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Listening to the Voices of Children

BLOG: It is time for schools and social care facilities to elicit the voices of all children systematically and continuously.
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PhD-course on Children’s Rights

COURSE: Open, interdisciplinary doctoral course in August 2021 with a special focus on children’s rights.
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Adoption from Care

NEW BOOK: International Perspectives on Children’s Rights, Family Preservation and State Intervention.
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Children’s Participation in Child Welfare Services

VIDEO: Asgeir Falch-Eriksen gives a presentation about research on children’s participation in child welfare services (in Norwegian).
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Deportation of Children

BLOG: When a state decides to deport a child, this decision needs to take the child’s rights and their best […]
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Selected Chair of the Child Protection Committee

NEWS: Professor Skivenes is appointed by the Norwegian government to lead a national expert group reviewing the child protection system.
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Changes in Child-Protection Systems?

NEW ARTICLE: Katre Luhamaa explores whether international human-rights supervision are triggering changes in child-protection systems.
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Solidarity with Care-leaver Mothers

NEW ARTICLE: Jenny Krutzinna explores the dilemma between protecting children and safeguarding mothering opportunities for care-experienced mothers.
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Support for Mothers and Newborns in Vulnerable Situations

VIDEO: Barbara Ruiken presenting findings from research on services for families in vulnerable situations (in Norwegian).
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Anger and Anxiety About Child Protection

BLOG: The role of emotions in child protection are understudied and underemphasized.
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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