About
Maren Svendsen Folkvord has worked over two years at the Childhood, Family and Child Welfare section at Nova, where she researched vulnerable young people and their families. She holds a master's degree in sociology from the University of Oslo (2021). The master's thesis was about differences between digital and bodily interaction between people, as well as the creation and feeling of community and intimacy. Folkvord's research interests include vulnerable children and young people, child welfare services, digital communication and social media, school and education, body and emotions, exclusion, inclusion, friendship and community.
Currently, Folkvord is a Doctoral research fellow at Østfold University College. The project's aim to explore children and young people's everyday life at care institutions in the Østfold region. In this study, Folkvord will conduct fieldwork, including interviews, observations, various creative methods and Q-method. She also wants to include young people as co-researchers in the research process. In today's society, digitalisation permeates children and young people's upbringing and everyday life. It is therefore important to protect young people from online risks, while at the same time it is also important that adults recognise that the digital arenas have great value in young people's everyday lives. In an institutional context, digitalisation can present new challenges, and institutional staff have expressed concern about the inability to protect children from the dangers they expose themselves to through electronic means of communication. In order to bring out the young people's subjective everyday experiences, Folkvord will use a phenomenological and everyday sociological approach in her fieldwork.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Belongning Childhood and youth Qualitative methods Pupils community Social media The body and sensory experience Digital communication Digitalisation in K12- education Gender and ethnic diversity in eduction
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.
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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.
Completed research projects
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Evaluation of the Children's and Family Agency's arena flexible team for child welfare
The project will generate knowledge that can shed light on whether the Children and Family Agency's arena-flexible team is functioning as intended and whether there is a need for changes in the measures.
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Key Inclusive Development Strategies for Life-Long Learning (KIDS4ALLL)
KIDS4ALLL aims to pilot an innovative action that will experiment a learning method and learning environment in formal, non-formal and informal educational contexts to address the integration challenges of migrant children.
Publications and research
Research reports
Skiple, Alida
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Mathisen, Tina
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Bruland, Stine
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Folkvord, Maren Svendsen
(2024).
Barne- og familieetatens arenafleksible tiltak for barnevernet. En kvalitativ evaluering av arenafleksibelt team barnevern psykisk helse (AFT) og arenafleksibelt behandlingsteam (ABT).
ISBN: 978-82-7894-872-9.
162 p.
NOVA/OsloMet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3161548
Skiple, Alida
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Folkvord, Maren Svendsen
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Hydle, Ida Marie
(2024).
Koronapandemiens betydning for barn og unge som mottok tiltak fra barnevernet. Erfaringer fra ungdom og barnevernansatte.
ISBN: 978-82-7894-861-3.
63 p.
NOVA/OsloMet.
Vol. 2024.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3131191
Ugreninov, Elisabeth
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Bjørnshagen, Vegar
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Vedeler, Janikke Solstad
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Folkvord, Maren Svendsen
; Finjarn, Christine
(2023).
Arbeid, helse og tilrettelegging under og etter koronapandemien. En studie av yrkesaktive og studenter med funksjonsnedsettelser og langvarige helseproblemer.
ISBN: 978-82-7894-841-5.
103 p.
NOVA/OsloMet .
Vol. 2023.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3105340
