Overview of research projects

How can youth clubs be strengthened to provide better services for young people? From 2025, we will follow the five-year initiative "A Boost for Youth Clubs" to develop knowledge about quality, framework conditions, and the club’s role in the local commun

A Fair Chance? How Geography Shapes Life Opportunities (FAIR)

The project addresses how the spatial context in which people live during different stages of their lives shape their life prospects and socioeconomic outcomes.

A Life Course Perspective on the Gendered Pathways of Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life, and its Consequences for Health and Wellbeing (GENPATH)

GENPATH is an international European research project focussing on social exclusion in later life.

A Multidimensional Approach to Social Exclusion in Later Life – Health Consequences for Ageing Populations (AMASE)

The overall aim of the project is to enhance research-based knowledge on the multidimensional nature of old age social exclusion and its consequences for health and to identify conditions that minimize social exclusion of disadvantaged groups.

A Study of Cases in the County Board Concerning Care Orders

The project deals with the Child Welfare Service’s and the County Social Welfare Boards’ handling of compulsory care order cases in ethnic minority families.

ACCESS Life Course Database: Upgrade and Expansion

Through the ACCESS Upgrade infrastructure, researchers and students will gain access to updated and upgraded longitudinal life course data for more than 11,000 men and women born between 1922 and 1966.

Accommodation of Regional Diversity in Ukraine (ARDU)

ARDU's main goal is to produce knowledge of how ethnicity, language and regional-local identity work in the context of political reform in Ukraine.

ACT UP! Active Citizenship through Theatre for Urban Politics

ACT UP! delivers an innovative theatre-based educational methodology for promoting active citizenship among student in urban climate politics.

Active Ageing – Pathways and Outcomes (AgePaths)

This project investigates pathways and outcomes of active ageing in three domains and their interactions: the labor market, civil society, and the family.

Activity Friend for Persons with Dementia

The project addresses what role the "activity friend" volunteers play in municipal health care and for people with dementia in Norway.

Adolescent Physical Violence. Understanding Societal Trends and Life Outcomes for Perpetrators

This project covers the use of violence among Norwegian adolescents and is financed through the Domestic Violence Research Program at NOVA.

Adolescents in Oslo in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The aim of the study was to map young people’s everyday life and quality of life, and how they experience the COVID-19 pandemic while they were still subject to strict restrictions.

Against All Odds?

Why do some care leavers end up doing well as young adults, against all odds? What does "doing well" mean to young women and men, with majority backgrounds? These are questions we seek to investigate in this project.

Age-friendly Housing Solutions

This project addresses examples of age-friendly homes for older people, as well as obstacles municipalities and housing developers encounter during the phases of planning and building such housing solutions.

AI-Mind

The goal of the research is to reduce the burden of dementia by developing novel, AI-based tools.

Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL)

This project will produce knowledge on the ways in which advances in artificial intelligence shape policing in different cultural, political, legal and economic contexts.

Amazing grazing

Amazing grazing will bring new knowledge on how sheep rangeland grazing systems can be part of sustainable food and fiber systems.

Ambulance workers’ assessment of self-determination and capacity to consent

The aim of this PhD project is to investigate ambulance workers' knowledge and experiences to assess the right to self-determination and capacity to consent in prehospital meetings with patients with mental health illnesses and/or drug-related issues.

Applying Artificial Intelligence in Developing Personalized and Sustainable Healthcare for Spinal Disorders (AID-Spine, part I)

We use machine learning methods to develop and validate prediction models for health and welfare outcomes after treatment for spinal disorders.

Area Review of Housing Solutions and Health and Care Services for the Elderly

How can the state and municipality more effectively facilitate elderly people to age in place?

Artificial intelligence - a novel tool in assisted reproduction technology

The project aims to improve the methods for selecting sperm and embryos and increase the chance of pregnancy and live-born children.

Artificial intelligence – a novel tool in assisted reproduction technology

The project aims to improve the methods for selecting sperm and embryos and increase the chance of pregnancy and live-born children.

Assessment for Learning in Citizenship Education (ALiCE)

The project aims to develop a framework for assessment, with a focus on formative assessment, in the context of citizenship education across Europe.

Automating Technologies and the Future of Meaningful Work (AUTOMA)

The primary objective of this project is to investigate the influence of workplace automation on meaningful work.

Bacterial components and their effect on energy metabolism in human skeletal muscle cells

Obesity and type 2 diabetes are associated with changes in gut microbiota and disturbed energy metabolism. Is there a crosstalk between gut bacteria and host energy metabolism?

Baltic UKH urban knowledge hubs – Transformative societal spaces for hybrid libraries in the Baltic sea region

The aim of the project is to provide public authorities and others with tools and methods for the participatory design of accessible and attractive informational spaces and services.

Better adherence of antibiotics through academic detailing of community pharmacists

The purpose of this PhD project is to assess whether Academic Detailing is suitable as an intervention method for pharmacy pharmacists in the subject of antibiotic treatment and resistance.

Better Provision for Norway's Children in ECEC

A major Norwegian study in on the quality and effectiveness of ECEC.

Beyond access: improving quality of early years reading instructions in Ethiopia

The objective of the project is to improve the quality of education for primary grades in Ethiopian schools.