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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.
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.
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.
“Bringing Responsibility to Firm Practices: Strategies and Challenges”
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.
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Fitjar is a professor in innovation studies and comes from the position of Vice-Rector for Innovation and Society at the University of Stavanger. He will assume the role as head of the Center for Innovation Research (CIR) on August 1st.
"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".
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.
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.
Smart Assets, Digital and Integrated Operations, and Condition monitoring and Maintenance Analytics.
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Four editors representing four countries to helm flagship journal.
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.
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.
A selection of research articles from the Centre. Use the DOI-link to read abstract.
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.
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.
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”.
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Associate Professor and Head of Centre for Innovation Research, Marte C. W. Solheim at the University of Stavanger Business School is awarded the Stavanger-region Chamber of Commerce Award for Competence Sharing for 2021.
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The Research Council of Norway is awarding NOK 28 million to a project entitled Biocircle: Increased Innovation Capacity and Innovation Rate for Circular Economy in Western Norway. This project is a collaborative venture between Norce, the UiS, the UiB and several businesses.
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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.
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Several researchers from the UiS Business School feature in two different rankings of the world's most cited researchers. One of these rankings shows the top 2% of the world's most cited researchers in their field, and the other shows the top 1%.
The DiCoTe project aims to increase digital competence in Norwegian kindergartens by developing resources that can be used in Early Childhood Education Training.
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?
This cutting-edge project researches the power of smells and scents to transform children’s reading.
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Professor Jennifer Clark of the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University is appointed adjunct professor at the UiS Business School and the Centre for Innovation Research and affiliated with the UiS Research Network for Smart Sustainable Cities.
Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education and University of Stavanger host the digital conference with more than 190 researchers from 34 countries. Topic of the day will be «Bullying: What we know and what we can do.»
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.
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.
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A look at how the Centre for Innovation Research in Stavanger has evolved in line with rapidly changing surrounds and shifting views on innovation policy. What has the Centre learnt through the last few years?
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The CIIP – Centre for Innovation, Institutions and Policy – will investigate to see how technological changes and innovation will change businesses and what the consequences of such will be. This time the UiS has submitted a total of six applications.
Saeed Moghadam-Saman defended his PhD at the University of Stavanger 21 May 2021.
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Public defence: Utku Ali Rıza Alpaydin defended his PhD at the University of Stavanger 24th of March 2021.
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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.
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Gorm Kipperberg has been promoted to professor of environmental economics at the UiS Business School. His research focuses on applied issues in environmental, resource, and energy economics
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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.
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.