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Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism

@discretionuib.bsky.social

Research centre at the University of Bergen. We study government’s use of power towards its citizens, and justifications thereof. Focus on children's rights and child protection.

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@mskivenes.bsky.social @hshelland.bsky.social @mathealo.bsky.social

04.08.2025 10:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We are pleased to announce that researchers from DIPA, Prof. Skivenes, Prof. Berrick, Dr. Helland, & Dr. Loen, have recently participated in the 2025 International Political Science Association (@ipsa.org) World Congress of Political Science, in Seoul.

Read more: discretion.w.uib.no/2025/08/01/d...

04.08.2025 10:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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02.07.2025 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We are glad to share a new publication by our new Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathea Loen (@mathealo.bsky.social), in the journal "Governance". The study analyses European citizens’ attitudes toward public welfare institutions in terms of their compliance.

Read more: discretion.w.uib.no/2025/07/02/n...

02.07.2025 13:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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#childrenrights #constitution #childrenvisibility

@sirigloppen.bsky.social @mskivenes.bsky.social

26.06.2025 10:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Excited to share a new publication by Prof. Berrick, Prof. Gloppen, Dr. Margarido and Prof. Skivenes in the International Journal of Children’s Rights! The study analyses children’s constitutional visibility using constitutional texts (193 countries).

Read more: discretion.w.uib.no/2025/06/25/a...

26.06.2025 10:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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25.06.2025 12:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We are delighted to announce that our PhD Candidate, Mathea Loen (@mathealo.bsky.social), has successfully defended her dissertation, “Protecting Children, Preserving Trust,” and has therefore acquired a PhD from the University of Bergen!

More on her defence: discretion.w.uib.no/2025/06/25/p...

25.06.2025 12:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Earlier this month, Professor Marit Skivenes (@mskivenes.bsky.social) was invited to a webinar on Children’s Rights and Participation by the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)'s NORBARN Research School. Read more here:
discretion.w.uib.no/2025/06/20/p...

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23.06.2025 09:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hva kjennetegner tillit til barnevern i Europa? Mathea Loen disputerer 20.6.2025 for ph.d.-graden ved Universitetet i Bergen med avhandlingen "Protecting Children, Preserving Trust".

Her dissertation consists of four articles and a comprehensive introduction (“kappe”), and is a part of the CHALLENGES project at DIPA. A press release in Norwegian can be found here:
www.uib.no/nye-doktorgr...

11.06.2025 09:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We are thrilled to announce that DIPA's Mathea Loen (@mathealo.bsky.social) will defend her PhD degree at the Department of Government, University of Bergen on June 20, 2025, with the dissertation "Protecting Children, Preserving Trust".

discretion.w.uib.no/2025/06/11/m...

11.06.2025 09:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
RDV: (Un)Constitutional Educational Indoctrination – Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA)

You can also participate digitally! Link is provided in this event page. discretion.w.uib.no/event/rdv-un...

02.06.2025 13:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us at Bergen Global (@bergenglobal.bsky.social) for the #RDVseminar this Friday, 6 June (9:00 – 10:15 CEST), where Assistant Professor Zalman Rothschild from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law will present a topic titled “(Un)Constitutional Educational Indoctrination”.

02.06.2025 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mathea has researched this topic throughout her PhD duration at the centre and will defend her PhD thesis titled “Protecting Children, Preserving Trust: Ensuring Legitimate State Interventions into Families” on Friday, 20 June 2025.

More details will be available soon.

#childprotection #trust

28.05.2025 10:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We are excited to announce the publication of our latest blog post, "How can Norwegian child protection preserve trust and protect children? " written by PhD Candidate Mathea Loen (@mathealo.bsky.social). Read the full blog post here: discretion.w.uib.no/2025/05/28/h...

28.05.2025 10:01 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Dilemmas of children’s participation and the role of practice guidelines: the views of judicial decision-makers in Norway Abstract . This study examines how judicial decision-makers in Norway address children’s participation in child welfare cases, focusing on their experience

The full article is #openaccess and can be read here:
academic.oup.com/lawfam/artic...

12.05.2025 11:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Dilemmas of children’s participation and the role of practice guidelines: the views of judicial decision-makers in Norway – Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA)

Read more on this publication from our website:
discretion.w.uib.no/2025/05/12/d...

#decisionmaking #judicialdecision

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12.05.2025 11:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We are excited to share a new publication by Post Doc Audun Løvlie (@lovlie.bsky.social) in the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. The study analyses how judicial decision-makers in #Norway confront the dilemmas of incorporating #childparticipation in #childwelfare cases.

12.05.2025 11:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Seminar poster in Japanese

Seminar poster in Japanese

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Marit Skivenes (@mskivenes.bsky.social), Tarja Pösö, and June Thoburn (@jthobu.bsky.social) are invited to present on "Adoption from Care" book by Research Institute for Children’s Social Care, Waseda University, on 12 May 2025 (Online).

14.04.2025 10:09 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Dilemmas of children’s participation and the role of practice guidelines: the views of judicial decision-makers in Norway Abstract . This study examines how judicial decision-makers in Norway address children’s participation in child welfare cases, focusing on their experience

I am excited to announce my latest paper! It examines judicial decision-makers and their confrontation with dilemmas of children's right to participate. #childrights #childprotection #CPS @discretionuib.bsky.social
#judicialindependence #discretion #decisionmaking
academic.oup.com/lawfam/artic...

10.05.2025 00:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Recommending the @discretionuib.bsky.social blog on "The Nordic culture for child participation," by my good colleague Marit Skivenes on how child-centric Nordic societies still struggle to balance child protection and participation: discretion.w.uib.no/%E2%80%A6/th...

01.05.2025 16:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We are excited to announce the publication of our latest blog post, "The Nordic culture for child participation," written by Professor Marit Skivenes (@mskivenes.bsky.social).

Read the full blog post here: discretion.w.uib.no/2025/04/30/t...

30.04.2025 14:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Decisions on contact rights after a care order in Norway from 2008 to 2021: a repeated cross-sectional study in the aftermath of the European Court of Human Rights rulings When a child is placed in out-of-home care, the right to maintain contact with the parents is decided by the Child Welfare Tribunal. Since 2015, the European Court of Human Rights has in 23 child p...

New paper - with unique data from 2008 to 2021 - about the Norwegian decisions on contact rights after a care order : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @discretionuib.bsky.social @hellejohansen.bsky.social

30.04.2025 09:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Balancing paternalism and child centrism: a Nordic population study on children's rights in child protection This article examines representative population samples (N = 5,073) on attitudes about children's participation in child protection investigations in Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. ...

New research from the Nordic countries shows strong public support for children’s right to information and for giving weight to their opinions in child protection cases. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @lawtransform.bsky.social @conorom.bsky.social @sirigloppen.bsky.social

17.04.2025 09:13 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Our new paper is out. @discretionuib.bsky.social @mskivenes.bsky.social #childrights #paternalism Support for children's rights is strong in the Nordics.

25.04.2025 12:34 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Balancing paternalism and child centrism: a Nordic population study on children's rights in child protection This article examines representative population samples (N = 5,073) on attitudes about children's participation in child protection investigations in Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. ...

The article can be accessed here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

25.04.2025 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gladly announcing that Frøydis Lønborg Haarberg, Katrin Križ, Audun Løvlie (@lovlie.bsky.social), and Marit Skivenes (@mskivenes.bsky.social) from DIPA have recently published a scientific article in the European Journal of Social Work on balancing #Paternalism and #ChildRights in #Nordic countries.

25.04.2025 14:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Professor Skivenes, Pösö, and Thoburn Invited for Seminar on “Adoption from Care” Book by Waseda University – Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) The details of the seminar are as follow:

The online seminar is open for public and free of charge with simultaneous interpreters.

Find more information here:
discretion.w.uib.no/2025/04/14/p...

14.04.2025 10:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Seminar poster in Japanese

Seminar poster in Japanese

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Marit Skivenes (@mskivenes.bsky.social), Tarja Pösö, and June Thoburn (@jthobu.bsky.social) are invited to present on "Adoption from Care" book by Research Institute for Children’s Social Care, Waseda University, on 12 May 2025 (Online).

14.04.2025 10:09 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Bli med på Barnevernfrokost, fredag 4 april kl. 9:00, der Dr. Elisabeth Backe-Hansen diskuterer lisensiering av barnevernsinstitusjoner på tvers av nordiske land.

Mer informasjon kan finnes her:
discretion.w.uib.no/event/proses...

02.04.2025 09:59 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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