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

Academic Careers: Examining the Significance of Socio-Economic Background (ACCESS)

ACCESS investigates how socio-economic background influences the recruitment and careers of academic professionals in the Nordic countries.

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.

Children and Young People in Sport – Knowledge for a More Inclusive Sports Sector

What influences Norwegian children and young people's participation in organised sport – and who gets left behind?

Children's Information Needs During the Settlement Phase (Infobarn)

The project will develop new and targeted information material for children in different phases of settlement, to ensure that they receive relevant and understandable information at the right time.

Computer gaming – an inclusive youth arena?

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

Coordinated Care for Children: Enchancing Quality in Health and Welfare Services to Families with Disabled Children (CoCare)

How can the child coordinator scheme contribute to improved quality and coordination of health and welfare services for families with children with disabilities?

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.

Digitizing sexual violence. The role of technology in creating and regulating sexual harms

The rapid technological development has changed how sexual violations are committed, investigated, and prosecuted within the legal system. The project examines the intersection of law and technology in relation to these changes.

Disability and Reproductive Health and Rights in Norway

The project will examine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of health services in their encounters with people with different disabilities in relation to their reproductive rights.

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?

Economies of Everyday Family Lives in Norwegian Asylum Reception Centres

The project examines developments in financial benefits for families with children in Norwegian asylum reception centres and the consequences these have for families’ everyday lives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NORD-care 3: A Survey of Employees' Everyday Lives and Conditions in Nordic Elderly Care

In this project the researchers are conducting nationwide questionnaire surveys on the everyday lives and conditions of elderly care from the perspective of care workers.

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.

Sexual Harassment in Young People’s Digital Everyday Lives

In this project the researchers will investigate how young people aged 13–19 experience and cope with sexual harassment online.

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.

Strategies for Competence Integration and Lifelong Learning in European Destinations. Female Migrant Healthcare Workers in Scandinavia (SCILLED)

SCILLED will study professional development and lifelong learning among female migrant healthcare workers in Scandinavia.

Support Services and Their Work with Conflict, Control and Violence

This project led by NOVA investigates the Norwegian support services and how they handle conflict/violence in families.

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.