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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.
@mskivenes.bsky.social @hshelland.bsky.social @mathealo.bsky.social
04.08.2025 10:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We 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...
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02.07.2025 13:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We 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...
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#childrenrights #constitution #childrenvisibility
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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...
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25.06.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We 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...
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:
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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:
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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".
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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 📌 0Join 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 📌 0Mathea 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
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 📌 0The full article is #openaccess and can be read here:
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Read more on this publication from our website:
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#decisionmaking #judicialdecision
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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 📌 0Seminar 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 📌 0I 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
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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 📌 0We 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...
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 📌 0New 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 📌 1Our 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 📌 0The article can be accessed here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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 📌 0The 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...
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 📌 0Bli 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...