Blar i Senter for profesjonsforskning (SPS) på emneord "Norway"
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The commensuration of pain: How nurses transform subjective experience into objective numbers
(Social Science and Medicine;Volume 233, July 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-24)Commensuration—the transformation of different qualities into a common metric—has recently received increased scholarly attention. While mostly studied at the meso- or macroscale, this article extends the focus to microscale ... -
Conditions affecting the performance of peripheral vein cannulation during hospital placement: a case study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Learning practical nursing skills is an important part of the baccalaureate in nursing. However, many newly qualified nurses lack practical skill proficiency required to ensure safe patient care. The invasive skill peripheral ... -
The constrained influence of discourses: the case of Norwegian climate policy
(Environmental Politics;21 (5), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-06-15)Norwegian climate policy has been marked by several shifts with regard to adopted targets and measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Three knowledge-based discourses – respectively a tax discourse, a quota ... -
Frontline implementation of welfare conditionality in Norway: A maternalistic practice
(Social Policy and Administration;First published 09 December 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-19)Welfare conditionality is both ambitious and ambiguous for the frontline workers who put policy into practice. Since January 2017, the Norwegian frontline service should require social assistance benefit recipients under ... -
Getting Sick and Disabled People off Temporary Benefit Receipt: Strategies and Dilemmas in the Welfare State s Frontline
(Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;6(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This article explores responses by frontline workers in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV) to activation policy measures. Frontline workers in NAV are required to write work capability assessments for long-term ... -
The Peaceful Revolts: 1968 in the Nordic Welfare States
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)The student revolts of 1968 in the Nordic countries were peaceful in comparison with what happened in places like Berlin, Par is or Rome. Students in the Nordic countries also protested and revolted ... -
Pooling of Economic Resources : a Comparison of Norwegian Married and Cohabiting Couples
(European Sociological Review; 27 (5), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-06-24)Using Norwegian survey data (n=4116), we study couples’ likelihood of pooling their economic resources. The proportion of cohabiting couples to married couples is high in Norway. In addition, over the last decades, tax ... -
Professional Boundaries. The Case of Childcare Workers in Norway PhD
(Skriftserien avhandling;(3), Peer reviewed; Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis explores professionalism among Norwegian daycare workers by two questions: 1) Do the attitudes of daycare workers express boundaries of professionalism? 2) Are there divisions of work among daycare workers ... -
The promise of trust - An inquiry into the legal design of coercive decision-making in Norway
(HiOA Avhandling;2012: 5, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2012)The thesis investigates if the state coercively remove children from parents according to human rights, i.e. Convention on the Rights of the Child. Through an historical analysis, it becomes established that trustworthy ... -
Regulating inflow or outflow: a comparison of the work capability assessments in the UK and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)In the era of activation policies, several OECD countries have introduced work capability assessments to measure the employability of sick and disabled people. In essence, such assessments concern how sick and disabled ... -
Reshaping teacher professionalism. An analysis of how teachers construct and negotiate professionalism under increasing accountability
(Skriftserien avhandling;(5), Peer reviewed; Doctoral thesis, 2013)This thesis explores how the teacher profession in Norway constructs and negotiates professionalism when teacher professionalism is reconstructed in national policy. I am particularly concerned with the increased policy ... -
Stratification in the medical profession: non-western physicians in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-04)Previous studies of internal stratification in medicine suggest that non-White foreign-trained physicians fill the bottom level of the specialist hierarchy. However, in this study we use administrative registers for majority ...