RDV: Analysis or paralysis? Monitory mechanisms for child protection services in Ireland (Kenneth Burns)
2023-09-21 14:15 - 15:30 (Europe/Oslo) | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
Child protection and welfare systems are one essential part of a nation state’s approach to protecting and promoting the welfare of children. Keane (2022) argues that we are in a new phase of democracy called ‘monitory democracy’. In this phase, democratic systems develop power scrutinising mechanisms and institutions that focus on public accountability and governance, with this ‘monitoring’ work being undertaken by government institutions and civil society actors. As child protection and welfare systems are entrusted with significant power by governments, they are a significant focus of such monitoring.
The focus of this paper is to examine the strategies and mechanisms adopted by Ireland to monitor the operation, quality and development of its child protection and welfare system. In using the term monitor/monitory, the focus of analysis will be on the Irish system of governance, oversight and monitoring of state-provided child protection and welfare services.
Kenneth Burns is a senior lecturer, Deputy Director of the Master of Social Work course and Director of Practice (social work) at University College Cork. He has worked as a social worker and social work team leader in child protection and welfare. His main research and teaching interests are in child protection policy and practice, staff retention, social media abuse in social work, child care proceedings in the District Court / voluntary care / informal kinship care, and community-based participatory research. http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A012/kburns
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RDV: Child participation and child protection: lessons from international research (Aoife Daly)
2023-09-28 14:15 - 15:30 | (Styrerommet (17.103), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen
We welcome you to our RDV seminar with Professor Aoife Daly. She will give a talk on a paper which is based on her book “Children, Autonomy and the Courts: Beyond the Right to be Heard“. This paper is concerned with the influence of children on decisions affecting them. It appears that the right to be heard under Article 12 of the UN convention on the rights of the child has brought some positive change in terms of children simply feeling heard. It is not all about outcomes – the perception of being listened to, of being taken seriously, is undoubtedly good for children: I think the judge kind of listened to me in the end. There is evidence that the right to be heard has encouraged an attitude shift when it comes to hearing children and valuing their views – there is a sense that children should be heard, at least in some circumstances. Yet there is little point hearing children if their wishes are unlikely to make any difference to outcomes. Indeed Article 12 of the CRC says that children’s views must be given due weight, which implies some level of influence. What does international research demonstrate in terms of the influence of children’s wishes and child protection proceedings in courts? This paper presents research in this area, and findings point to inconsistent, confusing and illogical approaches by the courts to children’s wishes. The reasons for this are considered in this paper. It is emphasised that courts refuse to accept that there is a limited ability to ensure a ‘good’ outcome. This is to the detriment of a good process, one which prioritises children’s wishes. Courts also think that they are acting as benevolent parents when they impose best interest determinations, which is mistaken as courts are representatives of the state (and therefore have the threat of force behind them). It is also mistaken because families do not always operate in a ‘parents say, children do’ It is argued that there is a risk that the Article 12 right to be heard, and its lack of influence for children in reality, in fact works to uphold traditional power dynamics. The state wins because children’s wishes can be overridden when they incline against state authorities, or prevailing beliefs such as ‘contact at all costs.’ It seems that children’s wishes within the ‘right to be heard’ framework are least effective where they are needed the most – where those wishes incline against adults, and particularly where they incline against the status quo. The question of whether a focus on autonomy would shift this influence gap will be posed.
Aoife Daly teaches law, and specialises in human rights law. Aoife’s research focuses on human rights based approaches and children’s rights in areas which include environmental rights, climate activism, and access to justice. She is at present researching children/youth and how their environmental activism is impacting human rights law. In 2023 she secured a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to build a team to carry out a large scale research study on child/youth climate justice-inside and outside the courts-around the world. UCC Research Profiles: Aoife Daly, Law
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RDV: Institutional Changes for Democratic Dialogue (Roberto Gargarella)
2023-10-05 14:15 - 15:30 | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
We welcome you to our RDV seminar with Professor Roberto Gargarella. He will present the new project he is awarded by the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant): “Institutional Changes for Democratic Dialogue». The project aims to make constitutionalism more sensitive to growing democratic demands, by offering concrete institutional alternatives to channel the demands of democracy and engage with activists and members of civil society, from a conception of democracy as a “conversation between equals”. The project stems from the deep crisis affecting constitutional democracies around the world and manifests itself both in a growing lack of confidence in constitutionalism and in an increase in citizens’ dissatisfaction with democracy. The ultimate goal is to design institutional proposals that are both respectful of individual rights and the decisions resulting from democratic dialogue.
Roberto Gargarella, a full professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Buenos Aires, teaches at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina, and is the director of the “Institutional Changes for Democratic Dialogue» project at the Department of Law at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. https://www.biennaldepensament.barcelona/en/participants/roberto-gargarella

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RDV: Abolition of child protection - The ultimate denial of child rights
2023-10-26 14:15 - 15:30
In the early 2000s the main narrative in the field of child welfare was an optimistic one. It was believed that families could become stronger if they received help in the form of economic and social support. Child welfare professionals could work together with parents in a respectful, generous, and culturally sensitive way. It was also believed that parents could change for the better if they were offered a restorative, healing approach rather than a strict, punitive response. This approach was meant to be more helpful and supportive to families.
Although there are many who still share this view, there is also a growing condemnation of child welfare. Some view, everything about child welfare as wrong, counter-productive – even a violation of human rights. What’s even more worrying is that the abolitionist viewpoint makes an important error trying to find simple solutions for a very complex issue, namely, how to keep kids safe and their families healthy and stable within the context of the flawed national history in the US related to poverty and race. Just as the child welfare field once relied too heavily on family separation, the abolition school of thought would rid the US of its legally mandated obligation to child safety.
The child welfare system in the US has had decades of attempts toward reform, however the reforms have not gone far enough, nor have they had the widespread or deep effects that many of us want to see. Still, if we are going to abandon the current child welfare system, we must address some of the critical questions that have escaped the profession for decades and helped to drive the call for its end.
Join us for a thought-provoking seminar that delves into the pressing issues surrounding child welfare today!
Jill D. Berrick is a Distinguished Professor and the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley, and Professor II at the Department of Government, University of Bergen. Her research focuses on the child welfare system and efforts to improve the experiences of children and families touched by foster care. Her interests target the intersection of poverty, childhood development, parenting and the service systems designed to address family well-being. For over three decades Dr. Berrick has conducted a range of studies examining child welfare services for vulnerable families. She has written or co-written 112 books and numerous articles on topics relating to family poverty, child maltreatment and child welfare. https://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/people/jill-duerr-berrick
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Courts as Champions of Women, Children, and Marginalised Groups by Brenda Hale
2023-10-27 10:15 - 12:00 | Auditorium Egget (Studentsenteret), Parkveien 1, Bergen, 5007, Norway
On Friday, October 27th, former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lady Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond will be the Department of Government’s esteemed speaker at the General Seminar in Politics and Government.
Lady Hale is a trailblazer in British law and achieved several historic milestones throughout her career. She notably became the first woman to serve as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, a position she held from 2017 until her retirement in 2020.
She received her education at Richmond High School for Girls in North Yorkshire and Girton College, Cambridge, where she currently holds the position of Visitor. Lady Hale was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn, where she was Treasurer in 2017. For nearly two decades, she taught Law at Manchester University for 18 years, specialising in family and social welfare law, and also practiced at the Manchester Bar for a period.
In 1984, she made history as the first woman to join the Law Commission, which promotes legal reform. Here she played an important role which led to the Children Act of 1989 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. She was also a founder member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and chair of its Code of Practice Committee from 1990 until 1994, when she was appointed a Judge of the Family Division of the High Court. She was promoted to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in 1999 and in 2004 became a ‘Lord of Appeal in Ordinary’ in the House of Lords. This was the top court for the whole United Kingdom, until the ‘Law Lords’ became the Justices of the newly established Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in 2009. She became its Deputy President in 2013 and President in 2017.
While at Manchester University she was joint founding editor of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law and authored a number of books, including The Family, Law and Society: Cases and Materials and Women and the Law. In 2004, she helped to establish the United Kingdom Association of Women Judges and from 2010 to 2012 served as President of the International Association of Women Judges, a world-wide body of both men and women judges committed to equality and human rights for all. A practising member of the Church of England, she has always taken an interest in religion and the law, and has written and spoken on the subject many times.
Throughout her career, Lady Hale’s impact has reached beyond national boundaries. Her principled stance and intellectual contributions have solidified her legacy as a pioneering figure in the legal community. Through a close connection to academia, she has provided lectures on justice, human rights and the legal system, enriching the discourse in those critical areas.
Topic of the General Seminar:
Courts as Champions of Women, Children, and Marginalised Groups
Both in legal theory and in practice, courts are crucial for the protection of vulnerable groups and insular minorities. Most societies give special protection in law to certain groups, such as children, religious minorities, and indigenous peoples, while for others, the legal protection is less clear, for example when it comes to undocumented migrants and future (climate affected) generations. Minority protection are often perceived as threatening important societal interests (parental rights, the natural family, security, economic growth, green transformation) and increasingly place courts at the centre of heated political contestations. Diverging views between the European Court of Human Right and domestic courts on whose rights should prevail and what the State’s obligations are, add complexity. How should courts navigate, when the rights of vulnerable groups place the judiciary at risk of politicization?

Barnevernfrokost: Fosterhjemsundersøkelsen 2023 - Hva sier stemmene fra fosterhjemmene om hva som skal til for stabilitet og bedre rekruttering?
2023-11-10 09:00 - 09:45
Norge er inne i en fosterhjemskrise! Det er stor mangel på fosterhjem. Barn står i kø for å få et trygt hjem. Fosterhjemsomsorgen er grunnmuren i barneverntjenesten. 9 av 10 barn som av ulike grunner ikke kan bo hjemme med sine foreldre, bor i fosterhjem. Alle parter ønsker at disse barna skal bo i fosterhjem, framfor på institusjon, men det er vanskelig å rekruttere mange nok godkjente fosterhjem. Det er et sammensatt bilde av hvorfor vi er kommet i denne situasjonen, – at barn lever under omsorgssvikt og de ikke får rett hjelp til rett tid. Dette er alvorlig!
Fosterhjemsundersøkelsen er et foto av virkeligheten slik den fortonet seg når over 1500 fosterforeldre og 260 ungdommer som bor i fosterhjem, med sine brukererfaringer, ga oss denne viktige kunnskapen.
Hvordan delta på Barnevernfrokost
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Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

Barnevernfrokost: Helt, ikke stykkevis og delt. En modell for organisering av det kliniske arbeidet og en modell for kvalitetssikring av behandlingen
2023-11-24 09:00 - 09:45
Under denne barnevernfrokosten vil det bli presentert en modell for organisering av behandlingsarbeidet som tilbys den enkelte ungdom/familie. Modellen er basert på RNR prinsippene. Videre vil det presenteres en helhetlig modell for kvalitetssikring av behandlingstilbudet som gis, herunder rammebetingelser og organisatoriske faktorer som kan påvirke behandlingen til familiene.

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Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

RDV: The cost of caring: the professional quality of life of child social workers
2023-12-07 14:15 - 15:30 | Zoom
The cost of caring: the professional quality of life of child social workers (Camille Verheyden, Frank Van Holen, Stephanie Chartier & Johan Vanderfaeillie)
Several international studies show that child social workers are at increased risk of developing burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Causes are: working daily with vulnerable children and families, confronting others’ traumas, the many demands and challenges of the job and, the high workload. In addition, the sector is currently struggling with high dropout rates and staff turnover. This context forms a threat to the professional quality of life of child social workers resulting in negative consequences for the child social workers themselves, the persons they accompany and the organisations where they are employed. To date, there are few results available on the professional quality of life (burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion satisfaction) of child social workers in Europe and there are none for Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia) so far. To gain insight into this, we investigated the professional quality of life of child social workers in Flanders and Wallonia. Camille Verheyden and Johan Vanderfaeillie will share their preliminary findings from their study.
Camille Verheyden is a PhD-student at the Department Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research focuses on family foster care , child abuse and neglect, and the professional quality of life of youth care professionals. https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/camille-verheyden
Johan Vanderfaeillie is a Professor at the Department Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is doing research into child welfare issues, with foster care and child maltreatment as core subjects. He studies all kinds of issues regarding foster care: breakdown, reunification, decision making in foster care and interventions for foster parents. In addition, he also studies the short- and long-term outcomes of foster placements. His research into child maltreatment focuses on the detection and reporting of child abuse and neglect, and the outcomes of interventions aiming at preventing child abuse and neglect. https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/johan-vanderfaeillie

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RDV: The Development of Personal Identity Rights at the European Court of Human Rights: whose rights and what is achieved?
2024-01-25 14:15 - 15:30
The Development of Personal Identity Rights at the European Court of Human Rights: whose rights and what is achieved?
By reference to applied philosophy and case law, Jill Marshall explores how human rights law, and particularly the European Court of Human Rights (the Court), has developed and interpreted a right to personal identity, largely arising from a right to respect for one’s private life – see J Marshall: Personal Freedom Through Human Rights Law? (2009); Human Rights Law and Personal Identity (2014) and Personal Identity and the European Court of Human Rights (2022). This paper continues Marshall’s analysis by reference to the Court’s case law, concentrating on more recent cases. The paper interrogates the development of these rights analysing whose rights have been protected and what role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of permissible personal identities, asking and suggesting some responses to what has been, and could be, achieved. Marshall’s analysis includes cases on Islamic headscarves, secret births, and intercultural adoption.
Short Author Biography:
Professor Jill Marshall, Professor of Law, Department of Law and Criminology, Royal Holloway University of London co-directs the interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law (CSEL). She also leads the Rights and Freedoms research cluster and postgraduate research within her department. She is a qualified lawyer. Her work focuses on the relationship between law and living well, human flourishing, what it means to be free, with a focus on girls’ and women’s human rights. She has written widely on these topics and is the author of three books and one edited collection. Current projects include conceptually distinguishing pregnancy and giving birth from motherhood, baby boxes and secret births, deception and identity in the metaverse, and freedom of religion, expression, and identity through dress.
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RDV: Effects of lawfare: Criminalization of abortion in Peru
2024-02-01 14:15 - 15:30 | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
How does the criminalization of abortion impact women?
Therapeutic abortion has been decriminalised in Peru since 1924, but it was only in 2014 that a protocol was approved to guarantee access to the procedure. However, in 100 years, no additional grounds have been legalised, resulting in thousands of women and pregnant people being prosecuted for the crime of abortion. In this seminar Carolina Neyra analyses the impact of criminalization of abortion and other obstetric events on the human rights of women and pregnant people in Peru.
The seminar is based on a national study which is part of a regional report on the criminalisation of women and pregnant people for the crime of abortion in seven countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Carolina Neyra is a lawyer who graduated with honours from the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru. In 2019, she completed an internship at the Merits Unit of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She has also participated in research projects on the rights of LGTBIQ+ people in Peru, as well as in the development of public policies focused on gender equality and the eradication of gender-based violence. In 2019, she participated in the course “Effects of Lawfare” at the Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation.

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RDV: Child Protection Case Law from Constitutional Courts: A Comparative Survey
2024-03-04 14:15 - 15:30
The right to protection from violence and exploitation is one of the most commonly-protected constitutional rights of children, being second only to the right to education in the frequency with which it features in national constitutions. For the most part, the legal framework for vindicating this right is set out at the level of ordinary legislation rather than in constitutional law; but some child protection cases find their way to constitutional courts. These include cases taken by national authorities against parents who are exercising parental rights in a manner detrimental to children; cases taken against national authorities for failing to adequately protect children from violence, or to protect the rights of child victims in the justice system; and cases where the constitutionality of child protection laws (eg on corporal punishment) is challenged. This presentation will survey a selection of cases from around the world, seeking to identify common themes and explore the added value of children’s constitutional rights in the arena of child protection.
About the speaker
Connor O’Mahony is a Professor at the University College Cork (Ireland). He is also the Director of the Child Law Clinic at the university, through which he works to support litigation concerning children and to advocate for law reform in the area of child law. Professor O’Mahony’s research interests lie broadly in the areas of constitutional law and child law, with a particular focus on family and children’s rights. From 2019 to 2022, he served as Special Rapporteur on Child Protection to the Government of Ireland, a role which included annually reporting on significant child protection developments.
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RDV: Gendered politics of Autocratization in Africa
2024-03-21 14:15 - 15:30 | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
On March 21st, research professor Satang Nabaneh will hold a talk titled “Gendered politics of Autocratization in Africa” at the RDV seminar as part of the PhD conference “Gendered Autocratization“.
Queer issues are highly politicised on the African continent. Questions related to gender identity and homosexuality are central to public discourse and political mobilisation. They are instrumental for illiberal and autocratic politicians’ rise to and hold of power.
What drives and shapes these trends? What are their effects?
Satang Nabaneh will discuss the characteristics of the gendered autocratisation dynamics and counter-forces on the African continent, focusing on the underlying question about how is gender used by populist politicians and autocratic leaders in Africa?

The lecture is free and open to all.
About the speaker
Satang Nabaneh is the Director of Programs at the Human Rights Center at the , where she is also a Research Professor of Law. She holds a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Pretoria, South Africa (2020), a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria, South Africa (2012), and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of The Gambia, The Gambia (2012).Nabaneh is a legal scholar and human rights practitioner with expertise in international human rights law and monitoring mechanisms, human rights in Africa, gender equality and women’s rights, democratization in Africa, and comparative constitutionalism.

Barnevernfrokost: Foreldreoppfølging etter omsorgsovertakelse i familievernet – et supplement til barneverntjenestens oppfølgingsansvar
2024-03-22 09:00 - 09:45
Det er flere grunner til at foreldre bør følges opp etter en omsorgsovertakelse. Foreldre har ofte omfattende behov for hjelp, og hjelpebehovene forsterkes ofte etter at barna blir plassert. I tillegg kan mange barn bekymre seg for hvordan foreldrene har det og som en følge av det ha vansker med å slå seg til ro med plasseringen. Foreldre som er fratatt omsorgen for egne barn, har vært fokusert lite på i hjelpeapparatet. Mange foreldre beskriver tett oppfølging frem til omsorgsovertagelsen, men at de i etterkant står igjen alene fordi hjelpen følger barnet. I tillegg opplever mange at samarbeidet mellom barnevern og foreldre er svært utfordrende, da det blir vanskelig å ta imot hjelp fra den samme instansen som initierte omsorgovertakelsen.
Som et supplement til barneverntjenestens oppfølging, fikk familievernet i 2015 i oppdrag å tilby foreldreoppfølging etter omsorgsovertagelse. Det ble etablert et eget Spisskompetansemiljø som arbeider med å sikre kunnskapsgrunnlag, fagutvikling og implementering av kunnskapsbasert og likeverdig tilbud ved alle landets familievernkontor. Målsetningen med tilbudet er å hjelpe foreldre å mestre livene sine etter en omsorgsovertagelse, bearbeide vanskelige følelser og tilpasse seg en ny rolle som samværsforeldre. Foreldre som har benyttet seg av familievernets tilbud sier de er godt fornøyde med den hjelpen de har mottatt. Til tross for et uttrykt behov et slik tilbud, er det få som benytter seg av familievernets oppfølging. Det jobbes derfor stadig med rekruttering og gjøre tilbudet bedre kjent for foreldrene, barneverntjenesten og øvrige samarbeidspartnere, slik at hjelpen blir tilgjengelig for de som trenger den.
På denne utgaven av Barnevernfrokost kommer klinisk spesialist Janne Vinkler Rasmussen og kollega fra familievernets spisskompetansemiljø på foreldreoppfølging etter omsorgsovertakelse for å dele fra bakgrunnen til tilbudet og kunnskapsgrunnlaget som ligger bak, informere om tilbudet de har, innholdet i tilbudet og foreldrestemmene.

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Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

RDV: Exploring the intersection of food and family intervention policies in England: how are children included?
2024-04-04 14:15 - 15:30
In England, a rhetoric of supporting ‘troubled families’ through policy interventions mushroomed during the New Labour years of the late 1990s. At this time, early years settings became sites of particular interest in which to implement these policies, seen as places where perceived deficiencies in the household could be addressed. This has led to an overlap of policy domains, predominantly between early years education and family intervention, yet also expanding into other areas. In this context, children’s food policy is seen as an especially fruitful area for intervention, where the aim of ‘improving children’s diets’ often seems to be interlaced with a concern for ‘improving parenting styles’.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in London between 2016 and 2017, this paper explores what happens at the intersection of these different policy domains, examining how particular framings of policy problems – and the solutions developed to address these problems – lead to contradictions and arbitrary results. Linking to wider discussions about the current early childhood education and care (ECEC) landscape in England, the paper also asks to what extent are children’s viewpoints and experiences considered when interventions are developed, and what can be gained when doing so in a meaningful way.
About the speaker
Francesca Vaghi is a Research Associate at the School of Social & Political Science at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She is currently conducting research on the work of contemporary NHS charities as part of the Border Crossings project: https://more.bham.ac.uk/border-crossings/border-crossings/projects/
Francesca is interested in medical anthropology, the anthropology of policy, and childhood studies. She completed her PhD in 2019 at SOAS, University of London. For her doctoral research, Francesca conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a state-maintained nursery in London over a 12-month period, developing a child-centred methodological approach to meaningfully involve children in research. Aside from investigating how children create self and peer identities through food and eating practices, her work explores how children’s food policy fits into family intervention policies in the context of Britain’s mixed economy of welfare, and how notions of ‘good food’ and ‘good parenting’ (particularly mothering) are interlinked. Her book, Food Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Education and Care, has just been published by Routledge.
Francesca is interested in advancing critical approaches in public health, specifically looking at how dominant policy discourses (re)create and seek to address ‘problems’ that have particular implications for working class and ethnic minority families, particularly in matters related to food insecurity, childhood poverty, and childcare policy. https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/persons/francesca-vaghi (Guest researcher at DIPA from the 2nd of April–1st of May).

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RDV: Traveling across disciplinary boundaries: A journey into applying literary criticism to public-facing texts by street-level bureaucrats
2024-04-15 14:15 - 15:30
Researchers in the social sciences, including legal studies, political science, social work, and sociology, utilize specific, discipline-based approaches to analyzing written texts, including frequency counts of words and text segments and determining thematic patterns emerging from the data. This seminar, with speakers Katrin Križ and Daniela Reimer and discussant Tarja Pösö, aims to walk participants beyond the boundaries of these social science approaches by introducing the methods of literary criticism and reflecting on their methodological potential. What can social scientists learn from literary criticism methods for analyzing public-facing texts by street-level bureaucrats? “Public-facing texts” are documents by street-level bureaucrats like child protection caseworkers, judges, teachers, and police officers written for members of the public as part of public policy implementation. Examples of these texts in child protection are court judgments or university course curricula for future child protection caseworkers. This seminar explores how literary criticism methods could be valuable for systematically examining and interpreting these texts.
First, Križ and Reimer will discuss literary criticism methods before reflecting on how social scientists could apply them. Second, they will use their research about child protection-related court judgments by the European Court of Human Rights as an example. Lastly, Križ and Reimer invite seminar participants to reflect on how these methods might be useful in their own research when studying public-facing texts by street-level bureaucrats. You are invited to read this information about literary criticism if you want to learn more about it before the seminar (total reading time: 10 minutes):

Lumen Learning. An introduction to literary criticism
Lumen Learning: Approaches to literary criticism

About the Speakers
Katrin Križ is a Professor of Sociology at Emmanuel College (USA) and a research associate at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA).
Križ has extensive competence in Social Policy, Qualitative Social Research, Sociological Theory, Public Policy, Family Studies and Child Welfare. Her research is focused on the role of professional discretion in decisions related to a child’s best interests and child welfare systems in an international context.
Together with colleagues Frøydis Lønborg Haarberg, Audun Gabriel Løvlie, and Marit Skivenes at the University of Bergen, Križ is working on the research project “Children’s Right to Participation”.
Daniela Reimer is a Professor at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Social Work, specializing in child and youth services, family dynamics, and foster care. Her research focuses on understanding the experiences of children in care, particularly in transitions and identity formation.
Reimer has conducted extensive studies on (foster) family cultures, the interplay of normality and identity among young people in foster care, and breakdowns within foster care systems. Currently, she leads a qualitative longitudinal study exploring the experiences of young adults who have transitioned from foster care.
Tarja Pösö is a Professor Emerita at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University (Finland) and Professor II at the Department of Government (University of Bergen).
Pösö has extensive experience in the studies of child protection, social work, and institutional practices, with a keen interest in cross-cultural perspectives and developing methods and ethics for child protection studies.
Her particular research interests are how social workers navigate among different sources of information and interest when making decisions and assessing the outcome of their decisions in child protection, the child welfare systems perceive and act with migrant children, the principle of ‘the child’s best interest’ is included in the decision-making process.
How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or via this Zoom link.
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The RDV series is a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

Barnevernfrokost: Praktisk juss i barnevernsstudiet – erfaringer fra HVL
2024-05-03 09:00 - 09:45
Barnevernet må ivareta en rekke juridiske forpliktelser i sitt arbeid, og grunnlaget for dette legges i studiet. I fjor strøk nesten halvparten av masterstudentene i barnevern og barnevernsarbeid over hele landet – men på Høyskolen på Vestlandet sto alle studentene. Høyskolelektor og jurist Karen Reimers er ansvarlig for emnet Rettsanvendelse i barnevernsarbeid ved HVL, og vil på denne utgaven av Barnevernfrokost fortelle om hvordan de har jobbet med trening i den juridiske metoden, i tillegg til hva en kan forvente av jusskompetansen til fremtidige barnevernsarbeidere. Dette er høyst relevant kunnskap for de som forbereder studentene på fremtidig arbeidsliv, de som skal ta imot disse studentene etter uteksaminasjon, og de som vurderer å selv oppdatere sin jusskompetanse. Det blir, som alltid, tid til spørsmål.
Hvordan delta på Barnevernfrokost
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Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

RDV: The role of perceptions and attitudes of public officials
2024-05-16 14:15 - 15:30
In this digital RDV seminar, research professor Steven Van de Walle will share from his innovative research on the attitudes and perceptions of policymakers and public managers. His research uses methodologies such as eye-tracking and vignette experiments to establish what influences public managers’ attitudes towards citizen’s participation, and how policymakers use uncertain information.
About the Speaker
Steven Van de Walle is research professor (public management) at the Public Governance Institute KU Leuven, Belgium. Prior to joining KU Leuven, he held the Chair of Public Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Between 2006 and 2008 he was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham. His current research and teaching covers public sector reform, the organisation of public services, public sector failure, citizens’ perceptions of the public sector, government-citizen relations, and public sector performance. Steven’s work has been published in all leading journals in the discipline and has received multiple awards.
How to participate: This will be a fully digital webinar, so please join us via this Zoom link.
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The RDV series is a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

RDV: Regulating Judges in a Modern Democracy: Insights from Canada
2024-06-06 14:15 - 15:30
In this RDV-seminar, professor Richard Devlin and professor Sheila Wildeman, both from the Schulich School of Law from the Dalhousie University, Canada, will present their co-authored paper that outlines eight general principles for democratically defensible complaints and discipline for judges. The paper also provides a critical analysis of the new 2023 legislative reforms to the judicial discipline process in Canada, using the theoretical framework established in the books “Regulating Judges” and “Disciplining Judges”. The arguments in these books are relevant to any democratic society, while the case study in the co-authored paper applies the theory to a particular jurisdiction. The seminar will be of interest to anyone interested in the intersection of law, democracy, and judicial accountability.
About the speakers
Richard Devlin is a renowned Canadian law professor at Dalhousie University. An esteemed figure in the fields of legal theory, equality, legal ethics, and the regulation of the legal profession, Devlin became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015. His scholarly pursuits include critiquing legal structures that impact equality, particularly regarding access to justice, economic factors affecting legal service delivery, and various forms of legal inequality related to race, gender, and disability. Devlin has taught law for nearly three decades and served as the Acting Dean of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University during 2020.
Sheila Wildeman is a Canadian legal scholar and professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Victoria, a Bachelor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University, and a Master of Laws degree from the University of British Columbia. Wildeman’s research focuses on issues related to health law, disability rights, and social justice. She has published extensively on topics such as the legal regulation of assisted reproduction, the rights of persons with disabilities, and the intersection of law and health policy. In addition to her academic work, Wildeman has also served as a consultant to various government agencies and non-profit organizations on issues related to health law and policy. She is a highly respected scholar in her field and has received numerous awards and honors for her contributions to legal scholarship.
How to participate: This will be a fully digital webinar, so please join us on Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/63498010003?pwd=[REDACTED]
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The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

RDV: Navigating institutional borders: young refugees’ access to post-15 education in Greece
2024-08-29 14:15 - 15:30
In this seminar, Dr. Lucy Hunt addresses the social consequences of the refugee crisis in Greece, and particularly how state responses to increased migration flows have shaped young refugees’ (aged 15–25) (re-)engagement with post-15 learning opportunities upon arrival in the country. It argues that three key ‘institutional bordering’ practices – namely, the bordering of space (via encampment), time (via enforced waiting), and public services (via administrative barriers) – have played central roles in young refugees’ (re-)engagement with post-15 education; often causing their dreams to be diverted or downgraded. However, with determination and the support of willing gatekeepers, refugee youth found ways to (re)construct adapted learning trajectories despite, and in response to, these arrival challenges.
About the speakers
Dr. Lucy Hunt is a qualitative researcher at the University of Nottingham who holds degrees from the University of Oxford and KU Leuven. Her research specializes in the intersection of education, migration, and childhood/youth studies. Currently, Dr. Hunt is developing the Hub for Education for Refugees in Europe at the University of Nottingham, a platform aimed at fostering a network of researchers and practitioners committed to refugee education across Europe.
How to participate: This will be a fully digital webinar, so please join us on Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/63708238787?pwd=[REDACTED]
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The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

Barnevernfrokost: TikTok Social Workers revolutionizing child protection
2024-09-13 09:00 - 09:45
Finnish social workers Maija Haapala and Camilla Jokela engage with the youth through TikTok, translating the practicalities of child protection and social work, and challenging official language into easily understandable TikTok videos. This innovative approach has brought national recognition, making them known as a TikTok–Sossut (TikTok Social Workers). The goal of TikTok Social Workers is revolution in child protection, meaning doing things differently, being there in the social media where the young are and focusing on children’s rights and participation in their platform. Haapala and Jokela have been communicating on the social media platform TikTok for four years and have over 50k followers. In their presentation Haapala and Jokela are sharing their story how making TikToks started, what is their goal and what kind of work have they done in TikTok, aiming to courage all social workers to engage in social media and making child protection more understandable and less stigmatizing.
Maija Haapala is a licensed social worker with notable experience in child protection services. Her professional journey includes working as a social worker in child protection services at the City of Espoo. Currently, she is working on her doctoral thesis at the University of Tampere concerning the emergency placements of young people and their impacts. Maija’s professional interest are in structural social work, partnership with the children and the young and social impact in child protection.
Camilla Jokela is a licenced social worker and works full-time in the emergency social services of the wellbeing services county of Central Ostrobothnia (Soite). Jokela also works as a representative for children and young people who have come to Finland without a guardian. Camilla has worked with unaccompanied children in immigration services and child protection services. According to Jokela, the focus of social work should be indivisible basic and human rights, which are especially threatened in this time.
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På denne utgaven av Barnevernfrokost vil Maija Haapala og Camilla Jokela diskutere hvordan de har brukt TikTok for å gjøre barnevernstema mer forståelige og mindre stigmatiserende.
De finske sosialarbeiderne Maija Haapala og Camilla Jokela engasjerer seg med ungdommen gjennom TikTok, og oversetter det praktiske innen barnevern og sosialt arbeid, og oversetter offisielt språk til lett forståelige TikTok-videoer. Denne innovative tilnærmingen har brakt nasjonal anerkjennelse, noe som gjør dem kjent som TikTok–Sossut (TikTok Social Workers). Målet til TikTok Social Workers er en revolusjon innen barnevern, det vil si å gjøre ting annerledes, være der i sosiale medier der de unge er og fokusere på barns rettigheter og deltakelse på deres plattform. Haapala og Jokela har kommunisert på den sosiale medieplattformen TikTok i fire år og har over 50 000 følgere. I sin presentasjon deler Haapala og Jokela sin historie om hvordan de begynte å lage TikToks, hva målet deres er og hva slags arbeid de har gjort på TikTok, med sikte på å oppmuntre alle sosialarbeidere til å engasjere seg i sosiale medier og gjøre barnevern mer forståelig og mindre stigmatiserende.
Maija Haapala er autorisert sosialarbeider med betydelig erfaring innen barnevernsarbeid. Hennes karriere inkluderer å jobbe som sosionom i barnevernet ved Espoo kommune. For tiden jobber hun med doktorgradsavhandlingen sin ved Universitetet i Tammerfors om akuttplasseringer av unge mennesker og deres konsekvenser. Maijas faglige interesse er strukturelt sosialt arbeid, partnerskap med barna og de unge og sosial påvirkning i barnevernet.
Camilla Jokela er autorisert vernepleier og jobber heltid i sosialhjelpen i Midt-Österbotten (Soite). Jokela jobber også som representant for barn og unge som har kommet til Finland uten verge. Camilla har jobbet med enslige barn i immigrasjonstjenester og barneverntjenester. Ifølge Jokela bør fokus for sosialt arbeid være udelelige og grunnleggende menneskerettigheter, som er spesielt truet for tiden.
Hvordan delta på Barnevernfrokost
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Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

RDV: Child welfare predictive risk models and legal decision making
2024-09-26 14:15 - 15:30
Child welfare agencies around the world have experimented with algorithmic predictive modeling as a method to assist in decision-making regarding foster child risk, removal, and placement. These models have attracted a great deal of controversy about the methods used to create them and the biases inherent in the data they have drawn from, however, proponents see them as a tool for improving decision-making and ultimately the safety of children at risk. Thus far, all of the predictive models have been confined to the employees of the various child welfare agencies at the early removal stages and none have been used by attorneys in legal arguments or by judges in approving or denying removal decisions. Predictive models are regularly used in other courtroom settings and have been studied for how they affect decision-making in general. This is the first study to examine the effects of a child welfare predictive risk model on child welfare attorney and judge legal decision-making. Using vignettes based on actual disputed removal cases with the inclusion of a low, medium, or high child welfare predictive risk score, attorney and judge legal decision-making can be changed by the inclusion of a predictive model risk score in ways that are important for the legal community to understand prior to the widespread use of any of these models in the courtroom.
About the speaker
Matthew Trail, JD worked for fifteen years as an attorney ad litem representing children in foster care, with a focus on representing children with disabilities and mental health issues from trauma. He began his career at a legal aid office in Florida and then moved to Houston where he eventually became managing attorney for Disability Rights Texas’ foster team. In 2020, Matthew joined the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Behavioral Law section as a research fellow where he researches decision-making in foster care.
How to participate: This will be a fully digital webinar, so please join us on Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/64627342832?pwd=[REDACTED]
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The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

Barnevernfrokost: Er det alltid hensiktsmessig å delta? Barnevernsansattes perspektiv på når man skal ekskludere barn fra samtaler om samvær
2024-10-11 09:00 - 09:45
Bli med på Barnevernfrokost, derIselin Huseby Lie vil diskutere fordeler og utfordringer med barns medvirkning vedsamvær.
Tidligere studier viser at barnevernsansatte generelt sett mener at barn bør involveres i barnevernsprosesser. Barn føler seg imidlertid ofte ekskludert og ikke hørt. I denne presentasjonen utforsker Iselin Huseby Lie hvorfor barnevernsansatte har en tendens til å utelate barn fra diskusjoner om samvær. Hun vil fremheve hvordan vanlige syn på barn – som rettighetshavere, sårbare og mentalt umodne – former disse avgjørelsene. Lie vil også foreslå måter å utvide begrepet samtaler på, slik at sosialarbeidere kan engasjere barn bedre.
Iselin Huseby Lie er doktorgradsstipendiat i samfunnsvitenskap ved OsloMet med bakgrunn som fosterhjemskonsulent i barneverntjenesten. Hun forsker blant annet på omsorgsplasserte barns medvirkning i samværsspørsmål, og har i sin avhandling søkt entatt bred innfallsvinkel til temaet. Hennes forskning omfatter barns perspektiver på samvær, sosialarbeideres holdninger til barns deltakelse, grenser for medvirkning, og sosialarbeideres praksis knyttet til samværsspørsmål. Hun jobber også med en komparativ studie av fosterhjemspraksis i Norge og Japan.
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Join us at Barnevernfrokost where Iselin Huseby Lie will discuss the benefits and challenges of child participation for contact visits.
Previous studies show that social workers generally believe children should be involved in child protection processes. However, children often feel excluded and unheard. In this presentation, Iselin Huseby Lie explores why social workers tend to leave children out of discussions about contact visits. She will highlight how common views of children—as rights holders, vulnerable, and mentally immature—shape these decisions. Lie will also suggest ways to expand the concept of conversations, enabling social workers to better engage children.
Iselin Huseby Lie is a doctoral candidate in social sciences at OsloMet with a background as a foster home consultant in the child welfare service. She researches, among other things, the participation of children placed in care, visitation issues, and her thesis has sought a broad approach to the topic. Her research includes children’s perspectives on visitation, social workers’ attitudes on children’s participation, limits to participation, and social workers’ practice related to visitation issues. She is also working on a comparative study of foster home practice in Norway and Japan.
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Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

RDV: Children and Rights to Identity at the European Court of Human Rights
2024-10-17 14:15 - 15:30
In this seminar, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law, particularly the European Court of Human Rights, has developed the right to personal identity under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Building on previous work, she focuses on the Court’s case law relating to children, analyzing how personal identity is protected and interpreted. Marshall critiques the role of human rights law in shaping personal identities from birth and explores what the Court has achieved and could achieve in this area.
About the speaker
Professor Jill Marshall is a Law Professor researching the role law plays in creating, allowing, representing and protecting certain aspects of our human identity and personal freedom. Professor Marshall developed the University of London’s Human Rights of Women and Jurisprudence courses, has contributed to UCL’s Gender program, and completed visiting roles at institutions in Israel, Hong Kong, and New York. She currently teaches International Human Rights Law, Jurisprudence/Philosophy of Law, and the English Legal System.
How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or via Zoom link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/61268092321?pwd=[REDACTED]
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The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

RDV: Lost in Implementation: Lawless Intimacy & Legal Inconsistencies in Malaysian Islamic Law
2024-11-07 14:15 - 15:30
In Muslim-majority Malaysia, an extensive Islamic bureaucracy exerts significant force in determining where and with whom Muslims can be intimate, and what constitutes “halal” (lawful) intimacy. This is achieved through Islamic criminal laws that enable state surveillance and criminalization of extra- or pre-marital sexual intimacy, and through Islamic family laws that govern the rules of marriage.
In this talk, Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen, will demonstrate that state attempts to gatekeep access to “halal” intimacy may not be as airtight as it seems due to legal ambiguities and loopholes in Islamic law. To illustrate this, Nurul will draw on two recent debates and developments in Islamic family law: the first concerns a scandalous union between a 41-year-old polygamous man with his (third) 11-year-old wife; and the second addresses the rising incidence of eloped polygamous marriages contracted across the border in Southern Thailand. These issues, as the author suggests, reveal inherent inconsistencies in Islamic family law that perpetuate unregulated marital practices such as child marriage and polygamy.
About the speaker
Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif is a social anthropologist and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen. She studied Anthropology and French at the University of Western Australia and Sciences Po Paris, before receiving her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 2018. She has held research fellowships at Harvard Law School and centers for Southeast Asian Studies in Leiden, Paris, and Kyoto. She works primarily on the intersection of Islam, intimacy, and the state in the Malay world and Muslim Southeast Asia.
How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or via Zoom
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The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

Barnevernfrokost: Arbeidsmiljø og ledelse blant ansatte i barnevernet.
2024-11-08 09:00 - 09:45
Bli med på Barnevernfrokost, der Dr. Samuel Olaniyan diskuterer arbeidsmiljøet for barnevernsansatte.
Norsk barnevern er stadig under press både nasjonalt og internasjonalt etter flere ugunstige dommer i den Europeiske menneskerettighetsdomstolen (EMD) og nasjonale tilsyn som avdekket alvorlige problemer i systemet. Disse utfordringene deles også av flertallet av barnevernet i de vestlige samfunn. Selv om den utfordrende situasjonen for barnevernsansatte har fått mer fokus de siste årene, er det begrenset kunnskap om hvordan barnevernsledere opplever sin arbeidssituasjon, og hvilken rolle dette kan spille i arbeidsmiljøet. Funn fra lederlitteratur viser at lederen er en nøkkelfigur når man diskuterer ansattes prestasjoner og trivsel. Dette er enda større grunn til å sette søkelys på å hjelpe disse lederne med å møte sine daglige utfordringer.
Dr. Samuel Olaniyan er i dag førsteamanuensis i psykologi ved Høgskolen i Innlandet. Han forsker hovedsakelig på arbeidsmiljø og ledelse. Han har publisert flere artikler om arbeidsmiljø blant ansatte i barnevernet.
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Join us at Barnevernfrokost where Dr. Samuel Olaniyan will discuss the working environment for childcare workers.
Norwegian child protection is constantly under pressure both nationally and internationally following several unfavorable judgments in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and national inspections that revealed serious problems in the system. These challenges are also shared by the majority of child welfare workers in Western societies. Although the challenging situation for child welfare employees has received more focus in recent years, there is limited knowledge about how child welfare managers experience their working situation, and what role this may play in the working environment. Findings from management literature show that the manager is a key figure when discussing employee performance and well-being. This is even more reason to focus on helping these leaders meet their daily challenges.
Dr. Samuel Olaniyan is currently an associate professor in psychology at Høgskolen i Innlandet. He primarily researches the working environment and management. He has published several articles on the working environment among employees in child protection.
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Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

RDV-Seminar: Desegregation of education – Czech Republic
2024-12-06 08:30 - 09:45
This lecture will focus on the desegregation of education in the Czech Republic, particularly with regard to how the Office of the Ombudsman has been involved in addressing this human rights issue. Segregation in education is a complex problem, which includes the placing of Romani children in special schools and institutions, but also education in mainstream primary schools with high proportions of Romani children. Both areas are closely related to living in social exclusion and, consequently, to segregation in housing. We will focus on the circumstances of the development of segregation in education, its consequences, but also possible solutions or examples of good practice. We will introduce the audience to Czech developments from the 1990s to the present.

The speaker at this event will be Jakub Konečný and Marek Kosík from The Public Defender of Rights (Ombudsman) of the Czech Republic

The panel will be moderated by Dr. Lucie Duucarre, and the panel discussants will be Associate Professor Kari Hagatun and Professor Jan Skrobanek.

About the speakers

Lucie Ducarre recently defended her PhD thesis titled, “The Right to Education of Autistic Children in International and European Law,” at the Faculty of Law (UiB). Dr. Ducarre has studied law and international relations in France and in the UK and holds a master’s in law with specialization in Children Rights. Before completing her PhD, she worked as a legal consultant and writer.

Kari Hagatun is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education (UiB). Prof. Hagatun received her PhD from the University of Bergen in 2021 and is specifically interested in Roma children’s educational experiences in Norway. She additionally has a master’s degree in pedagogy (UiB), as well as education and extensive experience as a general teacher.

Jakub Konečný is the Head of Research Section at the Office of the Public Defender of Rights in the Czech Republic.

Marek Kosík is an International Relations Office at the Office of the Public Defender of Rights in the Czech Republic.

Jan Skrobanek is a Professor at the Department of Sociology (UiB). Prof. Skrobanek’s research interests include ethnic identity, discrimination and ethnicization, agency, mobility and/or employment as well as developments of transition patterns of vulnerable youth in a global perspective.

How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or via this Zoom link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/63081101498?pwd=[REDACTED]

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The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

Barnevernfrokost: Betydning av sosial ulikhet for barn og familiers kontakt med barnevernet i Norge
2024-12-13 09:00 - 09:45
Bli med på Barnevernfrokost, der Prof. Bente Heggem Kojan og Mary Elizabeth Hemler diskuterer barnevern og sosioøkonomisk ulikhet.
Betydning av sosial ulikhet for barn og familiers kontakt med barnevernet i Norge
Barn med tilhørighet i familier med lav sosioøkonomisk status (SØS) er sterkt overrepresenterte i barnevernssystemer verden rundt, også i Norge. I denne presentasjonen vil innlederne fortelle om prosjektet «Barnevern og sosioøkonomisk ulikhet», med vekt på hva registerdata kan fortelle oss om sosial ulikhet i barnevernet.
Følgende problemstillinger vil bli belyst:

Hvilke mønstre er det mellom barnas sosioøkonomiske tilhørighet og innhold i meldinger som kommer til barnevernet?
Hvordan henger SØS, innvandrerbakgrunn og familietype sammen med barns sannsynlighet for å bli meldt til barnevernet, motta hjelpetiltak eller bli plassert utenfor hjemmet?

Mary Elizabeth (MB) Hemler er stipendiat ved Institutt for sosialt arbeid, NTNU. Hun har bodd i Norge siden 2019, er opprinnelig fra USA og har en mastergrad i sosialt arbeid fra USA, samt en mastergrad i nevrovitenskap fra NTNU. Hun har også praksiserfaring som sosialarbeider med hjemløse ungdommer i Los Angeles, hvor hun så hvordan en stor andel barnevernsbarn ble hjemløse da de ble 18 år. Slik ble også en interesse for sosial ulikhet og barnevern vekket.
Bente Heggem Kojan er professor ved samme sted, og har en doktorgrad i sosialt arbeid (NTNU) som omhandler sosial klasse og barnevern. Hun har praksiserfaring fra ulike velferdstjenester med utsatte barn og unge og har undervist samt forsket på tematikken barnevern og ulikhet over flere år. Hun ledet forskningsprosjektet «Barnevern og sosioøkonomisk ulikhet», som er utgangspunktet for denne barnevernsfrokosten. Hun er også aktiv i det internasjonale forskernettverket CWIN (Child Welfare Inequalities).
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Join us for Barnevernfrokost where Prof. Bente Heggem Kojan and Mary Elizabeth Hemler discuss child welfare and socio-economic inequality.
Significance of social inequality for children and families’ contact with child protection in Norway
Children belonging to families with low socio-economic status (SES) are greatly overrepresented in child welfare systems around the world, including in Norway. In this presentation, the presenters will talk about the project “Child welfare and socio-economic inequality”, with an emphasis on what register data can tell us about social inequality in child welfare.
The following issues will be highlighted:

What patterns are there between the children’s socio-economic affiliation and the content of messages that come to child protection?
How do SES, immigrant background and family type relate to a child’s likelihood of being reported to child protection, receiving assistance or being placed outside the home?

Mary Elizabeth (MB) Hemler is a research fellow at the Department of Social Work, NTNU. She has lived in Norway since 2019, is originally from the USA and has a master’s degree in social work from the USA, as well as a master’s degree in neuroscience from NTNU. She also has practical experience as a social worker with homeless young people in Los Angeles, where she saw how a large proportion of child welfare children became homeless when they turned 18. In this way, an interest in social inequality and child protection was also awakened.
Bente Heggem Kojan is a professor at the same place and has a doctorate in social work (NTNU) which deals with social class and child protection. She has practical experience from various welfare services with vulnerable children and young people and has taught and researched the topic of child protection and inequality over several years. She led the research project “Child protection and socio-economic inequality”, which is the starting point for this seminar. She is also active in the international research network CWIN (Child Welfare Inequalities).
Hvordan delta på Barnevernfrokost
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Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

Health care providers as petty sovereigns? Migration control and access to welfare
2025-01-16 14:15 - 15:30
In this presentation, Marry-Anne Karlsen explores ambiguities in the Norwegian state’s response to irregular migration arising from the interaction and tension between welfare policy and entry control. Specifically, she investigates the role of discretionary decision-making in (re)producing or challenging state borders in the medical encounter. The ethnographic focus brings forth the multiple and dispersed, as well as negotiated quality, of the border in everyday practices and situations.
About the speaker
Marry-Anne Karlsen holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bergen in 2015 and a major in human geography from the same place in 2006. Karlsen’s professional interests lie at the intersection of migration control and welfare policy, and in her PhD thesis Precarious Inclusion. Irregular migration, practices of care and state bordering in Norway, Karlsen explored, among other things, how the health system became increasingly involved in migration control.
How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or via this Zoom link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/62518326605?pwd=[REDACTED]
If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.

The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

RDV: Navigating Queerphobia and Anti-Gender Narratives in a Politicized World
2025-01-31 12:00 - 14:00
NEW DATE: 31 Jan, 12 noon

Queerphobia has become an issue of political contestation across the world. Transnational groups and governments, including those in Western countries influenced by leaders like Trump, mobilize against LGBTQ+ rights using rhetoric that claims gender non-conformity would somehow undermine the family and corrupt children. Queer identities and practices are, therefore, increasingly subject to (re)criminalisation and political hostility. Queer activists have to develop strategies and adapt to complex political landscapes. How do queer activists maneuver “anti-gender” narratives that seek to erase their existence, while curtailing their socio-political participation? What strategies do queer activists and allies adopt and to what extent are they successful?

About the speakers

Ayo Sogunro is a lawyer, scholar-activist, and writer known for his unwavering commitment to advancing LGBTIQ+ rights and democratic freedoms across Africa. He has over fifteen years of experience spanning legal practice, academic research, and public advocacy. He is currently a Research Scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and additionally consults as a social entrepreneur and human rights worker. Sogunro leverages his skills as a lawyer and writer for the benefit of governmental and non-governmental organisations. He is known for his work in social advocacy and for the protection of civil rights and the rights of sexual minorities in Nigeria. Sogunro was listed as one of the “100 Most Influential Nigerians” in 2017.

Matthew Gichohi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Insititute, University of Bergen. Dr. Gichohi is a political scientist focusing on democratization and identity politics with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Gichohi’s research studies how processes of democratization are affected by social identities and the norms that surround them. For example, his work considers how ethnic, and gender identities are created, practiced and reinforced to affect political participation and representation.

Erwin Navarro is the Managing Director of Skeiv Verden Vest, an organisation that supports LGBTQIA+ people with minority backgrounds. He is involved in organising Pride Week in Bergen and has good contact with the queer community at the school. He moved to Norway 13 years ago to complete his master’s degree in Tromsø on integration policy for minorities. Navarro moved to Bergen and has been working for Skeiv Verden Vest since 2021.

Liv Tønnessen is a political scientist researching gender and politics in the Middle East and Northern Africa. She has a PhD in comparative politics from the University of Bergen. Dr. Tønnessen has a track record from the Middle East and Northern Africa with long term stays in Sudan, Lebanon and Syria. She has specialized in Sudanese politics for two decades. Dr. Tønnessen is currently co-Director of the CMI-University of Bergen Centre on Law and Social Transformation together with Siri Gloppen.

How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or via this Zoom link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/69450748377?pwd=[REDACTED]

If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.

The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

Barnevernfrokost: AI-basert plattform for trening i samtaleferdigheter
2025-02-28 09:00 - 09:45
Velkommen til Barnevernfrokost, fredag 28 februar kl. 9:00 med Gunn Astrid Baugerud
Bli med på Barnevernfrokost, der Prof. Gunn Astrid Baugerud diskuterer AI-basert metode for opplæring i beste praksis-samtaler med barn.
En grunnleggende utfordring i arbeidet med barn utsatt for omsorgssvikt, vold og overgrep er å samtale med dem om deres opplevelser. Ikke bare er barn ofte tilbakeholdne med å fortelle, men de som snakker med dem, følger ofte ikke beste praksis-retningslinjer. Tidligere forsøk på å forbedre samtale– og avhørsferdigheter har i stor grad vært basert på tradisjonell undervisningsmetodikk, med begrenset effekt. Denne presentasjonen introduserer en innovativ AI-basert metode for opplæring i beste praksis-samtaler med barn. Metoden er utviklet for fagpersoner i barnevern, politi, skole, barnehage og helsevesen. AI-plattformen gir brukerne mulighet til å trene samtaleferdigheter i sanntid med en dynamisk avatar og motta individualisert tilbakemelding på sine ferdigheter.
Gunn Astrid Baugerud er professor i psykologi og barnevern ved Institutt for Sosialfag, OsloMet. Hun har en ph.d. i kognitiv utviklingspsykologi og leder en forskningsgruppe som utviklet en AI-basert avatar for opplæring av fagfolk, anerkjent som banebrytende av Norges forskningsråd i 2020. Baugerud mottok et Fulbright-stipend for dette arbeidet, som hun videreførte ved University of California, Irvine, i samarbeid med professor Jodi Quas. Hun har publisert en rekke artikler om AI-basert samtaletrening.
Moderator: Dr. Audun Løvlie

Join us for the Barnevernfrokost, on Friday, February 28 at 9:00 AM, where Prof. Gunn Astrid Baugerud will discuss an AI-based method for training in best-practice conversations with children.
A fundamental challenge in working with children exposed to neglect, violence, and abuse is talking to them about their experiences. Not only are children often reluctant to share, but those who speak with them frequently do not follow best-practice guidelines. Previous attempts to improve conversation and interview skills have largely relied on traditional teaching methods, with limited effect. This presentation introduces an innovative AI-based method for training in best-practice conversations with children. The method is designed for professionals in child welfare, law enforcement, schools, kindergartens, and healthcare. The AI platform allows users to practice conversation skills in real time with a dynamic avatar and receive individualized feedback on their performance.
Gunn Astrid Baugerud is a professor of psychology and child welfare at the Department of Social Work, OsloMet. She holds a Ph.D. in cognitive developmental psychology and leads a research group that developed an AI-based avatar for training professionals, recognized as groundbreaking by the Research Council of Norway in 2020. Baugerud received a Fulbright scholarship for this work, which she continued at the University of California, Irvine, in collaboration with Professor Jodi Quas. She has published numerous articles on AI-based conversation training.
Moderator: Dr. Audun Løvlie

Hvordan delta på Barnevernfrokost
For å delta på webinaret klikker du lenken under og følger instruksjonene. Vi anbefaler å laste ned Zoom-applikasjonen på forhånd.
Zoom-link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/68167074702?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).
