About
The Department of Information Systems (IS) is one of four departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Agder (UiA) and is one of the largest IS reserch groups in Norway.
The department offers study programs in IT and Information Systems at bachelor, master and PhD levels. We also provide a two-year master’s programme in Management of Cybersecurity and an online master program in Responsible Digitalization. From 2026 we will also offer a one- year online program in responsible digitalization.
Research Topics
The research in the Department of IS is organized in three interdisciplinary centres:
- Centre for Digital Transformation (CeDiT) conducts advanced social science research on the relationships between digital technologies and societies, organizations, and individuals.
- Centre for eHealth focuses on digital solutions that contribute to prevention, health promotion and coping in relation to health issues. New digital solutions are developed through collaboration between users, the health service, business partners and academia.
- Centre for Integrated Emergency Management (CIEM) conducts research in collaboration with emergency responders in the areas of community resilience and crisis communication, information sharing for situational awareness, technological advancements to support humanitarian aid, cybersecurity, and new technologies for emergency management operations.
In addition, the department has research groups on Human Centered AI, Information Systems and development (ICT4D) and Socio-technical digital design for human flourishing (CHERISH). We newly established a new research group on Quality in Scientific Scholarship.
