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Privacy and Future Consent in Smart Homes as Assisted Living Technologies
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)In the field of assisted living technologies, one central strand is to investigate how smart homes might fulfill ambitions for older adults to live longer at home. With the advent of the General Data Protection Regulative ... -
Privatisation of residential care for children and youth in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
(Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research;Årgang 6, nr. 3-2021,, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-09)Few studies have investigated the privatisation of residential care for children and youth, and no studies have compared, mapped, and discussed the care markets that have developed in the Nordic countries. Here, we map and ... -
The Problem of Equal Opportunities in Housing. Immigrants in a Liberalized Housing Market
(Scandinavian Studies in Law;68 Equality, March 2022, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)This chapter focuses on equality in the realm of housing, and the dilemma raised when universal policy objectives are combined with market mechanisms. More specifically, the focus here is on the equality of opportunities ... -
Profiling a Pandemic. Who were the victims of the Spanish flu?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)At the end of May 1918, the Spanish government was one of the first to admit that a new disease had emerged in their country. The newswire from Reuters reported that King Alfonso XIII, the prime minister, and ... -
Program theory within policy-initiated evaluations: the Norwegian low-income family study
(Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work;Volume 15, Issue 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-26)Using as an example a project where the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Directorate developed a comprehensive model for the follow-up of low-income families, this article demonstrates the process of developing a program theory ... -
Promoting Students’ Mental Health: A Study of Inter-professional Team Collaboration Functioning in Norwegian Schools
(September 2019, Volume 11, Issue 3, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-22)Collaboration between different professions is thought to be important for mental health work in schools. However, highquality collaboration is often difficult to achieve in practice, and there is little research available ... -
Propping up interdisciplinarity: responsibility in university flagship research
(Journal of Responsible Innovation;Volume 8, 2021 - Issue 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-25)Researchers’ communication activities are influenced by motivations and abilities, but also by specific topics and artefacts of research. This is seldom acknowledged in efforts to embed responsible research and innovation ... -
Prospective register-based study of the impact of immigration on educational inequalities in mortality in Norway
(BMC public health;15(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-04-11)Background: Differences in mortality with regard to socioeconomic status have widened in recent decades in many European countries, including Norway. A rapid upsurge of immigration to Norway has occurred since the 1990s. ... -
Protocol for a systematic review to understand the long-term mental-health effects of influenza pandemics in the pre-COVID-19 era
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Aims: This protocol describes a forthcoming systematic review of the question: ‘What are the long-term effects of historical influenza pandemics on mental health, resulting either from illness itself or the social or ... -
Protocol: Feasibility study and pilot randomised trial of a multilingual support intervention to improve Norwegian language skills for adult refugees
(International Journal of Educational Research;Volume 112, 2022, 101925, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This protocol is for a feasibility study and pilot trial of a multilingual support intervention. The intervention’s aim is to improve language training for refugees in Norway by introducing multilingual support assistants ... -
Psychiatric diagnoses as grounds for disability pension among former child welfare clients
(Longitudinal and life course studies;8(4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study used the 1987 Finnish Birth Cohort, which included all children born in Finland in 1987 (N=59,476), to investigate psychiatric diagnoses as grounds for disability pensions (DPs) among child welfare clients and ... -
The psychological effects of providing personal care to a partner: a multidimensional perspective
(Health Psychological Research;1(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-07-30)The expected increasing demand for informal care in aging societies underscores the importance of understanding the psychological implications of caregiving. This study explores the effect of providing regular help with ... -
The ‘psychological turn’ in self-help services for sexual abuse victims: Driversand dilemmas
(International Review of Victimology;First Published April 20, 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-20)This article describes an ongoing process of transformation in sexual abuse counselling centres in Norway that involves a new classification of groups of victims. These centres have traditionally operated at the grassroots ... -
Psychosocial outcome and resilience after paediatric liver transplantation in young adults
(Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology;Volume 43, Issue 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-05)Background and objective: The long-term psychosocial outcome of young adults after paediatric liver transplantation (LT) was investigated with the focus on day-to-day living. We aimed to capture patients’ subjective ... -
Psykiske plager blant ungdom: sosiale forskjeller og historien om de flinke pikene
(Barn i Norge;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Ungdom flest i Norge er fornøyd med livet sitt, de er aktive, har gode relasjoner til foreldre og venner og har et positivt syn på framtiden (NOVA 2015). Samtidig har vi de siste årene sett en økende bekymring for psykiske ... -
Public beliefs about high-voltage powerlines in Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom: A comparative survey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)As countries worldwide, and particularly in Europe, move to increase deployment of low carbon energy sources, significant investments in new transmission networks are planned. However, past cases of public opposition – ... -
Public employment services: Building social resilience in youth?
(Social Policy & Administration;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-21)It is contested to what extent public employment services (PES) help build resilience in young unemployed people. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 19 people born in Germany and Norway between 1990 and 1995, the article ... -
Public Governance-Constraints and Challenges for Social Work Practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)In the wake of public sector reforms, the work environment of professionals is changing; there is more description of results and outputs and tighter requirements of front-line work. The changes taking place address a ... -
Public involvement and narrative fallacies of nanotechnologies
(NanoEthics;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-12)This paper analyzes a European research project called ‘Deepening Ethical Engagement and Participation in Emerging Nanotechnologies’ with the abbreviation DEEPEN. The DEEPEN’s findings and conclusions on the narratives, ... -
Public policy on career education, information, advice and guidance: Developments in the United Kingdom and Norway
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-22)This chapter considers the role of career education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) services. On the one hand, it looks at public policy in England, where such services have a 20-year record of instability; on ...