Professor inauguration lecture: Can geographers change the world?
On May 31st, CET Director Håvard Haarstad held his professor inauguration lecture, marking the transition from “forsker 1183“, or Research Professor, to full professor. He Read More …
Subaltern intervention
What does research exclude when it does not dare to challenge the unknown? Kristin Kjærås and Tarje Wanvik opens this question up for debate in Read More …
What is the role for social scientists in accelerating sustainable energy transformations?
At CET, and particularly in the SpaceLab group working on urban and local governance, we have spent a significant amount of time discussing this question. In accelerating Read More …
BLOG: Interdisciplinarity is key for studying energy transition
In order to anticipate, inform and guide transitions to low-carbon energy we need to understand why and how such transitions happen. But energy transitions involve Read More …
SDGs change the role of universities
If universities are to contribute to societal attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals, it requires them to take on a different role, posit SpaceLab/CET researchers. Read More …
SpaceLab running NUDA session
This week, NUDA is arranging the Nordic Urban Assembly conference in Bergen, and Spacelab is highly present. On the first day of the conference, taking Read More …
Turning the spotlight on students
Johan and Ragnhild are the first-ever conference coordinators at the UiB Collaboratory. This spring, they are up to something big …
Call for contributions: Bergen International Student Conference 2018
Call for contributions is now open for the first edition of the Bergen International Student Conference with the theme “Climate and Society: Transformations in the 21th Read More …