Events

Welcome to an open guest lecture by Professor Iver B. Neumann.

Aji Prasetya Wahyu Utama will defend the thesis Displacing Poverty or Displacing Capital? An Investigation into the Role of Credit Unions in Socio-economic Development among Palm Oil Farmers in West Kalimantan. Aji has followed the Ph.D. programme in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Global Development and Planning.

The research groups RECODE MLG, DeCrises and MICAD invite you to a workshop on developing policy recommendations.

Meseret Assefa Adamu will defend the thesis "Temporal Dynamics of Cybersecurity Culture Amid Rapid Digital Transformation". Meseret has followed the PhD programme in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Informations Systems.

We present the 22nd SCANCOR PhD Course "New avenues in the study of public governance: Turbulence, crisis and the study of robustness".

Rukia M. Pazi will defend the thesis "Global Public Values on the Move: Processes, actors and the institutional effects in the Global South. A Study of Equity in Health in Tanzania". Pazi has followed the PhD programme in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Public Administration.

How can researchers and universities protect academic freedom in a landscape of national regulations, institutional priorities and geopolitical tensions?

Welcome to a day where the focus is on the connection between street art and democracy.

Welcome to join this roundtable session focusing on the controversies around critical mineral extraction and its impact on democracy. 

In collaboration with HUMAN international film festival in Oslo and Cinemateket Kristiansand, the Department of Global Development and Planning showcase the documentary  “A Fox under a Pink Moon” at Aladdin Cinema, followed by a panel conversation with the Centre for Gender and Equality. 

Welcome to the 20th-anniversary of our Master's programme in Global Development, Crisis and Change, which was established in 2005 as Master's programme in Development Management. In this conference, we will discuss current challenges facing global development studies in a world increasingly characterized by crises and closed borders, and how to achieve equal access to education based on international collaboration.

Pragyan Thapa will defend the thesis (Re)imagining the visions of smart rural development initiatives. Thapa has followed the Ph.D. programme in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Information Systems.

Pouria Akbarighatar will defend the thesis Enacting Responsible AI in Organizations: A Sociotechnical Perspective. Akbarighatar has followed the Ph.D. programme in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Information Systems.

The department of global development and planning (IGUS) invites you to join our upcoming conversation with Vivian Price on just energy transitions.

Solomon Kebede Gebremeskel will defend the thesis:
"Between the Global North and the Global South. Journalists’ Role Perception in the Ethiopian Diaspora Evolving Hybrid Media Practices". Solomon has followed the Ph.D. programme in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Global Development and Planning.

Stefan Schmager will defend the thesis "Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: Design Principles for Public Services". Schmager has followed the Ph.D. programme in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Information Systems.

Aleksandar Avramovic will defend the thesis "Great expectations and even greater societal responsibility? A study on academic work and societal responsibility in Norwegian higher education". Avramovic has followed the Ph.D. programme in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Public Administration.

Lucia Castro Herrera will defend the thesis "Resilience Through Crisis Management Transitions: A process organization study of support information systems in public service, the case of social media analytics". Herrera has followed the Ph.D. programme in Social Sciences with a specialisation in Information Systems.