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Curt Rice, Halla Bjørk Holmarsdottir, Rune Halvorsen and Per Martin Norheim-Martinsen.

OsloMet Research Projects Awarded Prestigious Horizon 2020 Grants

Two international research projects coordinated by research teams at OsloMet have been awarded a total of six million euros as part of the European Union’s flagship research programme, Horizon 2020.

Featured Projects

DARE – Dialogue on radicalisation and equality
DigiGen – The impact of technological transformations on the digital generation
Migration for welfare: nurses within three regimes of immigration and integration into the Norwegian welfare state (WELLMIG)
The Domestic Violence Research Programme
The Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation Study (NorLAG)
A life course perspective on the GENdered PATHways of exclusion from social relations in later life, and its consequences for health and wellbeing (GENPATH)

Recent Publications

Vaughn, T.; Seeberg, M.L.; Gotehus, A. (2020). Waiting: Migrant nurses in Norway. Time and Society.
Turner, L.M.; Östh, J. (2020). Trap or opportunity—What role does geography play in the use of cash for childcare?. I: Population, Space and Place.
Cheah, S.L.; Huang, L. (2019). Environmental Citizenship in a Nordic Civic and Citizenship Education Context. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE)
Sherry, M., Olsen, T., Vedeler, J.S. & Eriksen, J. (Eds.) (2019). Disability Hate Speech. Social, Cultural and Political Contexts. Routledge
Heinskou, M.B., Skilbrei, M-L. & Stefansen, K. (2019). Rape in the Nordic Countries. Routledge
B. Hvinden, C. Hyggen, M. Schøyen & T. Sirovátka (Eds.) (2019).Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe. Problems, Risk Factors and Policies. Edgar Elgar

Featured Research

Working Life, Society and Welfare

Old Age and Happiness: Some Common Misconceptions

Are older people more likely to feel loneliness? Will having children make you happier when you get old? And are old men really as irritable as we think?

Guro Ødegård is the New Director at NOVA

Guro Ødegård takes over as the new director at NOVA, OsloMet, after Iver B. Neumann. Ødegård will function in the position until the Board has named the new director in June 2020.

Parents arguing in the background. Sad boy sitting at table listening.

Five Measures That Can Prevent Violence Against Children

Less severe violence against children and young people is declining, whereas severe forms of violence remain stable. According to OsloMet researchers, there are five measures that can reduce severe violence.

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