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Breakfast-seminar: Knowledge-based parental guidance for migrant families

VIDEO: Professor Ragnhild Bjørknes (University of Bergen) gives a presentation about an ongoing research project in Norway on the effects […]
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Grant awarded for global research on child protection systems

The Centre is delighted to share the news that the interdisciplinary research project “Child Protection Systems Across the World” (CPS-WORLD) […]
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Breakfast-seminar: Improving Danish child protection

VIDEO: Judge, Karina Rohrberg Jessen, gives a presentation about the development of new Danish legislation, aiming to provide earlier and […]
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Blogpost: Who pays for foster care? In the U.S., parents do

BLOG: U.S federal law make the parents pay for foster care. The intention is to make foster care shorter – […]
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How are adoptions from care justified?

PUBLIC DEFENCE: Our very own Hege Stein Helland expertly defended her dissertation “Discretion and the Demand for Reasons: Justifications for […]
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Justifying care order decisions in cases of violence

NEW ARTICLE: Audun Løvlie and Marit Skivenes examines the Norwegian County Social Welfare Board’s care order justifications in cases where […]
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Breakfast-seminar: Child Interviews and the Use of Interactive Avatars

VIDEO: Associate Professor, Gunn Astrid Baugerud, gives a presentation about a new interdisciplinary research project that looks at how digital […]
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Child Protection – Will We Ever Get It Right?

LECTURE: DIPA Director, Professor Marit Skivenes, presented ongoing research on international child protection at the University of Bergen’s 75th Anniversary. […]
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In the Best Interest of the Child?

NEW ARTICLE: Researcher at DIPA, Hege Stein Helland, studies the justification and rationality behind adoption from care decisions in the […]
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Breakfast-seminar: Conflict Management and Communication in Child Protection

VIDEO: Camilla Bernt gives a presentation about affected parties’ access to conversation and negotiation processes in care order cases at […]
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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