• Prolegomena til en studie om den danske litteraturen i DDR med et sideblikk til Peter Seeberg 

  Jager, Andreas Benedikt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Die DDR definierte sich gerne als Leseland und die Publikation ausländischer Literatur wurde häufig kulturpolitisch instrumentalisiert. Der folgende Beitrag gibt einen kurzen Überblick über die wichtigsten Funktionsmechanismen ...

• An explosive landscape: Arranging the barnacle goose on the Solway Firth 

  Wrigley, Charlotte Alexandra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  By the end of the Second World War, the Svalbard barnacle goose population had dwindled to a couple of hundred birds. Flying in from the Arctic to spend the winters on the Solway Firth (the estuary that separates England ...

• Metamodern Nature of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding Synopsis and Gameplay 

  Radchenko, Symon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Games are valuable cultural phenomena — they might indicate social, cultural, and even political trends and agendas. Moreover, they might bare an accurate representation of a common structure of a feeling. Conversely, video ...

• A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870-1900 

  Holmes, Matthew Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Towards the end of the nineteenth century, British colonists in Jamaica became increasingly exasperated by the damage caused to their sugar plantations by rats. In 1872, a British planter attempted to solve this problem ...

• Mechanisms and fundamental principles in Freudian explanations 

  Gundersen, Ståle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  The aim of this paper is to analyze the structure of explanation in Freudian psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis contains some fundamental psychoanalytic and philosophical principles – for example, determinism, the laws governing ...

• Samfunnsverdier i videregående opplæring. En utforskende kasusstudie med søkelys på likestilling og kontroversielle tema i praksisfeltet 

  Handal, Marte (PhD Theses;725, Doctoral thesis, 2023)

  Denne artikkelbaserte avhandlingen tar sikte på å undersøke og forstå hvordan likestilling som samfunnsverdi og likestillingsrelaterte tema kommer til uttrykk og fortolkes i videregående opplæring i Norge. Læreplanverket ...

• Structural similarity in third language acquisition 

  Kolb, Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Language learners typically experience cross-linguistic influence (CLI) from one or several previously acquired languages when acquiring an additional language. Learners of a second language (L2) are influenced by their ...

• Colonial entanglements in extinction narratives: The afterlives of two Saint Lucia giant rice rats 

  Westergaard, Gitte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  European colonialism exposed islands to significant threatening processes that drove species to or near extinction. At the same time, they were regular sites of collecting living animals especially because of their high ...

• Losing LeninInst Internationalism in Claude McKay’s Lost Novel 

  Welang, Nahum (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik movement, believed that a flourishing Black proletariat consciousness was the catalyst needed for a Communist revolution in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth ...

• «Skål! Skål! Skål!»: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla som spillramme for ludisk vikingidentitet 

  Skjoldli, Jane (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  I oktober 2022 ble følgende kunngjort på dataspillserien Assassin’s Creeds offisielle Twitter-konto: «Over 20 million Vikings have embarked on their epic journey to Valhalla. Standing strong by Eivor’s side. From Norway ...

• A Parochial Approach: Colonial Entomology on the Plantations of Nineteenth-Century Sri Lanka 

  Holmes, Matthew Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07)

  The coffee plantations of late nineteenth-century Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) were rocked by a series of crises, including the appearance of numerous insect pests. Scholars have demonstrated that nineteenth-century ...

• Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food 

  Holmes, Matthew Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-03)

  British biologist and science populariser J. B. S. Haldane was known as a contrarian, whose myriad ideas and beliefs would shift to oppose whomever he chose to argue with. Yet Haldane's support for synthetic food remained ...

• Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole 

  Wrigley, Charlotte Alexandra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  On the Kola Peninsula in the Russian Arctic lies an innocuous iron disc about the size of a dinner plate. If one were to prise this disc open, they would find the remains of the world’s deepest vertical hole. Reaching a ...

• The exclusive use of authentic material instead of textbooks/smartbooks in the EFL/ESL classroom from 8th grade and onwards in Norway 

  Rodríguez Barcos, Gabriela Jackeline (Master thesis, 2023)

  Despite the fact that the English Curriculum in Norway does not make the use of textbooks compulsory, most teachers in Norwegian schools use a textbook or a smartbook to teach English from 1st to 10th grade. This project ...

• Kunnskapsutvikling fra 1800: Navigasjon langs den norske kysten 

  Lindgren, Artur (Master thesis, 2023)

  Frem til 1800-tallet har kunnskaper om kystnavigasjon hovedsakelig utviklet seg lokalt, ved å sirkulere gjennom samfunn og kultur, fra generasjon til generasjon. Grunnleggende ferdigheter som behøvdes for å ferdes på sjøen ...

• "Å spille historisk empati" - En undersøkelse av "Through the Darkest of Times" og spillets potensiale for historisk empati. 

  Bekink, Lars Thomas (Master thesis, 2023)

  Den siste læreplanen har for alvor satt historisk empati på dagsorden ved å innføre det som kjerneelement, men det er fortsatt uenighet om hva historisk empati er og hvordan man best kan jobbe med det i skolen. Gaming blir ...

• Fra kongofarere til Moland og French – En analyse av pressens fremstillinger av norske leiesoldater i Kongo 

  Vålandsmyr, Ole Gunnar (Master thesis, 2023)

  Sammendrag Denne studien undersøker hvordan norsk presse har fremstilt norske leiesoldater i Kongo. Det er norske aviser som har blitt analysert gjennom Nasjonalbibliotekets digitale database, og periodene jeg undersøker ...

• Extensive reading guided by a librarian: L2 English development in primary school 

  Nilsen, Ragnhild Helene Skår (Master thesis, 2023)

  The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of extensive reading in English as a second language under the guidance of a trained librarian has on the language development of a class of sixth graders, with Norwegian ...

• The Potential of Podcasts for Exploratory Talk in High School 

  Dversnes, Gunvald; Blikstad-Balas, Marte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-04)

  Educational podcasting may support student collaboration and learning. However, little is known about how students talk with each other when developing podcasts in groups. In this study, eight groups of Norwegian high ...

• Workplace mentoring: Investigating the influence of job characteristics on mentoring 

  Waaland, Torbjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

  No previous research has explored the relationship between three categories of job characteristics and mentoring provided. A cross-sectional design based on a survey questionnaire was sent to employees from 29 preschools ...

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