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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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A Tale of Two Cases: Understanding Child Welfare Decisions 

Sometimes child protection services make very different decisions on protecting children, even in seemingly similar situations. But why does this […]
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Understanding Children’s Role in Child Protection: What Research Reveals 

Have you ever wondered how children can have a say in big decisions that affect their life? How are kids’ […]
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Making Sure Kids Get Heard: A Study on Children’s Rights  

In a recent study called “Reconciling Children’s Best Interests and Right to be Heard”, DIPA’s researcher Hege Beate Stein Helland […]
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Blogpost: About to do research with children? Here are some questions to ask yourself 

BLOG: Reflexivity is key throughout the research process. Here are some questions to get started.  Blogpost by: Dr. Francesca Vaghi, […]
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Breakfast-seminar: Practical law in child welfare studies- experience from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences 

Our “Breakfast Seminar for practitioners” (Barnevernfrokost) is a video seminar which aims to communicate important research to professionals and students […]
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Blogpost: Building child rights-based anti-racist competencies in the Finnish social field

BLOG: Finland is becoming increasingly diverse. But is the Finnish social field equipped to meet children of diverse backgrounds? Blogpost […]
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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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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