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 randomized controlled trial
What can amber and its global circulations tell us about the current times?
Understanding the conditions under which people engage in political action constitutes one of the core questions in the social and political sciences.
The project ACCELZ wants to enhance our understanding of how states can design public organizations, practices, and policies, to accelerate climate action towards net-zero emissions.
Adaptation: Combining Old and New k Nowledge to Enable Conscious Transformation to Sustainability
The objective of AdaptationCONNECTS is to develop new understandings of whether and how different types of transformations can contribute to successful adaptation to climate change.
Vil du delta i forskningsprosjektet biologiske prediktorer for hukommelse?
An aha-experience is a feeling that can motivate and enrich learning. However, little is known about how children understand emotions in learning situations, especially when it comes to aha-experiences. Thus, we will investigate how children at the age of 4-8 years understand aha-experiences that occur in learning situations.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterised by qualitative impairments in social interaction and communication and a restricted range of activities.
Inclusion of migrants is a pressing priority for today's societies, and this project responds to it by integrating and systematizing research on migrants’ adaptation to life in receiving countries.
What can anthropology contribute to the fight against pollution in Africa?
In this project, we investigate attitudes towards onshore wind and nuclear power in Norway. We analyze these attitudes using nationally representative surveys and multiple theoretical perspectives.
How do we control our actions? What happens in the brain when we try to cancel an action we’ve already started? Which subprocesses are important, and how do they shape each other?
The dark side of neuroplasticity during sensitive life phases.
We aim at identifying the role of the learning environment on infants’ and toddlers’ language acquisition.
We want to investigate the emotion of being moved in romantic relationships.
The research project examines whether metacognitive strategy training improves concentration in school and leisure activities for children and adolescents with ADHD.
Zajmujemy się badaniem emocji wzruszenia w związkach romantycznych.
How many young children are showing self-harm behaviours? Who of those self-harming at the age of 3 years continue with self-harm later on? And who stops self-harming? What are the characteristics of children who self-harm versus those who don’t? And which factors can contribute to more resilience towards self-harming behaviours?
The COMPARE convergence enviroment aims to disentangle how the peculiar immune system of the codfishes function in detail and its implications for human immune disease.
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Which building blocks for coordinating resource distribution are so basic that they manifest even in infancy?
New evidence on the causes and consequences of labor market flexibility. Financed by the European Research Council (ERC).
The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Norway is a long term research program designed to study social mobility and cultural adaptation among children of immigrants and their majority peers in the capital region of Norway.
This project investigates developmental changes in children’s tendency to question the information they encounter. We also assess how children’s social environment may impact this development, and how an inquiring stance affects children’s development and learning.
There is very little knowledge about children and young people who engage in problematic or harmful sexual behavior, despite the fact that between 30-50% of sexual abuse against children and young people is committed by other children and young people. Therapists in Child and Youth Psychiatry (BUP) meet both children who are exposed to and who perpetrate violence and abuse.
CoPol studies Covid-19 contact tracing as digital politics and as data practice on the interfaces between technology, public health and fundamental rights.
Goal Management Training for patients with schizophrenia or high risk for schizophrenia
In this project, we have examined how episodic memory develops through childhood and declines with higher age.
(Dis-)Assembling the Life Cycle of Container Ships. Global Ethnographic explorations into Maritime Working Lives.
The study investigates the neural mechanisms behind goal-directed movements and decision making.
The hormone oxytocin has been associated with childbirth and breastfeeding for well over a century. However, more recent research has begun to reveal that oxytocin also influences our thoughts and feelings, particularly those related to social behavior.
This research project will investigate and develop a method to regain concentration through deep reading.
NORMS explores international norms in deportation. Including both host and origin state perspectives, the project undertakes a comparative analysis of Norway, Sweden, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Ethiopia.
A qualitative exploration of change and quality of play within a time limited psychodynamic psychotherapeutic aproach (MBT-C)
Mental health personnel are required by law to write mental health notes in order to document the patient’s health condition, the reasons for seeking help, and the treatment provided.
How does the brain process natural and AI-generated emotional expressions?
Partner violence affects many women, and has increased sharply during the corona measures.
Discrimination runs against the most fundamental values of modern societies. Even in egalitarian welfare states such as Norway, there is ample evidence of discrimination against ethnic minorities in hiring processes. However, there is an acute lack of knowledge about how ethnic minorities respond to and navigate this reality.
Evaluation Optics of the Nation State: The Past, Present and Future of Public Documentation
The overall aim of the project is to increase our understanding of how and why socioeconomic status in early life is linked to mental health and school difficulties.
5 year follow-up study (FOPPT4).
Clinical, Neurocognitive and Functional Outcome in Early-Onset Schizophrenia and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A 20-Year Follow-up Study.
The Norwegian government has decided to include the interdisciplinary topic “Health and Life Skills” in schools all over Norway. What are the consequences of the topic for young people’s lives?
This project investigates the impact of culture on children’s emotion understanding, with a focus on children between 2-3 and 11-12 years old.
How can we decarbonize our economy in a democratic and just way? Energy for future offers workshops for schools to increase knowledge, skills and critical reasoning about the energy transition in Norway.
ENROL studies what the EU and its member states can do to contain, reverse and prevent democratic backsliding and rule of law regression.
European Research Council (ERC) Call: ERC-2021-ADG
What remains after epidemics have been controlled?
This project addresses an urgent issue in global health: the response of African health systems to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The research centre EurNor contributes to an increased understanding of interactions between EEA law and national legislation and the challenges arising out of that.
COMPLEX studies the effects of international treaties on national law.
Do you identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual? Would you share your experience on intimate partner relationship?
Why is fertility falling and why is fertility inequalities rising? The aim is to unpack the underlying mechanisms behind the falling fertility trend and the rising fertility inequalities in the younger generations.
Firm Evidence on Ethnic Stratification: Work Organizations, Employment Segregation, and Immigrant Economic Assimilation (FirmStrat)
Understanding the role of friendship in start-ups and their entrepreneurial teams.
Pregnancy is one of the most dynamic and plastic periods in a woman's life, offering a remarkable potential for physiological adaptation.
Maternal depression (MD) is the leading cause of perinatal mortality and it accounts for 20% of all postpartum deaths.
This research project will investigate how and why early life socioeconomic status is linked to mental health and educational performance.
Rainbow trout and human made environmental change.
DEAL studies if the European Green Deal creates unrest in the EU's political processes and if so, how.
This project will evaluate how variations in implementation of the new interdisciplinary subject “Health and life skills” relate to the intervention’s effect on pupils' mental health and quality of life.
Rethinking wellbeing and social relations – the role of genetic and environmental processes
ARENA contributes to a multidisciplinary platform for research on judicial politics in the European Union.
A six year project that aims to develop a new framework of analysis that accounts for the multifactorial nature of immigrant and native workers, the very different labor market dynamics observed across countries and the very different public policies observed across countries.
Include is a research centre that will produce knowledge about how to realise a socially just low-carbon society through socially inclusive processes and in close collaboration between researchers and partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
A six year project that aim to provide a novel framework for the conduct of macroprudential policy, funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Norway and the other Nordic countries has been among the most socially mobile societies in the world, yet previous research on the overall trends in intergenerational mobility in Norway and in the other Nordic countries also show mixed results. However, recent empirical evidence from Norway suggests that intergenerational mobility has come under pressure, particularly at the bottom of the socioeconomic class distribution.
A scoping review exploring the unmet health care needs (mental health, substance use problems and violence) in the LGBTQ+ population, their health-seeking behaviour, health care experiences and perceived barriers to care.
A four-year project funded by The Research Council of Norway under the Researcher Project for Young Talents (FRIPRO) program.
LiFT applies academic, hands-on and intuitive knowledge to developing more collaborative leadership as an essential skill for the 21st century
“Learning from mistakes: A Longitudinal Neuroimaging-Cohort-Registry Study” is a five-year research project, aiming to improve our understanding of the development of self-monitoring and -regulation in adolescence, and of the neural and ontogenetic foundations for these functions. The project is financed by the Research Council of Norway.
The project focuses on the entire life course where the primary objective is to explain, predict and promote cognitive function from birth to old age.
In the Little in Norway-study (LiN-study), we examine children's early developmental pathways, starting from prenatal life through early childhood, and extending into school age. This allows us to understand what happens when some children develop robust mental health, while others may struggle with mental health issues.
Is early identification possible of who, over the long term, will have a failed result from obesity surgery and conservative weight loss treatment?
A six-year project that aims to research machine learning and to improve the way social scientists can answer classic as well as emerging questions in economics that require the use of large datasets. Funded by the Research Council of Norway.
A five year study that investigates three understudied issues of taxation; the pros and cons of capital income vs wealth taxation, the taxation of housing and the relationship between central and local taxation.
A closer look at the economic causes and consequences of market access. Financed by the European Research Council (ERC).
– A follow-up of the MoBa study.
All research designs have their sources of bias. The current project uses Monte Carlo simulations to investigate several sources of bias in questionnaire studies. The knowledge derived from the project will help designing studies and interpret results in ways that reduce the risk of bias.
Sustainable peace requires the support of the population and it is thus critical to understand the preferences of citizens. Yet peace often requires compromises between different moral imperatives, such as peace and justice. What do ordinary citizens think about peace and the concessions that are made in order to bring peace?
Body- and mindfulness-oriented approaches, such as yoga, are increasingly used for mental health problems, and there is some empirical support that yoga can be beneficial for trauma-related problems.