– What makes it interesting to be a researcher is the combination of the freedom to choose my own line of research and the ability to spend time getting deeply immersed in a topic to really understand it and capture its complexity, says Jens Jungblut, professor at The Department of Political Science.
What are the consequences of the school reform 'fagfornyelsen' for students' mental health, school performance, school environment, and dropout rates? These are among the questions Egil Nygaard spends much time on these days. He is a professor at the Department of Psychology and the interdisciplinary center PROMENTA, where they research health and quality of life.
Martin Eckhoff Andresen is currently starting up the TAXBUNCH project, for which he received 8 million NOK in funding from the Research Council for Young Research Talents last year.
Yves Steinebach has received two Horizon Europe grants this year and are off to break some new grounds as principal investigator for a big project and a partner in another.
Anders Jupsk?sas is this months research profile. He is just now in the process of completing a book about the youth organizations of far-right parties.
Kejia Yang at TIK inestigates the acceleration of energy and mobility transitions and is part of the NTRANS - Norwegian Energy transitions research center.
Nefissa Naguib at SAI participates in the working group for AI in research, has participated in a similar AI task force for teaching, conducts research on the Middle East and participates in three interdisciplinary projects.
Alicia Noellie Saes-Louarn at ARENA is preoccupied with the COMPLEX project studying Norwegian government agencies.
Espen R?ysamb went from managing the successful research center PROMENTA for four years to becoming the Head of research at PSI this year. In addition, he juggles three RCN-projects and wants to solve the puzzle of happiness.
Marte Mangset has contributed to the book "Regjeringen" (The government). She works with two parrallel projects funded by the Research Council. Here she tells more about them.
Andrea Joslyn Nightingale from ISS is a social geographer. She is currently looking at the politics of sociomaterial entanglements which shape how efforts to govern uncertainty unfold in a project called ’Unruly Energy Frontiers’.
Katherine Kondor is a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA-IF) Fellow at the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX).
Alessandro Rippa from SAI got an ERC Starting Grant recently. He's set to study amber in all it's richness. The project's called “Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene (AMBER)" and kicks off next fall.
– For me it is important to have partners who have interdisciplinary, or different disciplinary, perspectives. This helps challenge my way of thinking and how I approach research questions, says Nicole Marie Ostrand, postdoctoral fellow at ARENA Centre for European Studies, investigating immigration, asylum policy and international norms in deportation.
– For me, key to collaboration is shared curiosity and an interest in inventive approaches across disciplines – and at times to dare and do things differently, with or despite the pressures of academia or funding regimes, says Susanne Bauer, professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture.
