Research at The Department of Social Anthropology is organized in research groups that have a general perspective on research, education and communication.  One main focus is the global south, with themes such as global inequality, livelihoods in the south and sustainable development. Our Research also includes modern Western organisations. Multicultural labour and working life and global systems of production are examined with the application of ethnographic methods. The Department also has a social anthropological approach to technology. Technological development and implementation of new technology are studied within the frame of our modern, global context and with a focus on cultural implications of technological changes.

Research project

• The Making of Pasturing Pigs - Contact: Jan Ketil Simonsen and Lorenzo Cañás Bottos
• EMERGE Centre for Student-Active Learning and Emerging Technologies – Contact: Håkon Fyhn
• MultiFutures: Multidimentional Transition Pathway Analysis for Sustainable Futures – Contact: Jens Røyrvik 
• AUTOWORK Workers in transition through automation, digitalization and robotization of work – Contact: Håkon Fyhn
• Limits to Digitalization (L2D) – Contact Jens Røyrvik 
• CURE Conceptualizing and Understanding Resistance against Energy Policy and Technology – Contact Håkon Fyhn and Jens Røyrvik 
• Ethiopia Research Programme – Contact: Harald Aspen
• «ClassroomLab» - EØS-project in collaboration with West University of Timisoara, Romania - Contact: Trond Berge

Research groups

• Global Inequality
• The Anthropology of Technology
• Anthropologies of Sustainability
• Temporalities of mobility and migration

Network

• SENLAB
• Gemini Centre for post-growth futures
• CTRL.net (in Norwegian)
• Norwegian Network on the Anthropology of Mobilities
• The Community of Organizational Anthropology