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KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Funksjonshemning, mangfold og inkludering - nye forståelser i offentligheten

Vi vil inngå samarbeid med et produksjonsselskap som har erfaring med dokumentarisk filmproduksjon og i kortformatet. Omfanget på antall filmer/snutter vil avklares i dialog med produksjonsselskap før endelig avtale inngås. Vi vil vektlegge filmmediets muligheter til å vise kompleksitet og tvetyd...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Downward Social Mobility, Health and Political Radicalization

A growing proportion of individuals in advanced welfare democracies experience downward, as opposed to upward, social mobility. Yet, we severely lack knowledge about the full extent of downward social mobility, its determining factors and consequences.

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Weaving the fabric of Elite Bonds (WEB)

Elites are back on the agenda in the social sciences. The centrality of inheritance and kinship in attaining high wealth has been an important finding in the burgeoning studies of economic elites. Yet, the sociological emphasis on the institutional underpinnings to elite power and the emphasis pl...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Oslo

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

The Politics of Disability Identity

Disability is one of the clearest predictors of social marginalization and an enduring problem for global sustainable development. Although disability has in recent decades become enshrined in the framework and discourse of human rights, progress has been slow or absent in socioeconomic terms. Th...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Social Inequalities and Population Dynamics (SIPD).

Social Inequalities and Population Dynamics (SIPD) is the name of a research group located at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. The research group received top scores in the 2018 evaluation of the social sciences and then received funding from the SAMEVAL progra...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Socially Inclusive Transformations to Sustainability

The SoTrans Project explores the relationship between two important societal challenges of our time: transformations to sustainability in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss, and efforts to overcome social inequality and exclusion. Although there has been increasing interest in ...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Criminal exposure in vulnerable areas

The overarching theme of the project is to establish empirical knowledge about the concentration of social problems in neighborhoods and the consequences of such concentration for those who live there. The project is based on analyses of administrative registerdata provided by Statistics Norway. ...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2027

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Falling Fertility and Rising Social Inequalities

Several articles have been published with results from this project. In one article, we examine the relationship between social fathering, defined as the experiences of men who are married to or cohabiting with the biological mother of a child to whom they are not biologically related, and childl...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Oil workers and their climate struggle

Since 2019, Norway has experienced a remarkable rise in the public discussion of the role of the oil worker. Facing growing calls for speedy emission cuts and a phase-out of oil and gas extraction, oil workers have responded publically by trying to muster pride in their work, and reject the notio...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Firm evidence on ethnic stratification: work organizations, employment segregation, and immigrant economic assimilation

Immigration has, within just a few decades, reshaped Europe and introduced new forms of ethnic inequality. How minorities are included in the labor market is one of the key societal challenges of our time. The workplace plays a crucial role – both as a social arena and as a site where economic re...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2026

Location: Oslo

UTENRIKS-Internasjonale forhold - utenriks- og sikkerhetspolitikk og norske interesser

Ukrainian geopolitical fault-line cities: urban identities, geopolitics and urban policy

This project explored urban policy issues in Ukraine's “geopolitical fault-line cities,” focusing on policy areas that are most exposed to the country's geopolitical and foreign policy choices. There were two main goals. Using the examples of five south-east Ukrainian case study cities, the scien...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2024

Location: Oslo

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

WAGE: Work, Labour and greening the economy

The WAGE project has examined how oil workers perceive their role in the global shift towards low-carbon technologies. This transition is crucial to addressing climate challenges, as the petroleum industry is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Countries such as Norway, Nigeria, the...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2025

Location: Oslo

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Paradoxes of wealth and class: historical conditions and contemporary configurations

The HISTCLASS project raises a number of issues that can be summarized as: To what extent and through what mechanisms do inequalities in wealth persist over time, and to what extent are dynastic tendencies also found in families with top positions in other sectors? To what extent does marriage co...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2024

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Sosiologforeningens vinterseminar 2018: Kjønnsforhandlinger

Temaet for seminaret er kjønn og kjønnsforskning i sosiologien, og målsetningen er å problematisere og forklare kjønn som samfunnsfenomen i en norsk og nordisk kontekst. Programmet tilbyr ulike innfallsvinkler til å belyse og forstå kjønn som forskningsområde og perspektiv i sosiologien. Kjønnspe...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

NCSR 2018: The 24th Nordic Conference in the Sociology of Religion

Nordic Conferences in the sociology of religion have been arranged bi-annually since 1970. All five Nordic countries have arranged the conference, including Norway (Oslo 2000 and Kristiansand 2010). It is Norway's turn in 2018. At the conference in Helsinki in 2016, University of Oslo, in collabo...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Societal openness, normative flux, and the social modification of heritability

We will gauge the relative importance of genetics and environment in family demography and social stratification. First, we will study social change across cohorts, as influential theory suggests heritable dispositions will increase in importance when opportunity structures expand or social norms...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Unpacking the modern working class: Life chances, social cohesion and recognition in an age of migration

With the surprise election of Donald Trump, as well as the Brexit election, questions about the modern working class came back on the agenda. This is a category that is poorly understood in today's social sciences, not least in Norway. To describe today's working class, their political orientatio...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Sosiologforeningens vinterseminar 2017: Migrasjon/integrasjon

Temaet for seminaret er migrasjon og integrasjon, og målsetningen er å problematisere og forklare migrasjon og integrasjon som samfunnsfenomener i en norsk kontekst. Migrasjon/integrasjon er et sentralt område innenfor sosiologisk forskning, og har en lang historie som forskningsområde for sosiol...

Awarded: NOK 46,612

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

INAS 2017. Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists

The Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS 2017) will take at University of Oslo on June 8-9, 2017. The annual conferences in analytical sociology are arranged by an international network of academics. The conferences take place at European and North American u...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Adaptation: Combining Old and New kNowledge to Enable Conscious Transformations to Sustainability

The AdaptationCONNECTS project has contributed to research on how to successfully adapt to climate change, and it did so by focusing on the relationship between climate change adaptation and transformations to sustainability. The project results respond to an urgent need for more integrated and h...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Oslo

MILUTARENA-Formidlings- og koordineringstiltak for miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Ecological Challenges Conference 2017: An Exchange between Academics and Activists

Ecological Challenges is a conference that gathers academics who do research on environmental issues, and activists from the ecology movement. The aim is to discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time. The conference was organized for the second time at the Department of Sociology and Hu...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Oslo

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

The Role of Global Value Chains in Transitions to Sustainability

This project explores the role of global value chains in transitions to sustainability, with a focus on the coffee sector. The demand for coffee is likely to double over the next decades, while the area suitable for coffee production is expected to decrease by half by because of climate change. H...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Migration and social inequality: Global perspectives - new boundaries

Nordic Migration Research er en nordisk medlemsorganisasjon som blant annet arrangerer en internasjonal migrasjonsforskningskonferanse annethvert år. Den planlagte 2016-konferansen er den 18. i rekken og skal avholdes i Oslo i et samarbeid mellom ISS, Nordic Migration Research og Norsk Nettverk f...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Ungdommen nå til dags! Sosiologforeningens oppdatering

I 2016 retter vi søkelyset mot problemer knyttet til ungdom og generasjonsforskjeller, og hvordan de er blitt håndtert i norsk og internasjonal sosiologi. Foruten papergruppene er seminaret delt inn i to presentasjonsformer. For det første generelle faglige bidrag og oversikter i plenumsforedrag....

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo

MILUTARENA-Formidlings- og koordineringstiltak for miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Establishment and the Operation of the Future Earth Norway Secretariate

Future Earth is a global environmental change research platform providing the knowledge and support to accelerate transformations to a sustainable world. A major restructuring of the global change research programs started in 2011 and has resulted in Future Earth, a 10-year international research...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Sosiologi og byråkrati

I 2015 retter vi søkelyset mot problemer knyttet til byråkratier og hvordan de er blitt håndtert i norsk sosiologi. På seminarets første dag er temaet "Byråkrati og byråkratikritikk". Der settes hovedfokus på tidligere teorier og dagens situasjon belyst fra sosiologisk forståelse av samtidsdiagno...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Future Earth Science Committee

This proposal seeks support for Karen O´Brien´s participation in the Future Earth research initiative. From 2011-2013 she served as a member of the Transition Team that established Future Earth and since 2013 she has been a member for the Science Committee.

Awarded: NOK 0.42 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Ethnic segregation in schools and neighbourhoods: Consequences and Dynamics

BACKGROUND In the project application, we wrote the following: Ethnic segregation in local communities and schools involves individuals and families, and their preferences and decisions on where to live and what schools to send their children to. This project aims to provide new understandings...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2021

Location: Oslo

JPIURBAN-Urban Europe

JPI Urban Europe: Residential segregation in five European countries: A comparative study using individualized scalable neighbourhoods

interactions between individuals who are not alike. Usually, segregation is measured and studied using predfined administrative borders, such as borders between city districts or municipalitiies. In this project, neighborhoods are defined around each individual rather than by using predefined bor...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Will You Assimilate Me? Intermarriage and Economic Assimilation for Immigrants in Norway

Because of its presumed indicative and predictive relationship to social integration processes, rates and trends of intermarriage have been widely studied by social scientists throughout the 20th century, in recent decades followed by studies of the deter minants of intermarriage. Much of this re...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Oslo

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