SUM - Centre for Development and the Environment

11/09/2025

Mark the date 24 September and meet Sverker Sörlin, one of the world's foremost scholars in environmental history and the environmental humanities. He is the 2025 Arne Næss Chair at Centre for Global Sustainability at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)

Read more and sign up here: https://www.globe.uio.no/english/news-and-events/events/2025/arne-ness-symposium-2025.html

01/04/2025

Vacant positions: PhD fellow and Postdoctoral fellow🥳

We announce two positions - a PhD research fellow for the project "Mega-philanthropy, global health and democratic governance" (PHILOS) - and a Postdoctoral fellow in global health politics

Read more about the positions⬇️

PhD fellow (deadline 23 April, 2025): https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/277976/phd-research-fellowship-mega-philanthropy-global-health-and-democratic-governance

Postdoctoral fellow (deadline 15 April 2025):
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/277953/postdoctoral-fellowship-in-global-health-politics-sko-1352

Please share with anyone who might be interested!📨

Job title: Postdoctoral fellowship in global health politics (SKO 1352) (277953), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, April 23, 2025

12/02/2025

PhD course: Crises, 'sustainability' and natural resource-based global production♻️⚙️🌍🌻

🗓️6 - 8 August 2025📌Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo

Application deadline 21 March ℹ️ & registration: https://www.sum.uio.no/english/research/doctoral-degree/doctoral-courses/2025/crises-sustainability-and-natural-resource-based/

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The objective of this course is to critically examine the relationships between natural resource-based industries and sustainability within the global economy. Focusing on how various crises and capitalist strategies are linked with and impact supply chains, labor, gender dynamics, and the environme...

29/01/2025

What can 25 years of public-private partnerships teach us as we approach the post-2030 global health agenda?
Antoine de Bengy & Katerini Storeng reflect on findings from the PANPREP project.
📆Feb 4, 15:00 CET 📍Online &
https://www.sum.uio.no/english/research/groups/global-health/Seminar%20series/2025/public-private-cooperation-for-pandemic-preparedne.html

21/01/2025

Still some places available⏰Monday 27 January🔥
🌍♻️Global Governance for Sustainable Development 🌱

This course provides a thorough overview of the theory and practice of global governance, emphasizing  issue areas central to sustainable development. We critically discuss how norms, rules, institutions, and practices that structure relations between states and non-state actors contribute to solve...

08/01/2025

Last minute challenge?🔥
Some spots still available at the Master course: SUM4502 – INCLUDE - Socially Inclusive Energy Transition⏰starting next week!

07/01/2025

We are excited to welcome our new PhD fellow, Ada Eldevik-Stjernqvist! 🌟 She will be researching how the Norwegian meat industry prepares for and manages the growing threat of infectious diseases🦠

Read more about her project here:

We are happy to announce that Ada Eldevik-Stjernqvist is a new Ph.D. fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM). She will research how the Norwegian meat industry prepares for and handles the increasing threat of infectious diseases.

18/12/2024

✨ Jula kom tidleg til SUM i år: Vi har fått innvilga endå eit FRIPRO-prosjekt! Arve Hansen mottek FRIPRO for erfarne forskarar for prosjektet REPLACE og skal forske på kjøterstatning og alternative protein i Asia.

Les meir her:

SUM har fått den gledelege nyheita om ny tildeling frå Forskningsrådet for FRIPRO-prosjekt. Arve Hansen skal leie prosjektet «Meat replacement and systems of edibility in Asia and beyond (REPLACE)».

16/12/2024

🎉 Vi er utrolig glade for å dele at forskergruppen for global helsepolitikk på SUM mottar midler fra UiO:Demokrati til et nytt forskningsprosjekt! 🎉

Les mer her: https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/2024/forskergruppe-pa-sum-tildeles-prosjektmidler-fra-u.html

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🎉 We are very pleased to share that the Global Health Politics research group at SUM has been awarded funding from UiO:Democracy for a new research project! 🎉

Read more here: https://www.sum.uio.no/english/research/news-and-events/news/2024/research-group-at-sum-awarded-project-funds-from-u.html

Forskergruppen for global helsepolitikk får midler fra UiO:Demokrati for å forske på hvordan store filantropiske stiftelser påvirker demokratisk styring.

09/12/2024

🤩 We are thrilled to share that Katerini T. Storeng has been promoted to Professor! For over 20 years, she has dedicated her research to a wide array of topics in global health politics. The Evaluation Committee highlighted Katerini’s consistent production of high-quality research and her significant contributions to global health conversations. A huge congratulations to her on this significant accomplishment!✨

We are delighted to announce that SUM researcher Katerini T. Storeng has been promoted to Professor in Medical Anthropology and Global Health by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.