Jardar Sørvoll

Research projects

• Activity Friend for Persons with Dementia

  The project addresses what role the "activity friend" volunteers play in municipal health care and for people with dementia in Norway.

• Area Review of Housing Solutions and Health and Care Services for the Elderly

  How can the state and municipality more effectively facilitate elderly people to age in place?

• Disadvantaged in the Housing Market: Effects of Public Interventions (DISADVANTEGED)

  This project aims to evaluate all major social housing policy instruments in Norway, aimed at helping disadvantaged individuals to better and more stable housing.

• Housing Market and Housing Policy in Norway – an International Comparison

  In this project the researchers compare central features of the Norwegian housing market and housing policy with those of Sweden, Denmark, Austria, UK, the Netherlands and Germany.

• Housing Market Mobility in Old Age: Attitudes, Drivers and Barriers

  The project adresses how elderly people adapt their housing consumption in light of the physical and mental changes associated with ageing.

• HOUSINGWEL – Centre for Housing and Welfare Research

  HOUSINGWEL aims to be a hub for research on housing and welfare in Norway.

• Social Rented Housing in Oslo. Dilemmas in a Market-oriented and Means-tested Housing Sector

  Social rented housing is one of the most important policy instruments in the municipality of Oslo’s social housing policy.

• The Housing Bank – 75th anniversary

  The project is an historical analysis of Norwegian housing policy and the Norwegian state’s Housing Bank in recent decades (1996-2020). An illustrated academic book in Norwegian based on a comprehensive selection of oral and written sources is the end goal of the project.