Overview of research projects

A Boost for Youth Clubs – A Research Project for Better Youth Services

How can youth clubs be strengthened to provide better services for young people? From 2025, we will follow the five-year initiative "A Boost for Youth Clubs" to develop knowledge about quality, framework conditions, and the club’s role in the local commun

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.

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.

Changing Drug Use and Drug Policy

The project aims to provide new insights into young people's patterns of alcohol and illegal drug use, the social meaning of drugs, and the consequences of drug-related sanctions.

Computer gaming – an inclusive youth arena?

This PhD project will explore the potential for computer games as an arena for inclusion in youth.

Consequences of the Pandemic for Living Conditions and Equality

In this project we will investigate the consequences of the pandemic for living conditions for children and young people, equality in families and for individuals, including children and adults with disabilities.

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.

Descendants of Immigrants and the Concerned Welfare State

This project examines the ongoing, relational negotiations between the welfare state and the public's understanding of problems, on the one hand, and processes of change in the minority population, on the other.

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?

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.

European Labour Market Under Pressure – New Knowledge on Pathways to Include Persons in Vulnerable Situations (Paths2Include)

PATHS2INCLUDE will expand our understanding of the multidimensional aspects of labour market discrimination, the impact of different policy frameworks, and the gaps and possible need for change on various levels in order to detect mechanisms and processes

Evaluation of Guttas Campus 2024–2025

In 2024 and 2025, NOVA will carry out an evaluation of the learning course Guttas Campus.

Exploring Relationships of Trust and Distrust Between Youth Populations and Public Services in Vulnerable Areas (Ungtillit)

The project will contribute to gathering and developing knowledge about what young people's trust and distrust of public helpers is about, an how we can strengthen the relationships.

Follow-up Research – Living Conditions, Upbringing and Education. Area Studies in Loddefjord and Olsvik

The theme of this project is the process and implementation of an area initiative in the Municipality of Bergen.

From Boys to Men: Diverging Developments of Masculinity with Varying Consequences? (FRAGMEN)

What are the characteristics of masculinity and masculine practices in contemporary Norway?

Help to Find Temporary Accommodation – What Promotes Good Practices in the NAV Offices?

In this project, we focus on NAV's work in providing assistance with temporary housing.

Housing as a Welfare Good for Young NEETs

This project explores how housing conditions affect young people who are neither in education, employment, nor training (NEETs) in Oslo.

HOUSINGWEL – Centre for Housing and Welfare Research

HOUSINGWEL aims to be a hub for research on housing and welfare in Norway.

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.

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.

Inequality in Youth – A Qualitative, Longitudinal Research Database

Inequality in youth is a qualitative, longitudinal research database on youths in Norway, intended to be a parallel to the quantitative Ungdata surveys.

Mental health and life satisfaction among youth with disabilities and experiences of services in the post-pandemic period (D-youth)

This project will provide new knowledge on mental health, life satisfaction, and use of services among youth with disabilities in the Nordic countries during the post-pandemic period.

Motivation and Mastery. Evaluation of Flyt – A Life Skills Programme for Young People in Vulnerable Life situations

To what extent does the programme help to build up the students who participate and make them better equipped to complete and pass upper secondary school?

National Safety Survey

The project will map concern for crime and victims of crime in Norway.

Parental Restrictions and Violence – A Study Based on UngVold 2023

The project aims to map the relationship between growing up with strict parental restrictions and domestic violence based on data from the YouthViolence 2023 survey.

Place Attachment and Identity Exploration in Young People’s Physical and Digital Everyday Life

This PhD project delves into the experiences of young people growing up in multicultural environments and neighborhoods with reputation issues.

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.

Sexual Culture in Youth

The project will investigate how young people negotiate, experience and handle issues related to sexuality, sexual health and risk - in light of both contemporary youth culture, and other social and societal conditions.

Strategies for Achieving Equity and Inclusion in Education, Training and Learning in Democratic Europe (STRIDE)

STRIDE will provide a new, comprehensive and comparative knowledge-base on effective education reforms, policy initiatives and interventions aimed at reducing inequalities in education, training and learning outcomes in Europe.

Sustainability Performances, Evidence and Scenarios (SPES)

The aim of the SPES project is to generate new knowledge about the nexus between economic growth, human flourishing and sustainability, fostering the transition towards the sustainable human development in European countries and regions.

The Domestic Violence Research Programme

The programme studies time trends in the prevalence of violence and assault, violence as phenomenon, and how violence is approached by the welfare- and justice systems.

The Future of Nordic Youth in Rural Regions: A Cross National Qualitative Longitudinal Study in Four Nordic Countries

The research project aims to understand the experiences of rural youth, their sense of belonging and hopes for the future. It will study similarities and differences between the Nordic countries.

The Long-term Consequences of the Coronavirus Pandemic for Pupils in Lower Secondary School

We will investigate how schools worked to mitigate the long-term impact of the pandemic for different groups of students.

The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training's Competency Package for Inclusive Practice

How does professionals in schools and kindergartens use The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training's competence package for inclusive practice?

The Norwegian qualification programme as a tool for work inclusion

In this project, we investigate how the Norwegian qualification programme can contribute to stable work attachment for the participants and function as an effective tool for work inclusion.

The Politics of Disability Identity

This project aims to provide knowledge about the politics of disability identity that will help counter the mechanisms of marginalization.

The Potential of ‘GameChange’: Supplementary Educational Measures to Facilitate Secondary Education Completion Among At-Risk Youth (GameChanger)

What can be done to enable more students to complete secondary school? The project GameChanger focuses on the impact that initiatives outside of school can have on students when they are in school.

The Work of Child Welfare Services When There is Concern About the Child's Sexual Behaviour

The project aim is to discuss what can be good measures in the child welfare services work with children and young people with problematic or harmful sexual behaviour and their parents.

Tomorrow’s Inequalities in the Making: Processes of Life Chance Differentiation within and outside of Education (LIFECHANCES)

In LIFECHANCES we investigate how differences between young people may become inequalities in life chances over time.

Transitions in Late Careers: Obstacles and Opportunities

In this project, we aim to identify the barriers workers may encounter as they age, with a focus on critical turning points and transitions.

Ungdata plus. A longitudinal study of boys and girls in Vestfold and Telemark, Norway

Ungdata plus will collect data on what children and young people in Vestfold and Telemark (Norway) do in their leisure time and examine how this is related to their health and quality of life, and important life outcomes as adults – such as education, wor

Upbringing, Family Life, and Seeking Help in 'Closed' Religious Communities

This project aims to build knowledge about upbringing and family life in religious communities that can be understood as closed, and the significance of this closed nature for children's rights.

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Young in Oslo 2023

Young in Oslo is the City of Oslo’s Ungdata survey – a unique study that has been conducted since the mid-1990s. The 2023 survey will provide answers to what it’s like for children and young people to grow up in Oslo – after living with a pandemic for alm

Young People’s Establishment in the Housing Market

The project aims to generate knowledge about young people’s establishment in the housing market, including moving out from their parental home, experiences in the rental market, and establishment as homeowners.