Overview of research projects

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

ACCESS Life Course Database: Upgrade and Expansion

Through the ACCESS Upgrade infrastructure, researchers and students will gain access to updated and upgraded longitudinal life course data for more than 11,000 men and women 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.

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.

Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL)

This project will produce knowledge on the ways in which advances in artificial intelligence shape policing in different cultural, political, legal and economic contexts.

Amazing grazing

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

Applying Artificial Intelligence in Developing Personalized and Sustainable Healthcare for Spinal Disorders (AID-Spine, part I)

We use machine learning methods to develop and validate prediction models for health and welfare outcomes after treatment for spinal disorders.

Artificial intelligence - a novel tool in assisted reproduction technology

The project aims to improve the methods for selecting sperm and embryos and increase the chance of pregnancy and live-born children.

Artificial intelligence – a novel tool in assisted reproduction technology

The project aims to improve the methods for selecting sperm and embryos and increase the chance of pregnancy and live-born children.

Automating Technologies and the Future of Meaningful Work (AUTOMA)

The primary objective of this project is to investigate the influence of workplace automation on meaningful work.

Brain activation during gait and balance

The human body is a biological marvel in many ways.

Can Motivational Interviewing facilitate return to work in sick-listed people with musculoskeletal disorders? (MI-NAV)

We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing on return to work among sick-listed people due to musculoskeletal disorders.

Can responsible investment induce sustainable corporate behavior? Evidence from the worlds largest equity investor

Can responsible investing help to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

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.

CIRCULAR: Collaborative innovation of circular economy

Transforming the economic system from a linear to a circular economy is critical for realising a sustainable society. Circular-project asks: What are the main governance factors driving the co-creation of an innovative circular economy for reduced consump

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.

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

Combining Work and Care for Older Parents (CoWorkCare)

The primary objective of CoWorkCare is to generate knowledge on how employees' care obligations for their old parents affect their labour market participation.

CONTEXT – Creating Integrated Person-centred Care in Different Settings

This project addresses how settings and contexts which enhance people-centred care can be created.

Coping with Flexibility. Behavioral Adaptations to the New Pension System and their Consequences in a Lifetime Perspective

The aim of this project is to study how people adapt to the reformed pension system. In particular, we look at adaptations to the increasing flexibility offered – both in terms of savings, and in terms of job planning and ways of combining work and pensio

Crisis Management in a Polycentric Nordic Local Democracy: Different Governance Structures – Different Results? (POLYGOV)

The overall goal of the project is to identify the differences in the Nordic countries’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the outcomes thereof and to relate these differences to policy, governance, organisation and management.

Critical thinking in primary education

KriT is an interdisciplinary project aiming at developing educational models for critical thinking in primary education using children’s literature and news.

Crossbow: Crossing and Managing Boundaries between Work and Non-Work – Co-creating Healthy Teleworking

In this project we aim to map, explore and understand the opportunities and challenges of telework, and to contribute to enhanced organizational preparedness for healthy, sustainable and productive teleworking.

Crosscare-Old: A Cross Sectoral Approach to High Quality Healthcare Transitions for Older People

The project aims to increase the understanding of the role of cross-sectoral factors that constitute barriers for high quality care transitions for older people from hospital to municipal care.

Darkness on the horizon? Exploring the response to contestation of trade policy in Europe

Free trade is under pressure. Fear of job losses and growing inequality has given rise to calls for protectionism and economic nationalism.

Decoding digital media in African regions of conflict (DDMAC)

The key goal of DDMAC is to gather empirical evidence defining and demonstrating the use, spread, content, and agenda-setting role of social media in regions of conflicts in sub- Saharan Africa.

Democracy, Equality, Learning and Mobilisation for Future Citizens (DEMOCIT)

The aim of DEMOCIT is to partake in reducing a growing civic empowerment gap within Norwegian democracy.

Democratic Urban Development in the Digital Age (DEMUDIG)

The DEMUDIG project investigates the extent and influence of citizen participation through ICT and social media in urban governance.

Development of a care pathway for patients with hand osteoarthritis

The project aims to increase our knowledge of the current hand osteoarthritis pathways, the context and mechanisms for shifting tasks between health actors and care levels.

Digital vulnerabilities at home (PhD project)

PhD project about digital vulnerabilities from internet connected devices at home.

DigiWork: Digital Prism and the Nordic Model of Workplace Democracy under Pressure

Big data and artificial intelligence are radically transforming the ways in which we work, are hired and fired, managed and led. This project investigates the effects of digital transformation of work on the Norwegian model of workplace democracy and trip

Direct and Indirect Costs of Disabilities in Children (BUDGET)

The research project addresses the costs aspects of caring for a child with a disability.

Disadvantaged in the Housing Market: Effects of Public Interventions (DISADVANTEGED)

This project aims to evaluate all major social housing policy instruments in Norway, aimed at helping disadvantaged individuals to better and more stable housing.

Doing Co-operation. A Co-study with Landsforeningen for barnevernsbarn and Sarpsborg Municipality to Enhance Support for Vulnerable Children and Youth (CoChildren)

How can child welfare services and other support services collaborate more effectively to assist children and young people in vulnerable life situations?

Early COVID-19 wave in Norway: Social inequality in morbidity, compliance to non-pharmaceutical interventions and labour marked consequences (CorRisk)

Pandemics like COVID-19 are among the most pressing global threats to human life and economic security. The core idea of CorRisk is that infectious disease pandemics created by influenza or corona-viruses have always been more than just a medical problem

Emigration from today’s Norway: Who, why, and how does it shape Norwegian society? (EXITNORWAY)

Little is known about those who emigrate from Norway today, why they leave, and how their emigration affects Norwegian society.

Enabling Ageing in Place (AgePlace)

In this project the researchers aim to generate new knowledge on the precondition for safe ageing in place.

Engagement, Growth and General Education in Norwegian Folk High Schools (ENGAGE)

ENGAGE investigates the impact and meaning of Norwegian Folk High Schools (FHS) on youth engagement and participation in society. It is the largest study on this subject to date, exploring a largely overlooked aspect in education research.

Epigenetic regulation by Atlantic salmon miRNAs in disease and osmotic stress

This project aims to provide new knowledge on Atlantic salmon miRNAs as regulators of immune responses to other pathogens as well as stress related to sea water transfer.

Equality and Multiculturalism

A comparative study of Norwegian and Dutch processes of alterity and identity.

Evaluation of Ritual Circumcision of Boys (RITOM)

This evaluation shall produce research-based knowledge on whether the Norwegian law on ritual circumcision of boys functions according to its purpose.

Exit and effective reintegration of violent extremist in Scandinavia

The project develops new knowledge and generates research competence to promote exit processes from violent extremism and reintegration into the society.

ExitAge

The objective of the project is to increase the knowledge about the oldest workers and their experiences, as well as how companies handle work exit and the change in mandatory retirement age.

Explaining Social Patterns in Sickness Absence: the Influence of Values, Attitudes and Norms (SAVAN)

The project aims to study the influence of values, attitudes and norms on sickness absence.

FALLPREVENT: Implementation of evidence-based, fall-prevention programmes in the health care services: Quality, competency and effectiveness

In this project we aim to develop and test an innovative user-based programme for the implementation of falls-prevention programmes in Norway.

Family Partner – Co-development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Child Maltreatment Prevention Intervention

The Family Partner project seeks to improve the services directed at the most vulnerable group in society; children growing up at risk of maltreatment.

Far-right Politics Online and Societal Resilience (FREXO)

The FREXO project investigates how online media affect the mobilizing capacity and the broader societal and political impact of far right politics.

Flex-IT: A mixed-method study of cross-domain information technology use in everyday life

The emergence of new technology has increasingly blurred the boundaries between work and family domains, and the consequences for the health and productivity of the labor force remains unknown. These contradictory perspectives make it important to underst

FoodLessons: Culinary Heritage as a Resource in Developing "Food Nation Norway 2030"

This project will take a closer look at how a revitalization of our culinary heritage can be used in business development and value creation.

Gender, citizenship and academic power - GAP

GAP will investigate how globalization and internationalization influence the gender balance in research and higher education.

Global Care Workers in the Norwegian Welfare State: Care Chains, Intersectionality and Social Capital

In this project, attention is drawn to the careers of two groups of migrant care workers in Norway, nurses and au pairs, to the structures that have formed their careers, as well as to the impact on the care institutions of recruiting care workers from ab

GoodAnimal: Animal Welfare for Sustainable Futures

GoodAnimal’s primary objective is to acquire knowledge that will mitigate threats and increase opportunities for sustainable farm and industry practices.

Governing the green shift in Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen and Cape Town (GreenGov)

The GreenGov research project aims to create new and exciting knowledge about the challenges and dilemmas public leaders face in managing the green shift in Oslo, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Cape Town.

GreenLeAP: Environmental policy change in Latin America

Most countries have hard-to-abate “Achilles heel” sectors for domestic environmental action. In Latin America these are large export-oriented primary industries, like fossil-fuel extraction, mining, and industrial agriculture.

HATCYCLE

The life cycle of hate crimes: Patterns, responses and consequences

Health technology in homebased palliative care for children (CHIP homeTec)

We will conduct an investigation of aspects relevant for the design of digital solutions to support communication for children, families and healthcare personnel in homebased palliative care for children.

HIRE? A Mixed-method Examination of Disability and Employers Inclusive Working Life Practices

Employers' understandings of disability as well as their broader knowledge and skills are likely to influence their risk assessments and hiring practices. HIRE? aims to fill this knowledge gap.

HOUSYOUNG

How can we create sustainable and effective collaborative models for increased inclusion of youth with complex needs through measures including “own home” in the local community.

How Do We Provide Better, Safer and More Cost-Effective Pathways for Older People?

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

How is e-learning utilized in Norwegian municipalities?

This project investigates how e-learning is implemented and utilized in organizations.

Hybrid Deep Learning Cellular Automata Reservoir (DeepCA)

DeepCA is a long-term time horizon project seeking the integration of biological and artificial intelligence.

IMAGINE – Contested Futures of Sustainability

When you think about the future, what do you imagine? Flying cars, tubed food, or high-tech clothing might be among the images that come to mind. IMAGINE sets out to study these images of the future as imaginaries. Imaginaries are the many ways in which w

IMPART - Indigenous representation in majority-based parties

The IMPART project studies majority-based political parties as arenas for Indigenous political activism, through the case of the Sámi people in Norway and Sweden.

Improving aquaculture sustainability by modulating the feed-microbiome-host axis in Fish

The ImprovAFish project takes a transdisciplinary approach to address critical knowledge gaps related to the feed-microbe-host-axis in Atlantic salmon aquaculture production.

Improving personalized treatment in health care for lower spine disorders

The aim of the study is to deepen the understanding of how patients with lower spine disorders, general practitioners (GPs), physiotherapists and hospital doctors make decisions about treatment.

Improving trust-based management in Nordic urban governance and management education

This project explores how ongoing management reforms are conceptualised and put into practice in two Nordic cities.

Including Children and Young People in the Voluntary Service

The purpose of this project is to look into how well different groups of young people are included in the volunteering, and what tools organisations and authorities use to include these young people.

Income inequality in professional and vocational occupations

This project will contribute more knowledge on the consequences of occupational regulation for income inequality within and between occupations.

Inequalities in Ageing Well and the Significance of Transitions in Later Life (TRILL)

TRILL addresses the impact of later life transitions on opportunities for ageing well.

Innovative, sustainable public procurement of food and catering services

The project enables the participating public organizations to try out new and innovative public procurement strategies and practices.

Integrated Assessment of Climate Change in an Unequal World of Uncertain Economic Growth

A central policy question is to what extent climate change should be mitigated by abating green-house gas emissions? Conversely, how much damage from climatic change should be accepted? To guide this decision, economists use integrated assessment models o

International student mobility: drivers, patterns and impacts (MOBILITY)

The project examines how Norwegian policy in this area is shaped by international trends, and the extent to which foreign students contribute to 'internationalization at home'.

Labour-market integration of Ukrainian refugees in Norway (UKRINT)

The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the largest yearly influx of refugees in Norway to date.

LASTING: Sustainable prosperity through product durability

How can the lifespans of consumer goods be increased?

Literacies for Health and Life Skills

The “Literacies for Health and Life Skills” (HLS) project aims to develop and implement a new didactic approach that will enable pre-service teachers to facilitate the development of young people´s health and life skills.

Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE)

Why is corruption still increasing worldwide, despite universal recognition by all relevant international organizations that it needs to be fought?

Mathematics, Science and Computational Thinking (MASCOT)

MASCOT is an interdisciplinary, collaborative and innovative research collaboration that aims to develop knowledge about teaching, learning and assessment processes of computational thinking in teacher education and school.

Migration for Welfare: Nurses within Three Regimes of Immigration and Integration into the Norwegian Welfare State (WELLMIG)

WELLMIG brings together the perspectives that migrants not only depend on, but also make significant contributions to the welfare state.

Mind the gap: Bridging knowledge and decision-making across sectoral silos and levels of governance in ecosystem based management (EcoGaps)

EcoGaps addresses apparent gaps between ecosystem science knowledge and its use in regional and local policy-decisions in land-use planning and water management.

Municipalities in the European Multilevel Union Administration: Towards Multi-Hatted Local Governments?

The project addresses today's developments in the EU's multi-level Union administration, where administrative bodies located across different levels of governance are increasingly interconnected in the implementation and application of EU legislation.

NEET: Preventing sick leave and marginalization in young adults

Despite the increasing costs of early school leaving and failures to integrate into the adult workforce, it is still unknown what the determinants to unhealthy school-to-work transitions are.

New media practices in a changing Africa

The project starts from two significant facts: relatively consistent economic growth in Africa over two decades, and a digital media revolution during the same period.

Organising for Outcome - Links between service integration and transitions to employment for citizens with complex service needs

Will service integration improve labour market participation for citizens with multiple service needs?

Persistent Passion for Professional Education: Consequences for student completion and dropout (PERSIST)

The primary objective of this project is to examine dropout from higher education, with special focus on previously under-studied professional programmes.

Political Dynamics of the Cultural Sector (POLYCUL)

This project depart from the hypothesis that explanations for developments in cultural policy, and in particular its failure to realize programmatic goals, are found in the dynamics of interest-based politics that at work in the cultural sector.

Politics of Popular Music in a Changing Latin America

This project explores the political and cultural significance of popular music in today's Latin America.

Polyvocal Interpretations of Contested Colonial Heritage (PICCH)

PICCH aims to identify key instances of colonial audio-visual heritage across the three archives and open up a dialogue between the archives and a variety of users.

Practices and policies of belonging among minority and majority children of low-income families (BELONG)

This project seeks to increase current knowledge of the practices causing marginalization and social exclusion of minority and majority children of low-income families.

Pregnant plus

Developement and testing of a mobile application for the management of gestational diabetes.

Prevention of prejudice and promotion of inclusive school environment through increased diversity competence

The main goal of this project is to develop new knowledge on prejudice, hate speech and practices and attitudes that might cause exclusion in the school context.

Professionals interviewing maltreated children supported via artificial avatars

The project proposes to develop a new digital interview-training program drawing on expertise in developmental psychology and artificial intelligence

Promising Practices: Holistic Work Inclusion of Young Adults

The project will map how young adults are followed up in NAV with the aim of developing the work inclusion practice of this group.

Qualification and Social Inclusion in Upper Secondary Vocational Education and Training (SAFETY-VET)

The main objective of the project is to generate knowledge about factors of importance for attainment in and completion of upper secondary VET among student groups with a potential risk of non-completion or drop out. We also study the importance of gender

Reconnect: Regulated Occupations: Mobility, Qualification and Labour Market Outcomes

RECONNECT provides new knowledge on the consequences of occupational regulation for labor mobility and immigrants’ opportunity to integrate with their occupation of training.

REDUCE – Rethinking Everyday Plastics

The project will look at plastic in a systems perspective and investigate how the consumption of plastic products in everyday life can be reduced.

Picture of an elderly woman working on a computer from her home, smiling at the camera.

Reflex: Revising work time flexibility policies to promote work inclusion

In the REFLEX project, we investigate the relationship between work-time flexibility and work inclusion.

Regulating migration and membership through monetary requirements (REMIMO)

In this research project, the researchers will take a closer look at how time and money affect immigration and integration in Norway in different ways.

Relinking the weak link. Building resilient digital households through interdisciplinary and multilevel exploration and intervention

What roles do socio-technical practices and infrastructures play in shaping security risks in technologies of the home and what tools and interventions can be developed to enable digitally resilient households?

Renewed perspectives on research use in education (REPOSE)

This project aims to provide new analytical and methodological perspectives that will support researchers and practitioners in meeting the challenge of making productive use of research in education.

Replay or renew? Learning from 20+ years of Norwegian-Russian collaboration on health and social welfare in the Barents region (RE:BARENTS)

RE:BARENTS will examine the impact of Norwegian–Russian collaboration on health and social welfare in the Barents region since 2000.

Riverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers

The project will investigate legal cases from New Zealand, Colombia and India, where rivers have been granted personhood rights.

Russian policies of influence in the populist-pragmatic nexus

The main goal of the project is to provide new knowledge about how Russia pursues its interests vis-à-vis Norway and other European countries, in particular how the interaction between domestic politics in Russia and domestic actors in Russia's European n

Safe and Simple Point of Contact with Relatives

Research and innovation project with loneliness-reducing technology in elderly care in Oslo, where Nursing Home agency, City of Oslo (SYE) and No Isolation will adapt the consumer technology KOMP for use in institutions.

Safe pregnancy study – avoiding intimate partner violence in pregnancy

This project aimed to reduce intimate partner violence against women during pregnancy.

Searching for Qualities

Investigation and research on the quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) for children under the age of three years.

SEGURA – Food for Security: Evidence from Cauca, Colombia

The SEGURA project aims to improve knowledge about the complexities of the food security – conflict nexus.

Shades of Grey: Negotiating Age Norms, Class and Gender in the time of Pension Reform

How employers and employees maneuver under the new circumstances in The Norwegian pension reform.

Small city regions – development, resilience and sustainability (SMACREG)

Norway is among the countries in Europe with the largest share of residents living in smaller city regions (SCRs). These regions are central to the national goals of regionally balanced development and to securing sustainable regions throughout the countr

Social Inequality and Housing over the Life Course: Good Choices or Lucky Outcomes?

The project studies the interplay between housing and other dimensions of social inequality.

Socio-spatial Inequality among Families with Children with Disabilities who are Entitled to Cash Benefits and Welfare Services (UPTAKE)

The research project will provide insight into the uptake and delivery of benefits and services among parents of children with disabilities.

Et maleri av et virus, framstilt i grønt, mot rød bakgrunn

Socioeconomic risk groups, vaccination and pandemic influenza (PANRISK)

This project proposes to study the “forgotten” socioeconomic risk factors for unequal influenza outcomes and consequences. It will bear important implications for health.

SOCRATES

Seeking radical breakthroughs toward efficient and powerful data analysis available everywhere.

STATECORP

STATECORP analyses the relevance of structural choice politics and historical legacies for corporatisation patterns in Norway and Sweden (1950–2020) as well as their consequences for organisational legitimation.

Sustainable European Welfare Societies: Assessing Linkages between Social and Environmental Policy

How can researchers and policymakers approach issues of welfare state and environmental sustainability in mutually supportive ways across policy fields?

Sustained employment of 'hard-to-place' citizens in small and medium sized enterprises: A mixed-method study in Norway and the Netherlands (ENGAGE)

We aim to develop new knowledge about how small and medium sized enterprises (SME) can contribute successfully to the sustained workplace inclusion of vulnerable ‘hard-to-place’ citizens, and can be supported effectively in doing so.

Teacher Education Schools in Vocational Teacher Education

Development of an organizational theoretical, didactic model for collaboration between educational institution and field of practice.

Teacher Qualification for the 21st century - teachers professional competence (TEQ21)

Future school and society are characterized by rapid changes and technological development, which in turn demand new competences such as creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking. In order to meet these challenges, teacher education p

Teachers knowledge work in local development work

In the PHD project, the aim is to develop/achieve knowledge about the potential that locally-initiated development projects may have in the teachers' knowledge work, as well as reveal challenges related to using new sources of knowledge and new research i