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 feelings of community and intimacy. Folkvord's research interests include children and young people, digital communication and social media, body and emotions, welfare services, family life, phenomenological and everyday sociological approaches, exclusion, friendship and community.
Folkvord is currently a research fellow at Østfold University College. The aim of Folkvord's doctoral project is to explore children's digital everyday lives; How and why do children use digital media and how do they understand their own digital everyday life? In this study, Folkvord will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in the children's own everyday lives – at school, at home and in their spare time. Even though children's and young people's digital everyday lives are an increasingly relevant research area, the available knowledge is still inadequate, and children's own experiences, meaning-making and situated practices have been far less studied. Technology is developing rapidly and the field of digital upbringing and everyday life is constantly changing. It is therefore important to follow and research these changes in social structures in our society, and how these shape our children and young people – their relationships, arenas, activities and more. In order to highlight children's own experiences from their digital everyday lives, Folkvord will use a phenomenological approach in her fieldwork.
Supervisors: Marina Snipsøyr Sletten, Marit Helgesen, Ida Bruheim-Escobar
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Field of study
Belongning Childhood and youth Qualitative methods Pupils community Social media The body and sensory experience Digital communication
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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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 ; Folkvord, Maren Svendsen ; Hydle, Ida Marie (2024). Koronapandemiens betydning for barn og unge som mottok tiltak fra barnevernet. Erfaringer fra ungdom og barnevernansatte. ISBN: 9788278948613. 63 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
Skiple, Alida ; Mathisen, Tina ; Bruland, Stine ; 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: 9788278948729. 162 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
Ugreninov, Elisabeth ; Bjørnshagen, Vegar ; Vedeler, Janikke Solstad ; 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: 9788278948415. 103 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
