News & Events

FUMI Survey Data Collection Completed in The Gambia

A dedicated team overcomes flooding and other challenges

​Since the end of August, a thousand young adults in Serekunda, The Gambia, have been interviewed about their lives and dreams.

Saturday, 22 Oct 2022 – Read more...

Call for Applications: Placements at PRIO for UiO Master's Students

​​University of Oslo master's students are now invited to apply for a place on the UiO-PRIO Student Programme.

Tuesday, 18 Oct 2022 – Read more...

International PhD Students Participate in Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology Course

​As part of the NORHED II project Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies, PRIO hosted a PhD-level course in Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology.

The NORHED II project enabled PRIO to host students from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), Makerere University (Uganda) and Birzeit University (Palestine). Together with students from a range of European universities, they explored practical and principled concerns that arise from pre-fieldwork planning to post-fieldwork representation of data. 

Thursday, 22 Sep 2022 – Read more...

Early-Career Scholars Learn Survey Methods in Migration Research

​Survey-based research is widespread but also replete with challenges. Researchers face a range of analytical, technical, managerial, and ethical dilemmas. Drawing on extensive experience, Research Professor Jørgen Carling and PRIO Global Fellow Jessica Hagen-Zanker have developed a new PhD-level course on survey methods, with a focus on migration research.

The course was taught in Oslo 7–9 September and covered the entire survey process, including research design, technical solutions, data management, quality assurance and communication of results. It drew upon ongoing survey research in the MIGNEX and FUMI projects.

Monday, 12 Sep 2022 – Read more...

Next Steps toward New Insights on Migration, Development and Policy from MIGNEX

​Successful MIGNEX consortium meeting in Istanbul, with inspiring discussion as the project members continue to build new knowledge on migration, development and policy.

Tuesday, 31 May 2022 – Read more...