Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA)

WEBINAR: Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic region: a relevant methodology?
2020-10-15 14:15 - 15:45 (Europe/Oslo)
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).

WEBINAR: The Right to Development of Children
2020-10-01 09:00 - 10:30
Presentation

Noam Peleg – The right to development of children

Questions & Discussion

Noam Peleg is a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Noam’s background is in law and his work focuses on international children’s rights law and its intersection with human rights law, childhood studies, and family law. In 2020, he was visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and in 2019 he published the book ‘The Child’s Right to Development’. Before moving to academia, Noam practiced law in a number of human rights NGOs, specializing in representing children in courts.
Participate:
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If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. The audience are observing participants only, and therefore not able to turn on microphone and camera during the events, but can post questions in the chat. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.

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).

ONLINE PUBLIC DEFENSE: Exploring Boundaries of Legitimate State Intervention (Øyvind S. Tefre)
2020-09-30 13:30 - 17:30
On September 29-30, 2020, Øyvind S. Tefre will defend his doctoral thesis for the PhD Degree at the University of Bergen.

The title of the thesis

“Exploring Boundaries of Legitimate State Intervention: Adoption as a Child Protection Measure in Norway and the United States”

Opponents

1st opponent: Professor Katrin Kriz, Department of Sociology, Emmanuel College, United States
2nd opponent: Professor Stefan Schnurr, Institute for Studies in Children and Youth Services, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland

Committee chair: Associate Professor Tor Halvorsen, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen
Supervisor: Professor Marit Skivenes, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen
Trial Lecture
September 29, 15.15 – 16.00. Zoom webinar: https://uib.zoom.us/j/69957693945?pwd=[REDACTED]
Public Defence
September 30th, 13.30 – 17.30. Zoom webinar: https://uib.zoom.us/j/61816956573?pwd=[REDACTED]

How to attend the trial lecture and public defence
Welcome to virtual trial lecture and defense! To attend the trial lecture and defense, click on the links to Zoom webinar above.
The trial lecture will start at 15.15. and the defense at 13.30., sharp. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time. If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program.
The audience are observing participants only, and therefore not able to turn on microphone and camera during the events. We recommend choosing “Speaker view”. Select this in the upper right corner when in Zoom.
If you want to attend as opponent ex auditorio, please send an e-mail to Hanne.Gravermoen@uib.no. Other questions can also be sent here. The thesis is available on request to Hanne.Gravermoen@uib.no.
The trial lecture and defense will be recorded in case of technical difficulties. The recorded material will only be used if any member of the committee is absent due to technical errors, and we will delete it immediately after the committee has approved the events.

ONLINE TRIAL LECTURE: What drives change in national child protection systems? (Øyvind S. Tefre)
2020-09-29 15:15 - 16:00

WEBINAR: Discretion from a Legal Perspective
2020-09-17 14:15 - 15:45
Presentation

Peter Mascini – Discretion from a Legal Perspective

Questions & Discussion

Peter Mascini is an associate professor at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Earlier this year, he contributed with a chapter “Discretion from a Legal Perspective” in Discretion and the Quest for Controlled Freedom, edited by Tony Evans and Peter Hupe. He studies the legitimization, implementation and enforcement of legal and policy instruments on a range of domains such as health and safety, crime-fighting, torts, education and the labour market. He is particularly interested in studying the tenability of behavioural assumptions underlying policies and policy theories. In his research, he uses both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Participate:
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If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. The audience are observing participants only, and therefore not able to turn on microphone and camera during the events, but can post questions in the chat. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.

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: Services and support in vulnerable situations
2020-09-03 14:15 - 15:45
Presentation
Barbara Ruiken – Services and support to mothers and newborn babies in vulnerable situations: A study of eight European jurisdictions.

Questions & Discussion

Barbara Ruiken is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism and the Department of Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Bergen, Norway with the project “Understanding risk and protective factors in child’s best interest decision”. Ruikens has a political science background and her research interests include discretionary decision-making, child protection policy implementation and the role of risk and protective factors in care order proceedings concerning newborn children.
Participate:
https://uib.zoom.us/j/65280389230?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. The audience are observing participants only, and therefore not able to turn on microphone and camera during the events, but can post questions in the chat. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.

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: Protecting Children, Creating Citizens
2020-08-18 17:30 - 19:00
Child participation is one of the core principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The Convention asserts that children and young people have the right to freely express their views and that there is an obligation to listen to children’s views and to facilitate their participation in all matters affecting them within their families, schools, public services, institutions, government policies and judicial procedures. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, there is still a way to go on securing children’s right to participation. What does research tell us about what inhibits and promotes children’s participation? And how can we ensure that the child’s needs and preferences are emphasized in decision-making and policy processes?
Keynote: Protecting Children, Creating Citizens: Participatory Child Protection Practice by Professor Katrin Kriz (Emmanuel College, US).
Professor Katrin Kriz is an expert on child welfare systems in an international context, and the author of a forthcoming book about participatory child protection practice in Norway and the United States.
Short presentations: Perspectives on children’s right to participation
Caroline and Mathilde (Pro’s at The Change Factory – Experts by Experience, Norway), Marthe Sleire Engedahl (UNICEF, Norway), Marit Skivenes (Professor at the University of Bergen, Discretion Director), Katre Luhamaa (University of Tartu).
Discussion

Practical information
Zoom link will be provided at the event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/792429594858236/
This event is part of the Bergen Exchanges 2020: https://www.lawtransform.no/events/

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Online Course: Systematic Review in Social Science
2020-06-17 00:00 - 2020-06-19 23:59 | Online
PHD COURSE:

AORG907: Introduction to Systematic Review (SR) and the use of SR in Social Science
This course has been designed to give an introduction to the use of systematic reviews (SR) in social science research. SR is a synthesis of existing knowledge that uses transparent and explicitly defined procedures to find, evaluate and synthesize the results of relevant research. Evidence synthesis uses formal explicit rigorous methods to bring together the findings of studies already completed and to provide an account of the totality of what is known from that pre-existing research. SR is widely used in medicine and healthcare and has in the last decades become increasingly important in the social sciences.
This course has three main goals: First, to provide an understanding of the purpose and principles of evidence. The second goal is to learn how to conduct, and critical appraise, a SR. The final goal is to gain insight in how SR can be used in own research projects.
Lecturers: Prof. Marit Skivenes (UiB), Prof. Hans Lund (HVL).

WEBINAR: Discretion and policymaking in migration control
2020-06-11 14:15 - 15:45 | Online, Norway
Federica Infantino is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Building on in-depth ethnographic research in the organizations that put a European instrument of migration control into practice, which is the Schengen visa policy, Infantino will shed light on the uses of discretion in deciding ‘who gets in’ and the ways in which policy is made on the ground.
Federica Infantino holds a PhD in political and social sciences from Université Libre de Bruxelles and a PhD in political science, comparative political sociology, from Sciences Po Paris. Her main research interests focus on the practices of migration and border control in comparative perspective, transnational actors and dynamics of policy change, the involvement of non-state actors in governments’ functions. Her project “Practicing Immigration Detention and Deportation in the EU. Actors, Organizations and Transnational Policymaking from Below” is funded by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FRS).
For participation: send an email to discretion@uib.no

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).

3 Forms of Discretion in Welfare Services
2020-05-14 14:15 - 15:45
Research group seminar with presentation from Tony Evans.
While street-level bureaucracies — front line public services — are similar in that they are subject to policies, operate under conditions of inadequate resources, and afford frontline workers discretion in their work, there are also significant differences between types of public services in the ways they work with policy and the nature and extent of discretion of staff delivering the service. Different services do different things; the nature of the policy they work with varies, and the logic of provision and priorities vary between services. Policy, for instance, may refer to a precise set of instructions, or to setting out particular concerns or broad-brush commitments. Some services, such as benefits provision, are specified in detailed policy which not only sets out what they can do but also how decisions should be made. Others services, such as policing, are subject to a range of policies and concerns often expressed as conflicting demands that have to be balanced and managed in the particular circumstances of their application. And others, mainly human services, are primarily thought of in terms what the professionals within provide, and assumes a logic of service provision to be located in those providing the service. Policy is sometimes more explicit and discretion narrower; it is sometimes looser and relies more on discretion.
Tony Evans is a professor at the Department of Social Work at Royal Holloway, University of London and guest researcher at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) in May 2020. His research focuses broadly on discretion as an organisational practice in welfare policy and practice and as a professional attribute, particularly in social work. Among other, he has explored the impact of managerialism on frontline discretion in welfare services, examined policy implementation analysis and developed a critical re-evaluation of street-level-bureaucracy theory and the relationship between policy and professional practice, and he has looked at ideas of expertise and ethics and how these relate to claims to discretion in professional practice. Today, his research includes the exploration of discretion as a creative practice and using drama as a form of research enquiry to understand activity-dependent expertise; and exploring professional ethics as a practical decision-making process – particularly through exploring current tensions in adult social work.

The seminar 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: Discretionary power and gendered corruption
2020-04-30 14:15 - 15:45
Research group seminar with presentation from Sofia Jonsson
“Discretionary power and gendered corruption: The case of police misconduct in transnational sex trafficking”
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.

The seminar 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: Barn i lock-down
2020-04-02 13:00 - 14:00
Barn i lock-down: Utfordrer korona-tiltakene barns rettigheter?
Korona-utbruddet har store konsekvenser, og ikke minst for barn. Med stengte skoler og avlyste fritidsaktiviteter er hverdagen brått blitt en annen. Det har ført til store omstillinger, med hjemmeskole, mindre omgangskrets, store deler av hverdagen tilbrakt hjemme. Det er også mye informasjon å forholde seg som kan være skremmende både for barn og voksne.
Hvordan påvirker krisen barns rettigheter og hensynet til barnets beste? Er sårbare barns liv blitt mer sårbare? Har det at stadig mer gjøres digitalt gjort at økonomiske forskjeller er blitt tydeligere? Hvordan organiseres samværsordninger og delt omsorg? Ivaretas barns rett til å bli hørt og delta i beslutninger som gjelder dem? Har mer tilstedeværende foreldre og mindre aktivitetspress gjort hverdagen bedre? Og hva skjer når vi går tilbake til normalen?
Marianne Minde (Kirkens Bymisjon), Monica Sydgård (Redd Barna) og Jenny Krutzinna (Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, UiB) møtes til samtale om hvordan barns hverdag har endret seg som følge av korona-tiltak, hvilke rettigheter som blir utfordret og hva som kan gjøres for å hjelpe sårbare barn i en uvanlig situasjon. Samtalen ledes av Idun Holgersen Økland (LawTransform/UiB)
Program:
13:00 Samtale
13:30 Q&A (send spørsmål inn på chat)
Lenke til webinaret:
https://uib.zoom.us/j/278780273
Arrangementet vil også streames på YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD6cieC9zmTlV1_YDWLlzbg

CANCELLED: Omsorgsovertakelser av nyfødte rett fra klinikken
2020-03-27 08:15 - 10:15
BARNEVERNVAKTENS FAGFROKOST:
«Omsorgsovertakelser av nyfødte rett fra klinikken»
Ida B. Juhasz
Stipendiat ved Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism,
Institutt for administrasjon og organisasjonsvitenskap, UiB
Hvert år blir flere titalls nyfødte plassert i fosterhjem rett fra fødeklinikken, og en påfølgende sak om omsorgsovertakelse finner sted. Dette er et sterkt statlig inngrep i familielivet i en særlig sårbar og usikker fase. Likevel har vi liten systematisk kunnskap om disse alvorlige sakene. Ida Juhasz er sosiolog og stipendiat ved Universitetet i Bergen. I sitt doktorgradsprosjekt analyserer hun vedtak fra Fylkesnemnda etter Barnevernlovens §4-8/§4-12, og utforsker beslutningsgrunnlaget og skjønnsrommet i saker om omsorgsovertakelser av nyfødte. Hvordan begrunnes og rettferdiggjøres vedtakene i slike komplekse og usikre barnevernssaker? Hvordan fatter man beslutninger som i stor grad er fremtidsvurderinger om barnets beste? Og hva forteller dette oss om hvem som blir vurdert til å ikke være gode nok foreldre?

Fagfrokosten arrangeres av Barnevernvakten i Bergen kommune. Påmelding via: fagfrokost@bergen.kommune.no

The Child’s Perspective in Court: Can we do better?
2020-02-13 08:30 - 10:00 | Cafe Christie, Museplassen 3, Bergen, Norway
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, and although much has been achieved in the last three decades, there is still work to do. Procedures affecting children are not as child-centric as they should be, the child’s right to be heard is not taken seriously enough, and the child’s perspective appears to be missing in much of the decision-making concerning children.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) frequently deals with cases directly impacting on the lives and rights of children, without the children playing a direct and active role in the proceedings. Children, it seems, are incidental to a dispute between parents and the state concerning parental rights. Similarly, discussions in the media are often framed in terms of parents vs. the state, with the subject of the disagreement – the child – given little or no voice.
Children are not independently represented in these cases and thus the child’s perspective is too often left out. Especially very young children who cannot yet make full use of their right to be heard in matters concerning them, are absent in decisions that will have significant consequences for their lives.
How can we succeed in including the child and her perspective more fully – both in the ECtHR and in national courts? How do we ensure that the child’s particular needs, preferences and personality are emphasised and given due weight in the decision-making process
About the Event
We are pleased to announce Nuala Mole from The AIRE Centre in London as our keynote speaker for this event. Nuala is one of Europe’s most prominent human rights lawyers, and a leading actor within the field of human rights. Nuala will talk about her experience as part of the legal team in human and child rights cases before the ECtHR, and will provide her professional insight into how children feature in these cases. The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) has recently acted as intervening party in the case of Strand Lobben v Norway in the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR.
The keynote will be followed by a panel discussion and questions from the audience. We are looking forward to an interesting event and a lively discussion!

Keynote: Nuala Mole, Senior Lawyer / Founder, The AIRE Centre: “Children at the European Court of Human Rights”
Panel participants: Marit Skivenes (Professor, Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism), Lise Søreide (District Court Judge, Bergen tingrett)
Moderator: Jenny Krutzinna (Senior Researcher, Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism)

Organizers are Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, in collaboration with Centre on Law and Social Transformation.

Barnevern og barns rettigheter i en turbulent tid
2020-01-31 11:15 - 12:00 | Jusbygget, Auditorium 1 (Magnus Lagabøtes Plass 1)
Norge blir ofte sett på som et barnesentrert samfunn hvor barns rettigheter står høyt på agendaen, og er rangert høyt på globale oversikter over barnevelferd og oppvekstsvilkår. Samtidig ser vi blir det norske barnevernssystemet blir utsatt for sterk kritikk fra flere hold – både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Hvordan beskyttes rettighetene til barn og unge i Norge i dag? Og hva sier forskningen om hvordan det norske barnevernet fungerer sammenlignet med andre land?

Foreleser:

Professor Marit Skivenes, Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism

Online Media and the Democracy
2020-01-30 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Research group seminar with presentation from Hallvard Moe.
“Deliberative systems theory and citizens’ use of online media: testing a critical theory of democracy on a high achiever”
Hallvard Moe is a professor in Media Studies at the University of Bergen. His interest area revolve around questions of how the media matter for democracy, and of how well the idea that the media constitute the infrastructure for the public sphere where the citizens can present their problems for the rulers works in practice in different times through history, with different media technologies, and under different regimes. Moe is head of the research project “Media Use, Culture and Public Connection: Freedom of Information in the ‘Age of Big Data’” (MeCIn), funded by the Research Council of Norway. The project, which runs from 2016-2019, aims to investigate how citizens in Norway today experience their freedom of information, and how different groups use media and cultural arenas to orient themselves towards the public – or not.

The seminar 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).

Norsk barnevern i menneskerettighetsdomstolen
2019-10-31 18:00 | Litteraturhuset, Østre Skostredet 5-7, Bergen, 5017, Norge
Den europeiske menneskerettighetsdomstolen slo nylig fast at Norge har krenket retten til familieliv i en sak om tvangsadopsjon av et barnevernsbarn. Flertallet i domstolens storkammer dømte i favør av den biologiske moren i den mye omtalte Lobben-saken.
Nærmere 30 norske barnevernssaker er tatt til behandling i menneskerettsdomstolen fra desember 2015 og fram til i dag. Dette er et langt høyere antall saker enn noe annet land. Samtidig rangeres Norge høyt på internasjonale indikatorer for barns rettigheter og velferd, og det norske rettssystemet er ansett for å holde en høy standard når det kommer til rettssikkerhet.
Hva er årsaken til den internasjonale granskningen av det norske barnevernssystemet? Hvordan ivaretar norske myndigheter barns rettigheter sammenlignet med andre land? Og hvilke konsekvenser vil dommene fra Den europeiske menneskerettighetsdomstol ha for det norske barnevernssystemet og for barns rettigheter i Europa?
Program
Introduksjonsforedrag

Jill Berrick, UC Berkeley: “Child Protection Systems Across the World”
Katre Luhamaa, UiB: “Children’s Rights in The European Court of Human Rights”

Panelsamtale

Karl Harald Søvig, UiB
Anders Henriksen, Bufdir (Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet)
Torstein Røed, Fylkesnemndene for barnevern og sosiale saker

Moderator: Marit Skivenes (UiB)
Om arrangementet
Gratis adgang for publikum. Ingen registrering nødvendig. Arrangementet vil bli hold på norsk, med unntak av introduksjonsforedragene.
Arrangør er Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB), i samarbeid med Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB/CMI).

Interest groups recognition in the European Parliament
2019-10-24 12:15 - 14:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Interest groups recognition in the European Parliament
Raimondas Ibenskas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. One of his research topics is the role of stakeholder consultations and interest groups in EU politics and policymaking.

This event 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 at the Department of Administration and Organizational Science at the University of Bergen and the Center for Law and Social Transformation (Lawtransform) at the University of Bergen.

Guest lecture: Paternalism, Coercive Care and the Very Poor
2019-10-03 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Paternalism, Coercive Care and the Very Poor
Dr. Cristian Pérez Muñoz is Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His teaching and research interests include normative political theory, public policy and applied ethics. He has published on subjects as the ethical aspects of redistributive programs, income distribution proposals, the production and provision of essential services, street-level charity programs and welfare policies.

This event 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 at the Department of Administration and Organizational Science at the University of Bergen and the Center for Law and Social Transformation (Lawtransform) at the University of Bergen.

Research seminar: Social Media and Celebrification of Children
2019-09-26 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Social Media and Celebrification of Children
Dr. Emma Nottingham is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Winchester. Her work focuses on children’s rights in the context of healthcare. She has a particular interest in methods of development of both public policy and law and the impact of social and moral controversies on law making. At the present, she is working on the project “Generation tagged: Children in the media” (children’s privacy rights).

This event 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 at the Department of Administration and Organizational Science at the University of Bergen and the Center for Law and Social Transformation (Lawtransform) at the University of Bergen.

Guest lecture: Child Welfare Judgments
2019-09-12 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Child Welfare Judgments and Decision Processes in Context
Guest lecture by prof. Rami Benbenishty (Social Work / Social Welfare), University of Jerusalem / Bar Ilan University. The lecture is open for everyone interested.
Topic: This presentation will focus on the Judgments and Decision Processes in Context (JUDPiC) model, as it applies to judgments and decisions in cases of alleged child maltreatment. This model presents how case characteristics are processed by professionals embedded in social agencies who are influenced by their personal characteristics, their agency features, and the wider local and national context of the child welfare system. The implications for understanding and improving decisions are discussed.
Rami Benbenishty is Professor at the University of Jerusalem / Bar Ilan University. His research mainly focus on disadvantaged children and youth at risk, and on methods for promoting their welfare and safety in the community, in school, and in foster care and boarding school frameworks. His research also deals with improving decision-making methods used by professionals and policy makers in matters concerning children who are victims of abuse in the family or community. Over the years he has published over 200 articles, chapters and complete books, as well as in-depth and comprehensive research reports

This event 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 at the Department of Administration and Organizational Science at the University of Bergen and the Center for Law and Social Transformation (Lawtransform) at the University of Bergen.

Research seminar: Adoption from care
2019-08-29 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Adoption from care or continued public care – are children involved in decision making?
Amy McEwan-Strand is a research assistant at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism. She holds an LLM in Human Rights, as well as LLB in Scots Law and BSc in Economics. Her field of expertise include human rights, freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights and children’s rights.
Marit Skivenes is a professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory and the director of Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, University of Bergen. Skivenes is a leading expert in the field of child protection systems, with numerous publications over the years. Her research focus among other on children’s rights and interests, child protection systems, socio-legal decision-making proceedings, migration, and welfare state systems.

This event 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 at the Department of Administration and Organizational Science at the University of Bergen and the Center for Law and Social Transformation (Lawtransform) at the University of Bergen.

Bergen Exchanges 2019
2019-08-19 00:00 - 2019-08-23 23:59 | Jekteviksbakken 31, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen, Hordaland, 5006, Norway
Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation
19 – 23 AUGUST 2019 #BeEx2019
The Bergen Exchanges is a meeting place for scholars and practitioners from across the globe who seek to understand how law serves as an instrument of change – and how it shapes and is shaped by power relations. During a week of public discussions, we examine strategic uses of rights and law and how legal institutions function as arenas for political contestation (lawfare). Read more about the history and motivation behind the Bergen Exchanges here.
The main themes for Bergen Exchanges 2019 are Natural Resources, Corruption, Indigenous Rights and Law and Technology.

Guest lecture: Protecting unaccompanied migrant children in Europe
2019-08-13 14:15 - 15:45 | Meeting room, Dept. of Comparative Politics, UiB, Christies gate 15, Bergen, Norway
Guest lecture by Dr Ingi Iusmen, University of Southampton. The lecture is open for everyone interested.
Whose Children? Protecting unaccompanied migrant children in Europe: a case of diffused responsibility?
The years 2015-2016 saw an unprecedented number of refugees arriving in the European Union. In 2016 nearly every one in four asylum applicants in the EU was a child. Despite this influx of child refugees, the efficiency and adequacy of European and national responses to address the situation of this vulnerable group has been limited and questionable. This presentation sets out to investigate the factors and reasons explaining the failure of EU and national policy interventions to protect unaccompanied migrant children (UAMs) during the recent refugee crisis.

Research seminar: Human Rights and Children’s Rights in Russia
2019-06-13 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Legitimacy and judicial protection of human rights and children’s rights in Russia
Presentation by Olga Komshukova, PhD student at National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia).
Protection of the child’s rights is declared as one of the priority goals in the field of social policy in Russia. However, the current situation regarding the protection of children’s rights is far from the intended goals. The politicization of this issue does not contribute to the improvement of this situation. Concentration on foreign policy, sanctions, and economic crisis are having an additional negative effect. In addition to these conditions, the Constitutional Court of Russia disagrees with a number of decisions of the ECtHR and allows Russian authorities not to execute them. This generally complicates the situation with the judicial protection of human rights, and in particular, children’s rights.
This lecture will cover the following issues:

A brief overview of the Russian child protection system: regulations, principles, statistics
Hot points: most relevant issues regarding child protection in Russia
Russia and ECtHR: cases and status of ECtHR decisions in Russia
Legitimacy and political motivation of the Russian Constitutional Court’s decisions

The seminar is open for everyone interested.

Musikk mot utenforskap i arbeid med barn og unge
2019-04-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Pilestredet, Oslo, Stenbergsgata 26, rom X158
Om konferansen
I arbeid med utsatte barn og unge er musikk blitt en stadig viktigere redskap for å fremme deltakelse, fellesskap og mestring som samtidig kan forebygge utenforskap. På denne dagskonferansen får du høre om dette arbeidet.
Marit Skivenes, Dag Nordanger og Unni Johns har keynoter, og programmet rommer også andre spennende innspill og ikke minst musikalske innslag, blant annet fra unge mennesker som deltar i Kom Nærmere-prosjektet i Oslo.
Konferansen er et initiativ fra Nasjonalt kompetansenettverk for musikkterapi i barnevernsfeltet.
Arrangører er Bufdir, Kunnskapsklyngen Polyfon ved GAMUT (Griegakademiets senter for musikkterapiforskning) ved Universitetet i Bergen, CREMAH (Senter for forskning i musikk og helse) ved Norges musikkhøgskole og Institutt for sosialfag ved OsloMet.
Konferansen er gratis og åpen for alle interesserte.
Program
09.30 Kaffe
10.00 Musikalsk åpning og hilsninger
10.15 Marit Skivenes & Viggo Krüger: Kan musikkterapi være med å fremme et barnefokusert (child-focused) barnevern?
Marit Skivenes er direktør for Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, og leder for forskningsgruppen DIPA (Discretion and Paternalism). Hun er også co-director ved CEIPAMM (Centro Europeo de Investigación. Políticas y Acción Para Los Menores y La Migración). Viggo Krüger er førsteamanuensis ved GAMUT, Griegakademiet ved Universitetet i Bergen.
10.45 Dag Nordanger: Musikk og traumebevisst omsorg
Dag Nordanger er doktor i psykologi og psykologspesialist ved Ressurssenter om vald, traumatisk stress og sjølvmordsførebygging (RVTS Vest). Han er også professor II ved Fakultet for helsevitenskap, OsloMet.
11.15 Unni Tanum Johns: «Det viktige var å bli forstått gjennom stemme, blikk og bevegelse» (gutt, 12 år). Gjensidighet, musikalsk gjenklang og utvidelse.
Unni Tanum Johns er førstelektor i psykologi, UiO. Hennes PhD omhandler emosjonsregulering i et nonverbalt intersubjektivt utviklingsperspektiv. Hun er spesialist i klinisk barne- og ungdomspsykologi og musikkterapeut med videreutdanning i traumepsykologi, og har de siste 20 årene hatt sin kliniske stilling ved BUP Furuset i bydel Alna, A-hus. Hun underviser også ved RBUP og Norges musikkhøgskole, og har skrevet bøker og artikler om barne- og ungdomsterapi.
11.45 Lunsj
12.30 Christine Wilhelmsen: Om arbeidet med «Kom Nærmere Oslo»
Christine Wilhelmsen arbeider som musikkterapeut for Stendi AS og for Velferdsetaten/ Uteseksjonen, Oslo kommune.
12.45 Tatiana Palanca & Stina Ihle Amankwah: Om arbeidet med MIL – Møhlenpris idrettslag
Stina Ihle Amankwah er initiativtaker og student fra Bergen. Hun har en bachelor i internasjonal jus fra The Hague University of Applied Sciences, og holder på med en master i systemdynamikk ved UIB. Hun jobber med forebygging av tvangsekteskap og negativ sosial kontroll gjennom samtalegrupper, rollespill og dialogtrening ved Møhlenpris idrettslag, er mentor mot radikalisering i Bergen kommune, og er ansvarlig for utdanning av juniormentorer ved MIL/RVTS.
Tatiana Palanca er initiativtaker av musikkverkstedet ved Møhlenpris idrettslag. Hun er kjent som artisten Miss Tati og samarbeider med Fargespill Bergen og Oslo som gjesteartist. Hun jobber ellers som vokal instruktør og har bl.a. gjort oppdrag for Kom Nærmere, AKKS Bergen og Oslo, og er mentor for nylig etablerte artister med innvandrer bakgrunn.
13.00 Viggo Krüger: Erfaringer fra ERASMUS+ prosjektet STALWARTS (Sustaining Teachers and Learners with the Arts)
13.15 Maren Metell: En sosial og musikalsk møteplass for utsatte sped- og småbarnsfamilier
Maren Metell er musikkterapeut og synspedagog og for tiden ansatt som universitetslektor ved Griegakademiet, Universitetet i Bergen og doktorgradskandidat ved Nordoff Robbins/ Goldsmiths, University of London.
13.30 Kaffe
13.50 Musikalsk innslag
14.00 Kjersti Johansson: Musikktilbud i Uteseksjonen, Oslo kommune
Kjersti Johansson er musikkterapeut ved Haug skole og ressurssenter og har doktorgrad I musikkterapi fra Norges musikkhøgskole.
14.15 Christine Wilhelmsen & Thomas Barstad: Musikkterapi og erfaringskompetanse i kommunalt arbeid
Thomas Barstad er erfaringskonsulent i Velferdsetaten/Uteseksjonen, Oslo kommune.
14.30 Gisle Fuhr: Relasjonelt perspektiv på musikkterapi med ungdom i barnevernet
Gisle Fuhr er musikkterapeut og stipendiat i musikkterapi ved Norges musikkhøgskole, hvor han skriver om den terapeutiske relasjonen i musikkterapi med ungdom under barnevernets omsorg.
14.45 Ingeborg Nebelung: Musikkterapi som premissleverandør i utviklinga av en barnevernsinstitusjon – et aksjonsforskningsprosjekt
Ingeborg Nebelung er musikkterapeut og stipendiat i musikkterapi ved Norges musikkhøgskole.
15.00 Ingvild Stene: Fra musikkrelasjon til sosiale relasjoner – om å oppnå trygghet og tilhørighet gjennom terapeutisk musikklytting (TML)
Ingvild Stene er musikkpedagog, musikkterapeut, psykoterapeut og stipendiat ved Norges musikkhøgskole. Hun har lang erfaring med ungdom i psykisk helsevern og har utviklet metoden «Terapeutisk musikklytting» (TML).
15.15 Musikalsk avrunding
15.30 Avslutning av konferansen
19.00 Konsert på OsloMet
med ungdom fra Kom Nærmere Oslo, Uteseksjonen, Forandringshuset på Grønland, med flere.
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Research seminar: Voluntary Care Removals
2019-04-04 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Program:

Kenneth Burns: Voluntary Care Removals

Kenneth Burns is a senior lecturer and Deputy Director of the Master of Social Work course at University College Cork. He has worked as a social worker and social work team leader in child protection and welfare and continues to support practice in this area. His main research and teaching interests are in child protection policy and practice, staff retention, career pathways for newly-qualified social workers, child care proceedings in the District Court / child welfare removal systems, professional supervision and community-based research.
The seminar is 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 at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Bergen, and the Center for Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen / CMI.
Contact: hege.helland@uib.no

Conservative Backlash in Europe
2019-03-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Jekteviksbakken 31, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen, Hordaland, 5006, Norway
Date: Thursday 14th March
Time:16:00-18:00
Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
In recent years, Europe has seen strong conservative mobilization against abortion, LGBT-rights and child protection services. Through the Internet, intensive lobbying and funding from abroad, these movements are gaining new ground – is the seemingly well-established right of abortion under threat in Europe? What are the driving forces behind this mobilization and is there a conservative network driving the movements?
In this seminar we will screen the documentary “Abortion: Backlash in Europe” which focuses on the European pro-life movements and the methods and arguments that these groups use. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Neil Datta, Barbara Ruiken and Siri Gloppen, in which they explore the links between the networks driving anti-abortion, anti-LGBT and anti-child protection service mobilization.
The event is free and open to all. Coffee and snacks will be served. Organized by Centre on Law and Social Tranformation.

Neil Datta is the Secretary of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development, a network of parliamentarians from across Europe who are committed to protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights. He has nearly twenty years’ experience in the field of political involvement in population and development, and has conducted in-depth research on anti-choice activity in Europe. He is part of the LawTransform based research project on Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global Battles.
Barbara Ruiken is a scientific assistant at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the Department of Administration and Organisation Theory. She holds a master’s degree in Administration and Organisation Theory and works mainly on the projects Discretion and the Child’s Best Interest and The Acceptability of Child Protection Interventions.
Siri Gloppen is the Director of LawTransform and professor of Comparative Politics (UiB). She heads the research projects (supported by the Norwegian Research Council) on Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global Battles; and Political Determinants of Sexual and Reproductive Health, where the conservative networks and their influence in different parts of the world is part of the dynamics under study.

Research seminar: Human Rights and Child Welfare
2019-03-14 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Program:

Marius Emberland: Human Rights and Child Welfare

Marius Emberland is a lawyer with the Attorney General’s office, where he has special responsibility for international law and human rights. He is the Norwegian Government’s permanent legal representative (agent) for the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee. He has conducted a number of cases before the Supreme Court and the EFTA Court, and has been a member of several public committees. In recent years, Emberland has responded to EMD on behalf of Norway in several child welfare cases.
The seminar is 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 at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Bergen, and the Center for Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen / CMI.
Contact: hege.helland@uib.no

Research seminar: Child Removals
2019-02-28 14:15 - 15:45 | DIPA-room (17.112), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen, Christies gate 17, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway
Program:

Katre Luhamaa: Child removal as a last resort – comparing the state’s support to families at risk in Europe’
Jenny Krutzinna: Breaking the cycle: Towards solidarity with future mothers in care’ which focus on the solidarity aspect of the removal of newborn babies in eight European countries

Katre Luhamaa is researcher at the Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, and holds a Ph.D. in Law. Her field of expertise include Law and Legal Studies, Human Rights and Democracy, EU and European Studies, and Legal Theory. Her research focuses on international law, EU law and human rights, and in particular children’s rights.
Jenny Krutzinna is a researcher at the Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, and holds a Ph.D. in Bioethics and Biomedical Jurisprudence. Her main research interest is the role of well-being as justification in ethical and legal argumentation processes, especially in the context of raising and educating children.
The seminar is 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 at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Bergen, and the Center for Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen / CMI.
Contact: hege.helland@uib.no
