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23 February 2026Blogposts

What’s in an Age? Children’s Rights, Age Assessment and Immigration Control in the UK

BLOG: Chronological age cannot be accurately determined by any existing method, either individually or […]

30 January 202630 January 2026Literature update, News

PROTECTing Children’s Rights Within Crime Prevention, the Nordic Countries at a Crossroad?

NEW ARTICLE written by Post Doctoral Researcher, Lucie Margot Ducarre, Marit Skivenes, and Linda […]

20 January 2026News

Guest researcher: Stefanie Schurer

We are pleased to announce that Professor Stefanie Schurer will be visiting DIPA this […]

12 January 2026Blogposts

When religion and a child’s stability in foster care clash: people choose stability

BLOG: Against a backdrop of legal battles over religion and children across the globe, […]

25 November 2025Events, News

Professor Skivenes Presents at a Nordic Research Seminar on Children, Youth, and Crime in the Welfare State

Professor Marit Skivenes has recently been invited to speak in a research seminar in […]

22 October 2025Events, News, Publications

Book Launch: Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights

On October 16th 2025, DIPA hosted a book launch for Child Protection and the […]

17 October 2025Events, News

DIPA Researchers Participated in EuSARF 2025 in Zagreb

We are pleased to announce that Professor Marit Skivenes, Jill Duerr Berrick, and Predoctoral Fellow Zacky […]

07 October 202508 October 2025Events, News

DIPA Researchers Participated in ECPR General Conference 2025 in Thessaloniki

We are glad to inform that in late August, DIPA Researcher Hege Helland and […]

16 September 2025Literature update, News, Publications

What about their future? An analysis of child protection systems’ focus on the future of new-born children in care order decisions

NEW ARTICLE: The researchers Jenny Krutzinna, Katre Luhamaa, Tarja Pösö and Marit Skivenes have just published […]

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About Us

An interdisciplinary Research Centre studying government’s use of power toward its citizens and the justifications of state interventions.

 

AFZ

DIPA is an apartheid-free zone (AFZ) that actively rejects apartheid, occupation, and oppression.”

 

Postal address

University of Bergen
Department of Government
DIPA, P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen, Norway

VISITOR ADRESS:
Christiesgate 17
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Contact us

Marit Skivenes
Phone:
+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87
E-mail:
Marit.Skivenes@uib.no
discretion@uib.no