This group is multi-disciplinary, comprising mostly sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists. Empirical research on adolescents is based on local and regional qualitative and quantitative studies, as well as national representative surveys.
Main research topics are youth culture and leisure activities, social inequality, school adjustment, alcohol and drug use, sexual culture and risk, digital lives, delinquency and conduct problems, intergenerational relations and issues concerning ethnicity and the multi-cultural society.
Head of research group
Members
Publications
- Frøyland, L.R. & Heggebø, K. (2024). Childhood Maltreatment and Revictimization in Young Adulthood: Is Problematic Substance Use a Mediator? A Linked Survey–Register Data Study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- Aarset, M.F. & Rosten, M.G. (2024). Stuck in Representation. Muslims Participating in the Norwegian Public Sphere. Journal of Extreme Anthropology
- Holmarsdottir, H.B. et al. (2024). Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People. Springer Nature
- Johansson, S. et al (Eds.) (2024). Justice and Recovery for Victimised Children Institutional Tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus Models. Palgrave Macmillan
- Frøyland, L.R., Tokle, R., Burdzovic, J. & Brunborg, G.S. (2024). Sexting and Mental Health in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study. Journal of Adolescent Health
- Rogstad, J. (2024). From Zero to Hero. Belonging and Re-enrolment in Education Among Young People Outside School. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth
- Bilgrei, O.R. et al. (2024). The green shift? Narratives of changing cannabis policies and identity-work among Norwegian adolescents. In: Cannabis: Cultures and Markets. Taylor & Francis
- Protebny, T. et al. (2024). Secular trends in mental health problems among young people in Norway: a review and meta-analysis. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Frøyland, L.R.; Stefansen, K. & Andersen, P.L. (2024). Distinguishing Types of Sexual Assault Among Young People: A Latent Class Analysis Approach. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research
- Eriksen, I.M. & Andersen, P.L. (2023). The gendered district effect: psychosocial reasons why girls wish to leave their rural communities. Journal of Youth Studies
You will find more publications on the researchers' employee pages.
Research projects
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Follow-up research of "Sport for all in Oslo"
In this research, NOVA at OsloMet, in collaboration with the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, evaluate the program «Sport for all in Oslo» from its inception in 2018 until 2024.
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Sexual Culture in Youth
The project will investigate how young people negotiate, experience and handle issues related to sexuality, sexual health and risk - in light of both contemporary youth culture, and other social and societal conditions.
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From Boys to Men: Diverging Developments of Masculinity with Varying Consequences? (FRAGMEN)
What are the characteristics of masculinity and masculine practices in contemporary Norway?
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Tomorrow’s Inequalities in the Making
In LIFECHANCES we investigate how differences between young people may become inequalities in life chances over time.
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The Future of Nordic Youth in Rural Regions
The research project aims to understand the experiences of rural youth, their sense of belonging and hopes for the future. It will study similarities and differences between the Nordic countries.
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The Potential of ‘GameChange’: Supplementary Educational Measures to Facilitate Secondary Education Completion Among At-Risk Youth (GameChanger)
What can be done to enable more students to complete secondary school? The project GameChanger focuses on the impact that initiatives outside of school can have on students when they are in school.
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Youth Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Digital Era (DIGISEX)
The project will shed light on how digital media has created both new opportunities and new forms of risk concerning youth sexuality.
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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.
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Ungdata plus
Ungdata plus will collect data on what children and young people in Vestfold and Telemark (Norway) do in their leisure time and examine how this is related to their health and quality of life, and important life outcomes as adults – such as education, work and family life.
Large data-sets
Large-scale ongoing data collections – both quantitative and qualitative – with young people as informants constitute a focal point of NOVA's youth research.
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Ungdata
Ungdata is a cross-national data collection scheme, designed to conduct youth surveys at the municipal level in Norway. NOVA administers the national database which is used as a basis for many research projects.
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Ungdata plus
Ungdata plus will collect data on what children and young people in Vestfold and Telemark (Norway) do in their leisure time and examine how this is related to their health and quality of life, and important life outcomes as adults – such as education, work and family life.
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Young in Norway
Young in Norway is Norway's first major longitudinal study of youth. It follows people from adolescence to adulthood. The last data collection was carried out in autumn 2020 and spring 2021.
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Inequality in Youth – A Qualitative, Longitudinal Research Database
Inequality in youth is a qualitative, longitudinal research database on youths in Norway, intended to be a parallel to the quantitative Ungdata surveys.
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Young in Oslo 2023
Young in Oslo is the City of Oslo’s Ungdata survey – a unique study that has been conducted since the mid-1990s. The 2023 survey will provide answers to what it’s like for children and young people to grow up in Oslo – after living with a pandemic for almost two years.
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UngVold 2023 – Trends in Exposure to Violence
In 2023, NOVA collected new data for the Youth Violence survey from more than 16,000 Norwegian youth, mapping Norwegian children and adolescents’ experience of violence and abuse during their upbringing.
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National Safety Survey
The project will map concern for crime and victims of crime in Norway.
