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DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Challenges for the Ecology Movement: An Exchange in Between Academics and Activists

The ecology movement deals with the biggest social and political threat of our time. Some of the most central challenges it faces are questions of ?green growth? and alternatives to the market, the possibilities and limitations of urbanization, the ethics of an ecological society and the link in...

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Getting on in life: Strategies of middle-class reproduction

How are social class differences expressed and maintained in a comparatively egalitarian society like the Norwegian? This project has examined how class relationships are maintained in several ways. A key point in the project is that inequality in Norwegian society can not be described exhaustive...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Oslo

SANCOOP-South Africa - Norway research co-operation on climate, the environment og clean energy

Exploring the relationship between belief systems and climate change adaptation

Holdninger og trosystemer påvirker oppfattelsen av klimaendringer, samt løsninger på klimarisiko og -sårbarhet. Selv om trossystemer utgjør et stabilt referansepunkt som hjelper folk til å forstå verden rundt seg, er det viktig at individuelle og kollektive trossystemer er fleksible. Dette er sær...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The causal effect of college quality on wages

During the second half of the 20th century, the educational level has increased substantially in all western countries. The educational expansion has resulted in a transition from an élite system of higher education to a mass system of higher education, w here being a graduate is necessary but no...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Hvor står norsk miljøsosiologi - og hvor går veien videre?

I 2013 retter vi søkelyset mot miljøproblemer og hvordan de er blitt håndtert i norsk sossiologi. På seminarets første dag er temaet "Hva er norsk miljøsosiologi?". Der settes hovedfokus på tilstanden i sosiologgien og utfordringene faget står overfor. De l 2 konsentrerer seg om miljøproblemer sl...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

ISPSAM-ISP - Samfunnsvitenskap

Norwegian Research Network in Political Geography

Awarded: NOK 0.52 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo

ISPSAM-ISP - Samfunnsvitenskap

Kausale mekanismer, identifikasjon og modellering: Tre tiltak for forbedring av doktorgradsutdanningen i sosiologi

Understanding cause-and-effect relations is an important part of all social science, including sociology. Sociologists routinely answer questions about how childhood living conditions, equality and inequality, and other social strcutures affect member of society. To cut out cause-effect relations...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

A comparative study of socio-technical innovations and sustainability factors for up-scaling in village scale solar power supply models

Factors influencing the success of village-scale solar power The main goal of this project was to improve the understanding of factors that influence the success of decentralized use of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology in the Global South. The use of solar PV technology has increased among p...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2018

Location: Oslo

SYKEFRAVÆR-Forskn.om årsaker til sykefrav

The sick leave costs of reconciling work and parental care among middle-aged - the role of job characteristics and eldercare policy

The project "The sick leave costs of reconciling work and parental care among middle-aged - the role of job characteristics and eldercare policy" highlights possible health consequences and sickness absence of combining employment with parenting. The scenario for almost every country in Europe is...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo

ISPSAM-ISP - Samfunnsvitenskap

Institusjonell endring i demokratiske samfunn

Social change is a central topic in the social sciences. But when societies are changing, most of all, institutions are in change. Even if institutions are sources of social stability, they are simultaneously transformed; yet more slowly than other parts of society. Since the end of the 20th cent...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Remittances, Standard of Living and Integration: A study of Tamils living in Scandinavian capitals (REMIT-INT)

The primary objective of the project was to study the remittance practices and their consequences with standard of living and the integration process of Tamils living in Scandinavian capitals, Oslo Copenhagen and Stockholm. The project adopted three hypotheses. These are described as follows: ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Norsk sosiologforenings nasjonale fagseminar 2012: Sosiologiske vinterleker - Sosiologiske blikk på idrett og samfunn

I 2012 retter vi søkelyset mot idrettens rolle i samfunnet. På seminarets første dag er temaet idrettsorganisering med tittelen: Folkebevegelse - butikk eller sunnhetsdirektorat? Den andre dagen er temaet idrett som integrasjon med tittelen: For folk, Gud eller fedreland? Begge dagene vil bestå ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Social Conditions of Freedom in Contemporary Modernity

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Nordisk sosiologkongress 2011

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Awarded: NOK 23,337

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Friends or foes? Understanding the Role of Firms and Workplaces for worker Health - Gender and sickness absence

In my doctoral project I intend to shed light on the relation between gender and sickness absence and will try to identify work-related causes to gender differences in sickness absence. One of the most stable and prominent finding in research on sickness absence is that women have higher absence...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Voices of the Future: Values and visions of Norwegian Youth on Responses to Climate Change

The Voices of the future project has been researching how Norwegian youth perceive their futures in a changing climate, and the implication for their sense of agency, responsibility and political engagement. The young people we spoke to in focus groups and individual interviews are relatively op...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2018

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Measuring and Explaining Discrimination in the Labour Market: New Understandings and Political Solutions

We are working on several papers, and we are in the process of presenting them at academic conferences - mainly abroad. DISCRIM papers have been presented at EALE (European Assoc of Labour Economists), INAS (International network of Analytical Sociologists), NORFACE, and other conferences. This w...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Norsk sosiologforenings nasjonale fagseminar 2011: Norsk sosiologi - i går, i dag, i morgen

Årets seminar setter vi Norsk sosiologi som fag og fagmiljø under lupen. Et innlegg om utfordringer og utviklingstrekk i norsk og skandinavisk sosiologi gir bakgrunn for videre debatt. Mange sosiologmiljøer har blitt evaluert i 2010. Leder av evalueringsk omiteen og et av komitémedlemmene vil inn...

Awarded: NOK 66,378

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Workshop om "The Nordic Welfare State Model" i Oslo november 2009 og i Beijing 2010

The project is a collaboration between ISS at UiO and CASS on organizing three workshops in the period between 2008 and 2010 bases on the theme "The Nordic Welfare State Model: An Answer to Chinese and Norwegian Challenges". The first workshop held in ear ly November 2008, which was funded by RCN...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

The social meaning of children. Reproductive choice, gender and social class

The inability of the western world to reproduce its population is expected to have dramatic consequences for the future; the conception of a "fertility crisis" has entered the public debate of many countries. By contrast, individual women and men may rega rd the possibility to choose to have fewe...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Critical journalism in China: Journalists, social activists and new spaces of representation

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Village scale solar systems for development: Transfer of social and technological innovations between India and Kenya

This social science based research project will analyse Indian experiences with implementation and social organisation of village solar PV power plants and their socio-economic impacts. Furthermore, the project will actively transfer experiences from Indi a to Kenya on implementation and social o...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Norsk Sosiologforenings nasjonale fagseminar 2009: Det sosiologiske blikk fra toppen og sosiologiens blikk på eliten

Norsk Sosiologforening (NSF) er en sammenslutning av sosiologer og masterstudenter i sosiologi. Sosiologforeningen fremmer sosiologers felles interesse og er et forum for faglig kontakt mellom sosiologer i Norge. Foreningen har for tiden ca.700 medlemmer. En av foreningens viktigste oppgaver er ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Discourses on Public Service Broadcasting in Norway and Sweden

Discourses on public service broadcasting in Norway and Sweden In my PhD-thesis I am conducting a comparative analysis of discourses on public service broadcasting (PSB) in Norway and Sweden between 2000 and 2007. The analysis is focused around three dif ferent contexts: The public debate about ...

Awarded: NOK 77,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Street capital: Black cannabis dealers in a white welfare state

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Awarded: NOK 86,586

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Song, Tao, Kina, statsstipend 2008/09

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Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Zeng, Qun kinesisk spes 2008

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Awarded: NOK 12,460

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Wang, Jufen kinesisk spes 2008

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Awarded: NOK 12,460

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CARAVAN - Climate change: A Regional Assessment of Vulnerability and Adaptive capacity for the Nordic countries

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Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Challenges of the Nordic Welfare States: Social Class Background, Ethnicity and marginalisation

The stay in US will be a part of my four year PhD run. I started in january 2006, and will finish in 2010. I will write four publishable papers that will be integrated into my PhD dissertation. Two of these are already in the last stages of completion. T he main purpose of my research project is...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

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