Research projects

Here are some examples of NIKUs research both past and present.

Consortium for the Research of Artists‘ Materials Archives (CAMA)

Conservation Forskning Research

PRESERVE – Predictive Research for Evaluating Sustainability and Enhancing Resilience of Valuable Environments

Archaeology Research

Investigations of climate change and degradation of archaeological cultural environments in Svalbard (CLIMARCH)

Climate change and cultural heritage Forskning High North Research

Beyond Colour: Aesthetics, Craft and Splendour in Medieval Church Art of the North (BEACON)

Conservation Research

Cultural Heritage Governance for Resilient Climate Adaptation (AGREE)

Climate change and cultural heritage Digital archaeology Research

Climate Change and Heritage Risk Assessments (SASCHA)

Climate change and cultural heritage Digital archaeology Digital arkeologi Forskning Research

Preservation of Underwater and Coastal heritage sites (THETIDA)

Digital archaeology High North Research

Dating Akershus Castle using OSL-method

Archaeology Arkeologi Buildings Forskning Research

Kvitøya: Sustainability for Cultural Heritage – Cultural Heritage for Sustainability

Climate change and cultural heritage Research

GREENGROWTH, Green growth and Sami Stakeholders. Public debate on Green resource extraction in Sápmi

High North Research

Complexity

High North Research

Assessing diversity in cultural heritage from a migration perspective (DIVER)

Heritage and Society Research

Cultural heritage in conflict areas (DECOPE)

Forskning Kulturarv og samfunn Research

Dynamic landscapes of Cultural Heritage – past, present and future

Archaeology Arkeologi Forskning High North Research

The New Sámi Renaissance: Nordic Colonialism, Social Change and Indigenous Cultural Policy (NESAR)

Forskning High North Research

The Societal Dimensions of Sámi Research: The Production and Implementation of Knowledge in the High North (SoDiSami)

Forskning High North Research

Urban Origins: Archaeologies of urbanisation and urban life in early medieval Norway

Archaeology Research

From Shapes to Action (SHACT) – The Narrative Turn in Prehistoric Image-Making in Northern Europe

Archaeology High North Research Rock art

Viking Nativity: Gjellestad Across Borders

Digital archaeology Research

1. Jolly Krammer-Johansen’s monument at Torshovparken, Oslo (Norway). Author Photo: Laia Colomer

Mapping Memorialization of Pandemic Experiences

Heritage and Society Research

Digital book launch: Approaches to the Medieval Self

Webinar: The Ringsaker Altarpiece

Conservation Research

CURBATHERI – Curating Sustainable Urban Transformations through Heritage

Forskning Heritage and Society Kulturarv og samfunn Research

TriArc

Forskning High North Research

Sustainable adaptation – resilience in urban regeneration [ADAPT]

Forskning Heritage and Society Kulturarv og samfunn Research

Through the burgeoning field of technical art history - the interdisciplinary coupling of conservation, historical studies and the natural sciences - the project will use the physical objects as the primary sources of information to elucidate the social and cultural conditions surrounding their making, and the interrelationships between commissioners and craftsmen, merchants and guilds, social structures and society.

Dusting the Dusk of the Dark Ages

Conservation Research

Graver på Likneset på Svalbard er truet av erosjon.

CULTCOAST

Archaeology Climate change and cultural heritage High North Research

Madonna Tabernacles in Europe c. 1150-c. 1350

Buildings Research

Foto: Fjærland Fjordstove

Idélab: Mobile Moods

Buildings Research

Stave Church Heddal, Norway

Conference: Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns

Archaeology Conservation Research

PARKAS (Building trust to environmental policy as catalyst for a green transition) er et tverrfaglig forskningsprosjekt finansiert over fire år (2018-2021) gjennom Norges forskningsråds MILJØFORSK-program.

PARKAS

Forskning Heritage and Society Kulturarv og samfunn Research

Offices

Heritage politics at work

Heritage and Society Research

«Pasjonsviser» fra Skånevik kirke

Religious art in a social context

Conservation Forskning Heritage politics-SIS Research

Self

The Self in Social Spaces

Forskning Research

Heritage across borders

Heritage and Society Research

Heritage and the European far-right

Heritage and Society Research

Geophysical archaeology and research

Digital archaeology Research

Investigating medieval urbanisation through bioarchaeology

Research Urban Living

World Heritage Research

Research World Heritage Research

HIERARCHIES

HIERARCHIES Research

Economic effects – Røros

Forskning Heritage and Society Kulturarv og samfunn Research