News

Here, we publish articles about the Centre and its activities, as well as interviews with our scholars about their time at CAS and the progress and results of their research.

20 December 2019

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

19 December 2019

How are Norwegian dialects changing?

CAS project leader Terje Lohndal receives NOK 12 million from the Research Council of Norway to investigate grammatical gender in Norwegian dialects.

19 December 2019

CAS Fellow receives ERC Consolidator Grant

Former and returning CAS Fellow, Hugo Lundhaug, receives prestigious funding from the European Research Council (ERC) to study apocryphal texts and traditions in Coptic manuscripts, further strengthening the CAS project he will join in 2020.

18 December 2019

‘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.

13 December 2019

CICERO and OsloMet partner with CAS

CAS is excited to announce two new partner institutions.

06 December 2019

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.

03 December 2019

Alumni Spotlight: Frode Kjosavik

Frode Kjosavik and Camilla Serck-Hanssen recently published the book Metametaphysics and the Sciences: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, a product of the CAS project the two philosophers led in 2015/16.

27 November 2019

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.

13 November 2019

Female orgasm: an evolutionary emancipation of women’s sexuality?

CAS Fellow Mihaela Pavličev presented her latest article, which suggests that the female orgasm once had a reproductive function, but then lost it.