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Welcome to the Norwegian psychometrics gathering! The gathering is a yearly workshop for methodological and applied researchers within the field of psychometrics.
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University of Stavanger
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.
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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.
Voices of Women (VOW) Erasmus+ Educational Symposium for researchers, music educators, and graduate music students
October 10-11, 2024
Faculty of Performing Arts at the University of Stavanger, Norway
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.
- With a classical education, I haven't felt confident enough to improvise in years.
- I dream of touring with my favorite jazz musicians like Joel Ross and Aaron Parks.
- I wanted to study under professor Ellen Nisbeth and explore Scandinavian traditions.
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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.
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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.
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.
The Nordic Journal of Systematic Reviews in Education (NJSRE) announces the first publication.
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Students who have Norwegian as a second language will now be offered extended academic guidance during their first semester at UiS.
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The library now gives you access to a new online resource for students in history and related fields.
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My summer job: The flute student works voluntary with arranging seminars in her home country during the summers
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.
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Music production and recording was an opportunity to increase their experiences in the field
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.
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Check our Call for papers and get in touch. We look forward to your contribution!
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.
Reflections from the Green Transitions Fellows at The Greenhouse 2022
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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.
Information about our current research projects and research networks
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Four editors representing four countries to helm flagship journal.
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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.
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 large-scale study counters the belief that speaking two or more languages gives children a cognitive advantage.
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.
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.
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.
Here you will find an overview of the staff in the faculty's theory section on jazz. Theodor Barsnes Obarheim is the head of the section.
Here you will find an overview of the staff in the faculty's classical theory section.
Here is a list over all employees in the section of classical piano and voice.
Here you will find an overview of the staff at the classic wind section.
The section consists of staff members for brass and woodwind.
The DiCoTe project aims to increase digital competence in Norwegian kindergartens by developing resources that can be used in Early Childhood Education Training.
The most common thing about countries that are 'successful' in PISA, is a higher level of gender equality in the population.
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.»
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.
The PlaySpace (PS) editorial team now calls for new submissions dedicated to artistic research focusing on decolonization.
Do you need help? Here you can see who helps with what in the study administration at the Faculty of Performing Arts.
Students and staff at the Faculty of Performing Arts can book rooms for individual activities at the faculty.
At Campus Bjergsted, you need your own key tag to get around inside the buildings.
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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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Here you will find information about semester start, fadder events, opening ceremony and much more for August 2024!
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.
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.
A digital exhibition chronicles the reintroduction of beavers in Scandinavia 100 years ago.
The PhD programme in artistic research provides for the three research disciplines dance, music and documentary film.
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.
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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 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.
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FILIORUM-The Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education and Care at the University of Stavanger and the Early Childhood Research Centre at Dublin City University (DCU ECRC) have entered a collaboration on a new research project on Nordic Approaches to Evaluation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education and Care.
This research program area is aimed at preparing better graduate and postgraduate candidates.
This and much more was discovered by Gunnar Nerheim when he dived deep into the history of the first Norwegians in Texas.
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Professor Natalia Kucirkova from the Centre for Learning Environment is awarded the Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship for the period 2021-2023. She is the first Jacobs Fellow from a Norwegian University.
UiS researchers have developed and tested a structured play-based curriculum for children at their last year of preschool, to foster a more even and better foundation before school start through care, play and learning.
Principal investigator Eva Leibinger is associate professor at the Department of Education and Sports Science, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger.
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Employees and students at the Faculty of Performing Arts host up to 200 concerts and performances per year. Here is an overview over upcoming events.
A dance performance by Hagit Yakira, associate professor at the Faculty of performing arts.
A book project about improvisation, by Petter Frost Fadnes
(Routledge, 2020)
The entanglement of choreographic and pedagogic practices is the theme of the PhD project of Mari Flønes at The Faculty of Performing Arts.
Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education (Centre for Learning Environment), University of Stavanger, is both a research centre and a National Education Centre, assisting the national educational authorities in their work to implement the national educational policy in preschools and schools in Norway.
In 2020 The University of Stavanger (UiS) was awarded a UNESCO professorship on the topic of diversity, inclusion and education.
Our bachelor in dance is a performing study focusing on contemporary dance. It is a three-year education that prepares you for a professional working life as a performing and co-creating dance artist or for further studies in dance.
Do you know any children or youths who'd like to learn jazz? This Jazz School is run by the jazz students from UiS Faculty of Performing Arts. Application deadline is October 22nd.
Welcome to a new academic year! Find all the information you need about the start of studies at Bjergsted Campus.
Do you want to come to Stavanger and the Faculty of Performing Arts?
We offer exchange programs for Bachelor and Master in Music performance, jazz and classical music, Bachelor in Dance performance and One year extension studies ("post-bachelor") in Music Production and Recording.
Campus Bjergsted is located in Bjergstedparken near Stavanger city center. The Faculty of Performing Arts is located with among others, Stavanger Concert Hall, Stavanger Cathedral School, Bjergsted Department and Stavanger Cultural School.
The faculty board is responsible for determining the overall goals, priorities and strategies for the faculty.
Here you will find an overview of our employees in the administration.
The Organ Section belongs to the Section of Piano and Vocal, and is a part of the Department of Classical Music.
The theory department has employees from the Department of Classical Music and the Department of Jazz, Dance, PPU and Music Production.
The section for Wind Instruments consists of woodwind and brass and is organized under the Department of Classical Music at the Faculty of Performing Arts.
Meet the staff of the Faculty of Performing Arts. Find bio, subject, and contact information of our management, teaching body, and counselors, divided into departments and sections.
The conducting programme at the University of Stavanger is one of Norway's leading programmes. We offer courses and study programmes with specializations in conducting on all levels.
Music production and recording is organized under the Department of jazz, dance, PPU and music production at the Faculty of Performing Arts.
The Faculty of Performing Arts' PPU education has a unique profiling of pedagogy in music, dance, drama and theater.
The Jazz Education in Stavanger is located on Bjergsted Campus in the heart of Bjergsted Culture Park.
Department of Jazz, Dance, PPU, and Music Production at the Faculty of Performing Arts, University of Stavanger, is located in the heart of Bjergsted Cultural Park.
Department of Classical Music at the Faculty of Performing Art, University of Stavanger, is located on Bjergsted campus close to the city center in the heart of Bjergsted Cultural Park, with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and the Stavanger Concert Hall as its nearest neighbors.
The Department educates primary school teachers and offers sports studies, as well as a Master’s degree in Special Needs Education. The Department also has an abundance of continuing and further education courses.
The Department of Early Childhood Education (IBU) offers a Bachelor's degree in Earcly Childhood Education Teacher Training, a Master's degree programme in Early Childhood Education Science and a number of continuing and further education programmes, as well as a PhD programme.
The Department of Cultural Studies and Languages (IKS) is involved in teaching, research and dissemination related to religion, culture, languages, literature, history and pedagogy.