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.

Documentary as democratic infrastructure: Countering the fungibility of Sámi representation in the age of AI

Developing ethical visual journalism methods across governance, media, and public contexts.

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'.

Life course, welfare, and health among vulnerable children and young people

This project explores the life circumstances of vulnerable children and young people.

Living at home longer with social welfare technology (BoVEL)

Development and use of social technology to improve current municipal health and care services for older adults.

Making Transparency Possible

This project seeks to contribute to improving the quality of cross border journalism on global financial markets related to illicit financial flows and tax havens.

Mapping of substance abuse in the Department of children and families in the city of Oslo

The aim of the project is to contribute to developing knowledge about how child welfare institutions detect substance abuse at the earliest possible stage.

Mental health among child welfare workers

We examine the relationship between work conditions and mental health among employees in the child welfare services.

Mobilizing for diversity and quality (MOBILIZE)

We aim to increase the recruitment of immigrants and their descendants into Norwegian research.

Navigating the digital landscape: universities partnering for change (NIAGARA)

The project aims to enhance digital resources within university libraries across Tanzania and Zambia, ensuring equal access to library services for all students and staff.

NORPART: Expanding Horizons in Journalism and Media Studies

This project aims to enhance the quality of higher education of journalists in Norway, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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?

Parent and child centres

Generating knowledge about assessments at parent and child centres.

Peopleless offices – The role and flows of information in digital workplaces

This research seeks to advance knowledge on what happens to information-related practices when the physical setting of a workplace loses its primacy and work is instead carried out in an elusive digital workplace.

Perceptions about climate in the academic community: a comparative study between Norway and Brazil

The project aims to understand the perceptions and experience of climate change in some academic communities in Norway and Brazil.

Piloting emotion-informed interventions for strengthening digital democratic resilience

Disinformation and emotionally manipulative political content are increasingly highlighted as one of the greatest challenges facing democratic societies today.

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.

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

Profiles and political debate

The focus of this project is profiles and political debate, using the YouTube collective GUTTA as the central case.

PROTEXT: Protest in context. Social workers, protest and social change in different welfare regimes

PROTEXT aims to provide empirical, contextualized and comparative data about social workers and collective actions in different countries.

Public housing, place and solidarity. A comparative project on belonging, tenant participation and public housing

This project will examine the relationship between tenant participation and belonging in three different contexts and housing regimes in Malmø, Oslo and Quebec.

Public libraries for immigrants and refugees (PubLIB)

This project consists of an international research group dedicated to studying how public libraries address the needs of recently arrived refugees and immigrants.

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@HOME: Technologies of care for aging migrants

The project will examine how the “Live Safely at Home” reform functions when it encounters diverse ageing lives, families, and everyday practices that fall outside the standard models of municipal services.

Shared Frontlines and Democracy: Strengthening Ukraine Expertise and Collaboration in Norwegian Journalism and Education

The project will strengthen cooperation between Norwegian and Ukrainian journalists, provide Norwegians with greater knowledge about Ukraine, and develop tools to expose propaganda and fake news.

Silenced airwaves: Media as democratic infrastructure

What are the societal consequences when press freedom is lost?

Sino-Norway Welfare Policy Dialogue (SINOPO)

The aim of SINOPO is to help solve the problem of poverty among persons with disabilities in China. The project focuses on labour market inclusion, accessibility and the development and provision of assistive devices.

Sociology and management of science – Norwegian-Czech cooperation

The main goal of the project is to share experiences and good practices of the Norwegian and Czech sides in the fields of management of science and sociology.

Strengthening solidarity for democratic unity across border (SOLIDEM)

The SOLIDEM project focuses on the weakening of trust and solidarity in European welfare states, including Norway.

Student financial support and working alongside studies

The purpose of this doctoral project is to gain greater knowledge about working alongside studies.

Sustainable wellbeing through investment in social services (SWINS)

The project aims to bridge knowledge gaps on how investments in social services influence macroeconomic stability and the EU’s sustainability transition.

Søndre media

This project will empower youths to stay engaged in public expression and participation.

The big city library survey 2025

How are libraries actually used and what needs do the users have?

The Child´s Right to Family Life and Stability in Foster Care

This project will explore how children in foster care can experience family life and stability through human rights-based practices.

The Epistemologies of Digital News Production

The project studies journalists’ concrete judgments, handling of sources and data, and their overall knowledge-producing activities in distinct stages of the news production process that ultimately lead to news publishing.

The impact of skills training in social work education

The project examines how skills training strengthens social work students’ professional development.

The real effects of financial shocks on short-run and long-run entrepreneurial decisions

This project aims to better understand the effects of financial shocks on entrepreneurial decisions.

The Source Criticism And Mediated Disinformation (SCAM)

The SCAM project will identify the main challenges related to the ways in which technology and platforms affect the distribution of disinformation in public spheres and ways to detect and counter it.

The tensions of street-level social work for migrant inclusion – discretion, differentiation and deportability (TESMI)

We focus on street-level social work aimed at migrants in Finland, Norway and Sweden, and on how they experience such it.

Typhoon Effects on Enterprises in the Philippines (TEMPEST)

This project aims to better understand the economic effects of typhoons.

U-YouPa – Understanding Youth Participation and Media literacy in Digital Dialogue Spaces

The key goal of this project is to provide a research-based understanding of the interconnection between cultural and technological preconditions for strengthening youth participation in digital dialogue spaces.

Universal basic income trials in modern welfare states: A knowledge review

Producing a state-of-the-art review of research on universal basic income experiments in modern welfare states.

Unpacking the Modern Working Class: Life Chances, Social Cohesion and Recognition in an Age of Migration

The project raises four crucial question that seek to describe the contemporary working class, its political orientation, lived experience and their media representations

Urban resilience through open science, education, and community engagement in war regions (FORWARD)

Supporting the resilience of communities in war affected regions in Palestine and Ukraine.

Virtual Presence: A Cultural Analysis of the Emergence of 'Telepresence Technologies' as a Solution to Loneliness

The research project will provide a cultural analysis of how loneliness is perceived and represented in relation to the emerging phenomenon of loneliness technologies

Visible Children – Professional Discretion in Child Custody Disputes in Court

The project examines the professional discretion of judges and experts in district courts when parents disagree on custodial issues; where the child should live, contact, and/or parental responsibility.

Voluntary organizations in local emergency management (VOLEM)

The project examines the role of voluntary actors in local emergency management in Norway and Denmark, with a special focus on the collaboration between voluntary organizations and public authorities. The purpose of the project is to provide knowledge abo

Welfare State Life Courses: Social Inequalities in the Co-evolution of Employment, Health and Critical Life Events (WELLIFE).

This project is a multidisciplinary Nordic collaboration researching inequalities in health and opportunities in the Nordic welfare states, and how they unfold over individuals life courses.

WelfareExperiences

The Welfare Experiences project is comparing the experience of receiving benefits in five different countries: Estonia, Hungary, Norway, Spain and the UK.

Work Inclusion in North and South: Comparative Urban Contexts (WINS)

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

Work inclusion in Norway: A scoping review

The aim of this project is to describe and map research regarding work inclusion in a Norwegian context.

Young people with multicultural backgrounds and their understanding of news on social media

We aim to examine how the unique life experiences and backgrounds of multicultural groups shape their attitudes toward news.

Émile Durkheim and modern working life

The project examines the contemporary relevance of Durkheim’s work for today’s working life.