The Medicalisation of Democratic Rights in the Debate about Abortion (MEDRA): The US, Ireland and Argentina

    This project, funded by UiO:Democracy, explores how medical knowledge is mobilized in debates about abortion through corpus-based analysis       At the heart of the controversy over abortion rights are disagreements about key democratic concepts such as rights, autonomy, privacy and freedom, making the right to abortion one of the most contested in the world. MEDRA explores […]

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Risk, Future Narratives and Sustainability

We are thrilled to share the news that our project to support students’ critical engagement with risk, responsibility and sustainability has been awarded a Circle U. Interdisciplinary Thematic Research Network (ITRN) grant. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers based at Aarhus University, the University of Oslo, and Humboldt University of Berlin. The title of our project is “Risk, Future […]

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Global Health, Sustainable Development and Individual Responsibility

We are delighted to announce that our CircleU team of researchers from the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE), University of Oslo, University of Belgrade, and Kings College London has been awarded funding for an Interdisciplinary Thematic Research Network on the topic of “Global Health, Sustainable Development and Individual Responsibility: contradictory or complementary concepts?”   The tension between individual responsibility […]

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