Lars Roar Frøyland

Research projects

• Adolescent Physical Violence. Understanding Societal Trends and Life Outcomes for Perpetrators

  This project covers the use of violence among Norwegian adolescents and is financed through the Domestic Violence Research Program at NOVA.

• Changing Drug Use and Drug Policy

  The project aims to provide new insights into young people's patterns of alcohol and illegal drug use, the social meaning of drugs, and the consequences of drug-related sanctions.

• Digital Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents

  The project will, in a comprehensive literature review, map existing knowledge about digital sexual violence against children and adolescents.

• International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 (ICCS)

  The ICCS 2016-study investigates students’ knowledge and understanding of societal values, civic society and political systems.

• Knowledge on Technology-facilitated Sexual Abuse against Children and Adolescents – offenders, the offended, and arenas

  The project will generate new knowledge about sexual abuse of children and adolescents, with the main emphasis on technology-facilitated sexual abuse.

• Sexual Culture in Youth

  The project will investigate how young people negotiate, experience and handle issues related to sexuality, sexual health and risk - in light of both contemporary youth culture, and other social and societal conditions.

• Strategies for Achieving Equity and Inclusion in Education, Training and Learning in Democratic Europe (STRIDE)

  STRIDE will provide a new, comprehensive and comparative knowledge-base on effective education reforms, policy initiatives and interventions aimed at reducing inequalities in education, training and learning outcomes in Europe.

• 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.

• The Public Sense of Criminal Justice

  The project aims to provide new knowledge on different aspects of the public sense of criminal justice in the Norwegian population.

• The work of child welfare services when there is concern about the child's sexual behaviour

  The project aim is to discuss what can be good measures in the child welfare services work with children and young people with problematic or harmful sexual behaviour and their parents.

• Ungdata

  Ungdata is a cross-national data collection scheme, designed to conduct youth surveys at the municipal level in Norway. NOVA administers the national database which is used as a basis for many research projects.

• UngVold 2023 – Trends in Exposure to Violence

  In 2023, NOVA will collect new data for the survey UngVold, which maps Norwegian children and adolescents’ experience of violence and abuse during their upbringing.