Overview of research projects

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.

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 – A State-of-art Report

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.

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.

Birth experiences and breastfeeding in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

The overall aim of the project is to explore childbirth experience and breastfeeding in women with PCOS.

Blocking of stimulus control and the conditioning of new reinforcers

How can social consequences be established as conditioned reinforcers in children with autism, and what can challenge the establishing?

Brain activation during gait and balance

The human body is a biological marvel in many ways.

Can Motivational Interviewing facilitate return to work in sick-listed people with musculoskeletal disorders? (MI-NAV)

We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing on return to work among sick-listed people due to musculoskeletal disorders.

Can responsible investment induce sustainable corporate behavior? Evidence from the worlds largest equity investor

Can responsible investing help to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

Care orders from a parental perspective

The main purpose of this study is to develop knowledge about child welfare care orders.

Caring for Children with Disabilities

The research project will investigate whether children with disabilities have their fundamental rights safeguarded in encounters with the health and care service.

Causality, complexity and evidence in pharmacovigilance

Detecting unknown adverse reactions of marketed medicines is challenging and needs improved methods to assess causality, as well as improved quality of clinical observations.

CENSU - Climate Change Energy Sustainability

CENSU is a Norwegian-Tanzanian-Mozambican university collaboration within education and research which focuses on sustainable gas extraction and governance in the context of vulnerable communities and climate change.

CEOs Personal Risk Attitudes and Corporate Financing and Investment

This project studies to what extent firm policies are affected by managers’ personal assets allocation, asset allocation, and founders' opportunity cost.

Challenging the design principle of mixed-worded questionnaire scales

The project focuses on the design principle of combining both positively and negatively worded items in questionnaire scales.

CHANGE: Environmental systems shift in clothing consumption

In CHANGE, we will investigate what is most essential to reduce the environmental impact of clothing: reduce the amount of clothing that is produced, acquired and disposed of.

Changing Drug Use and Drug Policy

The project aims to provide new insights into young people's patterns of alcohol and illegal drug use, the social meaning of drugs, and the consequences of drug-related sanctions.

Child Protection and Pluralism

The aim of the project is to evaluate the effects of a communication campaign about Norwegian child protection services.

Child Welfare in Norway 1990-2011

A register data study of Norwegian child welfare clients.

Child Welfare Institutions for Young People with Drug Addiction and Separate Institutions for One Single Young Person

The project investigate the child welfare institutions for young people with drug addiction and separate institutions for one single young person.

Child Welfare Services and Risk Assessment

The project investigates how the child welfare services work on risk assessment and safety measures when a child is placed outside the home.

Child Welfare Services and their Work With Cases of Violence and Abuse

This project aims to fill the knowledge gap about how the child welfare service tackles violence and abuse cases.

Children with a Refugee Background – Measures for Inclusion and Belonging (Barnfluk)

The project aims to discover the experiences children and young people who come to Norway as refugees have with the settlement and integration process, and how municipalities work with this group.

Children's Level of Living: The Impact of Family Economy for Children's Lives

The aim of the project was to explore how income influence different aspects of children's lives.

Choosing wisely: Assessments of treatment for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain

We aim to gain new knowledge about physiotherapists and GPs' assessments of the choice of treatment for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

CIRCULAR: Collaborative innovation of circular economy

Transforming the economic system from a linear to a circular economy is critical for realising a sustainable society. Circular-project asks: What are the main governance factors driving the co-creation of an innovative circular economy for reduced consump

Cities confronted by protests: Democratic governance for efficient and socially just climate transformation (DEMOCLIM)

DEMOCLIM explores new democratic governance methods in the design and implementation of effective and socially just climate policies that emerge in the face of climate protests in four Scandinavian cities; Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Classroom activities for the six-year-olds – 20 years on (Klassprax_20)

The project investigates and evaluates the classroom activities of six year old children.

Climate change and ecosystems management in Malawi and Tanzania

A project to strengthen research capacity and capabilities in institutions in Malawi and Tanzania.

Clinical pharmacology of antiseizure medications

Pharmacological treatment is challenging and needs individualized monitoring.

Co-Creation: Expectations, Challenges and Coping Strategies in Norwegian Local Governments (ECCO)

This research project aims to unravel the expectations of Norwegian local governments to the introduction

Co-occurrent pain and psychological distress: From adolescence to adulthood

The project will provide new insight into the long-term consequences of early onset co-occurrent pain and psychological distress.

COIL in Deaf Studies and Sign Language

Establish a basis for a sustainable system for a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) module in deaf studies and sign language. COIL can be described as virtual student and staff exchange as a strategic tool for internationalization of the c

Combining Work and Care for Older Parents (CoWorkCare)

The primary objective of CoWorkCare is to generate knowledge on how employees' care obligations for their old parents affect their labour market participation.

Complementary Pathways for Adult Refugees: The Role of VET, Skills and Qualifications

The aim of the project is to increase the evidence base which can support policy- and decision-making in EU MS in designing and implementing complementary pathway mechanisms for admission of adult refugees from a first host country to an EU country throug

COMPRESSED − A longitudinal study of compressed work schedules within the health, care and welfare services

With increasing need for more workforce in the healthcare-sector, the offers of the future is reliant on how we precure sufficient staff and maintain the health of the workers.

Computer gaming – an inclusive youth arena?

This PhD project will explore the potential for computer games as an arena for inclusion in youth.

Consequences of the Pandemic for Living Conditions and Equality

In this project we will investigate the consequences of the pandemic for living conditions for children and young people, equality in families and for individuals, including children and adults with disabilities.

CONTEXT – Creating Integrated Person-centred Care in Different Settings

This project addresses how settings and contexts which enhance people-centred care can be created.

CONTRA – Conflicts in transformations

CONTRA explores how institutionalising productive conflict can increase the transformative capacity needed in the transition towards more sustainable cities.

Coping with Flexibility. Behavioral Adaptations to the New Pension System and their Consequences in a Lifetime Perspective

The aim of this project is to study how people adapt to the reformed pension system. In particular, we look at adaptations to the increasing flexibility offered – both in terms of savings, and in terms of job planning and ways of combining work and pensio

Cosmopolitan Turn and Democratic Sentiments (CONSENT)

CONSENT is a large bilateral project between Norway and Romania. The main objective is to investigate empirically, both in Romania and Norway, to what extent the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is considered to be relevant when developing poli

COST ACTION: CLIL Network for Languages in Education (CLILNetLE)

CLILNetLE aims to develop a shared conceptualisation and research agenda for the investigation of bi/multilingual disciplinary literacies in CLIL.

Crisis Management in a Polycentric Nordic Local Democracy: Different Governance Structures – Different Results? (POLYGOV)

The overall goal of the project is to identify the differences in the Nordic countries’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the outcomes thereof and to relate these differences to policy, governance, organisation and management.

Critical perspectives on work integration of immigrants

The project focuses on how work inclusion may improve the social inclusion of migrants within comparative urban settings.

Critical thinking in primary education

KriT is an interdisciplinary project aiming at developing educational models for critical thinking in primary education using children’s literature and news.

Crossbow: Crossing and Managing Boundaries between Work and Non-Work – Co-creating Healthy Teleworking

In this project we aim to map, explore and understand the opportunities and challenges of telework, and to contribute to enhanced organizational preparedness for healthy, sustainable and productive teleworking.

Crosscare-Old: A Cross Sectoral Approach to High Quality Healthcare Transitions for Older People

The project aims to increase the understanding of the role of cross-sectoral factors that constitute barriers for high quality care transitions for older people from hospital to municipal care.

DARE – Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality

The project investigates how young people aged between 12 and 30 respond to messages and agents of radicalisation.

Darkness on the horizon? Exploring the response to contestation of trade policy in Europe

Free trade is under pressure. Fear of job losses and growing inequality has given rise to calls for protectionism and economic nationalism.

Decisions on contact between parents and children in child welfare care measures

The main purpose of this study is to develop knowledge on how child welfare employees and County Social Welfare Boards assess and justify the organization and extent of contact between children, siblings and parents after a care measure.

Decoding digital media in African regions of conflict (DDMAC)

The key goal of DDMAC is to gather empirical evidence defining and demonstrating the use, spread, content, and agenda-setting role of social media in regions of conflicts in sub- Saharan Africa.

Democracy, Equality, Learning and Mobilisation for Future Citizens (DEMOCIT)

The aim of DEMOCIT is to partake in reducing a growing civic empowerment gap within Norwegian democracy.

Democratic Urban Development in the Digital Age (DEMUDIG)

The DEMUDIG project investigates the extent and influence of citizen participation through ICT and social media in urban governance.

Descendants of Immigrants and the Concerned Welfare State

This project examines the ongoing, relational negotiations between the welfare state and the public's understanding of problems, on the one hand, and processes of change in the minority population, on the other.

Designing an intelligent gamified solution for treatment of scoliosis among children and adolescents

This PhD project focuses on understanding needs of youth with idiopathic scoliosis and to examine how the needs can be improved by using a digital solution – e.g. a smartphone application.

Designing an intelligent personalized vest for scoliosis brace to improve treatment and monitoring of scoliosis in adolescents

The project will design an intelligent personalized vest for scoliosis brace with wearable sensors.

Developing ICT in Teacher Education (DiCTE)

The overarching aim of the project is to develop ICT in teacher education.

Development of a care pathway for patients with hand osteoarthritis

The project aims to increase our knowledge of the current hand osteoarthritis pathways, the context and mechanisms for shifting tasks between health actors and care levels.

Development of a less polluting, automated façade system connected to the building management system

An innovative project offering a CO2-reducing, remote façade maintenance system that will contribute to green change both nationally and internationally.

Diet, gut microbiota and metabolic regulation

We study the effects of dietary fat quality and fiber on metabolic regulation, and explore the association between diet, gut microbiota, and metabolic regulation.

DigiGen – The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation

DigiGen aims to develop knowledge about how children and young people use and are affected by the technological transformations in their everyday lives.

Digital and navigation health literacy for people with long-term conditions

The overall aim of this project is to gain knowledge about health literacy among people with long-term conditions.

Digital follow-up of patients with type 1 diabetes in the specialist health service (DigiDiaS)

This project aims to increase knowledge about user-guided treatment and digital tools in the follow-up of patients with type 1 diabetes at an endocrinology outpatient clinic.

Digital Nordic Borders

Our project investigates the tensions between Nordic openness and security that characterize surveillance practices at the Nordic borders, with a particular focus on new forms and tools of digital surveillance.

Digital Prism and the Nordic Model of Workplace Democracy under Pressure (DigiWORK)

Big data and artificial intelligence are radically transforming the ways in which we work, are hired and fired, managed and led. This project investigates the effects of digital transformation of work on the Norwegian model of workplace democracy and trip

Digital Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents

The project will, in a comprehensive literature review, map existing knowledge about digital sexual violence against children and adolescents.

Digital vulnerabilities at home (PhD project)

PhD project about digital vulnerabilities from internet connected devices at home.

Digitalisation of student activity through group work (Digigroups)

In this project, we will study facilitators for successful digital group work.

Direct and Indirect Costs of Disabilities in Children (BUDGET)

The research project addresses the costs aspects of caring for a child with a disability.

Disability and Disease during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Implications for Preparedness Policies

A global influenza pandemic is imminent and public health preparedness plans that address the needs of vulnerable populations are indispensable.

Disadvantaged in the Housing Market: Effects of Public Interventions (DISADVANTEGED)

This project aims to evaluate all major social housing policy instruments in Norway, aimed at helping disadvantaged individuals to better and more stable housing.

DISCo: Digital infrastructures for sustainable consumption: Redirecting, reorganizing, reducing and reimaging consumption

DISCo aims to produce knowledge on how consumption can move in a more sustainable direction by applying digital technologies.

Discrimination of Muslims in the Labour Market

The topic of this project is the discrimination of Muslims in the labour market.

DWARF - Drinking Water Readiness for the Future

This project will predict the future trends in Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM).

Early COVID-19 wave in Norway: Social inequality in morbidity, compliance to non-pharmaceutical interventions and labour marked consequences (CorRisk)

Pandemics like COVID-19 are among the most pressing global threats to human life and economic security. The core idea of CorRisk is that infectious disease pandemics created by influenza or corona-viruses have always been more than just a medical problem

Edible Cities Network: Integrating Edible City Solutions for social resilient and sustainably productive cities

The Edible Cities Network (EdiCitNet) works towards making cities around the world better places to live through the implementation and institutional integration of Edible City Solutions.

Educators and learners meet artificial intelligence

This project is dedicated to exploring both teachers' and students' perspectives on the implementation of artificial intelligence in an educational context.

Effect of fiber-rich cereal products on metabolic regulation in people with gut symptoms or coeliac disease

We investigate the effect of cereal fiber on gut symptoms, gut microbiota, and metabolic regulation in people with coeliac disease or gut symptoms.

Effects of reinforcement on behavioral variability

The effect of reinforcement and extinction on behavioral variability and the effects reinforcement and punishment have on rule-governed insensitivity.

EGREEN+ – European Green Mastery

Sustainable European competence certificates for landscaping, gardening and floristry.

Emigration from today’s Norway: Who, why, and how does it shape Norwegian society? (EXITNORWAY)

Little is known about those who emigrate from Norway today, why they leave, and how their emigration affects Norwegian society.

Empowering youth and co-creating social innovations and policymaking through youth-focused citizen social science (YouCount)

YouCount will, through co-creative youth citizen social science (Y-CSS), with youth aged 15 to 29 years as citizen scientists, produce new knowledge of positive drivers for social inclusion of youth at risk of exclusion, as well as create innovation and n

Enabling Ageing in Place (AgePlace)

In this project the researchers aim to generate new knowledge on the precondition for safe ageing in place.

English as a Lingua Franca For Inclusive Multilingual Classrooms (ENRICH)

ENRICH aims at developing a high-quality Continuous Professional Development infrastructure.

Enhancing child’s right for the participation in child protection assessment (COMPENCA)

This project focus on the child´s right to participate in child protection assessment and decision-making.

Equality and Multiculturalism

A comparative study of Norwegian and Dutch processes of alterity and identity.

EQUALS-EU

The project aims to give more women access to technology, digital skills and leadership positions.

Erasmus Mundus Design Measures: MA in Applied Deaf Studies

The MADS project has a view of setting up a new European joint master’s programme in applied deaf studies.

European Labour Market Under Pressure – New Knowledge on Pathways to Include Persons in Vulnerable Situations (Paths2Include)

PATHS2INCLUDE will expand our understanding of the multidimensional aspects of labour market discrimination, the impact of different policy frameworks, and the gaps and possible need for change on various levels in order to detect mechanisms and processes

EUROSHIP – Closing Gaps in Social Citizenship. New Tools to Foster Social Resilience in Europe

The overall aim of the EUROSHIP project is to provide an original and gender-sensitive assessment of the current gaps in social protection across Europe.

Evaluating the Ombudsman against Bullying

NOVA is responsible for a research-based evaluation of the regional ombudsman office.

Evaluation of 'Robust Youth'

The main aim of the project is to evaluate 'Robust Youth' which is a program designed to being preventive and promote better health among youth.

Evaluation of a Pilot Project on Integrated Accommodation for Women and Men in a Crisis Center

An evaluation of the pilot project: Integrated accommodation for women, men and children at Romerike crisis center.

Evaluation of minority counsellor pilot projects in upper secondary schools and adult learning centres

NOVA researchers will evaluate two pilot projects placing minority counsellors in secondary schools in vulnerable urban areas and adult learning centres.

Evaluation of Norwegian Barnahus

This project is a national evaluation of the Norwegian Barnahus model.

Evaluation of Ritual Circumcision of Boys (RITOM)

This evaluation shall produce research-based knowledge on whether the Norwegian law on ritual circumcision of boys functions according to its purpose.