is specialising in strategic marketing and analytics.
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The research group Synapse Lab develops measures to improve motivation and learning in education and in working life. The investment company TD Veen will now support Synapse Lab’s work with NOK 5 million over the next five years.
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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.
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Professor Kenneth H. Wathne at the University of Stavanger Business School is honored with the "Outstanding Reviewer Award 2020" by the Journal of Marketing, the highest ranked international journal in marketing.
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The University of Stavanger Business School is the first Norwegian business school to receive the EFMD Programme Accreditation.
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Professor Tatiana A. Iakovleva at the UiS Business School is part of an international research team that are doing a global study of entrepreneurs' resillience and well-beeing and how to support entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Their first global report is published by King's Business School.
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.
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Gorm Kipperberg has been promoted to professor of environmental economics at the UiS Business School. His research focuses on applied issues in environmental, resource, and energy economics
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The prestigious Harvard Business Review has published the article "Don't Count on Free Trials to Win You Customers" by Associate Professor of Marketing Hongyan Shi at UiS Business School.
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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.
We aim to answer following RQ: How to enable the eco-system to ensure diffusion of responsible digital innovations in welfare sector?
We aim to answer following RQ: How to create a boundary innovation space to activate user driven or user-inspired innovations?
We aim to answer following RQ: What are attitudes, concerns and expectations of users in relation to welfare technology?
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According to a new report headed by Professor Ragnar Tveterås at the UiS Business School, the most optimistic estimates suggest that 1,8 million tonnes of salmon each year can be produced in cages offshore within 30 years.
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.
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The University of Stavanger Business School recently submitted two applications to the Research Council of Norway to become Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF). The Norwegian Centres of Excellence scheme is the RCN`s most prestigious call. It allows scientific areas to organize themselves in centers to achieve ambitious scientific goals through cooperation and long-term funding.
This research program area is aimed at preparing better graduate and postgraduate candidates.
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We are looking for talented and motivated students who want to combine their studies with a job during fall 2024. The application deadline is May 16th.
UiS researchers have developed and tested a structured play-based curriculum for children at their last year of preschool, to foster a more even and better foundation before school start through care, play and learning.
By developing a new joint curriculum of PhD courses, candidates will be better equipped in areas of innovation and science.
Solheim is an engaged academic and communicator. She is Professor of Innovation and Vice Rector for Innovation and Society at the University of Stavanger. Solheim is a public speaker on diversity and innovation.
The Centre for Industrial Asset Management (CIAM) is a collaborative network comprising various companies and a university focusing on industrial asset management.
The department comprises the two subject areas of economics and finance. The department's research topics include game theory, the benefits of early educational investments, the national budget, stock markets, environmental economics, and energy economics.
The department has a among the faculty an exiting combination of expertise in both the areas of accounting and law.
The department spans a wide range of disciplines and research areas. It delivers teaching to the various programs at the UiS Business School within Strategy, HRM, Organization and Management, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Operation and Lean Management, Marketing, and International economics.
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.
Are you a new PhD candidate? Here you will find an overview of the course of study. The overview applies to all candidates who are admitted to the PhD programme in Social Sciences.
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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.
Doctor philosophiae (dr. philos.) is a non-supervised doctorate that can be awarded to academics who have completed research and a doctoral thesis without affiliation to the University of Stavanger.
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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.
The Norwegian School of Hotel Management has been educating 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, psychology and social studies.
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Dr. Kristoffer Svendsen started as an associate professor in law at UiS Business School earlier this year. He is a lawyer educated in Australia, Russia, USA and Norway.
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After 20 years studying and working in British universities, whereof six years as Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Rune Todnem By is joining the University of Stavanger Business School as Professor of Leadership.