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The Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems

NEW BOOK: This handbook, edited by Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes, is the largest to date overview […]
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Online Hate Towards Child Care Workers: Findings from a national study in Ireland

VIDEO: dr. Kenneth Burns, dr. Fiachra Ó’Súilleabháin and MA Olwen Halvey have presented an outline of initial findings when it […]
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Guest researcher: Victor Cepoi

We are happy to announce that Victor Cepoi will be visiting DIPA as a guest researcher! Victor Cepoi is an […]
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Forandringsfabrikken: “Må hjelpe for oss”

REPORT: “Må hjelpe for oss” (Must help us) Anika Kurshed, together with two child protection professionals, presented main findings from […]
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Structuring practice for children’s participation

As part of the Centre’s project on Children’s Right to Participation, project members Frøydis Petersen Jensen, Professor Katrin Kriz and […]
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Family connections for children in long-term care, guardianship or open adoption

BLOG: In Australia there is developed a comprehensive set of tools to facilitate and ensure positive, safe and child-centred relationships […]
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Those that challenge state authority

BLOG: Those that challenge state authority – The critics of the welfare state and the child protection system are diverse with […]
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“Under His Eye”: Poland inches closer to Gilead as it targets children and families

BLOG: An Institute for Family and Demography could possess legal authority to intervene directly into divorce and child custody proceedings […]
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Who pays for foster care? In the U.S., parents do

BLOG: U.S federal law make the parents pay for foster care. The intention is to make foster care shorter – […]
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The child’s right to decide who is ‘family’

BLOG: When asked by researchers, most children in long-term foster care or adoptive families want more rather than less contact […]
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Research Centre at the University of Bergen. We study government’s use of power towards its citizens, and justifications thereof. Focus on children's rights and child protection.

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Christies gate 17

5007 Bergen

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University of Bergen

Department of Government
C/O Marit Skivenes

P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen
Norway

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Principal Investigator

Marit Skivenes

Phone:
+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87

E-mail:
Marit.Skivenes@uib.no