PhD project aimed at understanding how Oslo youths from different backgrounds use social media to create a sense of belonging.
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
The project addresses how the spatial context in which people live during different stages of their lives shape their life prospects and socioeconomic outcomes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ACT UP! delivers an innovative theatre-based educational methodology for promoting active citizenship among student in urban climate politics.
This project investigates pathways and outcomes of active ageing in three domains and their interactions: the labor market, civil society, and the family.
The project addresses what role the "activity friend" volunteers play in municipal health care and for people with dementia in Norway.
This project covers the use of violence among Norwegian adolescents and is financed through the Domestic Violence Research Program at NOVA.
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.
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.
This project addresses examples of age-friendly homes for older people, as well as obstacles municipalities and housing developers encounter during the phases of planning and building such housing solutions.
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 will bring new knowledge on how sheep rangeland grazing systems can be part of sustainable food and fiber systems.
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.
We use machine learning methods to develop and validate prediction models for health and welfare outcomes after treatment for spinal disorders.
The project aims to improve the methods for selecting sperm and embryos and increase the chance of pregnancy and live-born children.
The project aims to improve the methods for selecting sperm and embryos and increase the chance of pregnancy and live-born children.
The project aims to develop a framework for assessment, with a focus on formative assessment, in the context of citizenship education across Europe.
The primary objective of this project is to investigate the influence of workplace automation on meaningful work.
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are associated with changes in gut microbiota and disturbed energy metabolism. Is there a crosstalk between gut bacteria and host energy metabolism?
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.
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.
The objective of the project is to improve the quality of education for primary grades in Ethiopian schools.
The overall aim of the project is to explore childbirth experience and breastfeeding in women with PCOS.
How can social consequences be established as conditioned reinforcers in children with autism, and what can challenge the establishing?
We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing on return to work among sick-listed people due to musculoskeletal disorders.
The research project will investigate whether children with disabilities have their fundamental rights safeguarded in encounters with the health and care service.
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 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.
This project studies to what extent firm policies are affected by managers’ personal assets allocation, asset allocation, and founders' opportunity cost.
The project focuses on the design principle of combining both positively and negatively worded items in questionnaire scales.
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.
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.
The aim of the project is to evaluate the effects of a communication campaign about Norwegian child protection services.
The project investigate the child welfare institutions for young people with drug addiction and separate institutions for one single young person.
The project investigates how the child welfare services work on risk assessment and safety measures when a child is placed outside the home.
This project aims to fill the knowledge gap about how the child welfare service tackles violence and abuse cases.
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.
We aim to gain new knowledge about physiotherapists and GPs' assessments of the choice of treatment for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Transforming the economic system from a linear to a circular economy is critical for realising a sustainable society. Circular-project asks: What are the main governance factors driving the co-creation of an innovative circular economy for reduced consump
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.
This research project aims to unravel the expectations of Norwegian local governments to the introduction
The project will provide new insight into the long-term consequences of early onset co-occurrent pain and psychological distress.
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 c
The primary objective of CoWorkCare is to generate knowledge on how employees' care obligations for their old parents affect their labour market participation.
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 throug
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.
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.
CONTRA explores how institutionalising productive conflict can increase the transformative capacity needed in the transition towards more sustainable cities.
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 pensio
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 poli
CLILNetLE aims to develop a shared conceptualisation and research agenda for the investigation of bi/multilingual disciplinary literacies in CLIL.
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.
The project focuses on how work inclusion may improve the social inclusion of migrants within comparative urban settings.
KriT is an interdisciplinary project aiming at developing educational models for critical thinking in primary education using children’s literature and news.
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.
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.
The project investigates how young people aged between 12 and 30 respond to messages and agents of radicalisation.
Free trade is under pressure. Fear of job losses and growing inequality has given rise to calls for protectionism and economic nationalism.
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.
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.
The aim of DEMOCIT is to partake in reducing a growing civic empowerment gap within Norwegian democracy.
The DEMUDIG project investigates the extent and influence of citizen participation through ICT and social media in urban governance.
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.
This PhD project focuses on understanding needs of youth with idiopathic scoliosis and to examine how the needs can be improved by using a digital solution – e.g. a smartphone application.
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 study the effects of dietary fat quality and fiber on metabolic regulation, and explore the association between diet, gut microbiota, and metabolic regulation.
DigiGen aims to develop knowledge about how children and young people use and are affected by the technological transformations in their everyday lives.
The overall aim of this project is to gain knowledge about health literacy among people with long-term conditions.
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.
This qualitative study explores the barriers and opportunities related to implementing digital health solutions in non-critical emergency care within the Norwegian healthcare context.
Our project investigates the tensions between Nordic openness and security that characterize surveillance practices at the Nordic borders, with a particular focus on new forms and tools of digital surveillance.
The project will, in a comprehensive literature review, map existing knowledge about digital sexual violence against children and adolescents.
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
A global influenza pandemic is imminent and public health preparedness plans that address the needs of vulnerable populations are indispensable.
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 aims to produce knowledge on how consumption can move in a more sustainable direction by applying digital technologies.
How can child welfare services and other support services collaborate more effectively to assist children and young people in vulnerable life situations?
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
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.
This project is dedicated to exploring both teachers' and students' perspectives on the implementation of artificial intelligence in an educational context.
We investigate the effect of cereal fiber on gut symptoms, gut microbiota, and metabolic regulation in people with coeliac disease or gut symptoms.
The effect of reinforcement and extinction on behavioral variability and the effects reinforcement and punishment have on rule-governed insensitivity.
Little is known about those who emigrate from Norway today, why they leave, and how their emigration affects Norwegian society.
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
In this project the researchers aim to generate new knowledge on the precondition for safe ageing in place.
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.
This project focus on the child´s right to participate in child protection assessment and decision-making.
The project will foster better intercultural understanding and professional inclusion of students with language and networking challenges.
This project aims to provide new knowledge on Atlantic salmon miRNAs as regulators of immune responses to other pathogens as well as stress related to sea water transfer.
The MADS project has a view of setting up a new European joint master’s programme in applied deaf studies.
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
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.
The main aim of the project is to evaluate 'Robust Youth' which is a program designed to being preventive and promote better health among youth.
An evaluation of the pilot project: Integrated accommodation for women, men and children at Romerike crisis center.
NOVA researchers will evaluate two pilot projects placing minority counsellors in secondary schools in vulnerable urban areas and adult learning centres.
This evaluation shall produce research-based knowledge on whether the Norwegian law on ritual circumcision of boys functions according to its purpose.
The project will generate knowledge that can shed light on whether the Children and Family Agency's arena-flexible team is functioning as intended and whether there is a need for changes in the measures.
The Project aims to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the EWC’s Schools for Democracy programme in Ukraine (2021-2024).
The evaluation is an effort to establish whether the conference has reached its goals both with regard to the final conference and its preliminary, regional meetings.
NOVA was commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security to evaluate activities and measures for arriving EEA citizens who subsist as beggars.
The evaluation of "National strategy Housing for welfare 2014-2020" will assess the development of housing social work in the municipalities during the strategy period: what has improved and what are the challenges?
In this project, we are investigating the conditions for work-life balance among younger partners in the legal industry.
The project develops new knowledge and generates research competence to promote exit processes from violent extremism and reintegration into the society.
The objective of the project is to increase the knowledge about the oldest workers and their experiences, as well as how companies handle work exit and the change in mandatory retirement age.
This PhD project will utilize mixed methods to explore the quality of care provided to new mothers and their newborn children in Palestine
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.
We spend much of our lives indoors where we interact with building microbiomes. We have developed methodologies to identify the microbes to which target groups are routinely exposed.
We research the role of extracellular vesicles as secreting factors from skeletal muscle, what they contain, and whether they can affect other cells.
In this project we aim to develop and test an innovative user-based programme for the implementation of falls-prevention programmes in Norway.
The main research question in this project is: What characterizes the interplay between labour market participation and engagement in family care for men and women with parents in need of care, and what are the conditions affecting adjustments within the
The researchers investigate what it implies for the family services to provide equal services in different local contexts, and what kind of challenges the services experience when trying to provide equal services.
The Family Partner project seeks to improve the services directed at the most vulnerable group in society; children growing up at risk of maltreatment.
The FREXO project investigates how online media affect the mobilizing capacity and the broader societal and political impact of far right politics.
From a perspective of ecological crisis, FeLT engages in the relations and intersections that occur between human beings, living environments and machines.
The LISTEN project performs research about fetal monitoring during labour and birth, in healthy women with low risk of complications.
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