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Breakfast-seminar: How do Children and Parents Experience Child Protection Proceedings?

VIDEO: Stefan Schnurr gives a presentation about an interim report and ongoing research on childrens’ and parents’ experiences.
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Sharing New Research from the Centre at EuSARF 2021 Conference

The European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF) organized its 16th Conference on September […]
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Child Rights in Focus

As co-hosts for the Bergen Exchanges 2021, DIPA organized a series of events on the rights of children and child […]
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Breakfast-seminar: Music Therapy in Child Welfare Services

VIDEO: Viggo Krüger gives a presentation about how music can help children who experience a challenging childhood (in Norwegian).
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Breakfast-seminar: Norway in the European Court of Human Rights

VIDEO: Karl Harald Søvig gives a presentation about the consequences that the decisions from Strasbourg have for the Norwegian child […]
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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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Breakfast-seminar: 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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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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Breakfast-seminar: 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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Breakfast-seminar: Adoption as a Child Welfare Measure

VIDEO: Hege Stein Helland presenting findings from research on adoption from care without parental consent (in Norwegian).
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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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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

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+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87

E-mail:
Marit.Skivenes@uib.no