Overview of research projects

A Fair Chance? How Geography Shapes Life Opportunities (FAIR)

The project addresses how the spatial context in which people live during different stages of their lives shape their life prospects and socioeconomic outcomes.

A Life Course Perspective on the Gendered Pathways of Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life, and its Consequences for Health and Wellbeing (GENPATH)

GENPATH is an international European research project focussing on social exclusion in later life.

A Multidimensional Approach to Social Exclusion in Later Life – Health Consequences for Ageing Populations (AMASE)

The overall aim of the project is to enhance research-based knowledge on the multidimensional nature of old age social exclusion and its consequences for health and to identify conditions that minimize social exclusion of disadvantaged groups.

A Study of Cases in the County Board Concerning Care Orders

The project deals with the Child Welfare Service’s and the County Social Welfare Boards’ handling of compulsory care order cases in ethnic minority families.

ACCESS Life Course Database: Upgrade and Expansion

Life course studies constitute an important research area for social- and health sciences. In Norway, studies that follow the same individuals over a longer period of time, have been relatively scarce. Through the ACCESS Upgrade infrastructure, researchers and students will gain access to updated and upgraded longitudinal life course data for more than 11,000 Norwegians born between 1922 and 1966.

Accommodation of Regional Diversity in Ukraine (ARDU)

ARDU's main goal is to produce knowledge of how ethnicity, language and regional-local identity work in the context of political reform in Ukraine.

Active Ageing – Pathways and Outcomes (AgePaths)

This project investigates pathways and outcomes of active ageing in three domains and their interactions: the labor market, civil society, and the family.

Activity Friend for Persons with Dementia

The project addresses what role the "activity friend" volunteers play in municipal health care and for people with dementia in Norway.

Adolescent Physical Violence. Understanding Societal Trends and Life Outcomes for Perpetrators

This project covers the use of violence among Norwegian adolescents and is financed through the Domestic Violence Research Program at NOVA.

Adolescents in Oslo in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The aim of the study was to map young people’s everyday life and quality of life, and how they experience the COVID-19 pandemic while they were still subject to strict restrictions.

Against All Odds?

Why do some care leavers end up doing well as young adults, against all odds? What does "doing well" mean to young women and men, with majority backgrounds? These are questions we seek to investigate in this project.

Amazing grazing

Amazing grazing will bring new knowledge on how sheep rangeland grazing systems can be part of sustainable food and fiber systems.

Better Provision for Norway's Children in ECEC

Better provision of Norway’s Children in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) was the first major study in Norway to focus specifically on the quality and effectiveness of ECEC.

Beyond access: improving quality of early years reading instructions in Ethiopia

The objective of the project is to improve the quality of education for primary grades in Ethiopian schools. This is done through heightening the capacity and competence of teachers and Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) and higher education institutions in Ethiopia in the area of early years reading instructions.

Caring for Children with Disabilities

The research project will investigate whether children with disabilities have their fundamental rights safeguarded in encounters with the health and care service.

CEOs Personal Risk Attitudes and Corporate Financing and Investment

This project studies to what extent firm policies are affected by managers’ personal assets allocation, asset allocation, and founders' opportunity cost

Challenges of Participation (CHAPAR)

Why is user participation so difficult to attain in health and welfare services? The proposed project aims to develop knowledge about challenges and conditions for participation for groups of service users that experience special barriers to participation.

CHANGE: Environmental systems shift in clothing consumption

In CHANGE, we will investigate what is most essential to reduce the environmental impact of clothing: reduce the amount of clothing that is produced, acquired and disposed of.

Changing professions? The impact of social and ethnic background on gender segregation in the professions and in professional education

Women and men often choose different educations. This results in a gender segregated educational system, which in turn is closely linked to gender segregation in the labour market.

Child Protection and Pluralism

The aim of the project is to evaluate the effects of a communication campaign about Norwegian child protection services.

Child Welfare in Norway 1990-2011

A register data study of Norwegian child welfare clients.

Child Welfare Institutions for Young People with Drug Addiction and Separate Institutions for One Single Young Person

The project investigate the child welfare institutions for young people with drug addiction and separate institutions for one single young person.

Child Welfare Services and Risk Assessment

The project investigates how the child welfare services work on risk assessment and safety measures when a child is placed outside the home.

Child Welfare Services and their Work With Cases of Violence and Abuse

This project aims to fill the knowledge gap about how the Norwegian child welfare service tackles violence and abuse cases.

Children's Level of Living: The Impact of Family Economy for Children's Lives

The aim of the project was to explore how income influence different aspects of children's lives.

Children’s legal safeguards in child protection cases where children might enter into public care – a comparative study of Norway and England

PhD project: Children’s legal safeguards in child protection cases where children might enter into public care – a comparative study of Norway and England

Cities confronted by protests: Democratic governance for efficient and socially just climate transformation (DEMOCLIM)

DEMOCLIM explores new democratic governance methods in the design and implementation of effective and socially just climate policies that emerge in the face of climate protests in four Scandinavian cities; Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Classroom activities for the six-year-olds – 20 years on (Klassprax_20)

The project investigates and evaluates the classroom activities of six year old children. It sheds light on changes made between "Reform 97" and "Fagfornyelsen L20".

Climate change and ecosystems management in Malawi and Tanzania

A project to strengthen research capacity and capabilities in institutions in Malawi and Tanzania.

Co-Creation: Expectations, Challenges and Coping Strategies in Norwegian Local Governments (ECCO)

This research project aims to unravel the expectations of Norwegian local governments to the introduction of new forms of co-creation, analyse how co-creation practices challenge established forms of governance based on Classical Public Administration and New Public Management, and identify and assess the coping strategies deployed by local public managers who are aiming to deal with the current transformations.