PROMENTA SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS
JULY 2022 |
Flattening the Quality of Life curve? |
A recent study by PROMENTA and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health yields useful information with respect to theories on adaptation and factors that support or challenge Quality of Life, relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Ragnhild Bang Nes of the Intervention and Gap-Bridging Research Group talked to postdoc Stella Tsotsi about their recent publication "Flattening the quality of life curve? A prospective person-centered study from Norway amid COVID-19" in the journal Quality of Life Research.
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There’s no question that with the COVID-19 pandemic came devastating consequences across the globe—however for some people, these events also brought about a new shift in perspectives on life. |
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Mistakes happen—often more than once. A team of researchers from the NORMENT and PROMENTA research centers sought to understand how your brain processes mistakes and whether these mechanisms change over time. |
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| Meet a PROMENTA researcher |
In this interview, PhD candidate Eirik Jerven Berger of the "Drug Policy Reform" group at PROMENTA talks about his fieldwork on illegal drug dealing in Oslo West and his earlier work with gangs in Chicago, and about the importance of good mentors in shaping academic careers. |
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Vacancies at PROMENTA: Personality Pathology |
PROMENTA has available one Phd and one postdoctoral fellowship associated with the project “Causes, consequences, and life-course trajectories of personality pathology - a longitudinal extended children-of-twins study”. The project is led by Nikolai O. Czajkowski and is funded by a grant from the Norwegian Research Council. |
| Vacancies at PROMENTA: Social Science Genomics |
PROMENTA has available one to two PhD fellowships associated with the project “The PsychoGeography of Intergenerational Mobility: Early life socioeconomic position, mental health, and educational performance (GeoGen)”. The project is led by Eivind Ystrøm and is funded by the European Research Council. |
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The 2022 PROMENTA Conference: Mental Health and Quality of Life Towards 2030 |
PROMENTA, in collaboration with Sunne kommuner (WHO Healthy Cities' Norwegian network), have the pleasure of welcoming researchers, practitioners and policy makers to a two-day conference at Sentralen in Oslo September 28-29, 2022. Registration is now open! |
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