The Child Welfare Services has faced intense criticism over the past decade. While the agency has made mistakes, it continues to improve in its mission to protect children and support parents.
Students
4260
Employees
273
Research groups
17
Bachelor's programmes
9
Master's programmes
6
PhD programme
1
The faculty offers study programmes within social work, social policy and child welfare, business and public management, journalism and media studies, and archivistics, library and information science. The education we give is research-based. Our faculty members conduct research with direct relevance to society and working life.
Departments and centres
- Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science
- Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC)
- Department of Journalism and Media Studies
- Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy
- Oslo Business School
- School of Management
- Centre for Work Inclusion (KAI)
Study programmes
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Bachelor's programmes
Our bachelor's programmes are in Norwegian, but we offer several courses in English for exchange students.
- Administration and Leadership on the Public Sector
- Archival Science
- Business Administration and Economics
- Child Care and Welfare
- Journalism
- Library and Information Science
- Media and Communication
- Photojournalism
- Social Work
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Master's programmes
Most of our master's programmes are in Norwegian, but we offer courses in English for exchange students.
- Applied Social Sciences
- Study Option Child Care
- Study Option Family Therapy
- Study Option International Social Welfare and Health Policy (English)
- Study Option Social Work
- Business Administration
- Entrepreneurship
- Journalism
- Library and Information Science
- Public Administration and Management
- Public Management
- Applied Social Sciences
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PhD programme
Faculty management
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Dean and Vice-Deans
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Administration
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Section for Research and Development
Hanna Karv
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Faculty board
Visiting address
The Faculty of Social Sciences is located in Pilestredet 35, Pilestredet 48 and Stenbergsgata 26 in the centre of Oslo.
News
Norway’s Child Welfare Services under scrutiny
Call for interest: Evaluation of JMIC/OsloMet project
Journalism and Media International Center (JMIC) at Department of Journalism and Media Studies at OsloMet is searching for a consultant/consultancy team.
Using AI to improve investigative interviews with children
Researchers and experts in the field of interviewing children are using artificial intelligence to develop new training methods for the police and the Child Welfare Services.
A whole new way of organising social services
As a master's student at OsloMet, Ley Muller learned to analyse and engage with alternatives to the American approach.
