Editorial
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2025: The Dean Takes Stock Dec. 19, 2025
It has been an eventful year for both research and teaching. The dean sums up the state of the faculty in this editorial, which is based on the speech she gave at the traditional Christmas Sherry on 18 December.
Innovation and impact
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Innovation and impact with Krister Fjermestad and Torun Vatne Nov. 27, 2025
Krister Fjermestad and Torun Marie Vatne at PSI received innovation funding from the University of Oslo in January for the ADVANCE SIBS project, which has been adopted by Norwegian municipalities and is beginning to spread internationally.
Meet the researcher
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Meet the researcher: Alessandro Rippa Dec. 19, 2025
Alessandro Rippa is almost midway in his ERC Starting Grant project "Amber" at SAI. It is exciting times for him, because all members of his project are scattered all over the world on fieldwork, and he receives continous reports on how their doing.
Meet the teacher
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Meet the teacher: Trude Lappeg?rd Dec. 19, 2025
Trude Lappeg?rd teaches at all levels at ISS – bachelor’s, master’s and PhD courses. She is currently reviving a course that lay dormant for many years, but which re-emerged in a new form last year.
Brief encounter
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Brief encounter with Junaid Mumtaz Khan Dec. 19, 2025
The new EILIN coordinator, Junaid Mumtaz Khan, first wanted to become a psychologist, was accepted to study journalism, but ended up studying education. He has no regrets, because he loves his field.
News
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FRIPRO funding to Martin?Blomhoff?Holm for research on housing access and birth rates Dec. 18, 2025
Martin?Blomhoff?Holm receives NOK?12?million to investigate whether the availability of housing can explain the falling birth rates.
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Receives FRIPRO funding to study sleep's role in motor development Dec. 16, 2025
Liisa Raud gets 2 million kroner from the Reaserch Council of Norway to elaborate a cutting edge idea on the role of sleep in toddlers motor development.
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Hungary: How judges are kept in line Dec. 12, 2025
The Hungarian justice system seems independent of party politics on paper. Reality is different. How does the regime manage to keep thousands of judges under control?
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Conference on Gender, Peace and Security: Resistance and Resilience Dec. 11, 2025
Looking at questions like "How do we understand Agency and Reform in promoting Women’s empowerment in peacebuilding?" and "What are the challenges of women’s participation in local peace processes?" the ERC-project ResilienceBuilding, brought together scholars and practitioners for a 3-day conference with an interactive discussion format.
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Large EU funding for Tore Wig and Manjana Milkoreit Dec. 9, 2025
Tore Wig will research the conditions for science in autocracies and Manjana Milkoreit the long-term governance of climate challenges. Both receive two million euros from the EU’s prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. Congratulations!
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Large EU-grant to Manjana Milkoreit to study long term climate governance Dec. 9, 2025
Manjana Miloreit wants to understand how to enable leaders, institutions, and communities to think and act on time horizons that match the pace of Earth system change. The professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography receives two million euros from the EU's prestigious Consolidator Grant to do so.
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Large EU-grant to Tore Wig to study the state of science in autocracies Dec. 9, 2025
Will scientific progress slow down if more countries in the world become autocratic? That is one of the questions political science professor Tore Wig will seek to answer with two million euros from the EU’s prestigious Consolidator Grant.?
