Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA)

RDV: Expertise and Political Legitimacy Before, During, and After the Covid Pandemic (Dr. Alfred Moore)
2021-10-21 14:15 - 15:45 (Europe/Oslo)
Dr. Alfred Moore: Expertise and Political Legitimacy Before, During, and After the Covid Pandemic
Dr. Alfred Moore is a Lecturer in Political Theory at the Department of Politics at the University of York. His research interests include deliberative democracy, social epistemology, politics of expertise and technology and democracy. He also has a current interest in the networked public sphere – the ways in which the internet is changing democratic politics. Moore is currently working on the research project “Rethinking political competition”, funded by The British Academy. He has published on the problem of expertise in democratic theory, and has authored the book «Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Politics of Expertise», which was published in 2017. https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/people/academicstaff/alfred-moore/#profile-content
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Barnevernfrokost: Hvordan opplever barn og foreldre barnevernssaker?
2021-10-08 09:00 - 09:45
Hvordan opplever barn og foreldre barneverssaker? En av kjernefunksjonene i ethvert barnevernsystem er å beskytte og gjenreise barns integritet. For å utøve denne funksjonen er det avgjørende at profesjonelle i barnevernstjenesten har tilstrekkelig med kunnskap om hvordan barn og foreldre opplever barnevernssaker. Mangelfull innsikt i hvordan barn og foreldre erfarer barnevernssaker kan potensielt sett skade barns integritet og forhindre barns medvirkning – i strid med saksbehandlers intensjoner. I denne utgaven av Barnevernfrokost vil Professor Stefan Schnurr ta utgangspunkt i det sveitsiske barnevernet og et pågående forskningsprosjekt som studerer barns og foreldres erfaringer med barnevernet for å belyse hvilke forhold som best tilrettelegger for barns medvirkning og samtidig ivaretar deres selvstendighet og beskytter deres integritet. Foredraget holdes på engelsk.
Stefan Schnurr er professor or instituttleder ved Institute for Studies in Children and Youth Services ved University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Hans forskningsinteresser inkluderer sosialt arbeid, barne- og ungdomstjenester og deltakelse. Schnurr har ledet og deltatt i flere store forskningsprosjekt med formål om å forbedre og videreutvikle sosiale tjenester for barn og ungdom. I august og september har Schnurr vært gjesteforsker ved DIPA-senteret.
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Barnevernfrokost er en digital seminarserie som arrangeres av DIPA-senteret i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB/CMI).

RDV: Severity and priority setting in health care (Mathias Barra)
2021-10-07 14:15 - 15:45
Mathias Barra:
Severity and priority setting in health care (SEVPRI)
Mathias Barra is a Senior Researcher at the Health Services Research Unit (HØKH), Akershus University Hospital (Norway), and at the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS), University of Bergen. His research interests include are Quality/Value of Life Research, Badness of death, health economics and ethics; mostly in the context of priority setting in health care. His main focus right now is the SERPRI project. Barra has written a number of articles on health care issues and was featured in an article in the online newspaper Dagens Medisin with the title “Prioritering: Vil vite hva befolkningen legger i alvorlighet” [Prioritizing: Wants to know what citizens see in severity]. https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Georg.Mathias.Honor%C3%A9.Barra
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RDV: Children's participation in child protection: international research and practical applications (Katrin Križ & Mimi Petersen)
2021-09-23 14:15 - 15:45
Katrin Križ & Mimi Petersen:
Children’s participation in child protection: International research and practical applications
Katrin Križ is Professor of Sociology at Emmanuel College in Boston, and research associate at the DIPA Centre, as well as research affiliate at the Center on Law and Social Transformation. In her research she has compared child welfare systems in an international context and studied migrant education and poverty alleviation policy in the United States. Her most recent research focuses on the role of professional discretion in decisions related to a child’s best interests in several EU countries. Križ has written a number of articles on child right issues and welfare, and contributed to the new book by Pösö, Skivenes & Thoburn (2021) on the topic of adoption from care in an international perspective. Recently Križ has worked on an upcoming book titled «Children and Young People’s Participation in Child Protection: International Research and Practical Applications: International Research and Practical Applications», co-edited with Mimi Petersen. https://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/katrin-kriz.html
Mimi Petersen is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University College Copenhagen. Her research interests include children and young people’s rights, vulnerable children, social conditions and identity formation. She is currently working as a PI on the project “Nordisk Netværk for børns ret til involvering” [Nordic Network for children’s’ right to involvement]. Petersen has written a number of articles on children and young people’s rights and issues, and has contributed to several books on the topic. Petersen is co-editor and contributes to multiple chapters in the upcoming book on children’s participation in child protection together with Križ. She also recently co-edited a book with Ida Kornerup on the topic of children’s rights and participation in professional practice. https://www.ucviden.dk/da/persons/mimi-petersen
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RDV: Legitimacy: a psychology and law perspective (Jonathan Jackson)
2021-09-09 14:15 - 15:45
Jonathan Jackson:
Legitimacy: a psychology and law perspective
Jonathan Jackson is Professor of Research Methodology and Head of the Department of Methodology at The London School of Economics and Political Science. He is an Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Sydney Law School and an Affiliated Scholar in the Justice Collaboratory of Yale Law School. Working at the intersection of psychology and law, his research focuses on procedural justice, distributive justice and legitimacy in the context of the criminal justice system. He has led several high-profile projects into public trust and institutional legitimacy in the field of criminal justice, most of which have been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the European Commission’s FP7 programme. He is currently working on an ESRC-funded project (with Clifford Stott at Keeleand Ben Bradford at UCL) that aims to systematically test and advance theoretical understanding of some core causal claims of procedural justice theory. Jackson has co-authored and co-edited three books on topics related to justice and legitimacy in the criminal justice system. https://www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/People/Academic-Staff/Jonathan-Jackson/Jonathan-Jackson
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RDV: How do children and parents experience child protection proceedings? (Stefan Schnurr)
2021-08-26 14:15 - 15:45
Stefan Schnurr:
How do children and parents experience child protection proceedings?
Stefan Schnurr is Professor and Head of the Institute for Studies in Children and Youth Services at the University of Applies Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. His research interests include social work, child- and youth services, international social work and social policy, and participation. Schnurr has both led and been a part of several research projects which aimed to add to the knowledge on and further the development of child and youth services in Switzerland. He is one of the upcoming guest researchers at the DIPA Centre during August/September 2021. Schnurr has written numerous articles and book chapters, and has contributed to the upcoming book “The Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems” by Berrick, Gilbert & Skivenes, with the chapter “Child Protection and Childrens’ Services in Switzerland”. https://www.fhnw.ch/de/personen/stefan-schnurr
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Barnevernfrokost: Musikkterapi i barnevernet
2021-06-23 09:00 - 09:45
Kan musikk hjelpe barn og unge som har en vanskelig oppvekst?
Mange unge i barnevernet har psykiske vansker og opplever utfordringer knyttet til tillitt, identitet, deltakelse og trygghet. Kostnadene ved manglende forebygging er store, både for det enkelte barnet og for samfunnet. I flere kommuner har man tatt i bruk musikkterapi som et verktøy for å fremme trivsel og sikre barns rett til å bli sett, hørt og forstått. Kan musikk være et verktøy som gjør unge i barnevernet bedre rustet til å takle hverdagen?
Viggo Krüger er førsteamanuensis og leder for Griegakademiets senter for musikkterapiforsking, UiB. Han har studert bruk av musikk som terapi for barn og unge, og fulgt unge i barnevernet over flere år som del av sin forskning.
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Barnevernfrokost er en digital seminarserie som arrangeres av DIPA-senteret i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB/CMI).
Delta via lenken: https://uib.zoom.us/j/67226819399?pwd=[REDACTED]
Gjerne følg med underveis med PowerPoint presentasjonen.
Kurset som ble omtalt: Musikk i forebyggende arbeid med barn og unge
WHO-rapporten som ble omtalt i seminaret: What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review (2019)

Webinar: Children’s Participation
2021-06-09 12:00 - 15:15
The DIPA-centre at the University of Bergen is pleased to invite to this online seminar on Children’s Right to Participation.

12.00: Introduction by Marit Skivenes

Children’s participation in child protection – current knowledge and gaps.

12:15: Key-note presentations

David Archard

Paternalism – children, adults and respect: The moral and political status of children and the respect for children’s views.

Karmen Toros

What are children’s views on and experiences with participation in the child protection system’s decision‐making process? Findings from a systematic review.

Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Involving Children: Developments in Scottish law concerning children and the creation of a more Children’s Rights-based legislation in Scotland.

15:00: Plenary Discussion The full seminar program can be viewed here.

The online meeting room will open 11:50, and the seminar starts 12:00. There will be short coffee breaks during the seminar.
The seminar will be held on Zoom, and you can participate online via the link below. If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the software. If you have trouble logging on, contact Vanessa.Seeligmann@uib.no.
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This seminar is organized as part of the PARTICIPATION project. PARTICIPATION has received funding from the Research Council of Norway (project no. 320149).

RDV: Barns rett til helse (Trude Haugli)
2021-06-03 14:15 - 15:45
Trude Haugli:
Barns rett til helse
Trude Haugli is Professor of Law at the University of Tromsø, where she leads the research group for children’s rights. Her research interests include the Legal status of children and young people, International Children’s rights, Children’s Constitutional rights in the Nordic Countries, and the Child perspective in legal research. She is the PI of the ongoing research project “Children’s right to health”, funded by the Research Council of Norway. Haugli has written a number of articles on child rights issues and has contributed to several books on the topic. https://en.uit.no/ansatte/person?p_document_id=41586
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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).

Barnevernfrokost: Norge i menneskerettighetsdomstolen (Karl H. Søvig)
2021-06-01 09:00 - 09:45
Hvilke konsekvenser vil dommene fra Strasbourg få for det norske barnevernet?
Den europeiske menneskerettighets-domstolen har tatt inn et rekordstort antall norske barnevernssaker til behandling. I flere dommer konkluderes det med at Norge har krenket retten til respekt for privatliv og familieliv. Men hva sier egentlig domstolen om den norske praksisen i barnevernssaker? Og hvilke implikasjoner vil det få i barnevernssystemet på kort og lang sikt?
Karl Harald Søvig er professor og dekan ved Det juridiske fakultet, UiB. Han er blant landets ledende eksperter på barns rettigheter, og har gjennomført flere analyser av avgjørelser fra EMD i saker om vern av privat- og familieliv.
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Barnevernfrokost er en digital seminarserie som arrangeres av DIPA-senteret i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB/CMI).
Delta via lenken: https://uib.zoom.us/j/64526481735?pwd=[REDACTED]

RDV: Child´s Right to Participation (Asgeir Falch-Eriksen)
2021-05-20 14:15 - 15:45
Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Child´s Right to Participation and Professional Practice in Child Protection Services

Asgeir Falch-Eriksen is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, Oslo Metropolitan University. He is a political scientist with the main research interests being political theory, trust theory, public administration, epistocracy, politics of families and child protection. These interests have culminated in an interest in empirical research on constitutional Democracy and trust between Citizens and citizens’ trust in government. Falck-Eriksen is the PI of the project “Child Protection and Pluralism”, and co-PI of Cosmopolitan Turn and Democratic Sentiments (CONSENT). He is also Associate Professor II at the DIPA-centre, University of Bergen. https://www.oslomet.no/en/about/employee/asgeirer/
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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).

Book launch: Adoption from Care
2021-05-19 14:30 - 16:00
International Perspectives on Children’s Rights, Family Preservation and State Intervention
Welcome to the launch of “Adoption from Care: International Perspectives on Children’s Rights, Family Preservation and State Intervention” edited by Tarja Pösö (Tampere University), Marit Skivenes (UiB), and June Thoburn (University of East Anglia).
This book explores how children’s rights are practiced and weighed against birth and adoptive parents’ rights and examines how governments and professionals balance rights when it is decided that children cannot return to parental care.
From different socio-political and legal contexts in Europe and the United States, it provides an in-depth analysis of concepts of family, contact, the child’s best-interest principle and human rights when children are adopted from care.
At the book launch, the editors and chapter authors will present some of the highlights from the book, and engage in discussions on implications for policy and professional practices.
Participants

Marit Skivenes, professor, University of Bergen
June Thoburn, emeritus professor, University of East Anglia
Tarja Pösö, professor, Tampere University
Jill Berrick, professor, UC Berkeley
Jesús Palacios, professor, University of Seville
Kenneth Burns, senior lecturer, University College Cork
Lene Printzlau Våmartveit, chair, the Norwegian Foster Home Association

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The launch is organized in collaboration with Centre on Law and Social Transformation and Bergen Global.
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RDV: The essence of democratic backsliding in the European Union
2021-04-22 14:15 - 15:45
Pieter De Wilde
The essence of democratic backsliding in the European Union: deliberation and rule of law

Pieter de Wilde is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU. His research addresses political conflict over European integration and globalization, Euroscepticism as well as public debate in mass media, the internet, and parliamentary settings. Currently, he studies public discourses about democracy in Europe as partner in RECONNECT (Horizon 2020), unelected representatives and their impact on liberal democracy as principal investigator of the UNREP project, and on what social media reveal about our political opinions as principal investigator of the project Trondheim Analytica. https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/pieter.dewilde
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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).

Barnevernfrokost: Barns medvirkning
2021-04-14 09:00 - 09:45
Hvordan kan man ivareta barns rett til å bli hørt i barnevernssaker?
Barnekonvensjonens artikkel 12 slår fast at barn har rett til å gi uttrykk for sine synspunkter i saker som berører dem, og at barnets synspunkter skal tillegges behørig vekt i samsvar med dets alder og modenhet. Men hvordan håndteres denne forpliktelsen i følge forskning innen barnevern? Og hva innebærer denne rettigheten for utøvelsen av profesjonell praksis i barnevernet? Asgeir Falch-Eriksen er statsviter med barns rettigheter og barnevern som sitt spesialfelt. Han har deltatt i flere studier av barns medvirkning, og vil i dette foredraget forsøke å besvare disse to sentrale spørsmålene.
Innleder: Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Seniorforsker ved NOVA – OsloMet, og Førsteamanuensis II ved Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, UiB.
Onsdag 14. april kl. 09.00 – 09.45 (Zoom Webinar)
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RDV: Discursive Institutionalism
2021-04-08 12:15 - 13:45
Vivien Schmidt
Discursive Institutionalism: Analyzing the Power of Ideas and Discourse in Institutional Context

Vivien A. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and Professor of Political Science at Boston University, as well as Founding Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe. Schmidt’s research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory—in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism). Her latest books include Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone (2020), Resilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy (co-edited, 2013), Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union (co-edited, 2011), Democracy in Europe (2006) and The Futures of European Capitalism (2002). Her current work, supported by a Guggenheim fellowship, focuses on the ‘rhetoric of discontent,’ through a transatlantic investigation of the populist revolt. https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/vivien-a-schmidt/
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RDV: Understanding the State at the Street: Street-Level Organizations as Mediators of Welfare State Politics
2021-03-25 16:30 - 18:00
Evelyn Z. Brodkin
Understanding the State at the Street: Street-Level Organizations as Mediators of Welfare State Politics
Evelyn Z. Brodkin is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She holds international appointments as Obel Guest Professor at Aalborg University (Denmark), and Guest Scholar at University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Brodkin is one of the leading scholars of street-level organizations (SLOs). Her research has contributed to the theoretical and empirical development of SLOs as a field of study for investigating welfare state politics, the politics of marginalization and inequality, political institutions, public policy and management. Currently, Brodkin leads an international collaboration studying “The State at the Street: From European Welfare Crisis to the Front Lines of the Welfare State”.
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RDV: The impact of social media on democracy and democratic discussions
2021-03-11 14:15 - 15:45
Ida Vikøren Andersen
The impact of social media on democracy and democratic discussions.

Ida Vikøren Andersen is Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen. Andersen’s main interests are rhetoric, political communication, and the public debate. In 2020, she defended her PhD theses “Instead of the deliberative debate: How the principle of expression plays out in the news-generated Facebook discussion”. Her doctoral project focused on the mechanisms at play in debates about political events on social media, and the thesis establishes a new framework for studying the impact of social media on democracy and democratic discussions.

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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).

RDV: Interdisciplinary comparative analysis – a lesson to learn from comparative law
2021-02-25 14:15 - 15:45
Søren Koch
Interdisciplinary comparative analysis – a lesson to learn from comparative law

Sören Koch is Professor at the Faculty of Law in Bergen and Chair of the Research Group for Legal Culture. Koch has published comparative and legal historical studies in Norwegian, German and English. Koch specializes in comparing legal methods in different countries, and combines a historical and comparative perspective. He is a co-author of Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods (2014), Norwegische Juristische Methodenlehre (2013), Springers Handbuch der Konfliktlösung in Europa (2020) and Foundations of Western Legal Traditions (2016). He also publishes articles in international journals. He currently works at The Norwegian Legal System and Culture in a nutshell, Gyldendal, 2021. https://www.uib.no/en/persons/S%C3%B8ren.%28S%C3%B6ren%29.Koch
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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).

BARNEVERNFROKOST: Støtte til mødre og nyfødte i sårbare situasjoner
2021-02-17 09:00 - 09:45
Alle europeiske land er forpliktet etter barnekonvensjonen og den europeiske menneskerettighetskonvensjonen til å yte tjenester og støtte til familier i sårbare situasjoner. Dette skal sikre at staten ikke må gripe inn og overta omsorgen for barn oftere enn nødvendig. Men hvordan håndterer Norge og andre europeiske land denne forpliktelsen? Stipendiat Barbara Ruiken vil presentere funn fra en studie av hvordan Norge yter tjenester til mødre med nyfødte barn i sårbare situasjoner, sammenlignet med 7 andre europeiske land. Funnene viser at det er tildels store forskjeller både mellom land og innenfor samme barnevernssystem.
Innleder: Barbara Ruiken, stipendiat ved Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, Universitetet i Bergen.
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Dette er et webinar i en webinarserie om barnevern og barns rettigheter, arrangert i samarbeid mellom Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, Centre on Law and Social Transformation og Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie.

RDV: Interviews of children exposed to maltreatment, violence, and sexual abuse
2021-02-11 14:15 - 15:45
Gunn Astrid Baugerud:
Interviews of children exposed to maltreatment, violence, and sexual abuse

Gunn Astrid Baugerud is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, Oslo Metropolitan University. Baugerud has a background in cognitive developmental psychology, and her research interests include child maltreatment, children’s memory development and children as victims/witnesses, and investigative interviews with children. Baugerud was recently awarded a prestigious FRIPRO grant from the Research Council of Norway for the project “Interview training of child-welfare and law-enforcement professionals interviewing maltreated children supported via artificial avatars”. https://www.oslomet.no/en/about/employee/gunnba/
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RDV: The Norwegian NAV-scandal as whodunit
2021-01-28 14:15 - 15:45
“The Norwegian NAV-scandal as whodunit: the jurist as culprit, repairman, white knight and spectator”

Presentasjon by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

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Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (Cand.jur UiO 2002, S.J.D Harvard Law School 2008) is Professor of Sociology of Law, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo and Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies, PRIO. Sandvik’s research agenda focuses on the development of a political and legal sociology of humanitarianism. Her research combines top-down and bottom-up perspectives on the development, role and place of legal norms, legal categories, legal identities and legal claims-making in conflict and humanitarian action. Sandvik is particularly concerned with soft law and with issues related to legality, legitimacy and accountability. Sandvik has published extensively in highly regarded international journals and is a co-editor of several books: most recently Refugee Resettlement (2018) and UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability (2016).
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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).

WEBINAR: Paternalism: children, adults and respect
2021-01-14 14:15 - 15:45 | https://uib.zoom.us/j/69891603892?pwd=[REDACTED]
Presentasjon by David Archard

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David Archard is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Honorary Vice-President of the Society for Applied Philosophy. He is an applied moral philosopher who has published widely on many topics, especially the moral and political status of children, the family, and sexual ethics.
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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).

Barnevernsfrokost: Adopsjon som barneverntiltak
2021-01-13 09:00 - 09:45
Hege Stein Helland sitt doktorgradsprosjekt utforsker begrunnelser for adopsjoner utan samtykke i Norge og England. Dette er ansett som det sterkeste tiltaket i den norske barnevernloven, men beslutningstakere gis få retningslinjer for hvordan de skal vurdere når en adopsjon bør vedtas eller ikke. Hvordan vurderer og rettferdiggjør beslutningstakere i barnevernet, fylkesnemnda og rettsvesenet slike intervensjoner? Helland har blant annet studert beslutningstakere sine skjønnsmessige vurderinger når de presenteres for en mulig adopsjonssak. Hva er det som gjør at en sak vurderes som en adopsjonssak eller ikke?
Innleder: Hege Helland, stipendiat ved Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, Universitetet i Bergen.
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Dette er et webinar i en webinarserie om barnevern og barns rettigheter, arrangert i samarbeid mellom Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, Centre on Law and Social Transformation og Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie.

WEBINAR: Tillitskultur under press?
2020-12-10 14:15 - 15:45
Presentasjon

Dag Wollebæk – Tillitskultur under press?

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Dag Wollebæk is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research (ISF) and affiliated with the Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector. Wollebæk is a political scientist (PhD) and has published books and numerous articles on among others social capital, trust, organizations, volunteerism and social media. In recent years, Wollebæk’s research has had a particular focus on the role of trust in civil society and in the welfare state and on (social) media behavior and dynamics in online debates.
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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).

Barnevernfrokost: Til barnets beste - Familieliv for barnevernsbarn
2020-12-02 09:00 - 09:45
Hvordan ser den europeiske menneskerettighetsdomstolen på retten til familieliv og på prinsippet om barnets beste i adopsjonssaker?
Retten til respekt for familielivet skal sikre alle borgere beskyttelse mot uberettiget inngripen fra staten. Men i barnevernssaker har staten også en plikt til å gripe inn i familielivet dersom det er nødvendig av hensyn til barnet. Slike inngrep er ofte kontroversielle, og noen av de mest konfliktfylte sakene havner i Den europeiske menneskerettighetsdomstolen (EMD). Domstolens avgjørelser får stor betydning for praksis i det norske rettsvesenet. Men hvordan ser EMD på barnets rett til familieliv når barnet ikke lenger kan leve med sin biologiske familie? Hvordan definerer de familiebegrepet? Og hva er til barnets beste i tilfeller der barnet har tilknytning til både den biologiske familien og til fosterfamilien?
Innleder: Jenny Krutzinna – forsker ved Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, Universitetet i Bergen.
Presentasjonen vil bli holdt på engelsk, men det vil være mulig å stille spørsmål på norsk.

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Dette er et webinar i en webinarserie om barnevern og barns rettigheter, arrangert i samarbeid mellom Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, Centre on Law and Social Transformation og Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie.

WEBINAR: Biases in Handling Medical Technology
2020-11-26 14:15 - 15:45
Presentation
Bjørn Hofman – Undermining rational deliberation and priority setting: biases in handling medical technology

Questions & Discussion

Bjørn Hofman is Professor of Medical Ethics and Philosophy at the Department of Health Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Gjøvik and at the Center for Medical Ethics at the University of Oslo. Hofmann is particularly interested in the relationship between knowledge systems and ethics. He researches and teaches in philosophy of medicine, ethics, philosophy of science, and technology assessment. He has published a number of articles in these disciplines.
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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).

CANCELLED: Epistemic worries about expertise and the design of better policy advice
2020-11-12 14:15 - 15:45
Presentation

Cathrine Holst: Epistemic worries about expertise and the design of better policy advice: examples from the NOU system

Questions & Discussion

Cathrine Holst is a professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Geography and senior scientist at the ARENA Center for European Research, University of Oslo. She is also affiliated with CORE – Center for Gender Equality Research, Department of Social Research. Cathrine Holst’s professional interests are political sociology and democracy research, social and political theory, knowledge and expertise in politics, the EU, the Nordic model and European integration, gender equality policy, feminist theory and gender research. Holst is currently leading the EUREX project: Expertization of Public Inquiry Commissions in a Europeanized Administrative Order (2016-2020). In 2020/2021, Holst will be associated with the Center for Basic Studies (Center for Advanced Studies – CAS). Here she will lead a research group with Jakob Elster and the project “What is a good policy? Political Morality, Feasibility and Democracy” (GOODPOL).
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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).

Barnevernfrokost: Omsorgsovertakelser av nyfødte rett fra klinikken
2020-11-03 09:00 - 09:45
Hvordan gjør Fylkesnemnda vurderinger om sannsynligheten for framtidig omsorgssvikt?
Ida Juhasz sitt doktorgradsprosjekt utforsker begrunnelser for statlig inngripen i privatlivet, gjennom en studie av beslutninger om omsorgsovertakelser av nyfødte. Hvordan begrunnes og rettferdiggjøres beslutninger om omsorgsovertakelse rett fra klinikken? Hvordan gjør Fylkesnemnda vurderinger om sannsynligheten for framtidig omsorgssvikt? Gjennom analyse av vedtak fra Fylkesnemnda utforskes skjønnsrommet gitt og brukt for et sett komplekse og usikre barnevernssaker som det finnes lite systematisk kunnskap om.
Ida B. Juhasz er stipendiat ved Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism og Institutt for administrasjonogorganisasjonsvitenskap, Universitetet i Bergen.

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Dette er første webinar i en webinarserie om barnevern og barns rettigheter, arrangert i samarbeid mellom Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, Centre on Law and Social Transformation og Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie.

WEBINAR: Sextortion: Corruption and Gender-Based Violence
2020-10-29 14:15 - 15:45
Presentation

Sofia Jonsson: The Impunity of Sextortion

Questions & Discussion

Sofia Jonsson is a post doc at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory and at TROPICO (UiB). Her research interests include digitalization, the policing of transnational crime, gender and bureaucracy, gender and corruption, and policy implementation. Jonsson has a PhD in political science from the University of Gothenburg.

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WEBINAR: Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic region: a relevant methodology?
2020-10-15 14:15 - 15:45
Presentation

Ann Christin Eklund Nilsen: Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic region: a relevant methodology?

Questions & Discussion

Ann Christin Eklund Nilsen is a professor at the Department for sociology and social work at the University of Agder. Her research interests cover topics such as childhood, families, kindergartens, culture, and gender, and institutional ethnography. Her research is published in journals such as Childhood, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, Nordic Social Work Research, Comparative Social Work, Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy, Gender Issues, as well as in several Norwegian journals and books.
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The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center for Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI).
