Centre for Welfare and Labour Research

Researchers at PANSOC have been studying pandemic planning for decades. COVID-19 has thrust their work into the spotlight.

Researchers from Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) at OsloMet have been following the same people for more than 28 years. They now seek to investigate why some people have experienced marginalisation as adults.

SIFO researchers have mapped adverts for unhealthy food and drink that children see on their mobile phones.

Norway is starting its vaccination programme and people facing high medical risk are first in line. But medical conditions aren’t the only factors to consider when protecting people from a deadly virus.

Halla B. Holmarsdottir is investigating how technology affects the lives of children and young people.

Using a variety of methods, OsloMet researchers are gaining new insights into young people's opinions, struggles and aspirations.

The Scandinavian countries have attracted migrants from around the world. While some of the measures they have adopted to combat segregation are similar, policy responses in the three countries also indicate significant divergences.

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in both a global health crisis and a financial crisis on a scale never before seen in modern times. The labour market that emerges in the wake of the crisis may impact younger workers harder than others.

Websites often make it difficult to understand what kind of personal data they are collecting from visitors. The rules governing data collection should be tightened, argues one OsloMet researcher.

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?

If we are serious about keeping people from radicalising and committing acts of terrorism, the work begins long before they become active on extremist websites.