Research projects

School of Arts, Design, and Media

• Designing Educational Wargames
• FactArt - The Society Observes
• Moving Image Moving Earth (MIME)
• Typology o/a Fashion Show, or when architecture found fashion
• "Writing the Writer - an exploration og truth vs.fiction in the biographical screenplay genre." Screenwriting research project focused on a drama series on Henrik Ibsen's "chaotic years".

School of Communication, Leadership, and Marketing

• DigiLove
• Long-term effects of strategic competence analysis
• Risk Communication and Community Engagement
• Scandinavian Political Communication During the Pandemic

Research projects where Kristiania is a partner:

• The Source Criticism And Mediated Disinformation (SCAM)
  
  Forskningsprosjektet vil utvikle ny kunnskap og metoder som er egnet til å oppdage og motvirke spredning av desinformasjon i demokratiske samfunn. Prosjekteier: Oslo MET. Prosjektleder for Kristiania: Bente Kalsnes, professor.
  
  
• Observatory for Political Texts in European Democracies (OPTED)
  
  OPTED is a design study that lays the foundation for an infrastructure that will serve a major hub for political text analysis in Europe. The EU-funded H2020 project involves 17 research institutions organized in 10 work packages which collaboratively work on designing the building blocks of the infrastructure. Among the objectives of the infrastructure are scientific community building, the extension of text analysis tools, and learning materials for social scientists, the broader public and journalists. Project owner: University of Vienna. Project leader for Kristiania: Bente Kalsnes, professor.

School of Economics, Innovation, and Technology

• Earth4All

• EAST: Using Evolutionary Algorithms to Understand and Secure Web/Enterprise Systems

• PhotoFake – Visual Disinformation, the Digital Economy and the Epistemology of the Camera Image

Research projects where Kristiania is a partner:

• Earth4All
  Earth4All is an international initiative to accelerate the systems-change we need for an equitable future on a finite planet.   Our analysis combines the best available science with new economic thinking.  We found that the next ten years must see the fastest economic transformation in history if we want to steer humanity away from social and ecological catastrophe. Project leader for Kristiania: Ben Callegari, associate professor.
  
  
• WorldTrans
  Integrated assessment models (IAM) are designed to provide policy-relevant insights into global environmental change and sustainable development. However, IAMs face limitations. This makes citizen engagement important to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal. The EU-funded WorldTrans project will focus on fundamental limitations of advanced IAMs. These include the weak representation of social, human and economic heterogeneity, limited representation of feedback between the domains of nature and humans, and lack of transparency concerning the inner workings of the models and the uptake of results and engagement of citizens and stakeholders. Project leader for Kristiania: Ben Callegari, associate professor.
  

School of Health Sciences

• Cross-cultural Family Violence
• FactArt - The Society Observes

• GamingMedia and the Elderly (GAME)

• Mesasurement of Stress in Students (MESS)
• Returning people with persistent pain to work using Individual Supported Employment placements (ReISE)
• Social media identity among young leaders

Research projects where Kristiania is a partner:

• Designing for Enhanced Competence through Active Participation in Higher Education (DECAP-HE)
  The main overall goal of the project is to improve the quality and efficiency of teaching and learning in higher education and to empower individuals and institutions in higher education to, in cooperation with other stakeholders and by exchanging good practices they actively respond to the challenges of preparing students for work and life in the 21st century. Project leader for Kristiania: Asgeir Mamen, professor.
  
  
• Individual and Collective Empowerment of the Population of Marginalized Settlements in the Field and Community Social Work
  The main goal of the project is examine the concept of empowerment in community work with marginalized groups and vulnerable groupspopulation in the Slovak Republic and in international comparison. Project owner: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre. Project leader for Kristiania: Miroslava Tokovska, associate professor.
  
  
• Treatment of endometriosis-associated symptoms. A randomized controlled trial with a multimodal interdisciplinary group approach.
• University Enhancing the Smart Active Aging (UESAA)
  The aim of the project is to promote the issue of active smart aging among the various age groups attending universities. Project owner: University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. Project leader for Kristiania: Miroslava Tokovska, associate professor. Interview with Miroslava regarding this project can be read here (in norwegian).