About
Sigurd Eid Jacobsen is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Sciences at OsloMet. He is part of the research group Health and Welfare Studies at Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) and a part of the project: Socio-spatial Inequality among Families with Children with Disabilities who are Entitled to Cash Benefits and Welfare Services (UPTAKE). Jacobsen is in his PhD-project, «Social Class, Institutional Navigation, and Disability in the Welfare State», exploring how social inequalities frame how families with disabled children experience the social institutions in the welfare state.
Jacobsen holds a MA in sociology (2019) from the University of Oslo, where he also was employed as a research assistant on several projects. After finishing his MA and until 2021, he was a part of the Section for Youth Research at NOVA where he worked with the Ungdata surveys and was particularly interested in social inequality in youth participation in organized leisure time activities.
Jacobsen is a visiting scholar at the Center for Innovation in Social Science at Boston University until august 2023.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Families with disabled children Qualitative methods Quantitative methods Social inequalities Youth Disability Social theory Class analysis
Research groups
Research projects
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Including Children and Young People in the Voluntary Service
The purpose of this project is to look into how well different groups of young people are included in the volunteering, and what tools organisations and authorities use to include these young people.
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Socio-spatial Inequality among Families with Children with Disabilities who are Entitled to Cash Benefits and Welfare Services (UPTAKE)
The research project will provide insight into the uptake and delivery of benefits and services among parents of children with disabilities.
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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 .
