University of Agder

Overview of UiAs research areas

UiA – research priority areas

•Ehealth and healthcare technology

• Integrated emergency management

•Mechatronics

•Multimodality and cultural change

•Renewable energy

•Vocational areas such as healthcare, sociology and education

UiA – some other centres with external partners

•NORCOWE - Norwegian Centre for Offshore wind Energy (hosted by Christian Michelsen Research AS)

•Praxis South (a collaborative forum with several institutions and public authorities involved in social work)

•Centre for Care Research (in collaboration with Telemark University College)

•Marine center (in collaboration with Institute of Marine Research)

•Norwegian Centre for Microfinance Research (in collaboration with the Strømme Foundation and other partners)

•RIS - Centre for Advanced Studies in Regional Innovation Strategies (in collaboration with the Agder Research Foundation and other partners)

•Centre for Norwegian Teaching Abroad («SNU»). The centre supports universities that offer Norwegian studies around the world and it is the only one of its kind in the country

UiA - some other research areas

Faculty of Humanities and Education

•Religion, Ethics and Society, e.g. sociology of religion,

•Media and communication, e.g. multimodality and cultural change

•Linguistics, e.g. Early Modern Research Group

•Scandinavian languages

•Literature

•Education

•History

UiA - some other research areas

Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

•Information Systems, e.g. e-government

•Working Life and Innovation, e.g. regional innovation

•Political Science and Management, e.g. the EU as a political system

•Economics and business administration, e.g. microfinance, behavioural economics, energy economics,

•Sociology and social work

•Development studies

UiA - some other research areas

Faculty of Engineering and Science

•Engineering, e.g. mechatronics, renewable energy

•ICT, e.g. mobile communication systems, system and security

•Mathematical Science, e.g. mathematics didactics

•Natural Science, e.g. tick research, marine research

UiA - some other research areas

Faculty of Health and Sport Science

•Public Health, Sport and Nutrition, e.g. nutrition and society, physical activity based intervention research and performance enhancement

•Health and Nursing Science, e.g. e-health, care and health among the elderly

•Psychosocial Health, e.g. sexology

 

Faculty of Fine Arts

•Classical Music and Popular Music Performance

•Drama/Theatre

•Visual Art

•Interdisciplinary research on Art in Context