Research at UiS

Find information about the research activity at University of Stavanger.

Research by the numbers
Researchers

976 (man-year)

Research fellows

411

RCN-projects

73

EU-projects

24

We will challenge the well-known and explore the unknown.

University of Stavanger

Research centres, networks and clusters

PhD Education and Research Schools

Research news

Winter School and Conference on Teamwork in Healthcare

invites you to the Winter School for doctoral candidates and a conference on teamwork in healthcare, taking place from N...

Impact Case: WiKIT: Transforming Children’s Learning with evidence-based EdTech

WiKIT is a social enterprise that was spun off from the University of Stavanger, and was created with the goal to bridge...

Now you can register for the world's largest conference on bullying

Registration is now open for the World Anti-Bullying Forum (WABF), which will take place in Stavanger from June 11-13, 2...

Is a nurse assisted remote monitoring intervention useable?

This article reports on the findings from a study which looked at the acceptability and usability of this intervention ...

Promoting resilient healthcare – Insights from SHARE researchers at ISQua 2024

Several of the SHARE research teams recently traveled to Istanbul to attend the 40th ISQua conference, hosted by the Int...

The Resilient Health Care Society Summer Meeting 2024

Sunday 9th of June the SHARE Centre for Resilience in Healthcare hosted the annul Resilient in Healthcare Society Meetin...

The Greenhouse at the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History

The Fourth World Congress of Environmental History will take place at the University of Oulu, Finland from 19 to 23 Au...

Literary Birding in Taiwan

Endre Harvold Kvangraven describes the experience of a research trip to Taiwan as part of his PhD studies at the Univers...

Could scented books encourage more kids to read?

Do you remember the scented erasers you had as a child? ‘Scratch and sniff objects’ have now made a comeback.

Are Sámi schoolchildren more involved in online bullying than other students?

A new research project is going to look into whether Sámi students in Norwegian schools are more involved in online bull...

Detects cerebral stroke using artificial intelligence

She is a radiologist at Stavanger University Hospital, he is a computer scientist. Now they have teamed up to develop a ...

Successful UiS Aerospace rocket launch

The UiS Aerospace rocket launch took place successfully 27 April in Helleland.

The Osage, Automobility, and the Environment in Sundown (1934)

UiS post-doctoral researcher Daniel Bowman writes about John Joseph Mathews’s 1934-novel Sundown, and the use of automob...

The Mongoose on the Loose in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica

"A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–190...

The impermanence of permafrost: learning how to be discontinuous

"Earth Ice Bone Blood" by Charlotte Wrigley.

Why get involved in a research study?

Doctors and surgeons from Stavanger University Hospital participate in the eHealth @ Hospital-2-Home project. This blog ...

Protocol for the randomised control trial

The eHealth@hospital-2-home-project has published the protocol for the randomised control trial of the nurse-assisted eH...

The impact of nurse assisted digital intervention on the participants family members

Master’s research in the eHealth@Hospital-2-Home project explores the impact of the nurse assisted digital health interv...

New evidence for quark matter cores in massive neutron stars

Researchers at the University of Stavanger are now one step closer to finding out what is in the core of neutron stars. ...

Problem-solving in kindergarten

Problem-solving is about finding solutions to all kind of problems. It can be seen as a basic strategy for addressing bo...

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