Overview of research projects

The project addresses how the spatial context in which people live during different stages of their lives shape their life prospects and socioeconomic outcomes.

A Life Course Perspective on the Gendered Pathways of Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life, and its Consequences for Health and Wellbeing (GENPATH)

GENPATH is an international European research project focussing on social exclusion in later life.

A Multidimensional Approach to Social Exclusion in Later Life – Health Consequences for Ageing Populations (AMASE)

The overall aim of the project is to enhance research-based knowledge on the multidimensional nature of old age social exclusion and its consequences for health and to identify conditions that minimize social exclusion of disadvantaged groups.

A Study of Cases in the County Board Concerning Care Orders

The project deals with the Child Welfare Service’s and the County Social Welfare Boards’ handling of compulsory care order cases in ethnic minority families.

ACCESS Life Course Database: Upgrade and Expansion

Life course studies constitute an important research area for social- and health sciences. In Norway, studies that follow the same individuals over a longer period of time, have been relatively scarce. Through the ACCESS Upgrade infrastructure, researchers and students will gain access to updated and upgraded longitudinal life course data for more than 11,000 Norwegians born between 1922 and 1966.

Accommodation of Regional Diversity in Ukraine (ARDU)

ARDU's main goal is to produce knowledge of how ethnicity, language and regional-local identity work in the context of political reform in Ukraine.

Active Ageing – Pathways and Outcomes (AgePaths)

This project investigates pathways and outcomes of active ageing in three domains and their interactions: the labor market, civil society, and the family.

Activity Friend for Persons with Dementia

The project addresses what role the "activity friend" volunteers play in municipal health care and for people with dementia in Norway.

Adolescent Physical Violence. Understanding Societal Trends and Life Outcomes for Perpetrators

This project covers the use of violence among Norwegian adolescents and is financed through the Domestic Violence Research Program at NOVA.

Adolescents in Oslo in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The aim of the study was to map young people’s everyday life and quality of life, and how they experience the COVID-19 pandemic while they were still subject to strict restrictions.

Against All Odds?

Why do some care leavers end up doing well as young adults, against all odds? What does "doing well" mean to young women and men, with majority backgrounds? These are questions we seek to investigate in this project.

AI-Mind

The goal of the research is to reduce the burden of dementia by developing novel, AI-based tools to support healthcare professionals in their diagnosis and offering timely interventions to patients.

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.

Amazing grazing

Amazing grazing will bring new knowledge on how sheep rangeland grazing systems can be part of sustainable food and fiber systems.

Ambulance workers’ assessment of self-determination and capacity to consent

The aim of this PhD project is to investigate ambulance workers' knowledge and experiences to assess the right to self-determination and capacity to consent in prehospital meetings with patients with mental health illnesses and/or drug-related issues.

Applying Artificial Intelligence in Developing Personalized and Sustainable Healthcare for Spinal Disorders (AID-Spine, part I)

We will use machine learning methods on large survey and health register data in order to identify people with different treatment trajectories and health outcomes after surgical and/or conservative treatment for spinal disorders.

Area Review of Housing Solutions and Health and Care Services for the Elderly

How can the state and municipality more effectively facilitate elderly people to age in place?

Artificial intelligence - a novel tool in assisted reproduction technology

The project aims to improve the methods for selecting sperm and embryos and increase the chance of pregnancy and live-born children.

Artificial intelligence - a novel tool in assisted reproduction technology

The project aims to improve the methods for selecting sperm and embryos and increase the chance of pregnancy and live-born children.

Assessment for Learning in Citizenship Education (ALiCE)

The project aims to develop a framework for assessment, with a focus on formative assessment, in the context of citizenship education across Europe.

Better adherence of antibiotics through academic detailing of community pharmacists

The purpose of this PhD project is to assess whether Academic Detailing is suitable as an intervention method for pharmacy pharmacists in the subject of antibiotic treatment and resistance.

Better Provision for Norway's Children in ECEC

Better provision of Norway’s Children in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) was the first major study in Norway to focus specifically on the quality and effectiveness of ECEC.

Between "ghostwriters" and non-human sounds: Music professions and AI technologies

This PhD project aims to investigate the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in Norwegian music professions.

Beyond access: improving quality of early years reading instructions in Ethiopia

The objective of the project is to improve the quality of education for primary grades in Ethiopian schools. This is done through heightening the capacity and competence of teachers and Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) and higher education institutions in Ethiopia in the area of early years reading instructions.

Brain activation during gait and balance

The human body is a biological marvel in many ways. A seemingly simple and everyday characteristic that tends to be overlooked is bipedality, which results from a complex stability and balance system that enables humans to stand, walk, and run.

Caring for Children with Disabilities

The research project will investigate whether children with disabilities have their fundamental rights safeguarded in encounters with the health and care service.

Causality, complexity and evidence in pharmacovigilance

Detecting unknown adverse reactions of marketed medicines is challenging and needs improved methods to assess causality, as well as improved quality of clinical observations.

CENSU - Climate Change Energy Sustainability

CENSU is a Norwegian-Tanzanian-Mozambican university collaboration within education and research which focuses on sustainable gas extraction and governance in the context of vulnerable communities and climate change.

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

Challenges of Participation (CHAPAR)

Why is user participation so difficult to attain in health and welfare services? The proposed project aims to develop knowledge about challenges and conditions for participation for groups of service users that experience special barriers to participation.

Challenging the design principle of mixed-worded questionnaire scales

The project focuses on the design principle of combining both positively and negatively worded items in questionnaire scales (e.g., “I usually do well in mathematics” and “I am just not good at mathematics”). The assumption is that mixed-worded scales have unintended consequences for the quality of the data.

CHANGE: Environmental systems shift in clothing consumption

In CHANGE, we will investigate what is most essential to reduce the environmental impact of clothing: reduce the amount of clothing that is produced, acquired and disposed of.

Child Protection and Pluralism

The aim of the project is to evaluate the effects of a communication campaign about Norwegian child protection services.

Child Welfare in Norway 1990-2011

A register data study of Norwegian child welfare clients.

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.

Child Welfare Services and Risk Assessment

The project investigates how the child welfare services work on risk assessment and safety measures when a child is placed outside the home.

Child Welfare Services and their Work With Cases of Violence and Abuse

This project aims to fill the knowledge gap about how the Norwegian child welfare service tackles violence and abuse cases.

Children with a Refugee Background – Measures for Inclusion and Belonging (Barnfluk)

The project aims to discover the experiences children and young people who come to Norway as refugees have with the settlement and integration process, and how municipalities work with this group.

Children's Level of Living: The Impact of Family Economy for Children's Lives

The aim of the project was to explore how income influence different aspects of children's lives.

Cities confronted by protests: Democratic governance for efficient and socially just climate transformation (DEMOCLIM)

DEMOCLIM explores new democratic governance methods in the design and implementation of effective and socially just climate policies that emerge in the face of climate protests in four Scandinavian cities; Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Classroom activities for the six-year-olds – 20 years on (Klassprax_20)

The project investigates and evaluates the classroom activities of six year old children. It sheds light on changes made between "Reform 97" and "Fagfornyelsen L20".

Climate change and ecosystems management in Malawi and Tanzania

A project to strengthen research capacity and capabilities in institutions in Malawi and Tanzania.

Clinical pharmacology of antiseizure medications

Pharmacological treatment is challenging and needs individualized monitoring.

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 of new forms of co-creation, analyse how co-creation practices challenge established forms of governance based on Classical Public Administration and New Public Management, and identify and assess the coping strategies deployed by local public managers who are aiming to deal with the current transformations.

Co-occurrent pain and psychological distress: From adolescence to adulthood

The project will use population-based data from four cross-sectional databases (SHoT, Young-HUNT1, Young-HUNT3 and Young-HUNT4) linked with prospectively collected data from national administrative and health registries.

COIL in Deaf Studies and Sign Language

Establish a basis for a sustainable system for a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) module in deaf studies and sign language. COIL can be described as virtual student and staff exchange as a strategic tool for internationalization of the curriculum.

Combining Work and Care for Older Parents (CoWorkCare)

In this research project the researchers aims to generate new knowledge on how senior employees' care obligations for their older parents affect their labour market participation.

Complementary Pathways for Adult Refugees: The Role of VET, Skills and Qualifications

The aim of the project is to increase the evidence base which can support policy- and decision-making in EU MS in designing and implementing complementary pathway mechanisms for admission of adult refugees from a first host country to an EU country through use of VET, skills and qualifications.

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.

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.

CONTEXT – Creating Integrated Person-centred Care in Different Settings

This project addresses how settings and contexts which enhance people-centred care can be created.

CONTRA – Conflicts in transformations

CONTRA explores how institutionalising productive conflict can increase the transformative capacity needed in the transition towards more sustainable cities.

Coping with Flexibility. Behavioral Adaptations to the New Pension System and their Consequences in a Lifetime Perspective

The aim of this project is to study how people adapt to the reformed pension system. In particular, we look at adaptations to the increasing flexibility offered – both in terms of savings, and in terms of job planning and ways of combining work and pension uptake.

Cosmopolitan Turn and Democratic Sentiments (CONSENT)

CONSENT is a large bilateral project between Norway and Romania. The main objective is to investigate empirically, both in Romania and Norway, to what extent the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is considered to be relevant when developing politics and law.

Crisis Management in a Polycentric Nordic Local Democracy: Different Governance Structures – Different Results? (POLYGOV)

The overall goal of the project is to identify the differences in the Nordic countries’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the outcomes thereof and to relate these differences to policy, governance, organisation and management.

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.

Critical thinking in primary education

KriT is an interdisciplinary project aiming at developing educational models for critical thinking in primary education using children’s literature and news.

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.

Crosscare-Old: A Cross Sectoral Approach to High Quality Healthcare Transitions for Older People

The project aims to increase the understanding of the role of cross-sectoral factors that constitute barriers for high quality care transitions for older people from hospital to municipal care.

DARE – Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality

The project investigates how young people aged between 12 and 30 respond to messages and agents of radicalisation.

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.

Decisions on contact between parents and children in child welfare care measures

The main purpose of this study is to develop knowledge on how child welfare employees and County Social Welfare Boards assess and justify the organization and extent of contact between children, siblings and parents after a care measure.

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.

Democracy, Equality, Learning and Mobilisation for Future Citizens (DEMOCIT)

How does Norwegian youths develop political efficacy and belief in their own participation in democratic society? The aim of DEMOCIT is to partake in reducing a growing civic empowerment gap within Norwegian democracy.

Democratic Urban Development in the Digital Age (DEMUDIG)

The DEMUDIG project investigates the extent and influence of citizen participation through ICT and social media in urban governance.

Developing ICT in Teacher Education (DiCTE)

The overarching aim of the project is to develop ICT in teacher education. The project identifies student teachers’ levels of digital competence when entering and towards the end of their studies. Insight on the integration of ICT is compared across institutions.

Development of a care pathway for patients with hand osteoarthritis

The project aims to increase our knowledge of the current hand osteoarthritis pathways, the context and mechanisms for shifting tasks between health actors and care levels. We will compare occupational therapist-led care with traditional rheumatologist-led care.

Development of a less polluting, automated façade system connected to the building management system

An innovative project offering a CO2-reducing, remote façade maintenance system that will contribute to green change both nationally and internationally.

DigiGen – The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation

DigiGen aims to develop knowledge about how children and young people use and are affected by the technological transformations in their everyday lives.

Digital and navigation health literacy for people with long-term conditions

The overall aim of this project is to gain knowledge about health literacy among people with long-term conditions.

Digital follow-up of patients with type 1 diabetes in the specialist health service (DigiDiaS)

This project aims to increase knowledge about user-guided treatment and digital tools in the follow-up of patients with type 1 diabetes at an endocrinology outpatient clinic.

Digital Prism and the Nordic Model of Workplace Democracy under Pressure (DigiWORK)

Big data and artificial intelligence are radically transforming the ways in which we work, are hired and fired, managed and led. Datafication is impacting our ability to influence our work conditions. Yet, the consequences of datafication of work for workplace democracy, co-determination, individual autonomy and participation have so far not been fully understood.

Digital Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents

The project will, in a comprehensive literature review, map existing knowledge about digital sexual violence against children and adolescents.

Digital vulnerabilities at home (PhD project)

This PhD project is concerned with how internet connected devices in homes, such as smart assistants, smart lights, smart door locks and robot vacuums, are integrated into the Norwegian households’ everyday life.

Direct and Indirect Costs of Disabilities in Children (BUDGET)

The research project addresses the costs aspects of caring for a child with a disability.

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. While researchers have documented socioeconomic and geographic variables that contribute to disparities in infection and mortality, there has been little to no investigation of disability as a risk factor during influenza pandemics, despite the warnings of epidemiologists that persons with disabilities would be at increased risk.

Disadvantaged in the Housing Market: Effects of Public Interventions (DISADVANTEGED)

This project aims to evaluate all major social housing policy instruments in Norway, aimed at helping disadvantaged individuals to better and more stable housing.

DISCo: Digital infrastructures for sustainable consumption: Redirecting, reorganizing, reducing and reimaging consumption

DISCo aims to produce knowledge on how consumption can move in a more sustainable direction by applying digital technologies.

Discrimination of Muslims in the Labour Market

The topic of this project is the discrimination of Muslims in the labour market.

Do you want to participate in an interview about how it is to receive social assistance?

We are looking for participants to a study about how it is to receive social assistance. Your contribution is important for us to understand how it is to live on social assistance.

DWARF - Drinking Water Readiness for the Future

In this project the future trends in Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) will be predicted based on the developed conceptual understanding of the main drivers and pressures governing DOM levels and quality, and future climate and land-use scenarios.

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 and that their epidemiology and impact are profoundly shaped by social and economic structures. While the state of the art mainly studies medical risk factors, this project proposes to study the "forgotten" socioeconomic risk factors for unequal morbidity, compliance to the NPIs and labor market consequences.

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.

EGREEN+ – European Green Mastery

In EGREEN+ we are working to harmonise sustainable European competence certificates for landscaping, gardening and floristry.

Emigration from today’s Norway: Who, why, and how does it shape Norwegian society? (EXITNORWAY)

Little is known about those who emigrate from Norway today, why they leave, and how their emigration affects Norwegian society.

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 new policies.

English as a Lingua Franca For Inclusive Multilingual Classrooms (ENRICH)

ENRICH aims at developing a high-quality Continuous Professional Development infrastructure which will empower English language teachers to integrate in multilingual classrooms the current role of English as a Lingua Franca.

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.

Equality and Multiculturalism

A comparative study of Norwegian and Dutch processes of alterity and identity.