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Environmental sustainability from below: public opinion across the Globe
(SPES Working Paper;8.1, Research report, 2025)Against the backdrop that most political economies across the globe need to promote transitions towards more environmentally sustainable public policies and economic practices, we ask what factors explain public support ... -
Frihet og vennskap. Om ungdom og rusopplevelser
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)De fleste norske ungdommer eksperimenterer med alkohol i løpet av tenårene, og det finnes en rekke forskningsbidrag som undersøker sårbarhetsfaktorer for tidlig alkoholdebut eller belyser de negative konsekvensene av ungdoms ... -
Women’s health at work: a qualitative study on women’s health issues in relation to work participation. Experiences and perspectives from female teachers and managers in Norwegian high schools
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background Public health and working life are closely related. Even though Norway is one of the world’s most equality-oriented countries, working life is still divided by gender. Women have a lower rate of participation ... -
Clothing care
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2024)Caring includes various activities that are undertaken to sustain ourselves, other people, objects, as well as the environment in our everyday lives. We take good care of what we value and cherish. This applies to clothes, ... -
Who can stop the greenwashing
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2024)This chapter asks: Who can stop greenwashing? It uses the Norwegian Consumer Agency warning that the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (Higg MSI) tool in the form of a consumer-facing label could not be used in marketing ... -
Exploring consumer segments for online food provisioning services: Online supermarkets vs. alternative food networks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Recent years have witnessed a surge in online food provisioning services spanning from online mass retail to alternative food networks with digital sales platforms. Hence, enhancing our understanding of consumer preferences ... -
Intra-Acting With Technology During Remote Fieldwork in Homes: Curating Video Interviews and Drawing Methods
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The ubiquity of remote research practices and the increased adoption of videoconferencing tools are forcing researchers to pay attention to the features of these technologies and how they shape the research encounter. This ... -
Sub-national bureaucracies in the European administrative space
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)An important stream of research has developed focusing on the embedding of national central government institutions into an emerging multilevel European Union (EU) administration. The role of sub-national governmental ... -
Gender, fashion, sustainability
(Clothing Cultures;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)The ability to affect sustainability outcomes is often culturally gendered. This article examines sustainability practices in fashion in the light of core themes in the gender and sustainability literature, drawing upon a ... -
Troubleshooting the connected home: Exploring the perspectives of non-initiators
(Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Living with technology often entails work related to management and repair of it. The emerging literature on the work that goes into managing home networks and digital technologies has described it as ‘digital housekeeping’. ... -
Navigating critical phases in adversity in youth: identification and reorientation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)The study of adversity in youth has been preoccupied with outcomes. In this paper, we argue that it is useful to shift the attention to the processes that young people go through while they struggle with adversity. Based ... -
Experiences of Using Urban Growth Agreements to Influence Local Land Use Policy and Stop Sprawl
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)Urban growth agreements are key tools for achieving the goal of zero growth in passenger road traffic volumes in Norwegian metropolitan areas. Agreements are negotiated in multi-level and cross-sectoral processes where ... -
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 ... -
“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, ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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