Overview of research projects

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.

Child Welfare Institutions for Young People with Drug Addiction and Separate Institutions for One Single Young Person

The project investigate the child welfare institutions for young people with drug addiction and separate institutions for one single young person.

Competency at Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) offices

The purpose of the project is to investigate how competence is developed at local NAV offices.

COMPRESSED − A longitudinal study of compressed work schedules within the health, care and welfare services

With increasing need for more workforce in the healthcare-sector, the offers of the future is reliant on how we precure sufficient staff and maintain the health of the workers.

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.

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

Disability and Disease during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Implications for Preparedness Policies

A global influenza pandemic is imminent and public health preparedness plans that address the needs of vulnerable populations are indispensable.

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

Edible Cities Network: Integrating Edible City Solutions for social resilient and sustainably productive cities

The Edible Cities Network (EdiCitNet) works towards making cities around the world better places to live through the implementation and institutional integration of Edible City Solutions.

Empowering youth and co-creating social innovations and policymaking through youth-focused citizen social science (YouCount)

YouCount will, through co-creative youth citizen social science (Y-CSS), with youth aged 15 to 29 years as citizen scientists, produce new knowledge of positive drivers for social inclusion of youth at risk of exclusion, as well as create innovation and n

Examination of work-life-balance

In this project, we are investigating the conditions for work-life balance among younger partners in the legal industry.

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.

FIT4FOOD2030

To support the European Commission in the development and implementation of the FOOD 2030 policy framework and its action plan, FIT4FOOD2030 aims to establish a sustainable multi-stakeholder, multi-level platform, mobilizing a wide variety of stakeholders

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

Gender equality, Diversity and Societal Security

This project empirically and theoretically explores how increasing levels of diversity in the personnel of Nordic security forces (military, police and security organizations) relate to changing perceptions of trust and security, both within these organiz

GoNano: Governing Nanotechnologies through Societal Engagement

Aligning future nanotechnologies with societal needs and concerns.

Impact Evaluation of Interdisciplinary Health Assessment

AFI has been commissioned by The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs (Bufdir) to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the initiative "Interdisciplinary Health Assessment (THK)."

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.

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.

Insider: National Security through Private Sector Regulation? Critical Evaluation of Insider Threat Programs and Security Compliance in Current Geopolitical and Regulatory Context

INSIDER will map and analyse the fundamental tensions between national security interests and private sector profit motive, often disavowed by policymakers.

Knowledge Summary on Age-Conscious Leadership

The purpose of the knowledge summary is to map and analyze research that highlights the significance of leadership for the development and maintenance of senior and older employees.

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?

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.

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration's Labour Market Engagement

In this project, WRI and PROBA will examine how Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration's (NAV) caseworkers understand and uphold the objective of meeting employers’ needs for labour (a “market perspective”).

PATGOV: The governance of the European patent system

PATGOV is a research project funded by the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) program.

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Positive Environment in Public Participation and Engagement for Responsible Research and Innovation (PEPPER)

During his MSCA-fellowship project, Go Yoshizawa examines positive experiences of public engagement in top-down, expert-led public engagement or bottom-up, grassroots activities such as citizen science and open innovation.

Promoting Integrity as an Integral Dimension of Excellence in Research

Research integrity is a growing concern. From the perspective of the research work floor, including the daily work of journal editors or research managers, PRINTEGER will analyse how current instruments of integrity policy operate in practice.

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.

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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.

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) – Practice

The RRI-Practice project brings together a unique group of international experts in RRI to understand the barriers and drivers to the successful implementation of RRI both in European and global contexts.