About
Dagmara Bossy is a researcher II at NOVA, at the department for research on Childhood, Family and Child welfare. Dagmara has a Master of Philosophy in Sociology at the University of Oslo, where she wrote the Master thesis on unwanted sexual experiences in youth relationships. Dagmara has a PhD from The Faculty of Medicine at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo. Her doctoral work concerned group-based self-management support for people with long-term conditions. As a doctoral student Dagmara was part of a EU-financed collaboration research project investigating the content and meaning of social networks at the micro, meso and macro levels for people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (EU WISE). Dagmara has been employed at the Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Learning and Mastery in Health (NKLMH) where she among other assignments worked with contract research. Dagmara has primarily worked with qualitative research methods, where she has applied a social construction stance. Her research interest are among others: children at risk, young care-givers, social inequality in health, caring for children with disabilities, institutional logics, health promotion: a critical perspective. Dagmara has also given lectures on health-pedagogy at the Master’s program: Empowerment and Health promotion at Kjeller Campus, Oslo Metropolitan University.
Subject Areas: Disability, Long-term conditions, Self-management, Children at risk, Institutional Logics, Social Construction
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Consequences of the Pandemic for Living Conditions and Equality
In this project we will investigate the consequences of the pandemic for living conditions for children and young people, equality in families and for individuals, including children and adults with disabilities.
Completed research projects
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Caring for Children with Disabilities
The research project will investigate whether children with disabilities have their fundamental rights safeguarded in encounters with the health and care service.
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Family Counselling: Equal Services for a Diverse Population?
The researchers investigate what it implies for the family services to provide equal services in different local contexts, and what kind of challenges the services experience when trying to provide equal services.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Stenberg, Una; Vågan, Andre;
Bossy, Dagmara
; Haugstvedt, Karen Therese Sulheim; Fredriksen, Kari; Bergerød, Inger Johanne
(2024).
Utbytte fra deltakelse i lærings- og mestringstilbud for foresatte til barn og unge med langvarige helseutfordringer - en scoping review.
Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tfo.10.3.3
Bøhler, Kjetil Klette;
Bossy, Dagmara
; Hervie, Vyda Mamley
(2023).
How Did Children With Disabilities Experience Education and Social Welfare During Covid-19?.
Social Inclusion.
Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i1.5896
Bossy, Dagmara
;
Bergflødt, Monika Marie
(2023).
Menn på familievernkontoret. Alliansearbeid mellom terapeuter og klienter.
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tfk.47.2.5
Stenberg, Una; Bergerød, Inger Johanne; Fredriksen, Kari;
Bossy, Dagmara
; Bøckmann, Kari; Haugstvedt, Karen Therese Sulheim; Vågan, Andre
(2022).
Helsekompetanse og styrket mestring hos barn og unge som pårørende.
Fontene forskning.
Vol. 15.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3004997
Bossy, Dagmara
;
Knutsen, Ingrid Ruud
; Rogers, Anne; Foss, Christina
(2018).
Moving between ideologies in self‐management support—A qualitative study.
Health Expectations.
https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12833
Bossy, Dagmara
;
Knutsen, Ingrid Ruud
; Rogers, Anne; Foss, Christina
(2017).
Group affiliation in self-management: support or threat to identity?.
Health Expectations.
Vol. 20.
https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12448
Bossy, Dagmara
;
Knutsen, Ingrid Annette Ruud
; Rogers, Anne; Foss, Christina
(2015).
Institutional logic in self-management support: coexistence and diversity.
Health and Social Care in the Community.
https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12277
Stefansen, Kari
;
Smette, Ingrid
;
Bossy, Dagmara
(2014).
Angrep mot kjønnsfriheten: Unge jenters erfaringer med uønsket beføling.
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.
Vol. 38.
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/2415
