Overview of research projects

The aim of the project is to provide public authorities and others with tools and methods for the participatory design of accessible and attractive informational spaces and services.

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?

Care orders from a parental perspective

The main purpose of this study is to develop knowledge about child welfare care orders.

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.

Child welfare in Norway: Service quality, welfare, and social inequality from a life-course perspective

The project will generate new knowledge about the child welfare population’s backgrounds, life outcomes, and living conditions in adulthood.

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

Contingent life courses (C-LIFE): Tracing health and welfare in the Nordic countries

Establishing a Nordic comparative register‑based dataset for research on welfare, health, and employment in the Nordic countries.

Coordinated Online Panels for Research on Democracy and Governance in Norway (KODEM)

KODEM allows researchers to ask questions to four societal groups relevant to research on democracy and governance in Norway.

Creative, artificial or colonized intelligence? a critical exploration of AI’s entry into commercial songwriting

The project explores how AI influences creative collaborative processes in songwriting.

Critical perspectives on work integration of immigrants

The project focuses on how work inclusion may improve the social inclusion of migrants within comparative urban settings.

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.

Enhancing child’s right for the participation in child protection assessment (COMPENCA)

This project focus on the child´s right to participate in child protection assessment and decision-making.

Enhancing Integration through Practical Training

The project will foster better intercultural understanding and professional inclusion of students with language and networking challenges.

EUROSHIP – Closing Gaps in Social Citizenship. New Tools to Foster Social Resilience in Europe

The overall aim of the EUROSHIP project is to provide an original and gender-sensitive assessment of the current gaps in social protection across Europe.

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.

Green media choices: Challenges for media policy, industry, and users in the face of climate change and the sustainable development goals

The project addresses the media industry’s climate challenges and efforts to create a more sustainable industry.

Growing Up and Looking Forward (GULF) - Young people with bodily impairments in transitions

The purpose of this project is to obtain new knowledge about adequate ways of collaboration between youths, their parents, and service providers in health- and welfare services in transition to adult life.

Healthcare Access in Rural Border Regions. Realizing Patient Rights Across European Borders (HARBOR)

The overall aim of the HARBOR project is to develop an integrated approach of cross-border interactions and access to health care in European border regions, and to rethink healthcare planning across border regions.

Heterogeneous Investors and Asset Allocations

In this project, we study how Norwegian households respond to monetary policy changes.

Holistic follow‑up of low‑income families (the HOLF project)

The project will evaluate the effects of a new model developed by Nav to improve follow‑up services for low‑income families

Immigrant lives in Norway over time and place (SITUATE)

SITUATE aims to understand how immigrants draw on and actively refer to their integration experiences as they situationally understand time, place/space and changing identity with reference to their personal integration trajectories.

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.

Innovative networks and media diversity

The project examines collaboration across small local media outlets, with the aim of strengthening in‑depth and data‑driven journalism.

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 COVID-19 Student Well-being study

With this study, we intend to investigate how changes due to the COVID-19 outbreak may have impacted your well-being and health.

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'.