Alessandro Rippa is almost midway in his ERC Starting Grant project "Amber" at SAI. It is exciting times for him, because all members of his project are scattered all over the world on fieldwork, and he receives continous reports on how their doing.
Andrea Joslyn Nightingale is starting up her ERC Advanced Grant project UNRULY at ISS. She completed appointing her team for the project this autumn and has a lot of thrilling research about to happen.
Scott Gates got an ERC Advanced Grant in June this year. Here he tells how the project "Waging of War" is doing.
Sverre Urnes Johnson at PSI has relocated to Boston with his family of five. From there, he reports on exciting times as a visiting researcher at Harvard from PSI.
Katinka Kristine Holtsmark is researching the role of gas in the climate transition and investments in renewable energy. She is also part of the Norwegian Fiscal Studies at ?I and collaborates with several colleagues there.
Graham Macklin is a researcher at C-REX and wants to understand how the terrorist attacks on 22 July affected a new generation of right-wing extremists. Despite the bleak nature of the research area, he finds that people recognise there are solutions and optimism.
Fulvio Castelacci is in the early stages of a FRIPRO project, which will examine the economic and societal implications of AI and how public policy can help regulate this development.
Marianne Riddervold enjoys solving puzzles and asking questions related to unexpected things. This is one of the reasons why she finds researching European integration at ARENA exciting.
Elina Hartikainen from the Department of Social Anthropology has done ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, adressing the country's religion and politics. According to her, one of the most important questions of our time is understanding how the turn to religious arguments in conservative politics threaten and reconfigure liberal politics.
Professor Laavanya Kathiravelu at ISS researches whether citizenship has an impact on integration and belonging in Singapore and Qatar. Her own upbringing in multicultural Singapore contributed to her interest in this area of research.
