About
Stine Bruland is a researcher at NOVA, section for research on childhood, family and child welfare. Her research interests include family life, migration, generation, and the welfare state. Her PhD thesis concerns transnational family life among families of Tamil background. She is currently working on projects regarding the participation of children and youth in the welfare states institutions and how the welfare state handles families who, for religious and, or, cultural reasons, limit the participation of children and young people in various arenas. She has a PhD in social anthropology (2015) from NTNU and a continuing education in family therapy and systemic practice (2022) from VID. She mainly works with various qualitative methods.
Research groups
Research projects
Completed research projects
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Evaluation of minority counsellor pilot projects in upper secondary schools and adult learning centres
NOVA researchers will evaluate two pilot projects placing minority counsellors in secondary schools in vulnerable urban areas and adult learning centres.
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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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Family Counselling: Equal Services for a Diverse Population?
The researchers investigate what it implies for the family services to provide equal services in different local contexts, and what kind of challenges the services experience when trying to provide equal services.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Bruland, Stine (2015). Being there while Being here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals. Fuglerud, Øivind; Wainwright, Leon (Ed.). OBJECTS AND IMAGINATION Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning . Berghahn Books.
Bruland, Stine
(2013).
Transgressing Religious Boundaries: The Power of Aesthetics in Tamil Catholic and Hindu Worship.
22 p.
Material Religion.
Vol. 9.
https://doi.org/10.2752/175183413X13823695747408
Bruland, Stine
(2012).
Nationalism as meaningful life projects: identity construction among politically active Tamil families in Norway.
Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Vol. 35.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2011.599851
Bruland, Stine (2011). Making Home(s). Repères générationnels et nationalisme comme instruments de making home(s), ”faire son chez-soi” chez les activistes politiques de la diaspora tamoule de Norvège. Hommes et migrations. Vol. 1291.
