Research Group for Humanities and Social Sciences
The research group for humanities and social sciences aims to contribute to an informed and reflective understanding of, and debate on, people and society. This includes both our own society here and now, as well as societies that are more distant from us in time and space. We intend to achieve this by formulating, exploring, and communicating relevant current issues and perspectives through our own research.
The researchers in this group primarily belong to the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. Their research interests encompass a wide range, not strictly limited by specific themes. More broadly, researchers in these fields study people and societies across time and space, as well as development as both rupture and continuity, on local, regional, national, and global levels.
Selected fields of research in our group:
- American history and politics (Knut Øyangen)
- Anthropology of education (Lars Gjelstad)
- Corporate environmental responsibility (Håvard Brede Aven)
- Digitalization of higher education (Irina Pavlova)
- Early modern history Denmark-Norway (Susann Holmberg)
- Education on sustainable development (Per Jarle Sætre)
- Environmental Sociology (Lars Leer)
- Environmental (in) justice (Lars Leer)
- Geography education (Per Jarle Sætre)
- Global history and international politics (Knut Øyangen)
- Hybrid landscapes (Yngve Nilsen)
- History of Knowledge (Susann Holmberg)
- History of medicine and health (Susann Holmberg)
- Indigenous Australian knowledge traditions, dreams and mythology within modernity (Bård Rydland Aaberge)
- Knowledge history of environmentalism (Håvard Brede Aven)
- Metaphysics of the city: mobility, infrastructures and sense of place (Kjell Sindre Schmidt)
- Modern Norwegian knowledge history (Yngve Nilsen)
- Norwegian politics on energy and environment (Yngve Nilsen)
- Political Anthropology (Lars Leer)
- Scandinavian and European medieval history (Pål Berg Svenungsen)
- Sociology of culture (Roger Hestholm)
- Sociology of knowledge (Roger Hestholm)
- The Crusades (Pål Berg Svenungsen)
- The Vikings (Pål Berg Svenungsen)
- Vocational knowledge cultures (Lars Gjelstad)
- Work-integrated learning in higher education (Irina Pavlova)
- Youth sociology (Lars Gjelstad)
