Are you wondering where and when you can go on an exchange in your study programme? Or what you must consider before, during and after your stay abroad? Find everything you need to plan the journey of a lifetime!
The Faculty of Health Sciences educates competent healthcare professionals for health services in a state of constant transition. Our research covers subject areas related to health, medicine, ethics and welfare to ensure an interdisciplinary approach to health and healthcare services.
The UiS based research centre SHARE was established in 2017. Together with the national partner at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Gjøvik (NTNU Gjøvik), the centre constitutes Norway’s largest research group studying quality and safety in healthcare.
In the rapidly evolving and complex field of engineering, engineers face the challenge of understanding the AI landscape within engineering applications, navigating ethical considerations, scoping AI projects, and identifying AI use cases within engineering workflows. This fully online course will tackle this challenge by introducing a big picture map of the field and by providing an intuitive understanding of how AI works.
The course is intended for anyone who is interested in learning about artificial intelligence (AI) in an intuitive way. The course is flexible and fully digital with recorded lectures, structured in modules that can easily be adapted to fit your schedule.
The Master of Science in Business Administration at the UiS Business School presents a comprehensive and dynamic curriculum, blending theory with practical tools to prepare you for the contemporary job market. With strong ties to the industry, our business school ensures you stay connected to real-world business scenarios, offering an engaging and international learning environment.
Digital Society and Societal Transformations educates social scientists who understand how data and AI work, and how technology impacts democratic society. This programme will not teach you coding - it will give you the analytical and critical tools to live and work in the digital society, and better understand how technologies shape society.
EMMIR is the European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations. It is the first African-European-Asian Erasmus Mundus programme in migration studies. Our students experience a multidisciplinary education between our 9 partners in Germany, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Sudan, Uganda, South Africa, and India.
ConductIT is a study programme designed to offer flexible conducting training to music students, music educators and music professionals. The programme consists of a number of individual courses in conducting. Each course represents a profile or specialization within conducting; fundamentals of conducting, orchestral conducting, wind and brass band conducting or school band conducting.
Unlock your potential and make an impact on our planet! This master programme in Environmental Engineering, features a unique emphasis on water resource management.
The world needs engineers to develop smart and sustainable technologies for the marine and offshore industries. Would you like to contribute to the green transition and the future of the blue economy?
The Master of Science in Business Administration at the UiS School of Business and Law presents a comprehensive and dynamic curriculum, blending theory with practical tools to prepare you for the contemporary job market. With strong ties to the industry, our business school ensures you stay connected to real-world business scenarios, offering an engaging and international learning environment.
Do you have a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics? Then this is the master's degree for you! Mathematics and physics are the foundation for all technological development, and are used in economics, in social studies and in health.
The MSc programme in Biological Chemistry focuses on important areas of human, animal, and plant health, from the organismal to the molecular and cellular level.
Is the book an endangered species? Are text messages destroying the English language? What were medieval books like? How do children learn to read and write? Who was Shakespeare and does it matter? What does reading do to our minds?
The MFAMILY Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) programme enhances your knowledge and your skills needed for working internationally with interventions for vulnerable children and marginalized families.
This study programme provides an education in either mechanical or structural engineering, giving you the necessary engineering tools to turn challenges into opportunities.
An intensive 1-year course in Norwegian Language and Culture aims to give students the Norwegian language proficiency required to enter Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes taught in Norwegian at the University of Stavanger.
Study a two-year master's programme that provides specialization in conducting, classical music or jazz and improvisation at a high international level.
Study a three year master's prgramme that provides specialization in conducting, classical music og jazz and improvisation at a high international level.
Do you want to develop your instrumental skills and your artistic profile on your main instrument? Extension studies gives you the opportunity to add and specialize further from a completed bachelor's programme in music performance. You will learn more about artistic dissemination on a professional level.
Do you want a challenging and exciting dance education? Do you want to develop your artistic and technical expertise, and establish yourself as a performing dance artist? Bachelor in Dance gives you the opportunity!
The programme provides practical opportunities for advanced audio students to expand their experience and professional network. The programme emphasizes the recording of acoustic music with a focus on jazz and classical performance.
Industrial Asset Management brings a modern twist to engineering education. Through this Master's degree, you will acquire expertise in both technical engineering and management that is highly requested in various industrial sectors.
Are you interested in how cities can become more sustainable, efficient, safe and livable? This programme qualifies you to understand and shape the cities of the future.
Norway is recognised worldwide as a leader in the advances of offshore industry, and the University of Stavanger has close ties with the local and international industry.
Become a risk expert at a time when terrorism, pandemics, climate change and complex technological risks are some of the challenges facing society. With a master’s degree in Risk Analysis, you can analyse, assess, communicate, manage and govern all types of risk.
The demand for quality in prehospital services is increasing. At UiS, we offer an interdisciplinary master's programme for health care professionals in prehospital emergency care and medicine.
In this study programme, you will be learning about sustainability. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent two of the greatest challenges of our time. They involve political, economic, developmental, security, social and ethical challenges, especially for the most vulnerable societies.
Did you know that over 80 percent of all added value in companies and the public sector is related to service production and service? In other words, the society needs more leaders with expertise on developing and leading new service solutions.
The demand for quality in prehospital services is increasing. At UiS, we offer an interdisciplinary master's programme for health care professionals in prehospital emergency care and medicine.
In this workshop, we reflect on what your examiners want to you demonstrate, discuss how to approach the writing process, and look at the elements of a good “kappe”.
Undertaking a PhD is both an exciting and challenging experience. This workshop draws on evidence-based strategies to help you stay well during your PhD.
In this workshop, you will be introduced to how to start planning for your career after completing your PhD/postdoc education. We will also look at interview techniques and feedbac
Welcome to the Norwegian psychometrics gathering! The gathering is a yearly workshop for methodological and applied researchers within the field of psychometrics.
PhD-candidate Xiangyu Quan at the UiS School of Business and Law will have her Public Defence for her dissertation «Sailing through Uncertainty: The role of inter-organizational collaboration in addressing complex problems» for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
On 7-9 August 2024, The Greenhouse is hosting an international conference on Storytelling for Environmental Futures, which brings together scholars from across the world to discuss how storytelling in the environmental arts and humanities can contribute to environmental futures.
We conceptualize advanced operational functions as well as explore optimization methods and physics-informed AI to address present and future operational hurdles, aiming for economic, resilient, and secure operations of electric power system.
The goal of the Sea Stories of Hope project is to shift the stories we tell about our oceans from ones of despair to ones of evidence-based hope, in order to foster greater environmental engagement. With funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers, this project aims to bring together the general public, teachers and students at all educational levels (from kindergarten to higher education), researchers, environmental experts, tourists, and commercial actors to create, collect, and tell different and more hopeful stories about the oceans.
The University in Stavanger offers 4 microcourses in Python programming. The courses are project based
with a combination of theoretical and practical approach.
Students with disabilities or special needs have the right to appropriate individual accommodations for educational institutions, teaching, learning materials, and exams to ensure equal educational opportunities. Accommodations can not compromise the academic requirements of each program.
Øyvind Time's master's thesis can help make everyday life easier for healthcare personnel who must learn how to take a fluid sample from the spinal cord or administer an epidural.
One of the world's foremost randomized controlled trial experts, Professor Eric Bettinger, will be back in Stavanger in the fall to teach a course on RCTs in the Social Sciences.
A new research project is going to look into whether Sámi students in Norwegian schools are more involved in online bullying than other students, as a result of their background. “There is hardly any research on Sámi schoolchildren and online bullying,” says Luisa Morello.
Tine Vigdel Bredal has investigated different methods for analyzing chalk at core level and right down to the smallest scale, the nano level. She defended her doctorate 5 June.
She is a radiologist at Stavanger University Hospital, he is a computer scientist. Now they have teamed up to develop a tool that can help doctors make better and faster decisions when a cerebral stroke is suspected.
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.
In the eHealth @ Hospital 2- Home study we have asked two different patient populations and two different clinical groups to help us in exploring how a remote patient monitoring intervention with additional nurse support might alter people’s self-care abilities after a hospitalisation.
Elaine Munthe has received the Ruth Wong Professorship for 2024 at the National Institute of Education and is attending The Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference.
When the world-renowned writer Kathy Lette traced her roots in the Australian TV program "Who Do You Think You Are?", she ended up in Stavanger and at UiS.
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.
Innovation is a core challenge for organizations in all phases of their lives. For established organisations, the challenge is to come up with innovation, to be able to create and deliver a steady stream of new products and services, and to improve internal processes to be able to do this. For start-ups, it presents itself as how they can manage the growth of a viable business through developing and refining solutions - and then scaling them. The importance of carrying out innovation in a manageable and structured way has recently been recognized by the upcoming ISO certification in innovation management. As in the case of ISO Quality Management and ISO Environmental Management, ISO 56001 will enable organizations to be certified if their innovation management system meets the standard's requirements.
The world's largest anti-bullying conference, the World Anti-Bullying Forum, will be held in Stavanger, Norway, in 2025. The world's foremost researchers, kindergarten teachers, schoolteachers, kindergarten and school leaders, politicians and organizations will gather to find out how we can better research and work against bullying.
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.
As part of the Pedagogy Unit (Uniped), the focus of this research group is to work with educators on the critical assessment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education to explore AI’s implications and identify appropriate applications.
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.
SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare recently gathered researchers and health care professionals to an open seminar about the future of leadership in healthcare. The seminar concludes a full week of activities related to the Support4Resilience project.
Attending childcare for the first time can be extra challenging for shy children. To support shy children's well-being as best as possible, the staff needs to recognize children’s needs in different situations. A good collaboration between parents and childcare staff is extra important when there are shy children in the group.
Stavanger University Library will be a driving force for knowledge development, value creation and welfare at the university and the society around us.
Is it a group or a singular person who has made a special effort to make your everyday study life better? Then you should nominate them to The Education and Learning Environment Award 2024!
Professor Merja Stenroos has been awarded the most prestigious grant from the EU, the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. It is the first time a UiS research project has been awarded a grant from the ERC.
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.
Bridging between academia and industry, equipping students with knowledge and skills to make a meaningful impact in the transition towards a sustainable future.
The resource bank is for both students and professionals. Here you will find resources that child welfare and social work students as well as employees in the field can benefit from. The purpose is to collect resources so that they are easily accessible.
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.
Radel James Gacumo, on behalf of the Sensory Books project, participated in the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) Conference in Malmö, Sweden, from March 6th to 8th, 2024.
Collecting and summarising earlier research within a specific clinical field is common and expected when developing new interventions. In the eHealth@Hospital-2-Home project, a literature review of patient experiences with eHealth interventions informed the research questions and shaped the design of the intervention.
The war in Gaza affects students and staff at the University of Stavanger and creates strong engagement. On this page, you will find information about how UiS is addressing the war.
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.
At a time when healthcare is at a crossroads, the "Global State of Patient Safety 2023 – Supporting Leaders" seminar hosted by SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare, served as the perfect precursor to the week-long kick-off of the EU project, Support4Resilience.
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.
Doctors and surgeons from Stavanger University Hospital participate in the eHealth @ Hospital-2-Home project. This blog post features insights from two of these professionals, shedding light on their roles within the project and the motivation behind their involvement.
This course introduces the concepts and challenges associated with the implementation of CO2 Storage in geological porous media (depleted gas fields and saline aquifers).
The focus is on key aspects of
CO2 storage (storage capacity, injectivity, trapping mechanisms and containment),
, storage site selection
, well planning and integrity
, monitoring regulations
and CO2 utilization.
The aim of the programme is to stimulate childist research across the academy, test and evolve the concept of childism, and inform childist social and political justice processes.
In the EKCO-project, after school program staff, together with researchers, will examine how after school offerings in five countries currently operate, with the aim of developing new and improved practices in the field.
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.
We invite scholars and researchers to contribute to a research workshop retreat exploring the imperial continuities within the North Sea's extractive activities.
The HyTack project aims at developing and providing an educational base in the field of hydrogen technology to the students in the partner universities, partner countries, and to a wider community.
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.
The eHealth@hospital-2-home-project has published the protocol for the randomised control trial of the nurse-assisted eHealth intervention for patients with heart failure and colorectal cancer post-hospital discharge.
A new service that makes it easier for anyone to find and read Norwegian research related to the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) has been launched.
Master’s research in the eHealth@Hospital-2-Home project explores the impact of the nurse assisted digital health intervention on the family members of participants in the feasibility study.
UiS School of Business and Law offers study programs in business subjects and law at all levels: one-year program, bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. We also offer executive education.
The Industrial Economics Master of Science (M.Sc.) programme equips students with the theoretical and practical understanding of engineering and natural sciences, and business and management sciences through the lens of economics.
SHARE - Center for Resilience in Healthcare recently hosted an international seminar titled “The future of quality and safety in healthcare – emerging topics and possible solutions” with good attendance and engagement.
Linn Tjemsland and Linn Elisabeth Furseth are both intensive care nurses who work in the cardiac intermediate unit at Stavanger University Hospital. In 2021 they took the opportunity to expand their nursing experience by being involved in the conduct of a research project.
Melissa Bond, associate professor 2 at the Knowledge Center for Education, has been appointed as a member of the editorial board of the journal Review of Education.
Omid Karari Karadeh is a student at City and Regional Planning, and had a project work in collaboration with local businesses. – Absolutely essential to make contact while they're students, a city planner in Stavanger Municipality says.
What factors make the relationship work well between the kindergarten and multilingual parents? A forthcoming, systematic review will address this topic. The research project is presented as a protocol in KCE's new journal - Nordic Journal of Systematic Reviews in Education.
SHARE – Center for Resilience in Healthcare at UiS is hosting Resilient Health Care Society’s summer conference at Sola Beach Hotel in 2024, which lasts from June 10th to 12th with a pre-conference on June 9th.
– I have been in Norway and Stavanger before, and I thought that it would be a great place to study because the city and the nature around it has so much to offer.
The Sustainable Futures in Education (SuFu) strategic research initiative is an interdisciplinary research programme which aims to expand our theoretical and practical understanding of how sustainability thinking and praxis can be integrated into higher education, and particularly within teacher education programmes.
Shalini Premachandran Frøiland has worked as a journalist and a bureaucrat. When she decided to get back to academia she was excited to start the master's program Digitial societies and societal transformations.
UiS has several agreements outside the EU, at the institutional level. These agreements are open to everyone at UiS and could therefore be suitable for students from different study programs.
Professor Dolly Jørgensen has won funding to research the links between cultural heritage and petrocultures and their connections to green transitions.
Studies emotions, aiming to use innovative machine-learning and artificial intelligence approaches to develop new scientific understanding of human emotions.
Serving as a bridge between the experimental research performed at the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Lab and clinical research performed at Stavanger University Hospital and other local health facilities.
Mathematical models enable a scientific understanding of natural phenomena around us, and the study and optimization of processes in society and industry.
ReaLiTea stands for Research Literacy of Teachers. It seeks to enhance the research and teaching skills of pre-service and in-service English language educators.
In this selection of video abstracts, we provide a glimpse into exciting and important research topics about early childhood education, school, and learning, based on articles written by researchers at the Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment.
The National IOR Centre has provided cost efficient and environmentally friendly solutions for improved oil recovery on the Norwegian Continental Shelf through academic excellence and close collaboration with the industry.
As a new partner, Section for Acute and Pre-hospital care at Oslo University Hospital strengthens research on prehospital patient safety in SHARE – Centre for Resilience in Healthcare
In the economics major, you will develop a deep understanding of the market forces and economic principles that drive the behavior of firms, consumers, and government agencies. With a strong emphasis on practical application, you will learn how to leverage economic tools and analyses to make strategic business decisions that optimize outcomes for both individual stakeholders and society as a whole. This program will prepare you to be an insightful business leader, adept at navigating the complexities of the modern economic landscape to drive organizational success.
A major in management equips you with the tools to analyze and improve strategies, leadership styles, and operations across a variety of organizations. With a curriculum that spans digital marketing, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and economic transformation, this program provides a comprehensive framework to assess the effectiveness of business practices in achieving organizational and societal goals. By immersing yourself in this interdisciplinary and forward-thinking environment, you will be uniquely positioned to become a strategic leader in today's complex business landscape.
Offshore Wind is an area of rapid growth in Asia, the US, and partly in Europe. The course Offshore Wind
Law explores the main legal issues of offshore wind: leasing, permitting, transmission, financing, power
purchase agreements, and procurement.
Students with citizenship from outside of the EU/EEA and Switzerland are required to pay the tuition fee at the University of Stavanger. For the academic year 2024/2025, the following rates apply.
InvolveMENT want to strengthen mental health services for youth. In our research, we focus on user involvement and how health services can contribute to improving the mental health of young people. Adolescents and young adults participate in all parts of the research.
Assuring free access to scientific findings is the essence of Open Science. There are multiple ways of opening your research to the public, and the library can help you navigate the field of Open Science.
Elin, Linda, and John David at the Stavanger University Library are passionate about research being open and transparent. Each year they help hundreds of researchers with open access, choosing the right journal, and publishing on UiS Publishing Platforms.
SHARE – Center for Resilience in Healthcare is hosting an international seminar titled “The future of quality and safety in healthcare – emerging topics and possible solutions” at Ydalir Campus Hotel.
Students with citizenship from a country outside of the EU/EEA and Switzerland are required to pay tuition fees at the University of Stavanger. The tuition fees will not affect students who have already started their studies before autumn 2023 or exchange students from partner universities.
Who are going to represent you in the Student Parliament at University of Stavanger? You can decide by voting in the Student election wich starts October 16th at 12 and is open until October 27th at 23PM.
Dr Laura Speed, Assistant Professor at Radboud University and the project Advisory Board Member, presented findings from Sensory Books project at the ECRO XXXIII conference.
On 18-20 September 2024 NHS – Department of Leadership and Service Innovation
at the University of Stavanger, will host the Nordic Symposium 2024 under the theme “The roles of humans and technology in shaping the future”.
How can the tunnel safety industry benefit from the use of 5G networks and V2X communications? What challenges do road tunnels introduce for the deployment of such solutions, and how can they be solved?
Acquiring proficiency in AI technology will be pivotal in the future job market. At the University of Stavanger Business School, students are not only introduced to AI technology but are also taught how to leverage it effectively in both their studies and future careers.
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.
We are excited to welcome you to the first Resilient Health Care Meeting to be held in Stavanger, Norway in June 2024. The meeting will be held at Sola Beach Hotel June 10th - 12th. The meeting will be a single-track event based on the principle of ‘long discussions interrupted by short presentations.’
In the months of August and September, professor Natalia Kucirkova had the pleasure to visit the University of Turku as part of the INVEST Fellowship Programme.
The artist Hans Baumann has received a Fulbright-scholarship to spend four months at the University of Stavanger working on his film project "Carbon Permanence". The project examines the complex ethics of Norway’s energy transition, with a particular emphasis on the role of oil in shaping a post-fossil fuel future.
Even with travelling restrictions during the pandemic and troubled times in Nablus and the West Bank; The Erasmus+ exchange program between UiS and An Najah National University continues. The spring of 2023 was no exception. Reception of students for the course 'drama and intercultural communication' is central to the years-long collaboration between the two universities. Recently, UiS was granted almost 158,000 euros to continue and strengthen the programme over the next period, lasting from 2023-2025.
The innovation projects should be within the three strategic focus areas simulation, integration of care services, and security and safety. The deadline is 13 September 2024.
Our new Viking exhibition, focused on myths and stories from the Viking Period, opens Friday 25th of August. The current Viking exhibition is closed until the opening.
This article describes the second major phase of an intervention designed to enhance patient experiences during the critical transition from hospital to home.
The UiS researcher moves elegantly between equal opportunities and gender diversity, welfare and caring sciences research and artificial intelligence and science fiction.
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.
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.
Physics of Fluids (PoF) belongs to American Institute of Physics (AIP) academic journals and is traditionally known as one of the best fluid mechanic journals in the world.
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.
The IAI Research Group at the University of Stavanger (UiS) organized the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'22) in Stavanger, Norway. ECIR'22 holds a significant place in history as the northernmost ECIR ever and marked a milestone as the first major IR conference held in a hybrid format.
The IAI Research Group at the University of Stavanger (UiS) organized the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) in 2020. ICTIR serves as a premier platform for researchers to present and discuss cutting-edge research on the foundational aspects of Information Retrieval (IR) and explore its connections with related disciplines.
The year 2022 was filled with significant achievements and activities for IAI (Information Access and Interaction) research group at the University of Stavanger. From hosting conferences to welcoming new members and engaging in group activities, IAI made remarkable contributions to the field of information retrieval. Here are some of the highlights and accomplishments from IAI in 2022.
Prediction of subsurface multiphase or single-phase flow processes is challenging, but important for oil and gas production, carbon storage and hydrogen storage and production.
She joins the existing team of nurses who have developed and are testing the nurse assisted digital application that aims to support people with heart failure and colorectal cancer following a hospital admission.
New post-doctoral researcher joins the eHealth @H2H project. She will work on the analysis of data from the feasibility work, and help the team as they now deliver the next stage of the project.
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 InvolveMENT project aims to adapt digital mental health services to meet the needs of youth with backgrounds as national minorities, indigenous peoples, and refugees. The main goal of the project is to help strengthen their mental health.
The Faculty of Performing Arts offer study programmes taught in English, however, if you are interested in our undergraduate programmes you must meet our Norwegian language requirement.
Wireless communication has achieved ever-greater popularity in the last two decades and has already become an important part of our everyday lives. This course will give you an overview of the most important principles and underlaying technologies that make 5G possible.
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.
Only 34 young researchers around the world were selected to participate in the OMAE2023 Outreach for Engineers Forum. Three UiS researchers got a scholarship.
The group conducts research in algebraic geometry, complex analysis and geometry, mathematical models and differential equations, and differential geometry and mathematical physics.
The InGenious programme serves as a platform to engage the industry in our study programmes and bridge the gap between the academic world and the corporate sector, complementing our strategy and mission.
Gitte Kolstrup has transformed Stavanger University Library (UBiS) into a unique library with color palettes, floral wallpaper, exotic birds, creative study rooms, a cartoon corner, sofa groups, and large plants.
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.
How to reduce cost of energy for future large offshore wind turbines in free-wind and wake conditions by using full-scale wind and response data from offshore wind farms.
The University of Stavanger aims to ensure that students from underrepresented groups within student mobility and students who need accommodation can participate in Erasmus+ exchanges.
The use of digital apps and wearables to track our health information is on the rise. Thus, eHealth is a resource that may promote health management and patient engagement.
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).
Stavanger University Library is a modern library and a great meeting place. You are welcome to read, work on assignments, or participate in events and courses at the library.
During the conference “From Knowledge to Action – the role of carers is changing?” in Oslo on March 16 Stecy Yghemonos held the presentation “A European Care Strategy for caregivers and care receivers”.
Over the last 15 years, research by the Department of Safety, Economics and Planning (ISØP) at The University of Stavanger has enhanced knowledge about risk management and risk regulation among policymakers and risk authorities in the Norwegian petroleum sector.
In the INTERACT research project, teachers receive guidance from their own specially trained coaches. “I am lucky to be able to mentor such committed and skilled teachers”, says coach Liv Jorunn Byrkjedal-Sørby.
The Faculty of Health Sciences at UiS organized the course “Simulation-based learning in nursing education” from April 17th to April 21th, where nursing students from Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway participated.
As a part of the strategic priorities to improve the program’s quality and relevance, we seek to gain expert input from stakeholders from the business, societal and academic communities. One of the vehicles is the designated Program Advisory Board.
From autumn 2024 all students will receive an Erasmus+ travel grant based on travel distance and mode of transportation. The travel grant rate is higher if your travel with environmentally friendly modes of transportation.
Erasmus+ also offers you the opportunity to go on international traineeships. Through this program, you have a unique chance to gain international contacts and work experience.
The Tribunal for student affairs at the University of Stavanger shall ensure students a fair and impartial handling of complaints and cases, where the principles of equal treatment and proportionality are central.
Open discussions brought on by reading fiction, a sense of belonging, and a feeling of autonomy can be reasons why participating in reading groups is positive for people with cancer.
Computational engineering is a discipline that deals with the development and application of computational models and simulations, often coupled with high-performance computing, to solve complex physical problems arising in engineering analysis and design as well as natural phenomena.
From 2023, all applicants to studies at the Faculty of Performing Arts are required to upload a valid passport or national ID card to confirm citizenship. This is due to the introduction of tuition fees for applicants with citizenship outside the EU/EEA or Switzerland.
NIK is a broad national conference aimed at being an important national venue for discussions, networking, and dissemination of research and advanced development work in informatics and computer science.
The objective of this project is to establish long-term excellent collaboration within Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) education and research groups in Norway and Brazil.
"UiS was the only University which offered Master of prehospital critical care. Also as a matter of fact, Stavanger has a nice weather as well as a nice beach" says Mona Rafiei.
"I had my heart set on coming to Norway for my education.UiS offered the master’s subject that I was interested in pursuing; it really felt like it was meant to be" says Nora Elizabeth Anise.
The Applied Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (AIxTech) research group
is dedicated to exploring the latest advances in AI, machine learning, and other intelligent
systems that are rapidly transforming the way we interact with technology.
UDIT (Norwegian Conference on Didactics in IT education) is a meeting place for scientific publication, discussion, and exchange of experiences related to teaching ICT in higher education.
"On a forum online I saw someone discussing a similar topic suggesting going to Stavanger. I applied and the UiS accepted" says Tristan Josphus Claude Tanghe.
"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".
"I chose to continue at UiS after my BA because I knew there were very competent and knowledgeable professors, who love teaching the courses" says Kjersti Lauvik Byberg.
Patients and their families contribute to the resilience of healthcare systems. This is particularly evident as global health systems experience increased pressure. Dr. Harumi Kitamura and Carolyn Canfield shared their insights into how we can create environments that invite patient and family contributions to resilient systems in a recent webinar organised by the Resilient Health Care Society.
The UiS Biopsychology Research Group investigates the intersection between psychology and biology. The research group explores health and ill-health across the lifespan by going beyond biomedical models, to look at psychological well-being and behavioral components as they interact with biological predispositions.
The goal of the project Teachers for Futures, funded under the Erasmus+ Teacher Academies action, is to influence European teacher education and to contribute to more flexible, open and practical teacher training based on sustainability, digitalisation and inclusion.
The InvolveMENT project addresses quality and safety of mental health services for adolescents with mental health disorders and challenges affecting their everyday life. As part of the research strategy, youth are involved throughout multiple stages of the research, ranging from planning, carrying out, and analysing the research, through to disseminating the results. They have also been involved in funding applications. Ten youth Co-Researchers have been involved over the last year.
The InvolveMENT project seeks to enhance mental health support for youth with national minority, indigenous and refugee backgrounds, by tailoring public eHealth services to their specific needs.
SHARE is a multidisciplinary Centre with over 70 researchers affiliated including nurses, medical doctors, psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapist, lawyers, sociologist, engineers, radiographers, and safety scientists.
In 2023, the SHARE centre expanded its collaborations, secured significant EU funding, and enhanced international mobility, and strategic efforts to position the Centre in the forefront of the international research.
An important part of becoming an internationally recognized research centre is to disseminate scientific knowledge and results using a broad spectrum of appropriate arenas. It is equally important to disseminate research results to the general population, patients, healthcare professionals, research communities, students, leaders, and governmental bodies.
SHARE researchers strive to be present at a range of forums and to disseminate our research in a variety of forms to reach as many, and as a diverse body as possible. Throughout the year of 2023 SHARE researchers have therefore contributed to dissemination activities such as interviews, opinion papers, lectures, seminars and stand-up comedy contributions in addition to national and international conference attendances and peer review articles.
The Patient Safety Research Group at the Institute of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health, NTNU Gjøvik, is a partner in the SHARE Centre. Led by Associate Professor Kristian Ringsby Odberg, the group focuses on human factors to enhance healthcare systems and processes for increased patient safety.
The Patient Safety Research Group, at the Institute of Health Science (IHG), Faculty of Medicine and Health, NTNU Gjøvik, is a long-standing partner in the SHARE Centre. Under the guidance of Associate Professor Kristian Ringsby Odberg and May Ingvild Sollid, the group focuses on human factors to understand and improve healthcare systems and processes.
The Network is a facilitator for patient and stakeholder involvement in SHARE. The Network representatives participate in national and international program committees as well as contributing to stakeholder gatherings such as annual Network seminars.
The Network is a facilitator for patient and stakeholder involvement in SHARE. The Network representatives participate in national and international program committees as well as contributing to stakeholder gatherings such as annual Network seminars.
SHARE’s revenue is based on two components: basic funding from the University of Stavanger and reallocated overhead funds from externally funded research projects affiliated with SHARE.
SHARE’s revenue is based on two components: basic funding from the University of Stavanger and reallocated overhead funds from externally funded research projects affiliated with SHARE.
Thesis: Learning teamwork is not an event; It’s a journey. Implementing the TEAMSTEPPS® team training program in bachelor of nursing education to enhance patient safety
The Improving quality in clinical placement studies in nursing homes (QUALinCLINstud) project addresses the urgent need for improved quality and efficiency in clinical supervision and assessment of student nurses in nursing home placements. This will be approached through a novel, collaborative, co-productive, social innovation and learning process between the nurse education system, student nurses and nursing homes.
The Improving quality in clinical placement studies in nursing homes (QUALinCLINstud) project addresses the urgent need for improved quality and efficiency in clinical supervision and assessment of student nurses in nursing home placements. This will be approached through a novel, collaborative, co-productive, social innovation and learning process between the nurse education system, student nurses and nursing homes.
Tools4Teams MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS Doctoral Network aims to contribute to safer and more effective care by studying the innovative tools that teams need to perform optimally in complex healthcare situations both in centralized acute care settings and in decentralized chronic care settings.
The aim of the NORHED II project is to implement simulation-based education to strengthen the capacity and quality of nursing and midwifery education in Malawi and Tanzania. This will be accomplished by improving competencies and implement simulation-based education in study programs and produce research.
The aim of the NORHED II project is to implement simulation-based education to strengthen the capacity and quality of nursing and midwifery education in Malawi and Tanzania. This will be accomplished by improving competencies and implement simulation-based education in study programs and produce research.
The aim of the COVCOM project is to research the use of video for communicating complex, but important health messages about pandemics, primarily to the general population. The project is threefold: A qualitative study where we lay the groundwork through interviews and literature reviews; a creative study where we explore the creation of video communication; and a quantitative study where we test video communication in controlled experiments.
Resilience in healthcare is the diverse capacities of a healthcare system that allow it to maintain the delivery of high-quality care during and after events that challenge, change or disrupt its activities, by engaging people in collaborative and coordinated processes that adapt, enhance or reorganize system functioning in response to those events.
In 2023, the project finalized the Resilience in Healthcare theoretical framework and a digital learning tool, which proved effective in enhancing resilience awareness in nursing homes, homecare, and hospitals.
The SHARE research projects reflect the diverse topics and challenges facing healthcare systems and healthcare workers across a broad contextual and organizational spectrum. Here you can read more extensively about five of the SHARE centre's larger research projects and their respective activities and publications during 2022.
The SHARE research projects reflect the diverse topics and challenges facing healthcare systems and healthcare workers across a broad contextual and organizational spectrum. Here you can read more extensively about five of the SHARE centre's larger research projects and their respective activities and publications during 2023.
A new study describes important aspects in the development of a digital follow-up service for patients in need of long-term follow-up in the specialist healthcare service.
As a generalist and firm believer and practitioner of range (Epstein, 2021), Lukasz Andrzej Derdowski, Associate Professor in Service Management, is inspired by a call to combine knowledge and experience from multiple domains to explore and foster solutions to, for instance, wicked societal problems. Lukasz is one of the contributors to the course Creative Expectations of the Future (Kreative forventninger til fremtiden) E-MTN103.
Riel is currently driving a cutting-edge global effort to cultivate futures literacy and the discipline of anticipation in diverse communities, from private and public sector institutions to civil society associations and activist organizations. He delivers the course Creative Expectations of the Future (Kreative forventninger til fremtiden E-MTN103).
A recent webinar organised by the Resilient Health Care Network focused on the intersection of individual psychological resilience and system resilience. Inger Johanne Bergerød (UiS), Elizabeth Austin (Macquarie Univeristy) and Ruth Baxter (University of Leeds) are responsible for these events.
Odors change as the weather changes. Rain or sunshine, there are interesting smells, both outside and inside, to discover, explore and talk about together with children. All you need is your nose. Let your fantasy lead the way and discover the magic of smell together with the children.
Digital bullying is a big challenge all over the world. The PARTICIPATE project is looking at this research theme in relation to parents. The project will consist of a multi sectoral, interdisciplinary world class PhD programme. The programme consists of networking and exchange of information and competence about digital bullying in Europe.
Students from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland who start their studies in autumn 2023 are required to pay tuition fees at the University of Stavanger. Below you can find the tuition fees for the different study programmes starting in August 2023. The tuition fees are subject to change and expected to increase for the academic year starting in 2024. The prices for students starting in August 2024 will be published later during 2023.
How can European universities achieve a deeper, longer-term and flexible form of cooperation? With EU support, the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) is set to explore this question and the possibility for a European status for European Universities.
Students from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland are required to pay tuition fees at the University of Stavanger. The tuition fees will not affect students who have already started their studies before autumn 2023 or exchange students from partner universities.
As a part of SHARE – Centre for Resilience in Healthcare’s overarching vision of reforming the understanding of quality and safety of current healthcare systems , patient and stakeholder involvement (PSI) in SHARE’s research activities is a key strategic priority. The aim of SHARE’s PSI strategy is to encourage and facilitate a broad spectrum of patient and stakeholder involvement across all of SHARE’s research activities, to increase the relevance and impact of our research.
PhD students doing research in sustainability and green transition can also now contribute to the interdisciplinary Green Transition PhD community. The community is a lively platform for young researchers who want to expand their network beyond disciplinary boundaries, and work on their transferable skills. Recently a retreat was organized in Sogndalstrand.
Here you can read about the auditions for studies in music performance. You will also find information regarding which day the various instruments will conduct their auditions in week 10.
Applies to studies starting in Autumn 2024.
Drinking juice with a lot of antioxidants, for example from blueberries, can be beneficial in preventing dementia. New research at UiS will examine this in more detail by analyzing gut bacteria from elderly people who are at risk of developing Alzheimer's.
All over the world, children are being bullied by adults in school. New research now shows that these students could also be at increased risk of being bullied by their fellow students
Philosopher, scientist and writer Henrik Steffens was born in Stavanger in 1773 and became a central figure in European cultural and intellectual history. He engaged himself in debates and argued for universities to take an active part in the public discourse.
At the Stavanger Baby and Child Lab, within the Department of Social Studies at UiS, we investigate how infants and toddlers develop their understanding of the (social) world.
Vanessa Sele took a master's degree in Industrial Asset Management. She highlights a perfect combination of courses that makes one prepared for a wide range of positions and roles.
Klaus Mohn has been offered the rectorship of the University of Stavanger for four more years. He will now build the team for the new period and three vice-rectors will be hired.
The goal of this project is to establish a bi-national team within P&A that exchange knowledge, help to educate young professionals with expertise in this area and develop new research projects with international impact.
Stereotypical expectations prevail and harm the aspirations of many females working in academia, especially those with an ethnic minority background. Now, Professor Natalia Kucirkova and Head of Career Development Loleta Fahad, have written a book to inspire women in academia.
Teacher Olaug Ueland receives feedback on her teaching from a personal coach. The goal is to make interaction with the pupils even better, and for the teaching to be more engaging.
The SAFETY project, funded under the program ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliances is intended to widen the learning process in the medical field with high fidelity guided experiences.
Panagiotis Aslanidis defended his thesis on wettability for core analysis. The purpose of his research was to link reservoir wettability to the properties of the crude oil, rock mineralogy and formation water composition.
Our research group has competence on design, analysis and testing of materials and structures. The current research and development activities in our group can be divided into concrete structures and technology, wind engineering and extreme loads, fatigue and structural integrity.
This review suggests that patients with heart failure should receive prompt follow-up after hospitalization, and eHealth interventions have the potential to improve their quality of life.
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.
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.
Despite having a non-IT background, the combination of engineering and IT skills provided by the Computational Engineering programme paved Habib Ullah's way to work in the IT industry.
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.
Professor Stephen Billett from Griffith University Australia, is involved in several of SHARE – Centre for Resilience in Healthcare's projects. He is visiting the research center for three weeks and encourages others to engage in similar activities.
The European Union is facing a pressing challenge to transition into a carbon neutral economy by 2050. Researchers from University of Stavanger are participating in a new research project to investigate the key elements of this transition.
The European Union is facing a pressing challenge to transition into a carbon neutral economy by 2050. Researchers from UiS are participating in a new research project to investigate the key elements of this transition.
Iranian students and staff talking about the current situation in Iran and how it affects them personally, made a profound impression on UiS rector Klaus Mohn under a recent meeting at the University Library.
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.
Maja Hassel, next of kin and caregiver, thinks this year’s conference theme "Caregivers - from extra work to sound involvement?" is very relevant. However, she believes that not enough is being done on a regular basis to include caregiver perspectives.
Marie Larsen Gellein holds three degrees at UiS Business School. After completing the MSc in Business Administration, she started working as an accountant.
Interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral team members from across Europe gathered for a project meeting to discuss the latest developments, milestones, and goals of the research project “Sensory Books”.
There is a new, free, maths and physics drop-in support centre at UiS. The service is offered by Theta, the linjeforening for maths and physics students, with support from Department of Mathematics and Physics.
Rosalynn Austin from the University of Southampton visited the Department of Public Health to discuss health promotion for people with health challenges. She comments on benefits of researcher mobility.
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.
This is limited to UiS employees and students who is connecting to eduroam from other eduroam enabled institutions such as Universities, airports and hospitals etc.
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.
Ph.D.-students and UiS faculty spent a full week diving into the methodology of behavioural interventions from Dr. David Yeager, a pioneer in the field and a world-class researcher in the methodology.
– UiS has given us a truly unique opportunity to learn from the leading expert, said Oxford University Ph.D-student Olav Schewe.
Serinha Murgorgo was looking for an international degree in innovation and chose UiS Business School. – Business development and innovation cross over all industries, start-ups or existing businesses.
UiS signed in 2011 for the Declaration of commitment to the Recommendation of the European Commission on the European Charter for researchers and the Code of Conduct for recruitment of Researcher (Charter & Code) – HRS4R.
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.
Ashley Moran participated in several InGenious challenges as a student at UiS. Now she is returning to the university with challenges from the companies Sklls and Herlige Hus.
Marta Obi collaborated with students from Sweden and Italy when she wrote her master's thesis. ECIU University gave her new friends, a trip to Hamburg and a wider professional field.
On the 16th of August, the Sensory Books team held their first group gathering after the summer holidays. It was a momentous event since the team welcomed to Stavanger, Lotte Meeuwissen, the play, design and learning consultant of the research project.
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.
SHARE – Center for Resilience in Healthcare is hosting an international quality and safety in healthcare seminar at Ydalir campus hotel. Organizing such events is one of the key activities of the centre.
On Thursday and Friday this week, UiS welcomes 600 new international students arriving at Stavanger Airport and offers them a free shuttle to student accommodation.
Are you, or do you want to become, a PhD supervisor at the University of Stavanger? Read about the responisibilities and what is expected from the supervisor throughout the PhD journey. You will also find forms, courses and other resourses.
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.
The European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) was granted the European Union Erasmus programme support to continue building ECIU University.
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.
After completing their PhD-projects on childbirth and newborn resuscitation at the University of Stavanger, the four Tanzanian doctors returned to Tanzania where they are leading the Safer Births Bundle of Care programme. The World Bank has now awarded NOK 125 million in total to the project.
Smell is an important sense that activates memories and enhances experiences. Yet, smell is often neglected in learning and in activities designed for children. Our new exhibition was designed to engage children’s sense of smell in their exploration of the story “The Three Little Pigs”.
Anna Julie la Cour Vågen chose Stavanger as her destination when she was going on exchange in her fourth semester. The student enjoyed herself so much that she already has plans for another stay at UiS in the sixth semester.
On the 11th and 12th of May, we held the first Sensory Books Project Seminar. Our first seminar was long awaited after Covid-related delays and travel restrictions for our international project members. We managed to gather in sunshine and good health and share ideas and push our thinking.
Only 25 young researchers around the world were selected to participate in the OMAE2022 Outreach for Engineers Forum. 6 PhD research fellows from UiS were awarded with a scholarship.
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.
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.
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.
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 purpose of the new research project is to support advancement of Blastocystis research by bringing together professionals from various
disciplines and countries.
Our planet faces many challenges that we can only tackle in an interdisciplinary manner. The One Health ambition encompasses human, animal, plant and environmental health by focussing on the interaction between disciplines and effect on the total environment.
FILIORUM - Center for Research in Early Childhood Education and Care leads and participates in a number of projects, both nationally and internationally. Here you will find an overview of completed and ongoing projects that FILIORUM is involved in.
This project (SUBSET) aims to increase the relevance of subsurface course content to actual needs in the energy
industry of the future by establishing an arena for dialogue and collaboration between academia and industry.
The 5-year NORPART project "Applied Informatics for Energy System
Integration" (AI-ESI) aims to make a contribution by conducting joint activities between the partner universities in Norway, Egypt, and Palestine. Academic cooperation will target educational programs development, teaching, research and supervision, and
mutual virtual and physical student/researcher mobility.
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.
How can the established theory of particle physics, the Standard Model, be used to predict the material properties of the cores of neutron stars? Researchers at the University of Stavanger might have the answer.
Dengjun Zhang is promoted to professor of accounting at the UiS Business School. His recent research focuses on economic sustainability and sustainable finance.
The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) consists of prominent national and international researchers in the field whose primary role is to provide academic advice on the development of the research school.
The team consists of employees from the University of South-Eastern Norway, Nord University, the University of Agder, the University of Stavanger, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Volda University College, Østfold University College and Molde University College.
The PARTICIPATE Project has been awarded NOK 6 million for research on cyber bullying and the role of the parent. "More research on this subject is crucial", Hildegunn Fandrem says.
Our research aims to contributing on a sustainable use of the red seaweed Palmaria palmata in aquaculture. The work focuses on life cycle and nutritional potential.
Deep Learning is a subset of Machine Learning which is completely based on artificial neural
networks. As neural networks are designed to mimic the human brain, deep learning is
likewise a human brain mimic. These neural networks are made up of a simple mathematical
function that can be stacked on top of each other and arranged in the form of layers, giving
them a sense of depth, hence the term Deep Learning.
Marine Sewage Outfalls – Environmental Impact Evaluation (SANOCEAN) focusing on ocean research including blue economy, climate change, environmental research and sustainable energy.
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.
A creative process with digital technology is a complex process consisting of traditional non-digital and new digital activities. It is important that educators use different pedagogical strategies when involving young children in the process. However, it is not enough to focus merely on the process – the finished product is also important to the children.
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.
The Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS has several laboratories within the field of geology and reservoir. Here is an overview of relevant equipment and facilities.
The Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS has several laboratories within the field of chemistry and environmental technology. Here is an overview of relevant equipment and facilities.
Within the field of microscopy, there are several laboratories linked to the Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS. An overview of equipment and facilities follows.
The Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS has several laboratories within the field of biology and molecular biology. Here is an overview of relevant equipment and facilities.
The Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS has several laboratories within the field of sustainable energy systems. Here is an overview of relevant equipment and facilities.
The Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS has several laboratories within the field of automation technology. Here is an overview of relevant equipment and facilities.
The Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS has several laboratories within the field of materials science. Here is an overview of relevant equipment and facilities.
The Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS has several laboratories within the field of computer technology. Here is an overview of relevant equipment and facilities.
As a student at UiS, you can go abroad on shorter stays and receive a grant through Erasmus+. Here is more information about short-term mobilities and how to apply for the grant.
The Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS has several laboratories within the field of construction and building materials. Here is an overview of relevant equipment and facilities.
Within the field of drilling and well-technology, there are several laboratories conected to the Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS. An overview of equipment and facilities follows.
The Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS has several laboratories within the field of design, modelling and simulation. Here is an overview of relevant equipment and facilities.
Sina Furnes Øyri and Inger Johanne Bergerød have been awarded a contract research project on a nationwide supervision of the child welfare service's follow-up of children in foster homes in 2022-2023.
Ukrainian students who are struggling financially due to the war in Ukraine can apply for a grant to cover their cost of living. This conerns Ukrainian students who were already studying in Norway before the war started.
The research group for mechanical engineering and materials technology has broad expertise in the design of mechanical components, testing and development of materials, manufacturing methods and methods for load calculations and fluid dynamics.
Violent vikings might be the ones we see in movies and on TV, but Vikings are also popular today because they represent a return to our roots and nature, researchers claim.
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.
The University of Stavanger has allocated 2.5 million NOK in earmarked grants to Ukrainian researchers fleeing due to the Russian attack on Ukraine, and to researchers connected to the political opposition in Russia.
The project will explore the impact of an upcoming country wide system audit on the child welfare services’ management and work practices. The project will focuse on the work process related to the follow-ups of children living in foster homes after proven regulatory breaches.
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.
CIIP originates from the Stavanger Centre for Innovation Research (CIR) at the University of Stavanger School of Business. CIR was established in 2008 and has over 30 researchers from the UiS Business School, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Technical and Natural Sciences, and the Norwegian Research Centre. CIIP will build on these strengths and continue developing into a global hub for research on the economic, social, and political challenges of innovation.
Is there a common Nordic model or a characteristic Nordic approach to evaluation and assessment of quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC)? A new study conducted by FILIORUM – Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education and Care, together with Early Childhood Research Centre at Dublin City University (DCU ECRC), has examined this.
There have been heated exchanges on Twitter and in Khrono about last autumn’s debate on internationalisation. This recently went "live" in Stavanger. Much of the debate called on academics to intervene in order to safeguard international employees, Norwegian academic terminology and our own knowledge bank.
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.
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.
You will find your curriculum in the digital curriculum list system Leganto. Here, you also gain access to articles and digital resources, check availability in the library, and can place yourself in a queue to borrow borrowed materials.
University of Stavanger continues its collaboration with the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) network, and looks to strengthen its position as a European University.
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.
The Subsurface Utilisation and Renewable Energy group addresses the latest issues related to the energy transition, underground hydrogen storage, geothermal heat production and geo-sequestration of carbon.
Human Reading Assessment is an NRC-funded research project exploring new methodologies for adaptive reading assessment. The project will start in April 2024.
The newly established UNESCO Chair on Leadership, Innovation & Anticipation and Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Stavanger (UiS) have together with partners been awarded 4.8 million NOK to develop a new Master’s of Strategic Design & Leadership.
The number of students in petroleum-related topics at universities in Norway has dramatically declined and the supply of people with subsurface competence is approaching a critical low level.
The role of the Norwegian Continental Shelf in the future energy system depends on the national and international business regulations, societal acceptance and license to operate.
Large volumes of subsurface data exist, but current workflows for subsurface understanding are suboptimal, resulting in inadequate utilization of datasets.
The amount of water injected, produced and discharged to sea in aging fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf is increasing. Water handling is energy-intensive and costly, and represents about 50% of the total energy for field operation.
Hydrocarbon (HC) production is energy intensive and emits large amounts of CO2. There is an urgent need to develop concepts and implement new energy-efficient solutions to produce HC resources at the lowest possible emissions.
The objective of this work package is to develop a holistic petroleum system model and exploration for sustainable use of the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
University of Stavanger together with NORCE, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) and University of Bergen, are the main research institutions in NCS2030.
The centre includes an expert team of geoscientists, reservoir engineers, modellers, data scientists, economics, among others, that will work together with industry experts.
The research centre NCS2030 will find solutions that maximize the value creation of energy resources on the Norwegian continental shelf, while at the same time achieving the net-zero emission (NZE) goals.
Through this project, we aim to enhance capability in higher education with a special focus on supply chain & logistics networks performance enhancements satisfying three United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – quality education, gender equality, and decent work and economic growth.
Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Materials Science at University of Stavanger is a member of an international consortium that aims at developing didactic materials for integration of digital tools into product development and manufacturing education.
The Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Materials Science at University of Stavanger is a member of an international consortium in the Erasmus+ project TEAL2.0.
Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Materials Science at University of Stavanger is a partner of an ERASMUS + Project that is aimed at creating strong partnerships between the world of education and the business world, to develop technical-professional training opportunities strongly anchored to the needs of companies in the European aerospace supply chain.
Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Materials Science at University of Stavanger is a member of an international consortium that aims at developing didactic materials to improve knowledge concerning the implementation of Lean Thinking in the workplace.
The Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Materials Science at University of Stavanger is a member of an international consortium in the European Project BIM4PLACEMENT – European key competences in building and construction.
The Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Materials Science at University of Stavanger is a member of an international consortium in the European Project Lean ERASMUS+ KA2.
The CAR Network is a new, nordic network established to share experiences and work together towards advancing education to transform lives and society.
The University of Stavanger (UiS) is responsible for the processing of personal data that we register, process and store in connection with your student and applicant relationship at UiS. This privacy policy provides you with information about how we process your personal information, what rights you have and who you can contact with inquiries concerning your personal information.
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”.
Which classroom practices are critical for creating an engaging learning environment? UiS researchers from different disciplines are collaborating to find the answer to this, in a new, large research project.
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.
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.
University of Stavanger (UiS) and Stavanger University Hospital (SUS) will work together to find solutions for patients with chronic intestinal diseases.
Many children have tried to make a Cartesian diver with a pipette in a bottle of water, but it can be a little difficult to find the right amount of air in the pipette so that it works. We will show an easier way to do it, with lemon or orange peel.
Emilie had a steep learning curve both academically and linguistically during her Erasmus+ Traineeship in England and plans to work abroad after completing her paramedicine degree back home at the University of Stavanger.
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.
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.
A new collaboration project for further development of a more environmentally friendly solution for the treatment of drilling mud waste has received 2.8 million from the Research Council of Norway.
The Research Council allocates NOK 28 million to the ImpactWind Sørvest project, led by NORCE. UiS is an important research partner in the project. Professor Muk Chen Ong leads one of the work packages.
How do you get your CV to stand out when applying for a job after graduating? An internship prepares you for the job market by giving you relevant job experience and industry contacts while studying for your MSB degree.
University of Stavanger with partners have been awarded the National Centre for Sustainable Utilization of Energy Resources on the Norwegian Shelf (NCS2030).
Founder and entrepreneur Murshid M. Ali defended his dissertation for the Ph.D. degree in Management, Economics, and Tourism at the UiS Business School on December 6th, 2021.
The Joule calendar is made by Inge Christ, head of The School Laboratory of Science at UiS, and UiS professor Magne Sydnes. For the seventh year in a row, they make a Christmas calendar with chemistry and physics experiments, popular amongst both young and old.
Did you know that you can turn a regular Pringles box into a rocket? In the first door of this year's Christmas calendar, Inge and Magne make a hydrogen gas rocket that goes off with a bang.
A total of 12 companies are on the list of the industry partners of The National IOR Centre of Norway. Chair of Board Thierry Laupretre (Aker BP), sums up the collaboration.
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.
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.
We call for contributions that discuss the character and function of immersive experiences with regard to how the notion ought to be theoretically elucidated or that explore how they are concretely manifested in a wider set of experiental settings.
A UiS Research Project. The quality of being immersive is increasingly held to be a desirable experiential characteristic. Immersive experience has been studied in considerable depth in the context of digital media, but there is now a need to conduct interdiciplinary research into its nature as a general phenomenon and into its many important manifestations in communication, action and social contexts.
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%.
The DiCoTe project aims to increase digital competence in Norwegian kindergartens by developing resources that can be used in Early Childhood Education Training.
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.
Eight years of research on improved oil recovery are coming to an end. In this article you get the highlights from the research at The National IOR Centre of Norway.
“Norway’s cold climate is very suitable for building-integrated photovoltaics,” says researcher Hassan Gholami. He completed his doctoral degree on the subject at the University of Stavanger.
Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), will be appointed honorary doctor of the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway.
The MOFSORBMET project is developing MOFs for the adsorption-enhanced recovery of critical metals from the primary (mining) and secondary sources (e-waste). Our initial focus is the metals for batteries and the sustainable recovery of resources from battery waste.
At last we can once again come together in Tjodhallen to celebrate the events of the past year. For the first time in seven years, a new honorary doctor of UiS will be appointed.
The NewbornTime project aims to improve newborn care using artificial intelligence (AI) for activity and event recognition taken from videos in the time both during and immediately after birth.
The INTERACT intervention is a measure aimed at teachers in upper secondary education who wish to further develop their teaching practice. The initiative focuses on teacher-student interactions in teaching and how one can increase student involvement in learning activities in order to contribute to their social and professional learning.
By taking a semester at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), you will encounter an exciting and international academic environment in Arctic research. The teaching at UNIS is field-based, and nature is used as a laboratory and an arena for learning, observation, collection and analysis of data.
To read books together with young children is a common activity – both in early childhood settings and at home. Many children are increasingly using digital books to access stories. You might wonder whether reading on paper and on screen is the same? Does it matter whether children turn pages in a book or swipe pages on an iPad?
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.
FILIORUM- Centre for Research in Early Education and Care has a Scientific Advisory Board consisting of renowned international researchers in the ECEC field.
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.
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.
In SELMA, researchers and employees in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centers will collaborate to develop resources to promote Social and Emotional development and Life Mastery. The five core themes of SELMA derive from the Framework plan for kindergartens:
Social interaction, Engagement, Love and joy, Mastery, and Acknowledgement.
University of Stavanger is participating in two new research projects led by NORCE. Together the partners seek new solutions for computing technologies; 3D machine vision and automated well monitoring.
A UiS-led investment in sustainable aquaculture receives almost NOK 100 million from the government's Green Platform Initiative. The investment will improve fish welfare and reduce the environmental and climate footprint of aquaculture - and is based on expertise from the oil industry.
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.
The University of Stavanger has one of Norway's
leading research environments within the Early Childhood Education and Care field. All ECEC research at the university is part of FILIORUM, and the researchers are affiliated with different units at UiS and represent different fields of study, perspectives, research methods and traditions.
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.
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.
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.
Attendance requirements at the Faculty of Performing Arts (UK) are an elaboration of the course descriptions' work requirements, which entail compulsory attendance; Regulations relating to studies and examinations at the University of Stavanger § 3-8.3. These rules are intended to address the particularity of UK performing studies.
Welcome! In the library, you will find books, reading areas, and digital offers such as electronic books and journals, databases, and other online resources.
The library has collected services and resources you will need at the beginning of your project. You will also find advice and guidance regarding the publishing process.
This site will provide you with information and resources on how to search and find scientific articles and other materials for research and studies in the field of health sciences. The library will also assist you in your work with systematic reviews of various kinds.
Do you need help finding literature for your assignment or thesis? Or help getting started with referencing? Check out our resources and guides for your assignments, laboratory reports, exams, and thesis at this library resource page for the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Could the bacteria in our guts help us improve cancer treatment? This is one of the key questions in a new research collaboration between University of Stavanger and Stavanger University Hospital.
In her doctoral work, Siv Marie Åsen has taken a closer look at what happens to different types of polymers when they are injected in the reservoir. Are the polymers degraded when transported through pipes or through the sandstone reservoir?
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 NHS – Department of Leadership and Service Innovation.
Here you’ll find links to financial, legal, statistical, and market data resources. The Library can help you with searching for literature. Through the library, you have access to research and academic resources that are useful for students and researchers at UiS Business School.
This is the library's subject page for studies linked to The department of Early Childhood Education, The department of Education and Sports Science, Norwegian Reading Centre, and Centre for Learning Environment.
The library is open to staff, students, and anyone interested in our fields of study. Our specialist areas are archaeology, conservation, museology, botany, art history, medieval history, and the history of Stavanger and Rogaland.
Information and useful links to scientific and subject-relevant sources for research and studies in media and social sciences. The library gives you access to resources in sociology, political science, change management, media studies, documentary production and energy, environment, and society.
Learning how to write academic texts is an important part of being a student. Here you will find useful information and resources to help you get started with your academic writing.
Important deliverables from the Centre are well documented and verified methods for evaluation of IOR potential on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. To gain increased knowledge and better methodologies it is important to integrate and combine different methods for field specific applications.
The economic feasibility of implementing new IOR methods on a field needs to be evaluated, preferably taking the uncertainty in the reservoir description into account.
The main objective of this task was to devise methods and procedures to map volumetric distribution of residual oil saturation in a reservoir after secondary production.
What are the most important parameters from smaller scales that are important to describe flow on a larger scale? Chemical EOR methods have proven their potential on core scale. But, additional oil produced at the core scale does not necessarily imply that the field recovery will be similarly increased.
Effective teamwork and sufficient communication are critical components essential to patient safety in today’s specialized and complex healthcare services. Team training is important for an improved efficiency in inter-professional teamwork within hospitals.
This research group focuses on the mineralogical and geological background of tested rock material for a variety of core flooding experiments and to search for the most economic and fastest toolbox of methods to gain substantial results within this objective.
In December 2020 the Research Council of Norway announced that KATS will receive funding for phase 2, and the project will therefore continue until March 2024.
The National IOR Centre of Norway was evaluated this fall. Now the report is complete. A consensus expert panel provides green light for three new years with research on improved oil recovery at University of Stavanger.
SR-bank's Innovation Award 2017 was given to Arild Lohne, NORCE and PhD student Oddbjørn Nødland, UiS. Both are researchers at the National IOR Centre of Norway.
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.
50 of the IOR Centre's researchers, project managers and PhD students were gathered at Sola strandhotell for a day of good talks, inspiration and socialization.
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.
Do you want to learn more about the smallest building blocks in nature? UiS have invited three world famous physicists to tell us in everyday language about the role particles play in nature and the strong forces binding them together.
At the Faculty of Performing Arts, the academic year is divided into mainly three different categories: Regular teaching weeks, project weeks, and exam weeks. Some weeks several sections have project week, other weeks it can be a teaching week in one section, while others have project week.
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?
Cyber security is a broad term that encompasses many different threats, defenses, and responses. This course will give you basic knowledge on how to handle these elements.
From Monday 12. August to Friday 16. August, opening ceremonies, information meetings and Fadder (buddy) events will be arranged. Here you will find a programme overview for Campus Bjergsted 2024.
The University of Stavanger celebrates research, education, presentation, innovation, and contributions to a good working environment through several awards.
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.
How can we achieve better health for humans, animals, and the environment? This is the challenge students and researchers will work on when the education project NorBra receives support for four new years.
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).
Master student Sharath Chandar Joghee is collaborating with the local company Energy Innovation to implement new safety solutions for the wind industry.
På vegne av Universitetet I Stavanger og Bjergsted Trombonelaug er det en stor glede å ønske musikkstudenter ved høyskoler/universiteter, profesjonelle utøvere og pedagoger velkommen til Bjergsted Brass Festival i uke 38 – 2024.
Dette året har vi lykkes å skaffe oss mange fantastiske gjesteartister og gjesteensembler. Årets tema er “Early Brass” og vi vil fremføre repertoar både på moderne og på historiske messinginstrumenter.
The Mars Institute Student Chapter is a student organization at the University of Stavanger, under the Mars Institute Norway and the Mars Institute Headquartered at NASA Ames Research Center in San Francisco.
Nettskjema is a Self-service solution for secure data collection available for employees and students at the University of Stavanger, and can be used for questionnaires, audio recordings, information letters and submission of information.
The Department of Energy Resources at UiS is investing in new equipment and new research areas within geotechnics and geophysics, in collaboration with Anko. This gives our students the opportunity to learn subjects and techniques that can also be used outside the petroleum industry.
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.
Six different research communities at the University of Stavanger (UiS) have applied to become Norwegian centres of excellence in research. In addition, researchers at the university are working in close collaboration on two applications from Stavanger University Hospital.
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.
The international research team, national and international panels met to share the latest development and exchange insights on how to ensure the engagement of users and an eco-system in the innovation space for welfare technology.
In the eHealth @ Hospital-2-Home project, a digital health service for chronically ill patients will be developed, and new forms of interaction between patients and health personnel will be tested.
To ensure that new and relevant research becomes known and easily applicable in ECEC, we have created this collection of digital resources based on recent ECEC research for use by teachers and educators in their professional development.
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.
In 2020 the use of social media platforms like Tik Tok increased in all Nordic countries. Find more statistics and reports like this in the database Statista.
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.
Instructional Support is part of the Quality System for Education at University of Stavanger (UiS), and includes all systematic measures that help make learning and teaching easier and more accessible to the university's staff and students. Instructional Support helps making the studies universally designed.
The Faculty of Arts and Education hosted a visit by a group of academic and administrative staff from An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine from 24.-28. April 2017. The aim was to strenghten the existing partnership and explore new cooperation possibilities within arts, humanities and educational sciences.
When Zeina Ousamah Jaber (20) of Palestine arrived to study at the University of Stavanger in 2016, she came to a grey and cold place. She felt all alone and sad. «Now I just want to stay here forever because I am enjoying it so much», she says.
Mário Helder Lopes da Silva has developed a method for qualification of new partitioning tracers for use in Partitioning Inter-well Tracer Tests (PITT).
On private computers, you can not store all types of UiS-related data. You can NOT store red data, and NOT store black data.
Yellow data, ie "internal", can be stored if the machine, and how you use it, meet certain requirements.
The University of Stavanger is investing in hydrogen research. Olena Zavorotynska is one of several researchers who, with the support of the Akademia agreement, will take a closer look at the opportunities hydrogen provides us in the energy mix of the future.
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.
Distributed energy conversion technologies, using fuel flexible solutions, energy storage and smart technologies are essential parts of the energy transition towards carbon free solutions.
Do you have suggestions for bachelors or master's theses? In the Collaboration Portal, you can register your own suggestions for assignment topics, or search for suggestions for bachelor's and master's theses posted by the professional environment and companies.
In «University of Stavanger: Open Journals» and «UiS Scholarly Publishing Services» you’ll find journals, books, and serials that are published open access at UiS. Contact the University library if you want to publish on one of these platforms.
The project ‘Safety and Resilience through Digital Practices’, will examine the potentialities of digital technologies for immigrant women survivors of gender-based violence in enabling their safety and well-being.
You have now registered your IT account and signed up for courses. Here are some useful information about your stay here at the University of Stavanger (UiS).
With her latest book " The Future of the Self: Understanding Personalization in Childhood and Beyond ", Natalia Kucirkova addresses the opportunities, but also the threats, implied by a personalized reality.
The NewbornTime project is about improved newborn care by using artificial intelligence (AI) for activity and event recognition in video from the time during and after birth.
The goal of the INTERACT project is to investigate how digital video-based dialogue can support teachers in the work of strengthening the quality of interactions in the classroom to again increase students' engagement and learning.
A comprehensive meta-analysis of prior research has found, overall, that children ages 1 to 8 were less likely to understand picture books when they read the digital, versus the printed version. However, when digital picture books contain the right enhancements that reinforce the story content, they outperform their print counterparts.
Through the work placement, which you can take in your third semester, you get relevant work experience from one of the business the Departement of Media and Social Sciences collaborate with. The work placement offers you an invaluable insight into how your academic competence can be used in the work life.
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.
A proposed centre of excellence (SFF), Quark-Lab will build a bridge between the collider physics and gravitational wave astronomy communities based on fundamental theory.
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
The main objective of the project is to provide security and dependability in the management and orchestration of network and data resources in 5G Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC).
The project “the Geopolitics of Renewables Simulation” is giving students the possibility to partake in simulated real-time negotiations of international energy and climate policy.
We congratulate Professor Bettina Smith on her new release. Together with pianist Jan Willem Nelleke, Smith has released the CD "The Artist's Secret" with works for song and piano, written by female composers.
Numerous projects are carried out by Cluster on Industrial Asset Management (CIAM) affiliates and experts. These include PhD projects, industry projects and international projects.
CIAM is a network of companies and university with focus on industrial asset management. It is administered by UiS, but controlled by the companies via the board.
While our outlook is global, a lot of our research is focused on the Stavanger region. Several regional muncipalities have smart city and sustainable development as priority areas.
UiS employee Roderick Dale had hardly imagined that he would contribute to making video games when he studied Old Norse literature and Viking history. Now he has translated dialogue in the game Assassin's Creed Valhalla into Norse.
The 7th IOR NORWAY is arranged 26-28 April 2021. The digital event will be co-organized with the 14th International Symposium on Reservoir Wettability and its Effects on Oil Recovery.
The sixth annual conference hosted by The National IOR Centre of Norway is history. Hopefully the participants got a refill of both knowledge and entertainment.
All upper secondary schools in Norway can now use the digital tool U-Say. The UiS Business School has participated in the development of the instrument.
Our electronic map MazeMap will lead you straight to the office or the auditorium you are looking for! The map also contains other important information about buildings and outdoor spaces.
The purpose of the research area is to contribute to the quality development in higher education in general and in teacher education and training in particular, with regards to digital competence.
Using mathematical models, doctoral student Filippo Malaguti at UiS will contribute to testing Rosenberg Worley's floating offshore wind solution Flexifloat.
– 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.
COVCOM aims to develop effective, evidence-based video communication for translating complex but important health messages about infectious diseases and pandemics.
The PhD-Supervisory Qualification Programme at UiS is offered to academic employees from all faculties at the UiS.
Each spring, 30 participants, both potential, new and more experienced supervisors, complete the course.
The research community Transforming Education – towards a sustainable future brings together researchers from different disciplines within the Faculty of Arts and Education to study transformative approaches to educational aspects of sustainable development.
On June 6th, Laura Borromeo defended her dissertation. Her thesis evaluates if Raman spectroscopy could be applied to enhanced oil recovery investigations.
Aojie Hong was defending the degree philosophiae doctor Thursday, December 14th. He is the first PhD student to graduate from the National IOR Centre of Norway.
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.
The University of Stavanger has received NOK 18.7 million from Norad to implement simulation-based education in nursing and midwifery with partner universities in Malawi and Tanzania.
Tatiana Iakovleva, professor of entrepreneurship at the UiS Business School, is at the forefront of a new research project that has received NOK 10 million in support from the Norwegian Research Council's program "Samansvar".
The UiS Business School hosted a kick-off meeting for the new project "Releasing the power of users" on 5-6th of November 2019. The project is looking into the healthcare sector and the main aim is to amplify user voices in this sector in particular when applying digital technology.
This WP deals with dissemination of results and transfer knowledge to other sectors via collaboration with national virtual RRI centre. It facilitates learning across international and national research partners, stakeholder groups of this project and with other communities of RRI and CSR researchers, businesses and policymakers.
UiS is part of the Lean 6σ Learning Academy, organised by European Networks for Performance Enhancement in Mechanical (Manufacturing) and Construction Industry.
UiS Business School is an arena for dialogue and collaboration between academia, business, industry, and decision-makers. We have multiple seminars and conferences in economics and law.
With around 25 participants PhD candidate Jaspreet Singh Sachdeva defended his thesis in a video conference in Teams Monday 20 April. Now he can finally call himself a doctor.
The purpose of Emanuela Kallesten's project is to understand how stress state and pore pressure affect the permeability of compacting rocks at reservoir conditions.