Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR)

Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR)

• NIBR is an independent social science research centre whose mission is to develop and publish research-based insights for the benefit of decision-makers in public and private institutions as well as for the general public.

• The institute carries out research both nationally and internationally.

NIBR

• NIBRs vision is to further develop urban and regional research as an inter- and multidisciplinary field of study with a global perspective.

• Annual turnover approx. 65 mill NOK• Financed through commissions and basic grants from

the Norwegian Research Council• NIBRs major clients are the Research Council of

Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ Norwegian Agency for International Development Co-operation (Norad), Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Ministry of Health and Care Services, Ministry of Children and Family Affairs and the local government sector.

NIBR: Combining perspectives

• 80 employees

• 65 researchers in 4 departments

• interdisciplinary staff

NIBRs organisation – Research areas

BOARD

Dir. Resources Research DirectorKnut Onsager

Research DirectorTrine Myrvold

Resource

Departement

Research DirectorEvelyn Dyb

Research DirectorMarit Haug

Department for Socioeconomic and Territorial

Studies

Department for Housing and Environmental Planning

Research

Department forInternational Studies in

Development, Transition and Migration

Director of EconomyLise Kvanvik

Department for Welfare, Democracy

and Governance Research

Director GeneralHilde Lorentzen

Research departments

• Department for Housing and Environmental Planning Research

• Department for International Studies• Department for Socioeconomic and Territorial

Studies • Department for Welfare, Democracy and

Governance Research

Department for Housing and Environmental Planning Research• Planning research and environment

Planning regimes and planning systems

Land use

Natural resource management

Cultural heritage and planning processes• Urbanisation processes and local area development

Socio-cultural development of places

Social-economic development of places

Place images, identity and mobility

Urban, semi-urban and rural areas• Housing research

Housing policy, means and implementation

Housing condition research

Housing and property market, inclusion and exclusion

Housing quality and housings areas

Department for International Studies

Sub-national governance

Civil society

Poverty and marginalization

In depth country knowledge

Languauges

Cross-cultural collaboration

Empirically grounded sub-national studies

Evaluations

Post-conflict

Gender and equality

Health and HIV/AIDS

Department for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies The department has the following main research areas: • Socio-demographic and regional demographic studies,

migration dynamics, cohort and life-span perspectives and studies

• Regional economic studies, territorial and economic effect studies, impact assessment, local government economics

• Studies and evaluation of regional development, cooperation and policies, industrial dynamics, firm clusters and networks, innovation systems and dynamics

• Integrated studies of regions, specific territories, local communities and places/centres in a development perspective

• Climate change; socio-economic, local/regional and distributional aspects

Departement for Welfare, Democracy and Governance Research• 15 researchers• Political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists• Research subjects:

– Forms of governance and organisation in – and between - local and central public administration

– (Local) democracy– Central control and local management – Local politics and citizen involvement – User involvement

NIBR in CIENS

• Oslo Centre for Interdisciplinary Environmental and Social Research (CIENS) opened in October 2006

• CIENS is a collaborative research partnership of independent research establishments and the University of Oslo

• 8 institutes and 550 employees