Senter for velferds- og arbeidslivsforskning (SVA)
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Hypothetical mechanisms driving physical activity levels in ethnic minority groups living in Europe: a systematically identified evidence-based conceptual systems model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background In Europe, physical activity levels tend to be lower in ethnic minority groups than the general population. Interventions and policies based on research examining isolated determinants of physical activity have ... -
Green marketing in the fashion industry: a critical analysis of sustainability narratives
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)Green marketing is widely used by the fashion industry to address growing consumer awareness of environmental issues. However, such marketing tends to portray fashion in ways that benefit the industry and not necessarily ... -
“You don’t have to share every single small moment on social media” Exploring Tensions Between Parents and Children in Sharenting Practices
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Sharenting – parents’ content sharing about their children on social media in the form of text, image, or video – is a widespread phenomenon internationally. However, research on sharenting is scarce in a Nordic context, ... -
Shipping on Social Media – Early Adolescents Playfully Exploring Relationships
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Shipping, a play on relationship, is a novel, yet ambiguous, social media practice. Shipping is a practice of playful, romantic pairing of peers on social media platforms, typically on anonymous accounts. At times, shipping ... -
The low self-efficacy trap: why people with vulnerabilities experience prolonged periods with payment problems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Introduction: Societies place a responsibility on individuals to pay what they owe on time, establishing a coercive apparatus for debt collection and enforcement when they do not, coupled with consumer protection and debt ... -
Including societal actors in R&D - Different expectations, different responsibilities
(Chapter, 2024)The outcomes of research and development (R&D) have profoundly influenced mod- ern societies. Not all outcomes have been good or beneficial. It is against this back- drop one can understand the call for governance of R&D. ... -
Towards Algorithmic Luddism: class politics in data capitalism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This article examines responses to inequalities (re)produced by algorithms, particularly affecting disadvantaged social strata. Positioning class politics at the centre of the analysis of data capitalism, we turn attention ... -
Decentering Durability: Decarbonizing and Decolonizing Ideas and Practices of Long-Lasting Clothes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Durability is widely recognized as a key feature of materially resourceful, lower-carbon clothing lives. Yet most of what is known about long-lasting garments is rooted in Euro-American ways of thinking, and reproduces its ... -
Ecologies of friction in digital platform investment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Digital platforms are underpinned by the ideal of a frictionless market, obscuring the simultaneous practices of market monopolisation and the restriction of consumer choice and movement. This concurrent removal and erection ... -
Gendered Returns to Education: The Association between Educational Attainment, Gender Composition in Field of Study and Income
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Women’s higher college completion rates and greater economic returns to education are regarded as a pathway towards economic gender equality. However, gender-segregated educational choices contribute to persisting gender ... -
Platform cooperatives in the sharing economy: How market challengers bring change from the margins
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)The now-mature sharing economy has not delivered on its original utopian promises. Instead of providing prosocial benefits for consumers and society, incumbent platforms dominate monopolistic markets. In this article, we ... -
Digital Collectives: Shifting Social Boundaries in an Emerging Digitalised Newsroom
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)For decades, digitalisation in the news industry has altered boundaries for journalism: Not only the boundaries towards the public, but also the social boundaries between news workers in editorial offices. Based on nearly ... -
Cohort and gender differences in the association between childlessness and social exclusion in old age
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Social exclusion (SE) and its detrimental health outcomes are a key concern in European policies. This study investigates whether childless older adults face a higher risk of SE compared to those with children, how these ... -
Une perspective européenne : sur la collectivisation des valeurs et des rentes foncières (public land value capture)
(Journal article, 2024)Cet article propose une synthèse des résultats issus d’un projet de recherche sur la collectivisation des rentes foncières urbaines en Europe. Ce projet, qui a réuni une centaine de chercheurs, a notamment débouché sur un ... -
Female artists work and creativity in the rural: Beyond core and periphery
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)In this paper we suggest that far too often economic geographic theory has been based on simple core-periphery dualism that mask the reality of creative work in rural or peripheral areas. We take a relational approach and ... -
Making Sense of Data Interrelations in Qualitative Longitudinal and Multi-Perspective Analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)In this article, we address data interrelations that social researchers face when working with qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews with longitudinal (QLR) and multi-perspective (MPR) research designs. ... -
Nye boligkjøpsmodeller – med eller mot det etablerte boligregimet?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)De siste 6–9 årene har boligutviklere i Norge utviklet ulike boligkjøpsmodeller som skal muliggjøre boligkjøp også for hushold som mangler egenkapital eller høy nok inntekt til å få boliglån i en privat bank. Modellene ... -
Forhandlinger om hva, hvem og hvordan: Minoritetsnorsk ungdom i romantiske relasjoner
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)I denne artikkelen undersøker vi forhandlinger mellom minoritetsnorske ungdommer og deres foreldre om romantiske relasjoner. I en flerkulturell kontekst med ulike normer og verdier knyttet til seksualitet, kjønn og ungdomstid, ... -
Contrasting inclusionary housing initiatives in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway: how the past shapes the present
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Inclusionary housing policies, aiming at creating both affordable housing and mixed neighbourhoods through land use regulation, do not have a long history in Scandinavia. Although Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have traditional ... -
Contrasting inclusionary housing initiatives in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway: how the past shapes the present
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Inclusionary housing policies, aiming at creating both affordable housing and mixed neighbourhoods through land use regulation, do not have a long history in Scandinavia. Although Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have traditional ...