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Using a variety of methods, OsloMet researchers are gaining new insights into young people's opinions, struggles and aspirations.
Researchers at OsloMet have created a coffee cup that can make information technology more accessible to the elderly. The cup facilitates social contact and finding new online friends.
Every year, 5,000 Europeans die from diseases contracted from food. Researchers visited people’s homes and discovered both good and bad kitchen habits in different European countries.
Universal design is a necessity for some, but good for all. This mantra is driving OsloMet researchers Weiqin Chen and Terje Gjøsæter in their ongoing work.
Most people stop drawing as children. Drawing has a number of benefits, however—even for adults.
There are some common mistakes the media and health authorities make when communicating a pandemic threat, according to Professor Harald Hornmoen.
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in both a global health crisis and a financial crisis on a scale never before seen in modern times. The labour market that emerges in the wake of the crisis may impact younger workers harder than others.
The coronavirus pandemic is affecting the majority of employed adults in Norway, but in different ways.
Svenn-Erik Mamelund is something of a rarity: a social scientist who specialises in pandemics. It is little wonder, then, that the OsloMet researcher is in high demand.
Most of us are concerned with practising good hygiene and keeping the places we live and spend time clean. But does our vigilance extend to what we wear? Here are some things you can do to avoid spreading the virus through your clothes.
Axel Borchgrevink is busy investigating what happens when rivers are granted the same rights as humans.
Underwater robots, which consumes little energy, can collect environmental data over a long period o...