Centre of Housing and Welfare Research (HOUSINGWEL), celebrates its first three years of activity with an English language seminar with many prominent international guests.
The goal of the seminar is to boost Norwegian housing research through the exchange of knowledge and ideas across national borders. We have assembled a strong team of early career researchers and established professors with impressive track records.
The researchers that participate in the seminar cover a wide variety of topics, including housing and inequality, quantitative welfare and housing research, resident democracy, segregation and neighbourhood effects, low-income homeownership, social housing, and young adults in the housing market.
The seminar’s is free of charge and targeted at students, researchers, voluntary organizations, and public and private sector professionals working in fields related to housing.
Day one: Preliminary programme
Session 1: 09.00-11.00
Presentation of HOUSINGWEL PhD projects
- Katja Johannessen: “A longitudinal qualitative study of subjective experiences of low-income tenants and homeowners in Oslo”
- Kim Christian Astrup: “Disadvantaged households in the housing market. Theoretical and empirical analysis inspired by the capability approach”
- Siri Myrold Osnes: “Housing outcomes for disadvantaged groups within the context of a market oriented and pro-ownership housing regime”
- Marieke van der Star: «Moving patterns and class-based distribution of resources in the green city”
Comments: International guests
Moderator: Janis Umblijs, Research Director, NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University
Lunch - 11.00-11.45
Opening remarks 11.45-12.00
Guro Ødegaard, Director, NOVA Oslo Metropolitan University
Jardar Sørvoll, Research Professor at NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University, and Head of HOUSINGWEL
Plenary 1: 12.00-13.00
Low-income homeownership in Norway and the United States: What can we learn from each other?
Carolina Reid, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning, Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Moderator: Kristin Aarland, Senior Researcher, NIBR, Oslo Metropolitan University
Coffee break 13.00-13.15
Plenary 2: 13.15-15.15
Social and public rented housing in the Nordic countries: Strengths and weaknesses of very different housing models
- Needs-tested and market-based social rented housing. The extreme case of Norway?
Jardar Sørvoll, Research Professor at NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University & head of HOUSINGWEL - Objectives and Barriers for Promoting Social Housing Policy in Urban Finland
Jarkko Rasinkangas, Lecturer in social work in the Department of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Turku, Finland - Two contradictions and the shape of public housing to come. A review of the current state of the municipal public housing sector in Sweden
Martin Grander, Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University - Taking the Social out of Social Housing? Recent Developments, Current Tendencies, and Future Challenges to the Danish Social Housing Model
Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Senior Researcher, Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University - Neighbourhood satisfaction among municipal tenants in the Helsinki metropolitan area
Katriina Rosengren, Department of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Turku, Finland & Doctoral candidate at the School of Arts, Design, and Architecture at Aalto University
Moderator: Ingar Brattbakk, Senior Researcher, AFI, Oslo Metropolitan University
Coffee break 15.15-15.30
Session 2a: 15.30-17.30
Housing and welfare in quantitative research
Presenters to be announced.
Organized by Kristin Aarland, Senior researcher, Oslo Metropolitan University.
Session 2b: 15.30-17.30
Tenants in social housing: public policies, civil society initiatives and tenant participation
Presenters to be announced.
Organized by Håvard Aaslund, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, Oslo Metropolitan University.
Day two: Preliminary programme
Plenary 3: 9.00-10.00
- Anna Maria Santiago, Senior Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Innovations, Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
- George Galster, Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs and Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State University, Detroit
Titles to be added.
Moderator: Kristin Aarland, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
Coffee Break
Plenary 4: 10.15-10.45
EqualHouse (Housing and inequality)
Erwin Gielens, Researcher, Tilburg University, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences & Department of Sociology
Moderator: Jardar Sørvoll, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
Plenary 5 :10.45-11.15
Understanding generational housing inequalities beyond tenure, class and context
Amber Howard, Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam & The Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
Moderator: Jardar Sørvoll, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
Lunch 11.15-12.00
Session 3a: 12.00-14.00
Temporary and transitional housing for disadvantaged households
- David Thore Gravesen, Faculty of Education and Social Studies, VIA University Denmark
- Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Professor/Director I-SPHERE, Heriot Watt University
- Trond Bliksvær, Research professor, Nordland Research Institute
- Inger Lise Skog Hansen, Researcher, Fafo- Research on labour market, education, welfare and migration
Titles to be added.
Organized by Maja Flåto, Senior Researcher, NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University.
Moderator: Jardar Sørvoll, Oslo Metropolitan University
Coffee break with snacks and baguettes 14.00-14.15
Session 3b: 12.00-14.00
Residential segregation, neighborhood effects and quality of life
Speakers to be announced.
Organized by Ingar Brattbakk, Senior Researcher, AFI Oslo Metropolitan University.
Coffee break with snacks and baguettes 14.00-14.15.
Plenary 6: 14.15-16.15
Young adults in the housing market: First-time buyers and long-term tenants
- Maja Flåto, Senior Researcher NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University
- Alix Gabaude, University of Gothenburg, School of Public Administration, PhD candidate, working on a project focusing on housing policy and young adults in France and Sweden
Rory Coulter, Associate Professor in Human Geography, ULC Department of Geography - Kim McKee, Professor of Housing & Social Policy, University of Stirling
Titles to be added.
Moderator: Janis Umblijs, Oslo Metropolitan University
Closing remarks: 16.15-16.30
Jardar Sørvoll, Research Professor at NOVA, OsloMet and head of HOUSINGWEL
About HOUSINGWEL
Centre for Housing and Welfare Research (HOUSINGWEL) (uni.oslomet.no) aims to be a hub for research on housing and welfare in Norway. HOUSINGWEL is a research center hosted by Norwegian Social Research – NOVA on behalf of the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research (SVA) at OsloMet.
The HOUSINGWEL centre is funded by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, and the partners of the centre include the Frisch Centre, the Institute for Social Research (ISF), Fafo, VID Specialized University, Nord University and Nordland Research Institute.