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Mot økt folkelig innflytelse? Desentralisering og lokaldemokrati i Ukraina
(Nordisk Østforum;Vol 32 (2018), Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-18)The article analyses the results of a nationally representative survey on local democracy conducted in Ukraine in the autumn of 2017, offering insights into attitudes towards local authorities and ongoing decentralization ... -
Motivation, Migration and Non-standard Employment: A Survey Among Temporary Agency Workers
(Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Volume 8, Number S4, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-27)Research suggests that migrants have a greater tendency to end up in nonstandard employment arrangements than native citizens do, but less attention has been paid to motivational differences within and between migrant ... -
Motivations for and against second-hand clothing acquisition
(Clothing Cultures;Volume 5, Number 2, 1 June 2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-01)One of the possibilities consumers have for more sustainable clothing acquisition is to select pre-owned products. This article explores consumers’ motivations for clothing reuse: why they choose or do not choose to acquire ... -
Movers from the city in the first year of Covid
(Nordic Journal of Urban Studies;Volume 1, No. 2-2021, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-10)Cities across the world have been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, and out-migration from many cities was particularly high in 2020. Some movers went abroad; others moved to other parts of the same country. Using ... -
Moving Consumers along the Innovation Adoption Curve: A New Approach to Accelerate the Shift toward a More Sustainable Diet
(Sustainability;Volume 13 / Issue 8, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-16)Unsustainable food production and consumption contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. Adopting a more plant-based diet has been identified as a necessary change toward a more sustainable food system. In ... -
Moving forward, waiting or standing still? Service users' experiences from a Norwegian labour activation programme
(European Journal of Social Work;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05-23)Labour activation policy relies on a notion of temporal homogeneity, with the assumption that the service user, once enrolled in a labour activation programme, moves forward on a linear and progressive trajectory into the ... -
Mulighetsrommet i Nav-partnerskapet
(Rapport Norge;34, Research report, 2019)Denne rapporten omhandler partnerskapet i Nav-kontor, hvordan det fungerer, hvilke mulighetsrom det har og hvordan et fungerende partnerskap kan bidra til å utvikle Nav-kontorene. KS har satt i gang dette FoU-prosjektet ... -
Multilevel networks for climate change adaptation – what works?
(International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose - Two Norwegian municipal networks for climate change adaptation are compared and evaluated, to see how such networks should be initiated and implemented as a means of achieving adaptation measures within ... -
Multiple Frames of Success: How Second- Generation Immigrants Experience Educational Support and Belonging in Higher Education
(Higher Education;First Online 25 October 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article explores the impact of cultural resources on success and aspirations among second-generation immigrants in higher education in Norway. We investigate whether and how cultural resources are converted into ... -
Municipality characteristics and the fertility of refugees in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Abstract The study of the fertility of immigrants has received much attention in recent years, particularly in societies with fertility rates below replacement levels. However, fertility in refugee populations remains ... -
Musical Politics in the Cuban Police Order
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-05)This chapter explores how Cuban popular dance music nurtures and contests revolutionary values in today’s Cuba.1 I focus on the performance and discursive construction of the song ‘Cubanos por el mundo’ by Interativo, one ... -
The Mystification of Digital Technology in Norwegian Policies on Archives, Libraries and Museums: Digitalization as Policy Imperative
(Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-04)In this article, we investigate how digitalization has attained the role of policy imperative in the culture sector, and how the imperative is influencing contemporary policy discourses on archives, libraries and museums ... -
A nation-wide cross-sectional study of variations in homecare nurses’ assessments of informational continuity – the importance of horizontal collaboration and municipal context.
(BMC Health Services Research;20, Article number: 464 (2020), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-25)Background: Numerous studies have revealed challenges associated with ensuring informational continuity in municipal care services for older adults with comprehensive, prolonged and complex care needs. Most research is ... -
National diversity in Academia: What is the problem represented to be?
(Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Vol 9, No 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article investigates problem representations of nationality diversity at higher education and research institutions in Norway and in the other Nordic countries. Nationality diversity refers to different nationalities ... -
Navigating precarious times? The experience of young adults who have been in care in Norway, Denmark and England
(Journal of Youth Studies;Published online 27 Mar 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-18)At a time of heightened international debate about youth precarity, how do we understand and support transitions to adulthood for people who have been in care? This paper reports on a qualitative longitudinal study of 75 ... -
Når ungdom ruser seg
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-18)Traditionally, the use of cannabis has been associated with more deviance and psychosocial problems than the use of alcohol among adolescents in Norway. Drawing on national survey data, we present trends in the use of both ... -
Neck and shoulder pain in adolescents seldom occur alone: Results from the Norwegian Ungdata Survey
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)No previous studies have investigated the prevalence of co-occurring neck/shoulder pain, other musculoskeletal pain, headache and depressive symptoms in adolescents. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of isolated ... -
Neighborhood or School? Influences on Alcohol Consumption and Heavy Episodic Drinking Among Urban Adolescents
(Journal of Youth and Adolescence;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-28)Little is known about the relative influences of neighborhood and school on the alcohol socialization process. Survey data from the Young in Oslo Study (N = 10,038, mean age 17.1 years, 52% girls) were used to investigate ... -
Neighborhood variation in early adult educational outcomes: The case of Norway
(Die Erde;Vol 150 No 2 (2019): Geographical neighbourhood research, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-19)Individuals originating in different neighborhoods fare differently in later life. Part of this is because families sort non-randomly over the urban landscape; different types of families live in systematically different ... -
Neighbourhood attainment of children of immigrants in Greater Oslo: Intergenerational inertia and the role of education
(Population, Space and Place;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-07)One element in the integration of new groups of inhabitants is location in the neighbourhood hierarchy. We define neighbourhood hierarchy in Oslo according to the median income of working age males in the neighbourhood, ...