This group is multi-disciplinary, comprising mostly sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists. Empirical research on adolescents is based on local and regional qualitative and quantitative studies, as well as national representative surveys.
Main research topics are youth culture and leisure activities, social inequality, school adjustment, alcohol and drug use, sexual culture and risk, digital lives, delinquency and conduct problems, intergenerational relations and issues concerning ethnicity and the multi-cultural society.
Head of research group
Members
Members
Large data-sets
Large-scale ongoing data collections – both quantitative and qualitative – with young people as informants constitute a focal point of NOVA's youth research.
Research projects
Publications
- Vehkalahti, K., Eriksen, I.M. & Østergaard, J. (red.) (2025). Growing Up Rural. Qualitative Longitudinal Explorations of Young People Living in the Nordic Countries. Palgrave Macmillan
- Tokle, R., & Stefansen, K. (2025). Sexual Debut Projects: Navigating Identity, Desire, and Risk in Youth Sexual Culture. Sexuality & Culture
- Eriksen, I.M.; Persson, M.F. & Rogstad, J. (2025). Navigating critical phases in adversity in youth: identification and reorientation. Journal of Youth Studies
- Stefansen, K. & Strandbu, Å. (2025). Social Closure in the Youth Sport Field: The Pull of the Game on Class-Privileged Parents. Sociology
- Løvgren, M. & Hyggen, C. (2025). Belonging matters: a scoping review of survey. Social Psychology og Education
- Rogstad, J.; Eriksen, I. & Moberg, K. (2025). The Reproduction of Wealth Inequality: How Middle- and Upper-Class Parents Instil Financial Orientations in Their Children. Sociology
- Frøyland, L.R. m.fl. (2025). School party culture as a driver of cocaine use among Norwegian adolescents: A cross-classified multilevel analysis. Drug and Alcohol Dependence
- Heggebø, K. & Ljunggren, J. (2025). Are there gender differences in mental healthcare utilisation preceding deaths of despair? A retrospective cohort study of Norwegian register data (2008–2017) BMJ Open
- Aarset, M.F. & Rosten, M.G. (2024). Stuck in Representation. Muslims Participating in the Norwegian Public Sphere. Journal of Extreme Anthropology
- Holmarsdottir, H.B. et al. (2024). Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People. Springer Nature
- Johansson, S. et al (Eds.) (2024). Justice and Recovery for Victimised Children Institutional Tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus Models. Palgrave Macmillan
You will find more publications on the researchers' employee pages.