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“There are schemes designed to alleviate the burden on mothers, but evidence suggests they are not effective,” says NOVA researcher Kaja Larsen Østerud.
Barnahus is an innovative model of caring for and supporting children who have been the victim of violence and sexual abuse. It provides a safe and supportive environment to meet their legal, medical, and psychological needs.
Technological revolutions have happened before, but none are quite so wide-ranging as the one we are currently living through. The past holds examples for how we can mitigate the negative consequences of and make sure the benefits don’t just go to those who already have power.
Exposure to earlier illness likely holds the key to understanding why some groups in Alaska suffered disproportionately high death rates in the 1918 influenza pandemic, OsloMet researchers have found.
Digitizing government welfare services is supposed to help make services more accessible to everyone. Are they unintentionally leaving people behind?
A close look at the principles governing the management of Norway’s oil fund shows that it may run out in two generations or less.
Norway and many other European countries have robust social safety nets. Yet they continue to fail their poorest citizens.
Over the past decade, European countries have grown more restrictive in whom they grant protection, and for how long that protection is granted.
A deep socioeconomic divide splits Oslo from east to west. It will continue to deepen unless it is more widely acknowledged and addressed.
A new survey reveal strong support for Norway’s Russia policies and broad support for Ukraine.
How many people can our planet sustain? This is one of the questions demographer Marianne Tønnessen is asking as Earth reaches this population milestone.
Most parents have reflected on how the neighbourhood they live in affects their children’s futures. Yet most research ignores parents' role in actively shaping the communities their children grow up in.
