Christer Hyggen

Research projects

• DigiGen – The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation

  DigiGen aims to develop knowledge about how children and young people use and are affected by the technological transformations in their everyday lives.

• Empowering youth and co-creating social innovations and policymaking through youth-focused citizen social science (YouCount)

  YouCount will, through co-creative youth citizen social science (Y-CSS), with youth aged 15 to 29 years as citizen scientists, produce new knowledge of positive drivers for social inclusion of youth at risk of exclusion, as well as create innovation and new policies.

• Local Match in Refugee Resettlement

  This project aims to discover how the government can better match newly arrived refugees with Norwegian municipalities through better linking of settlement, skills, and labour needs.

• Minority Students in Upper Secondary School

  This project is about school satisfaction, educational drive and school performance among students with immigrant background in Norwegian upper secondary school.

• National Safety Survey

  The project will map concern for crime and victims of crime in Norway.

• Negotiating Early Job Insecurity and Labour Market Exclusion in Europe (NEGOTIATE)

  NEGOTIATE is a research project examining the long- and short-term consequences of job insecurity and labour market exclusion of young people.

• Practices and policies of belonging among minority and majority children of low-income families (BELONG)

  This project seeks to increase current knowledge of the practices causing marginalization and social exclusion of minority and majority children of low-income families.

• Sports Research at the Ungdata Centre

  The project aims to update and widen our knowledge about participation in sports and physical activity and experiences with sports among children and young people in Norway.

• The Consequences of Growing up in Low-income Families

  This project will do a review of existing research on the consequences of growing up in low-income families in Norway.

• Young People and Political Extremism

  NOVA has initiated a research project about political attitudes and engagement among Norwegian youth. Trust and mistrust in societal and political institutions among ordinary and radical youth is central to the study.