Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA)

Foredrag: Tid for barneperspektiver! (NO)
2018-05-03 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Oslo)
Professor Marit Skivenes skal holde foredrag på samling for barnevernledere i Rogaland. Samlingen holdes 3.- 4. mai 2018 på Sola Strand Hotel.
Foredraget har tittelen “Tid for barneperspektiver!” og går 3. mai fra 10.00 – 12.00.

Foredrag: Et barnevern i krise?
2018-02-02 10:00 - 11:00 | SV-bygget, Lite aud.
Researcher Hege Beate Stein Helland will hold a lecture on the topic of The Norwegian child welfare service at Faglig-Pedagogisk dag.
The lecture will be held in Norwegian. The event is open for everyone.
Et barnevern i krise? Om skjønn, legitimitet og beslutninger i barnevernet.

Det har stormet rundt norsk barnevern den siste tiden, og barnevernets beslutninger har tidvis vært under massiv kritikk fra flere hold. Men hvorfor er det slik? Noen mener dette kan forklares ved at den sterke vektleggingen av barns rettigheter i Norge utfordrer kulturer og praksiser i mange samfunn. Andre mener barnevernet ikke har forståelse for andre kulturer og at inngrepene de gjør krenker retten til privatliv og familieliv.
Hege Beate Stein Helland er forsker ved forskningsprosjektet Adopsjon som barnevernstiltak og er tilknyttet Institutt for administrasjon og organisasjonsvitenskap og Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism som ledes av professor Marit Skivenes.
Ved Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism forskes det på noen av de mest grunnleggende temaene i samfunnsvitenskapen, der en studerer statens bruk av makt mot sine borgere, og begrunnelsene til statlige inngrep i folks liv.

Foredraget starter kl. 10:15.

Forskningsfrokost: Hva vet vi om barnevernet?
2018-02-02 08:00 - 10:00
Forskningsrådet arrangerer forskningsfrokost hvor fremtredende forskere på barnevernsfeltet presenterer sine forskningsfunn og ungdommer fra Forandringsfabrikken deler sine erfaringer med barnevernet.
Innledere:
Professor Marit Skivenes og stipendiat Ida Juhasz (Universitetet i Bergen):
Hvem sin rett til familieliv? Når barnevernet tar over omsorgen for babyer.
Forsker Elisabeth Backe-Hansen (HiOA):
Ettervern i barnevernet må bli et politisk satsingsområde
Ungdommer fra Forandringsbabrikken vil dele sine erfaringer og synspunkter på barnevernet.
Følg lenken til forskningsrådet for mer informasjon og påmelding.

Seminar series: Law, democracy and welfare
2017-12-07 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Jon Kåre Skiple, Henrik Litlere Bentsen ++ are presenting their work with miscarriages of justice; “Avveiningen mellom justismord og falske frifinnelser”.
The seminar will be held in Norwegian and is open to all.

Presentation for the Ministry of Children and Equality
2017-11-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Ministry of Children and Equality, Oslo, Akersgata 59, 0180, Norway
Our director professor Marit Skivenes will give a presentation on decision-making in child welfare services at a closed seminar organized by the Ministry of Children and Equality.

Seminar series: Law, democracy and welfare
2017-11-23 14:15 - 15:45 | Møllendalsveien 6, Møllendalsveien 6, Bergen, Norway
Lisa Wallander, University lecturer at Lund University, is coming to Bergen to speak to us about Professionella bedömningar – teoretiska och metodologiska perspektiv.
The seminar is free and open to all.

Jill Duerr Berrick will present her new book "The Impossible Imperative"
2017-11-16 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
November 16, Professor Jill Duerr Berrick will give a talk about her recently published book The Impossible Imperative – Navigating the competing principles of child protection., [in english]

Presentation by Marit Skivenes at the "Child Welfare 2017" Conference
2017-11-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Fylkesnemnda i Hordaland og Sogn og Fjordane, Zander Kaaes gate 6, Bergen, 5015, Norway
On November 10th, principal investigator and director Marit Skivenes, will give the presentation “Adoption as a child welfare measure – a research project assigned from The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs” at the Conference “Child Welfare 2017” hosted by The county social welfare board of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane.

Seminar series: Law, democracy and welfare
2017-11-09 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Professor in Sociology Thomas Lorentzen will give the presentation: Løpebaner i arbeidslivet og trygdesystemet de siste 20 årene: Har man nådd målsetningen om å få flere sårbare inn i arbeidsstyrken? [Trends in worklife and welfare benefits the last 20 years: Have we met the goal to include more vulnerable workers in the workforce?, in Norwegian].

Open for all.

Seminar at the Centre for Law and Social Transformation
2017-10-26 14:15 - 15:45 | Jekteviksbakken 31, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen, Hordaland, 5006, Norway
Gert Jan van der Wilt, Maarten Jansen, Ole Frithjof Norheim and Kristine Bærøe presents: Democracy, technocracy and health priority setting. Open for all.

Seminar series: Law, democracy and welfare
2017-10-12 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Chair of the County Social Welfare Board of Hordaland and lawyer, Geir Kjell Andersland will present the proposal for changes in the norwegian court system and its handling of child welfare cases.

Open for all.

Presentation at ISPCAN 2017
2017-10-04 11:40 - 12:00 | World Forum, Churchillplein 10, The Hauge, The Hauge, 2517, Netherlands
Principal investigator Marit Skivenes will give the presentation “International perspectives on child-responsive courts: Is the voice of the child included?” together with Jill Berrick (University of California at Berkeley), Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen), Tarja Poso (University of Tampere), Jonathan Dickens (University of East Anglia) from our research team at the ISPCAN European Regional Meeting 2017.

The Internaitonal Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) is a multidisciplinary international organization that brings together a worldwide cross-section of comitted professionals to work toward the prevention and treatment of child abuse, neglect and exploitation globally.

Presentation at ISPCAN 2017
2017-10-03 10:40 - 11:00 | World Forum, Churchillplein 10, The Hauge, The Hauge, 2517, Netherlands
Principal investigator Marit Skivenes will give the presentation “When should children not be involved in child protection-related processes? Child welfare workers’ views from Norway and the USA (California)?” together with Katrin Kriz (Emmanuel College, Boston US) from our research team at the ISPCAN European Regional Meeting 2017.
The Internaitonal Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) is a multidisciplinary international organization that brings together a worldwide cross-section of comitted professionals to work toward the prevention and treatment of child abuse, neglect and exploitation globally.

Seminar series: Law, democracy and welfare
2017-09-28 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Professor of Law Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde will present his book “Comparing legal cultures”. Sunde’s field of expertise is the history of law and different legal cultures.

Open for all.

Workshop
2017-08-26 08:00 - 2017-08-28 18:00 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
August 26-28th the Centre is organizing a workshop for the research teams in all the projects involved in the Centre, with main focus on the projects “Acceptability” and “DISCRETION”. Our goal is to facilitate interdisciplinary and cross-country cooperation and map out the challenges and obstacles for studying discretion, paternalism and child protection in the countries involved in the different projects.

Launch of the ERC funded project: DISCRETION
2017-08-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Litteraturhuset, Østre Skostredet 5-7, Bergen, 5017, Norge
August 25th we are launching our new ERC funded project “Discretion and the Child’s Best Interest in Child Protection”.
The event will take place at the house of Literature in Bergen and is hosted by the Centre on Law and Social Transformation as a part of their annual Bergen Exchanges. The launch of the project will be the last event to be held in the series of seminars, presentations, debates and launches. For more information about the Bergen Exchanges please click here. More information about the launch will be given in the weeks to come.
For the final event of the Bergen Exchanges, professor in political science Marit Skivenes will present the ambitious goals for a new research agenda on child protection research. A key question is how to secure the quality and legitimacy of the intrusive and extremely difficult interventions that child protection staff and judges have to make.
Prof. Skivenes will be joined by professor in law Karl Harald Søvig, which will elaborate on the situation with all the child protection cases that the European Court of Human Rights has communicated to the Norwegian state, From Ireland, associate professor in social work.
Dr. Kenneth Burns (University College Cork, Ireland) will present the Irish road towards banning corporal punishment – “Corporal Punishment in Ireland in 5 Artefacts”.
Professor in sociology, Katrin Kriz, from Austria (Emmanuel College, Boston, US), will present findings from five population’s attitudes (Austria, Estonia, Ireland, Norway and Spain) on corporal punishment of children.
Professor in social work, Tarja Pösö from Finland (University of Tampere) will thereafter lead a panel debate comprised of international experts on the issue of thresholds for child protection interventions and the legitimate role of state intervention into families. Questions and comments from the audience are very much welcome.
Here is a link to the facebook event
