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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.
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.
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.
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).
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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.
"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".
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What role do parents have in the prevention of cyberbullying? The international research project PARTICIPATE will seek answers to this.
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.
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
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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.
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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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.
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 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.
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 most common thing about countries that are 'successful' in PISA, is a higher level of gender equality in the population.
How can academic motivation be stimulated by promoting a mastery-oriented learning environment?
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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.»
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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Professor Natalia Kucirkova has won the UKLA Academic Book Award 2021 for her book ‘How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books’.
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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.
Enhancing Upper Secondary Students’ Engagement and Learning through Video-based Professional Development on Teaching Interactions
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.