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RDV-Seminar: Child Welfare Predictive Risk Models and Legal Decision-Making 

Video: In this seminar titled Child Welfare Predictive Risk Models and Legal Decision-Making, Matthew Trail discussed the use of algorithmic […]
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Grant Awarded for Research on Child Rights and Public Safety 

NEW PROJECT: The Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) is proud to announce that together with the Law […]
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Professor Marit Skivenes Participates as Panelist at the Nordic Seminar on Child Confinement in Helsinki 

On Friday, September 13th, Dr. Marit Skivenes, director of the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) and Professor […]
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Professor Marit Skivenes to Address Legal Security for Children in Foster Care at the Annual Fosterhjemskonferansen 

On Monday, September 16th, Dr. Marit Skivenes, director of the Centre for Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) and Professor at the […]
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Breakfast-seminar: TikTok Social Workers revolutionizing child protection 

Our “Breakfast Seminar for practitioners” (Barnevernfrokost) is a video seminar which aims to communicate important research and projects to professionals […]
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RDV-seminar: Navigating institutional borders: young refugees’ access to post-15 education in Greece 

Video: In this seminar titled Navigating Institutional Borders: Young Refugees’ Access to Post-15 Education in Greece, Dr. Lucy Hunt addressed […]
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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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Join Us: Professors Jill D. Berrick and Marit Skivenes at the Inequality Talks 

We are excited to announce that our professors, Marit Skivenes, Director of Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) […]
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The Social Media, Online and Digital Abuse and Harassment of Social Workers, Probation Officers and Social Work Students in Ireland: A National Survey 

NEW ARTICLE: Researchers Kenneth Burns, Olwen Halvey, Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin, Elaine O’Callaghan, and Gabriel Coelho from the University College Cork, […]
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RDV-seminar: Regulating Judges in a Modern Democracy: Insights from Canada 

Video: Professor Richard Devlin and Professor Sheila Wildeman from the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada, delivered a thought-provoking […]
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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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Principal Investigator

Marit Skivenes

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+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87

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Marit.Skivenes@uib.no