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. In this research project, we examine the main challenges of this strictly means-tested and market-oriented housing sector in five policy briefs.

• 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.