Anja Bredal

Research projects

• A Study of Cases in the County Board Concerning Care Orders

  The project deals with the Child Welfare Service’s and the County Social Welfare Boards’ handling of compulsory care order cases in ethnic minority families.

• Child Welfare Services and Risk Assessment

  The project investigates how the child welfare services work on risk assessment and safety measures when a child is placed outside the home.

• Child Welfare Services and their Work With Cases of Violence and Abuse

  This project aims to fill the knowledge gap about how the child welfare service tackles violence and abuse cases.

• Literature Review on Cousin Marriages

  Literature review: Research on cousin marriages as seen in the light of the individual right to decide about one's own life.

• Parenting in Ethnic and Religious Minority Contexts in Norway

  The aim of the project is to develop research-based knowledge about different forms of parenthood that co-exist in Norway, based on parents’ own perspectives.

• Restrictions and violations of rights in religious communities: A qualitative study of the experiences of (former) members and help services

  This project will investigate restrictions and rights violations children; young people and adults may be exposed as members of religious communities that are understood as closed.

• Sexual abuse in the immigrant population - experiences with seeking help and reporting

  The researchers will investigate whether individuals of immigrant background who have been exposed to sexual abuse are less likely to seek help or report to the police than victims without this background.

• The Domestic Violence Research Programme

  The programme studies time trends in the prevalence of violence and assault, violence as phenomenon, and how violence is approached by the welfare- and justice systems.