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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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RDV-seminar: The role of perceptions and attitudes of public officials 

Video: Research Professor Steven Van de Walle from the KU Leuven, Belgium, delivered an insightful presentation titled The role of […]
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RDV-seminar: Exploring the intersection of food and family intervention policies in England: how are children included? 

Video: Our guest researcher Francesca Vaghi (PhD) delivered an insightful presentation titled Exploring the intersection of food and family intervention […]
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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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Discretionary Decision-Making in Child Protection Care Order Cases 

PUBLIC DEFENCE: We are immensely happy to announce that our PhD-fellow Barbara Ruiken successfully defended her dissertation “Discretionary Decision-Making in […]
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Minister Toppe Proposes Key Steps to Strengthen Child Protection System 

The Ministry of Children and Families of Norway (Det kongelige barne- og familiedepartement) published a new law report titled “Consultation […]
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Summaries of articles now available in four languages 

Read about some of the most extensive research on child protection and welfare in Norwegian, Russian, Romanian, and English! Insight […]
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Participation Workshop 

On Thursday 7th of March and Friday 8th of March 2024, the Centre for Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) hosted the […]
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Professor Skivenes’ keynote on the legitimacy of child protection on the 26th National Conference in Finland

The 26th National Social Work Research Conference in Tampere University, Finland, has gathered scholars, researchers, government representatives, as well as […]
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Blogpost: Will the U.S. Abolition Narrative Make its Way to Europe?

BLOG: Forces in the U.S. are calling for the abolition of the child protection system. Could Europe be next? Blog […]
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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

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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