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Young Brazilian Wives: Child Marriage, Girls’ Marginalisation, and Agency

NEW ARTICLE: Larissa Cristina Margarido, a PhD candidate at FGV São Paulo Law School, Brazil, and former guest researcher at […]
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The Book “Adoption from Care” Now Translated to Japanese 

We are pleased to announce that the book “Adoption from Care: International Perspectives on Children’s Rights, Family Preservation and State […]
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Legal Opportunity Structure and Legal Battles Over Sex Education and LGBTQ Students in Brazil and Colombia 

NEW ARTICLE:  Ana Côrtes, a researcher at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA), and Juliana Jaramillo, from […]
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Two new chapters in the Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research – Knowledge-Building, Application, and Impact

NEW CHAPTERS: Professors Marit Skivenes, Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert, Tarja Pösö, and June Thoburn have authored two chapters in […]
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Does age and maltreatment matter? A survey experiment of the Nordic populations’ attitudes towards participation 

NEW ARTICLE: Postdoctoral fellow Hege Stein Helland has published a study examining Nordic populations’ attitudes toward children’s participation in child […]
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Public Rights Orientations and Views on Long-Term Care Options for Children in the Child Protection System

NEW ARTICLE: Professors Marit Skivenes, Jill D. Berrick, and Postdoctoral Fellow Hege Stein Helland have published a new article titled […]
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The famous Sounding Board blog discusses “our” child protection typology

The July edition of the renowned Sounding Board blog features an insightful discussion titled “Comparing Child Protection: Northern Europe vs. […]
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Performance and Trust in Child Protection Systems: A Comparative Analysis of England and Norway

NEW ARTICLE: Bilal Hassan (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen) published a new article on […]
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What do we know about children’s representation in child protection decisions? 

NEW ARTICLE: PhD Fellow Frøydis Lønborg Haarberg published a scoping review on children’s representation in child protection decisions in the […]
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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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University of Bergen

Department of Government
C/O Marit Skivenes

P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen
Norway

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Marit Skivenes

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+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87

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Marit.Skivenes@uib.no