• Work inclusion of marginalised groups in a troubled city district – How can active labour market policies improve? 

  Frøyland, Kjetil; Bull, Helen; Skarpaas, Lisebet Skeie; Berget, Gerd; Spjelkavik, Øystein; Lystad, June (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Active labour market policies (ALMP) have faced challenges in integrating marginalised groups into the workforce. This study explores perceptions among managers and frontline workers on enhancing work inclusion for ...

• Examining the impact of interviewer rejections following “Don't know” responses in forensic interviews of alleged preschool-aged victims of abuse 

  Grung, Rolf Magnus; Johnson, Miriam S.; Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid (Applied Cognitive Psychology;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  When forensic interviewers reject children's “Don't know” responses, either by repeating questions or pressuring the children to provide different responses, children may change their subsequent responses. The primary ...

• «… jeg bruker ikke denne søkingen»: En studie av afasi og informasjonssøking 

  Kvikne, Birgit (Norsk tidsskrift for logopedi;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Informasjonssøk stiller høye krav til språkferdigheter som ordmobilisering, staving og lesing. Denne studien undersøker i hvilken grad personer med afasi kan løse informasjonsbehov selv og hvordan hjelpeapparatet kan bidra ...

• Public libraries’ role in supporting Ukrainian refugees: A focus on Hungary and Poland 

  Johnston, Jamie; Mierzecka, Anna; Tóth, Máté; Paul, Magdalena; Kisilowska-Szurmińska, Małgorzata; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Vårheim, Andreas; Rydbeck, Kerstin; Jochumsen, Henrik; Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Casper; Pálsdóttir, Ágústa; Olson, Anna; Skare, Roswitha; Mathiasson, Mia (Journal of Librarianship and Information Science;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 led to Europe’s largest displacement of people since World War II, with significant substantial numbers of Ukrainian refugees seeking shelter in neighbouring countries. ...

• Organizational Supports for Practice Research: Illustrations from an International Practice Research Collaborative 

  Austin, Michael J.; McBeath, Bowen; Bin, Xu; Muurinen, Heidi; Natland, Sidsel; Roose, Rudi (Research on social work practice;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Organizational support represents a critical driver of practice research projects. This analysis includes four international examples of such support (Norway, Finland, Belgium, and USA and China). The four studies capture ...

• Interventions to Reduce Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Review with a Narrative Synthesis 

  Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira; Finne, Joakim; Tøge, Anne Grete; Maiken, Pontoppidan; Dion, Jacinthe; Pedersen, Eirin (International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Child maltreatment has been a prominent topic on the political agenda for the past decade. However, while there are several types of interventions that can potentially benefit the prevention of child maltreatment, uncertainties ...

• Arbeid etter jobbklubb? En longitudinell analyse 

  Tøge, Anne Grete; Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira (Søkelys på arbeidslivet;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  NAVs jobbklubb har vært en sentral del av arbeidsmarkedstiltakene i Norge i flere tiår, men vi vet lite om hvorvidt jobbklubb fører til økt arbeidsdeltakelse. I denne artikkelen undersøker vi arbeidsdeltakelsen blant ...

• Examining the Complexities of Conducting Randomized Controlled Trials in Child Welfare Settings 

  Finne, Joakim; Pedersen, Eirin; Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira; Tøge, Anne Grete (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard for assessing the effectiveness of interventions. At the same time, it is challenging to evaluate interventions using experimental designs ...

• Librarians, archivists, and museum professionals’ role perceptions and cross sectoral collaboration – Signs of convergence? 

  Toth, Mate; Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Vårheim, Andreas; Johnston, Jamie; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Public libraries, archives, and museums have identifiable differences related to their founding missions and play many roles in today’s cultural sector and broader society, yet LAM institutions’ professional activities ...

• “It Seemed Like Forever!” Shrinking Spaces of Conviviality at the Border of Norway and Russia 

  Gubrium, Erika; Aasland, Aadne; Lindskog, Benedikte V; López Arteaga, Erika Garcia; Mikheev, Igor (Journal of Borderlands Studies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  “Conviviality” is a useful term for exploring interactions and relationships taking place between different groups of people. While conviviality may arise through everyday processes, rhythms, and senses of belonging, it ...

• Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom 

  Jentoft, Elian Eve; Sandset, Tony Joakim Ananiassen; Haldar, Marit (Critical Policy Studies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  This article presents an analysis of discourses in recent UK policy on loneliness reduction. We use Carol Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be’ approach (WPR) to explore how the problem of loneliness produces ...

• A bold attempt to kill of the registry in Nordic public administration: A review of proposed archival legislation in Sweden and Norway 

  Andresen, Herbjørn (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Norway and Sweden are currently in the process of revising those parts of their legislative frameworks that regulate public records management and archiving. Both countries issued drafts for new record-keeping legislation, ...

• Measuring market volatility connectedness to media sentiment 

  Abdollahi, Hooman; Fjesme, Sturla Lyngnes; Sirnes, Espen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  We examine directional connectedness patterns from news and social media to financial market volatility using textual analysis and high-frequency data. We find that media sentiment induces market volatility, but the ...

• Generosity's Double-Edged Sword: Unmasking the Impact of Raised Social Assistance Rates in Norway 

  Lorentzen, Thomas; Dahl, Espen (International Journal of Social Welfare;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  As long as welfare arrangements have been in existence, there has been a strong belief that high-benefit generosity leads to welfare reliance. In this study, we investigate whether an increase in welfare generosity in ...

• Digital competence in social work education: readiness for practice 

  Fjeldheim, Siri; Kleppe, Lise Cecilie; Stang, Edda; Støren-Vaczy, Blanka (Social Work Education;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  In line with the digital turn in service provision, social work students should acquire relevant knowledge and skills, preparing them for work within digitalized welfare services. In Norway, these expectations are articulated ...

• Co-occurrence of dental caries and periodontitis: multilevel modelling approach 

  Stangvaltaite-Mouhat, Lina; Skudutyte-Rysstad, Rasa; Ko, Hayley Manalang; Stankeviciene, Indre; Aleksejuniene, Jolanta; Puriene, Alina (BMC Oral Health;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Background Previous studies reported varyingly positive, negative, or no relationships between caries and periodontitis. Therefore, the aim was to assess the potential co-occurrence of caries experience and periodontal ...

• Parenting and the State: Constructing Parental Responsibility by Democratic Neoliberal States 

  Hennum, Nicole; Aamodt, Hilde Anette (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Taking as a point of departure the changing meaning of responsibility, the article discusses what that change means for the relationship between parents, children, and the state. Parental responsibilities have come to the ...

• Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses 

  Tkach, Olga; Jensen, Tina Gudrun; Nieto, Alejandro Miranda (Space and Culture;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Many scholars have turned to neighboring, or neighbor interactions and practices, as an open-ended process rather than a finished ideal. In doing so, they have disrupted the romanticization of the neighborhood as a ...

• The Cantril Ladder elicits thoughts about power and wealth 

  Nilsson, August; Eichstaedt, Johannes C.; Lomas, Tim; Schwartz, Andrew; Kjell, Oscar (Scientific Reports;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The Cantril Ladder is among the most widely administered subjective well-being measures; every year, it is collected in 140+ countries in the Gallup World Poll and reported in the World Happiness Report. The measure asks ...

• Storying Climatically Changed Worlds — Potentials and Pitfalls of Future Journalism 

  Borgen-Eide, Gøril (Journalism Practice;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  This study explores the emerging phenomenon of future climate stories in journalism: stories where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) future scenario graphs are combined with storytelling using prior ...

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