UiO's Centre for Development and the Environment is proud to announce David Van Reybrouck as the 2024 Arne Næss Professor.
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Professor at SUM, Dan Banik, is the new Academic Director of Circle U’s Knowledge Hub on Democracy.
SUM's Global Health Politics research group, represented by Katerini T. Storeng and Jacinta Victoria Muinde, is a partner in the new research cluster that aims to strengthen national and regional capacity to prevent, prepare for, and respond to pandemics and other shocks.
The project is led by Professor Karen V. Lykke and is funded by The Research Council of Norway.
The cluster will conduct research on the politics of sustainable development and will develop a new PhD programme focused on leadership for sustainable societal transformation.
Writing in Science Magazine, one of the world's top academic journals, professor Dan Banik and colleagues call for action from policymakers at the SDG Summit in New York in September.
We congratulate Felix Stein on securing funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for research on reparations as a response to global development challenges.
What are the key systemic causes of the so-called Anthropocene era, and what are the main challenges in creating more sustainable futures? These are some of the questions the new students at SUM will explore.
Øyvind Sundet will research how different understandings of change frame research and policy on climate change in Norway.
SUM student Toril Finbråten is helping establish the office that will make the University of Oslo more sustainable.
We congratulate Dan Banik, professor and podcast host, on the achievement!
We congratulate Linnea Møller Jess on receiving the award for best poster at the University of Oslo’s Winter Seminar in Human Geography!
The Centre for Development and the Environment was proud to announce Jason Hickel as the 2023 Arne Næss Professor.
The project is funded by NordForsk and led by Associate Professor Katerini T. Storeng at SUM, in collaboration with the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and Lund University.
Dan Banik is part of an external expert group that has been appointed by the Norwegian Government to make recommendations on ways to ensure effective financing for the SDGs.
We congratulate Dan Banik on his new appointment.
Are you a University of Oslo master's student interested in the politics of pandemics?
We welcome Solfrid Ingriddatter Nordrum.
We would like to congratulate Karen V. Lykke with her promotion to full professor.
We welcome two new research assistants to SUM: Thea Sandnes and Ada Eldevik.
The project is led by Postdoctoral Fellow Tom Neumark and is funded by the Research Council of Norway.
What are the main challenges in creating more sustainable futures? This is one of the questions our new class of students will explore.
Three master students have received the Arne Næss stipend that is designed to promote research on ethical and cultural aspects of innovation for a sustainable future.
For more than a decade, our researchers have studied the politics of vaccines, ranging from childhood immunisation programmes to the Covid pandemic.
We welcome two new research assistants to SUM: Wei Guo and Elin Bergstrøm.