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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.
The University of Stavanger has five PhD programmes that cover a wide range of disciplines.
Do you remember the scented erasers you had as a child? ‘Scratch and sniff objects’ have now made a comeback.
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Organised by the MARRI project group.
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Hulda Garborgs hus, University of Stavanger
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.
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Professor Helge Ruddat has received NOK 12 million to investigate and classify the mathematical concept of Fano manifolds.
Poetry Planet is a prototype under development titled “Open-World Games: A Creative Way for Students to Read and Write.”
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.
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Welcome to BSAH 2024 in Stavanger, Norway.
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University of Stavanger
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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.
10-11 December 2024: Stavanger, Norway
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Are you working on your PhD but having trouble finding time to write? Join us for Shut up & write and keep your writing going!
Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet
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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.
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Elaine Munthe has received the Ruth Wong Professorship for 2024 at the National Institute of Education and is attending The Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference.
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.
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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.
POL-AID examines populism in Nordic societies and its implications for democracy.
Anna Kvashchuk defended her dissertation for the degree of PhD at the University of Stavanger the 30th of April.
PROFRES Doctoral Research School
Autumn PhD Symposium
Bodø 21th – 24th October 2024
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.
The reseach group on AI, ethics and law focuses on legal and ethical implications of development, deployment and use of AI systems.
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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.
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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.
Welcome to a seminar bringing archaeologists and forensic investigators together to discuss common challenges and approaches in Forensic Archaeology.
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.
LIFE wants to achieve a new and improved understanding of life skills education (LSE) in Norwegian schools.
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.
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Charlotte Wrigley attends 'Thinking Through Permafrost' workshop
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Chatterjee elected on the Executive Committee of the International Committee for the History of Technology
"A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–1900" by Matthew Holmes.
"Earth Ice Bone Blood" by Charlotte Wrigley.
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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.
The following single courses at the Faculty of Science and Technology are related to artifical intelligence and machine learning.
Research projects affiliated with the Centre for Innovation Research.
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.
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.
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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.
Management and reporting is an important part of the research centre. Here is an overview of the management team.
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.
Here you will find information about projects, publications, centers, and research groups.
“Bringing Responsibility to Firm Practices: Strategies and Challenges”
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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.
Yucong Ma has researched dynamic analysis and design of subsea shuttle tanker systems.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Carlos Eduardo Lopes da Silva has compared the two oil cities Stavanger and Macaé in Brazil.
The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities can help you develop your project.
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Professor Dolly Jørgensen has won funding to research the links between cultural heritage and petrocultures and their connections to green transitions.
This blog will provide a short summary of presentations from members of the eHealth @ hospital-2-home research group.
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.
Research aiming to unveil the most fundamental and basic representations that infants use to start navigating the social world around them.
Mathematical models enable a scientific understanding of natural phenomena around us, and the study and optimization of processes in society and industry.
The Nordic Journal of Systematic Reviews in Education (NJSRE) announces the first publication.
Developing a digital toolbox for Special Core Analysis (SCAL).
Nisar Ahmed has developed a workflow for seismic inversion methods to estimate the rock-properties in a reservoir.
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.
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The University of Stavanger has introduced a new rights retention strategy for employees in order to achieve the goal of open access to publications.
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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
22 August 2024 to 23 August 2024 at the University of Stavanger, Norway.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The FLeD project aims to facilitate the design of effective flexible learning scenarios for Faculty.
Use of histopathology to identify changes in marine species in response to contaminants is a long-known practice.
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?
The research school gatherings will be held in March and October each year. In addition, summer and winter schools and writing seminars are offered.
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A portable, low-magnetic MRI machine gives researchers an indication of whether a child is going to follow typical or atypical cognitive development. The results will be used to implement measures adapted to each individual child.
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.’
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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.
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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.
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Researchers at the University of Stavanger have received 6 million euros from the prestigious EU research program Horizon Europe.
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Professor Dimitrios G. Pavlou was recently awarded the prestigious Hojjat Adeli Award for Innovation in Computing.
This article describes the second major phase of an intervention designed to enhance patient experiences during the critical transition from hospital to home.
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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.
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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 InvolveMENT project aims to improve the mental health of indigenous and ethnic minority youth by meeting their personalised information and support needs, using a public communication channel.
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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.
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Researchers at University of Stavanger have asked the industry to define their education needs in the years to come.
The group conducts research in algebraic geometry, complex analysis and geometry, mathematical models and differential equations, and differential geometry and mathematical physics.
In this page you will find information relevant for NCS2030 researchers.
Are you considering pursuing a PhD at UiS? Explore our available fellowship positions and learn how to apply.
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 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.
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Students and researchers at UiS are convinced that exoskeletons can be a useful aid for operating room nurses during long operations.
The goal is to find environmentally friendly solutions for shipping and transport in Arctic waters.
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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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.
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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.
UiS researchers got funding for Polish-Norwegian collaboration.
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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.
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Huong Huynh finished her PhD project at University of Stavanger October 2021. Now her PhD thesis has been selected as Best Norwegian PhD in Catalysis.
There will be a possibility to have workshops on the day after the main NIKT conference, Thursday November 30.
Knowledge is most valuable when it is shared generously – read the annual report for Centre for Resilience in Healthcare.
Knowledge is most valuable when it is shared generously – read the annual report for Centre for Resilience in Healthcare.
The NOKOBIT conference has been organized annually for the last 30 years as a national conference in information science and information systems.
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.
NISK 2023 will take place at the University of Stavanger, 27-30 November, co-located with the NIKT conferences.
A workshop that stimulated a fruitful discussion.
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.
This year's conference theme: Subsurface for energy security and sustainability.
"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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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.
SHARE collaborates with world leading researchers and research groups in the field of patient safety.
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 (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.
Oslo University Hospital, Section for Acute and Pre-hospital care became partners in SHARE – Centre for Resilience in Healthcare in 2023.
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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.
Thesis: Migration-related risk factors and perinatal outcomes. A national population-based study of immigrant and non-immigrant women in Norway.
In 2023 five of SHARE’s PhD candidates defended their doctoral dissertations and rightfully earned the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
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.
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What role do parents have in the prevention of cyberbullying? The international research project PARTICIPATE will seek answers to this.
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.
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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.
The Interdisciplinary, Interprofessional and Practice-Near Research School - Shaping Future Welfare
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.
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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.
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Check our Call for papers and get in touch. We look forward to your contribution!
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
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.
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UiS Business School and Centre for Innovation Research have had two guest researchers this semester.
Making digital books available for children across the world
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.
Cement plays a crucial role in the oil and gas industry, both during completion and P&A.
In well construction, the primary cementing job is performed to stabilize the borehole and provide zonal isolation.
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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.
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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.
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.
28 students participated in a trip to the Rosenberg Worley facilities in Buøy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On the 25th of October 2022, Izwan Ahmad was awarded the 2022 Innovation Awards for master’s students by Rogaland county mayor Marianne Chesak.
Literacy instruction and creative writing are combined in AILIT, by cutting-edge use of AI and principles from game design.
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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.
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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.
PhD candidate Bernardo Costa came out on top in the competition for best extended abstract during a wind engineering conference.
Fredrik Bjørheim, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Science and Technology, has investigated damage assessment and modeling of ageing structures.
We are developing functional materials and process chemistry for energy and environmental applications.
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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.
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Researchers at UiS have developed an energy converter that creates electricity from sea currents and river flows.
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He is one of the foremost RCTs experts and has again taught PhD-students from all over Europe at UiS.
Reflections from the Green Transitions Fellows at The Greenhouse 2022
The reason of 98% of the failures of mechanical systems and 60% of the failures of structures subjected to variable loading conditions is fatigue.
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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.
Students from all over the world got the opportunity to meet some of the leading physicists at the 2022 XQCD PhD school.
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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.
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Professor in economics Magne Mogstad from the University of Chicago taught econometrics to PhD students from all over Europe at UiS Business School.
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.
Information about our current research projects and research networks
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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.
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.
How can we understand animals as being at home with human-built infrastructure?
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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.
Here is an overview of all the PhD courses available at the Faculty of Science and Technology.
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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.
Micheal B. Oguntola has studied optimization and modelling of enhanced oil recovery injection strategies in his PhD project.
This research group works on topics related to geopolymers, subsurface well integrity, plugging and abandonment.
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”.
The CEMENTEGRITY project seeks to develop and test better materials for sealing wellbores exposed to CO2 stored in underground reservoirs.
The paper was awarded at the 40th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2021).
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.
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.
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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.
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Researchers at the University of Stavanger (UiS) have managed to run a gas turbine on 100 percent hydrogen.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Marine Sewage Outfalls – Environmental Impact Evaluation (SANOCEAN) focusing on ocean research including blue economy, climate change, environmental research and sustainable energy.
The first Energy Norway conference was arranged 25-26 April 2022. Theme: Subsurface utilization for energy transition.
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.
A selection of research articles from the Centre. Use the DOI-link to read abstract.
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.
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.
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 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 Porous Liquids project aims at developing a new technology for environmentally friendly and efficient separation of carbon dioxide.
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.
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.
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Human Reading Assessment is an NRC-funded research project exploring new methodologies for adaptive reading assessment. The project will start in April 2024.
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 main objective of this work package is to improve the reservoir energy production strategy with carbon capture and storage.
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.
Doctor philosophiae (dr. philos.) is a non-supervised PhD that can be conferred to researchers who have qualified for a doctoral degree on their own.
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.
ScERC is an innovative research cluster that focuses on the circular economy aspects of various eco-friendly technologies with sustainability context.
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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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.
Save the date for our conference on subsurface utilization for energy transition, 25-26 April 2022.
Radioactive Waste Spatialities, Materialities and Societies in the Nordic Region, 1960s to 1990s
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University of Stavanger (UiS) and Stavanger University Hospital (SUS) will work together to find solutions for patients with chronic intestinal diseases.
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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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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.
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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.
SHARE at UiS arranged a fully digital international symposium for early career research at the end of November.
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University of Stavanger with partners have been awarded the National Centre for Sustainable Utilization of Energy Resources on the Norwegian Shelf (NCS2030).
Oceans cover more than 70 % of the earth’s surface. However, those are still much unexplored.
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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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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.
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.
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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.
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Doctoral research fellows from all over Scandinavia were gathered in Stavanger when Magne Mogstad taught econometrics at the University of Stavanger Business School last week. Mogstad is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field.
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.
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.
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.
In this project the main aim is to procure knowledge about the concept user participation applied on infants.
The most common thing about countries that are 'successful' in PISA, is a higher level of gender equality in the population.
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?
The PAN-FIGHT researchers publish a number of research articles and reports. Here is an overview of all related publications.
The project consists of five separate, but interconnected work packages (WPs).
This cutting-edge project researches the power of smells and scents to transform children’s reading.
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University of Stavanger, NORCE, IFE and University of Bergen are partners in an application for a new petrosenter, focusing on subsurface research.
How can academic motivation be stimulated by promoting a mastery-oriented learning environment?
FILIORUM- Centre for Research in Early Education and Care has a Scientific Advisory Board consisting of renowned international researchers in the ECEC field.
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Professor Jennifer Clark of the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University is appointed adjunct professor at the UiS Business School and the Centre for Innovation Research and affiliated with the UiS Research Network for Smart Sustainable Cities.
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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.»
Five petroleum engineering students from University of Stavanger reached the finals in the prestigous PetroBowl contest.
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.
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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 project investigates how Norway’s digital infrastructures enable an open and inclusive public sphere.
Charlotte Obhrai's new research project will investigate large offshore wind turbines, and how to improve the design for offshore wind conditions.
See the list of all scientific publications written by researchers affiliated with the IOR Centre.
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.
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.
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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 Hotel Management School.
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.
This forum will focus its work on polymer flooding from pore to core scale, and partly to field scale.
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.
Improved modeling methodology and simulation capabilities for IOR are important to perform reliable pilot and full field simulations.
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.
The objective of the pore scale task was to identity mechanisms that influence fluid transport, chemical reactions, and oil recovery.
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.
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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.
This research group is dedicated to the theoretical and empirical study of social and spatial justice from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
The PlaySpace (PS) editorial team now calls for new submissions dedicated to artistic research focusing on decolonization.
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.
The Scientific Advisory Committee of The National IOR Centre of Norway has spoken: The Centre should be proud of its fundamental research.
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.
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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.
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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.
This forum will focus its work on upscaling procedures needed in the numerical simulation tools and workflows used and developed in the IOR Centre.
The ultimate goal for this forum is to give advice on where and how to implement Smart Water EOR.
At core scale we focus on IOR mechanisms; improving macroscopic and microscopic sweep efficiency.
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.
Saeed Moghadam-Saman defended his PhD at the University of Stavanger 21 May 2021.
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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.
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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.
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.
FILIORUM – Centre for Research in Early Education and Care has three focus areas within the research: play, communication and belonging.
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.