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Perceptions of harms associated with tobacco, alcohol and cannabis in students from the UK and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Introduction: International drug policy has traditionally been based on the premise that illegal drugs are more harmful than legal substances. Here, we investigate how students in the UK and Norway now perceive possible ... -
Performing visual empowerment: Norwegian youth culture, languages, and cross-sense communication
(Visual Anthropology;Volume 32, 2019 - Issue 2: Physiology and Epidemiology: A Visual Anthropology Dimension, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-10)This article highlights how deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing people in Norway have an ability for visual languaging, building new relations, making new social order, handling the pressure of phonocentricity, establishing ... -
Personality and 10-Year Personality Development Among Norwegians in Midlife—Do Retirement and Job Type Play a Role?
(Psychology and Aging;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Our personality develops over the whole lifespan and in particular when our life circumstances change. Retirement is a life event that brings changes in identity, day structures, and social roles of former workers. Therefore, ... -
Personsentrert omsorg i praksis: Fire perspektiver på støttekontakttjenesten i demensomsorgen - en case studie
(Nordisk tidsskrift for helseforskning;Nr. 2–2018, 14. årgang, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The number of people with dementia is increasing rapidly and will result in a growing demand for varied health and social services. Support contact is a potential service with positive implications, but it has yet to be ... -
Phronetically Guided Use of Knowledge: Interstitial Work at Barnahus and How It Can Inform the Knowledge Debate in Social Work
(The British Journal of Social Work;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-13)In this article, the ‘evidence–relevance’ dilemma in the ‘knowledge for social work’ debate is approached empirically, departing from a concrete practice observed amongst social workers managing police-reported child abuse ... -
Physical Fighting and Leisure Activities among Norwegian Adolescents—Investigating Co-occurring Changes from 2015 to 2018
(Journal of Youth and Adolescence;Volume 49, issue 11, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-27)After many years of decline in violent behavior among adolescents in several Western countries, recent official statistics indicate a possible trend change. So far, knowledge on how this change is related to co-occurring ... -
Playing without goals: gendered practices in recreational youth football
(Journal of Youth Studies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01-04)Participating in sports is a highly valued part of growing up in the Western world. This is especially true in the Scandinavian countries, where the voluntary sports organizations are closely connected to the welfare state. ... -
Policy guidelines for effective inclusion and reintegration of people with chronic diseases in the workplace: national and european perspectives
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health;Volume 15, Issue 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-11)The increasing prevalence of chronic diseases among the European working age population, as well as the implications for the individual and societal level, underline the need for policy guidelines targeting the effective ... -
Policy Review on the Norwegian Initiative of Offering Free Homework Assistance in Schools
(ECNU Review of Education;Vol 4, Issue 3, 2021, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-16)Purpose: Through reviewing an education policy blueprint in Norway, titled “An Offer of Homework Assistance” (issued by the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training in June 2010), the present article aims to shed ... -
Policy-making for the diffusion of social innovations: the case of the Barnahus model in the Nordic region and the broader European context
(Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-01)The Barnahus model was launched in Iceland in 1998, and it subsequently spread to all the Nordic countries. It is an interagency, co-located model for working with cases of violence and abuse against children that addresses ... -
The Political Force of Musical Actants: Grooves, Pleasures, and Politics in Havana D'Primera's ‘Pasaporte’ Live in Havana
(Twentieth-Century Music;Volume 18, Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)Drawing upon Rancière’s argument that aesthetics instigates politics, Latour’s rethinking of agency as relational, and Ortiz’s work on Afro-Cuban music aesthetics, this article explores how the experience of aesthetic ... -
The politics of the minimum wage: Explaining introduction and levels
(British Journal of Industrial Relations;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)There is much economics research on the effects ofminimum wages, but little research on their poli-tics. Yet, ever more advanced capitalist democracieshave introduced minimum wages, and the setting ofminimum wage levels ... -
Poly-victimization in a Norwegian adolescent population: Prevalence, social and psychological profile, and detrimental effects
(PLoS ONE;12 (12), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-14)Background: This study focuses on poly-victimization, with the aim of providing a realistic estimation of the prevalence of lifetime victimization in a Norwegian adolescent population (ages 18–19 years). Methods: Based ... -
Population dynamics and ethnic geographies in Oslo: the impact of migration and natural demographic change on ethnic composition and segregation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper explores demographic processes behind ethnic geographies in Oslo. We compare data for census tracts in 2001 and 2011, and decompose ethnic composition and segregation on local mobility, national migration, ... -
Populist political right opinions and political trust among Norwegian youth
(Journal of Youth Studies;Volume 20 - Issue 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Recent decades have seen the growth of various strands of rightwing populist political orientations, where populism and critique of immigration policies have been central. These ideological developments have caused ... -
The power of the word: students’ and school staff’s use of the established bullying definition
(Educational Research;Volume 60, Issue 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Abstract Background Previous research has found that bullying is often defined differently by students, staff and researchers, leading researchers to call for a more consistent use of the term in practice to enable better ... -
Pragmatic, pious and pissed off: young Muslim girls managing conflicting sexual norms and social control
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In this study, we explore how ethnic minority Muslim girls in Norway manage social control as an everyday experience within a political context where minority communities are portrayed as performing excessive control. ... -
Precariousness in Norway and Sweden: a comparative register-based study of longstanding precarious attachment to the labour market 1996–2015
(European Societies;Volume 23, 2021 - Issue 3, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-11)Precariousness in working life is a rising concern in Europe, but scant statistical evidence exists as to the prevalence and development of longstanding precarious employment. Using high-quality individual-level population-wide ... -
Predictors in starting and stopping Internet use between 2002 and 2012 by Dutch adults 65 years and older
(Health Informatics Journal;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-27)Research has indicated the need to consider the ageing process with technology adoption by older adults. This study examined psychological, health, social and demographic predictors with starting and stopping Internet ... -
Predictors of Disordered Eating in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: A Population-Based, Longitudinal Study of Females and Males in Norway
(International Journal of Behavioral Development;38(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-03)We investigated longitudinal predictors for disordered eating from early adolescence to young adulthood (12–34 years) across gender and different developmental phases among Norwegian young people. Survey data from a ...