About
Mette Løvgren works as a researcher in the Division for Youth Research. She has a PhD in Professional Studies from the Centre for the Study of Profession at Oslo and Akershus University College. She has a master in sociology from the University of Oslo. She is involved in survey-research into the well-being of children; Ungdata junior and Children's Worlds. She also works with projects about violence and sexual abuse through NOVA's Domestic violence research program. Løvgren is member of the editorial board of Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Child care Gender and Workin life Domestic violence Child surveys
Research groups
Research projects
-
National Safety Survey
The project will map concern for crime and victims of crime in Norway.
-
National Safety Survey 2020
The project will map concern for crime and victims of crime in Norway.
-
Practices and policies of belonging among minority and majority children of low-income families (BELONG)
This project seeks to increase current knowledge of the practices causing marginalization and social exclusion of minority and majority children of low-income families.
-
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.
-
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.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Løvgren, Mette
;
Jacobsen, Sigurd Eid
(2023).
Motivation, development and use of Ungdata Junior: An annual general survey among children in Norway.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948221150038
Løvgren, Mette
; Orupabo, Julia
(2022).
Gender Essentialism at Work? The Case of Norwegian Childcare Workers.
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society.
https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac040
Stefansen, Kari
;
Løvgren, Mette
;
Frøyland, Lars Roar
(2019).
Making the case for ‘good enough’ rape-prevalence estimates Insights from a school-based survey experiment among Norwegian youths.
Heinskou, Marie Bruvik; Stefansen, Kari; Skilbrei, May-Len (Ed.).
Rape in the Nordic Countries: Continuity and Change.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429467608
Løvgren, Mette
;
Stefansen, Kari
;
Smette, Ingrid
; Mossige, Svein
(2017).
Barn og unges utsatthet for fysisk vold fra foreldre. Endringer i mild og grov vold fra 2007 til 2015.
Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern.
Vol. 94.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1891-1838-2017-02-04
Løvgren, Mette
(2017).
Taking the initiative: determinants of parental self-referral to the Norwegian Child Welfare Services<sup>*</sup>.
10 p.
Nordic Social Work Research.
Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2017.1309677
Storø, Jan
;
Backe-Hansen, Elisabeth
;
Løvgren, Mette
(2017).
Hva muliggjør godt institusjonsarbeid?.
Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern.
Vol. 94.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1891-1838-2017-03-04
Løvgren, Mette
(2016).
Emotional exhaustion in day-care workers.
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal.
Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2015.1120525
Løvgren, Mette
;
Gulbrandsen, Lars
(2012).
How early and how long?.
Nordisk barnehageforskning.
Vol. 5.
https://doi.org/10.7577/nbf.318
Løvgren, Mette (2012). I barnehagen er alle like? Om arbeidsdeling blant ansatte i norske barnehager. Aamotsbakken, Bente (Ed.). Ledelse og profesjonsutøvelse i barnehage og skole. p. 37-49. Universitetsforlaget.
