In Focus
This category contains articles that include news about our researchers and their activities, as well as the Center's activities.
To read more in depth aricles about the scholars and their research, see In Depth.
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Sustainable Healthcare Education: CAS fellows pen successful application to Centre for Excellence in Education
Eivind Engebretsen and Kristin Heggen, respectively project leader and fellow of one of this year’s CAS projects, manage one of the new Centres for Excellence in Education
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‘Training the Western legal systems to listen to other voices’
The contributions to a CAS-funded workshop for young scholars are gathered in a book.
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From Fundamental Research to Policy
The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked one of the CAS projects to write a report on the cultural contexts of health and knowledge translation.
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Institutionalising interdisciplinary collaboration: China-Norway research centre opens
Mette Halskov Hansen wanted to formalise the interdisciplinary collaboration she experienced whilst leading her CAS project on air pollution in China. A Norway-China research centre on climate and environment is now a reality.
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Alumni Spotlight: Helle Vogt
We talked with the ever-returning scholar, Professor of Law, Helle Vogt, who returns to CAS for the third time in 2021.
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CAS Alumnus Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay receives prestigious ERC stipend: ‘CAS helped me prepare to be prepared’
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay is one of seven researchers in Norway receiving the prestigious ERC Starting Grant. He says that CAS freed up time and offered an environment that prepared him for what would be the toughest interview he ever faced.
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Alumni Spotlight: Marianne Elisabeth Lien
The 2015/16 CAS project leader is the alumna of the month for January 2019.
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Alumni Spotlight: Terje Tvedt
The 2008/09 CAS project leader is the alumnus of the month for November 2018.
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Book release: 'Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations'
Members of the 2015/16 CAS project 'Arctic Domestication in the Era of the Anthropocene' release an anthology that challenges and expands the concept of domestication.
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Research in Review: 'The Nordic "Civil Wars" in the High Middle Ages in a Comparative Perspective'
Leaders of a CAS project to better understand medieval civil wars look back on how their project unfolded during a year at the Centre.
