Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA)

Barnevernfrokost: Barneavhør og bruk av interaktive avatarer
2021-11-05 09:00 - 09:45 (Europe/Oslo)
Kvalitet i intervju er avgjørende for at barn som er utsatt for omsorgssvikt, eller potensielt vold og overgrep, får anledning til å fortelle fritt og upåvirket om det de har opplevd/blitt utsatt for. Imidlertid viser både nasjonal og internasjonal forskning at det er vanskelig å opprettholde kvalitet over tid i intervju av barn til tross for at det investeres store ressurser i opplæring i samtale- og avhørsmetodikk. Hvordan kan kunstig intelligens og interaktive avatarer være nyttige verktøy for ferdighetstrening i barnevernstjenesten og blant politiansatte som skal gjennomføre slike intervjuer?
Gunn Astrid Baugerud er Førsteamanuensis ved Institutt for sosialfag ved OsloMet. Hun har bakgrunn fra kognitiv utviklingspsykologi og forskningen hennes fokuserer på barn utsatt for mishandling, barn som ofre og vitner, og kvalitative intervju med barn i sårbare situasjoner. Hun leder forskningsprosjektet “Samtaletrening ved hjelp av barneavatar for barnevern- og politiansatte som intervjuer barn utsatt for overgrep og omsorgssvikt.
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Trial Lecture for Hege Stein Helland
2021-11-17 16:15 - 17:00
Trial lecture will be given on the topic “How can and should children’s voices play a role in determining «best interest» in child protection decision-making?”
The public defence will be November 19th. Click here for more information about the dissertation (in Norwegian).

RDV: Children, youth and online risks (Elisabeth Staksrud)
2021-11-18 14:15 - 15:45
Elisabeth Staksrud:
Children, youth and online risks
Elisabeth Staksrud is a Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Her research interests and key competences include safe use and online risk, regulation and rights, media use among children and adolescents, censorship and freedom of expression. She is working on several projects, one of which is the European Union’s Horizon 2020 funded project “Youth Skills (ySKILLS)”, which aims to enhance and maximize the long-term positive impact of the digital environment on children and adolescents. Staksrud has written numerous articles on media use and it’s effects for children and young people, and has both written and contributed to several books on these topics. https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/personer/vit/estaksru/index.html
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Public Defence for Hege Stein Helland
2021-11-19 15:30 - 18:15
Hvordan rettferdiggjøres adopsjon?
Hege Beate Stein Helland disputerer 19.11.2021 for ph.d.-graden ved Universitetet i Bergen med avhandlingen “Discretion and the Demand for Reasons”.
Hvordan rettferdiggjør juridiske og profesjonelle beslutningstakere hva som er til «barnets beste» i beslutninger om adopsjon av fosterbarn? Med fokus på kvalitet og legitimitet i begrunnelser av statlige intervensjoner, undersøker Helland hvordan norske og engelske beslutningstakere utøver skjønn når de forholder seg til det førende, men komplekse prinsippet om barnets beste. Skjønnsmessige vurderinger er nødvendig for å komme frem til hva som er til det beste for det enkelte barn, men utfordrer samtidig demokratisk kontroll over beslutningsprosessen, og åpner for variasjon i beslutningsfatting.
Studien viser at barnets beste i stor grad blir rettferdiggjort gjennom barnesentrert argumentasjon. Det er likevel slik at foreldreorienterte begrunnelser er avgjørende for vurderingene om hvorvidt en adopsjon anses å være til barnets beste. Samtidig viser avhandlingen at beslutningstakerne baserer seg på et relativt uniformt og hierarkisk strukturert normativt grunnlag, og begrunnelsene er rettet mot å rettferdiggjøre unntak for det biologiske prinsipp. Det er også tydelig at Høyesteretts praksis i stor grad er førende for hvilke argumenter som anvendes og vektes. Det omfattende skjønnsrommet beslutningstakerne er gitt sammenfaller imidlertid også med variasjon og inkonsistens, samt mangler og ubalanse i argumentasjonen. På den andre siden viser analysene tegn til uformelle beslutningsstandarder og regeldannende praksis. Dette har positive sider og gir noe forutsigbarhet, men utfordrer legitimiteten til vurderingene, blant annet fordi slike uformelle praksiser og standarder ikke er demokratisk konstituert.
Studien gir ikke grunnlag for å si at utfallet av beslutningene skulle eller burde vært annerledes, men konkluderer med at det er behov for mer eksplisitt og deliberativ argumentasjon for å styrke beslutningsprosessens kvalitet og legitimitet.
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RDV: Epistemic worries about expertise and the design of better policy advice: examples from the NOU system (Cathrine Holst)
2021-12-02 14:15 - 15:45
Dr. Cathrine Holst: Epistemic worries about expertise and the design of better policy advice: examples from the NOU system
Cathrine Holst is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. Her academic interests include political sociology and democracy research, social and political theory, the role of knowledge and expertise in policy and politics, EU, and gender policy. Holst is a part of and (co-)leader of several research groups and projects. She also leads the sub-project “Trust and Advice Mechanisms” under the EU-funded PERITA project (Policy, Expertise and Trust, 2020-2022), which studies systems through which experts assume an advisory role in policy making decisions in European countries. Together with Willy Pedersen she is in charge of a study of changes in Norwegian drug policy (under the project PROMENTA). In addition to having written numerous empirical articles and books, Holst is an experienced journal editor and has had columns in several Norwegian newspapers. https://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/people/aca/cathho/index.html
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Barnevernfrokost: Dansk barnevernlovgivning - Barnets Lov og "Børnene Først"
2021-12-03 09:00 - 09:45
I mai 2021 inngikk den danske regjeringen sammen med et bredt flertall i det danske folketinget en avtale som skal hjelpe utsatte barn og familier tidligere og bedre enn i dag. Blant annet skal avtalen sikre barn bedre rettigheter gjennom nye lovarbeider, sikre bedre kvalitet i omsorgsovertakelser, og gi færre skift og mer stabilitet. Hva betyr disse endringene i praksis og hvilke fordeler og ulemper medfører avtalen for utsatte barn og deres familier, samt for beslutningstakere i barneverntjenesten?
Karina Rohrberg Jessen er barnesakkyndig dommer ved Domstolsstyrelsen i Danmark. Hun nærgående kjennskap til dansk barnevern og har blant annet utgitt lærebok om tidlig innsats ved omsorgssvikt.
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Barnevernfrokost: Kunnskapsbasert foreldreveiledning for flyktningfamilier (Ragnhild Bjørknes)
2022-01-14 09:00 - 09:45
Foreldreveiledning har allerede vist seg å være et effektivt verktøy for å hjelpe foreldre til å utvikle gode foreldreferdigheter. Likevel vet vi lite om foreldreveiledningen er tilpasset godt nok og hvordan det påvirker foreldreomsorgen for familier med flykning eller annen minoritetsbakgrunn. I introduksjonsprogrammet er foreldreveiledning obligatorisk og ulike veiledningsprogram brukes som tiltak i barnevernet. For å kunne drive kunnskapsbaserte og likeverdige tjenester må forskning prioriteres.
Ragnhild Bjørknes er Professor ved HEMIL-senteret, Universitetet i Bergen. Hun har lang erfaring med forskning på foreldreveiledningsprogram for minoritetsfamilier. Presentasjonen vil belyse ulike forskningsstudier og implikasjoner for praksis.
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RDV: From macro to micro – ideology and reality in Norway’s market turn (Ola Innset)
2022-01-27 14:15 - 15:30
Ola Innset is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Law and Governance at BI Norwegian Business School. His research interests lie at the intersections between political economy, intellectual history and economic- and political history. Innset did his PhD in History and Civilisation at the European University Institute from 2013 to 2017, with a thesis in intellectual micro-history on early neoliberalism. The thesis won the History of Economics Society annual dissertation prize and was published as the book Reinventing Liberalism: The Politics, Philosophy and Economics of Early Neoliberalism (1920 – 1947) in 2020. He has also written and published a monograph in Norwegian on the history of market reforms in Norway, also published in 2020. https://www.bi.edu/about-bi/employees/department-of-law2/ola-morris-innset/?_ga=2.84640089.1383336497.1640088926-1487682103.1640088926
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RDV: Children’s consent to welfare services (Tarja Pösö)
2022-02-10 14:15 - 15:30
Tarja Pösö holds a position as Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Tampere University, Finland) and is a professor II at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory (University of Bergen). Pösö has extensive experience in the studies of child protection, social work and institutional practices, with a keen interest in cross-cultural perspectives and developing methods and ethics for child protection studies. Her particular research interests are: 1) How social workers navigate among different sources of information and interest when making decisions and assessing the outcome of their decisions in child protection, 2) How the child welfare systems perceive and act with migrant children, 3) How the principle of ‘the child’s best interest’ is included in the decision-making process. https://discretion.uib.no/people/staff/tarja-poso-2/
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Barnevernfrokost: Fra barnets beste til gjenforening som overordnet mål for barnevernstiltak etter omsorgsovertakelse? (Christian Børge Sørensen)
2022-02-18 09:00 - 09:45
Siden høsten 2018 er Norge hittil dømt i Den europeiske menneskerettighetsdomstol for å ha krenket retten til familieliv i 14 barnevernssaker. Dette har ført til endringer i norsk barnevernsrett og praksis, ved økte krav til den nasjonale saksbehandlingen. Tema for Sørensens foredrag er det materielle/innholdsmessige; nemlig hvordan det rettslige gjenforeningsmålet i Den europeiske menneskerettighetskonvensjonen har fått langt større betydning for barnevernstiltak etter omsorgovertakelse. Sørensen stiller spørsmål ved om pendelen kan gå for langt i retning av å ivareta familiens enhet, og gir noen tanker om hvordan en mer rettighetsbasert tilnærming til barnets beste kan fremme en mer balansert avveiing mellom kryssende rettigheter og hensyn.
Foredraget bygger videre på analyser i Sørensens artikkel «Langvarige fosterhjemsplasseringer og forholdsmessighetskravet i EMK art. 8», inntatt i Lov og Rett 2020 s. 103-122.
Christian Børge Sørensen er Fylkesnemndsleder for barnevern og sosiale saker i Rogaland og har tidligere vært ansatt som førsteamanuensis ved Institutt for sosialfag, Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet (Universitetet i Stavanger).
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RDV: The rules of the game: regulations, practices and women's participation in Brazilian politics (Catarina Barbieri)
2022-02-24 14:15 - 15:30
Catarina Barbieri is a Researcher in Gender and Law and holds a PhD (2012) from the University of São Paulo Law School (Brazil). She was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University in 2010-2011 and visiting Doctoral Student at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, in 2011. Barbieri is the editor-in-chief of the online academic journal of São Paulo Law School, Direito GV Law Review. Her research interests include philosophy of law, political philosophy, jurisprudence, private law, feminism, and gender studies. https://direitosp.fgv.br/en/pesquisador/catarina-helena-cortada-barbieri
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Barnevernfrokost: Barneverntjenestens egne betraktninger rundt gjenforeningsmålsettingen (Kjersti Sandanger og Berit Jacobsen)
2022-03-11 09:00 - 09:45
Barneverntjenestens egne betraktninger rundt gjenforeningsmålsettingen
Etter flere dommer i Den europeiske menneskerettighetsdomstolen de siste årene står barneverntjenesten i Norge overfor flere dilemmaer knyttet til gjenforeningsformålet etter omsorgsovertakelser. Blant annet innebærer dette utfordrende vurderinger knyttet til biologisk families rett til samvær og avveininger mot hensynet til barnets beste. Hvordan reflekterer barneverntjenesten selv over disse dilemmaene og hva påvirker beslutningene som tas? I dette foredraget vil Kjersti Sandanger belyse flere komplekse problemstillinger tjenesten står overfor knyttet til gjenforeningsmålsettingen og reiser to grunnleggende, reflekterende spørsmål: gjør vi det vi kan, og for hvem?
Kjersti Sandanger er barnevernleder i Sola kommune og styremedlem i NOBO – Norsk barnevernlederorganisasjon.
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RDV: Souverainism, Populism, and the Transformation of the European Court of Human Rights (Mikael Rask Madsen)
2022-03-24 14:15 - 15:30
Mikael Rask Madsen is the Head of the Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts, University of Copenhagen) and Professor at the Faculty of Law. He holds a PhD in Sociology of Law from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and has significant teaching experience from having studied and researched at a number of other leading universities, including Oxford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Strasbourg. Madsen’s research is focused on globalization and the role of legal institutions and professionals in these processes, including: 1) International courts and their evolutions and challenges, 2) The role of legal elites in the globalization, 3) The development of the legal profession, and 4) Legal knowledge and power. He was awarded the Carlsberg Research Prize in 2019, from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and the Elite Researcher Prize in 2017, from the Danish Council for Independent Research. https://jura.ku.dk/english/staff/research/?pure=en%2Fpersons%2Fmikael-rask-madsen(5a3e0ceb-fe1a-4030-be3b-1dad882d55f8).html
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Barnevernfrokost: "Det handler om oss!" - Barn om samvær i barnevernet (Forandringsfabrikken)
2022-04-01 09:00 - 09:45
Hva tenker barn selv om samvær med sin biologiske familie? Hvor mye får barn være med å bestemme i saker som omhandler dem? I dette foredraget får vi høre erfaringer og råd fra barn, presentert av proffer i Forandringsfabrikken. Hvor mye og hvordan samvær skal gjennomføres er viktige avgjørelser for barn. Hva sier kunnskapen fra barn og barns rettigheter om hvordan avgjørelsene kan bli riktigst mulig for barna? Forandringsfabrikken gjennomførte i 2020 en undersøkelse med 100 barn i alderen 7-18 år rundt i landet, om deres erfaringer og råd og de gir i dette foredraget en gjennomgang av undersøkelsens viktigste funn.
Forandringsfabrikken er et kunnskapssenter som henter inn kunnskap fra barn og unge og undersøker hvordan barn opplever møtene med skole, psykisk helsehjelp, barnevern, rettssystemet og andre hjelpesystemer.
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RDV: Between meritocracy and politicization? A study of the professional expertise of agency heads with and without a party-political background, 1980-2020 (Jostein Askim)
2022-04-07 09:15 - 10:30
Jostein Askim holds the position as Professor at the Department of Political Science (University of Oslo), where he also finished his PhD degree in 2007. His academic interests include performance management, administrative reforms, local government, and political leadership and political-administrative relations. In addition, Askim is part of the research group ‘Policy, Bureaucracy, and Organization’, which studies the impact of bureaucrats, government organizations, and political-administrative relationships on the formulation and implementation of public policies. https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/people/aca/josteira/index.html
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Barnevernfrokost: Frivillig tvang? (Tarja Pösö)
2022-05-06 09:00 - 09:45
Frivillige tjenester basert på samtykke fra foreldre og barn utgjør kjernen av den nordiske barnevernsmodellen. Likevel rettes det ofte kraftig kritikk mot graden av frivillighet: er de nordiske barnevernssystemene i grunn preget av en form for skjult tvang? Basert på en studie med intervjuer av sosialarbeidere, barn og foreldre, samt analyse av relevante sakspapirer og lovverk gir Professor Tarja Pösö i dette foredraget et innblikk i graden av frivillighet innenfor det finske barnevernet. Foredraget og diskusjonen er på engelsk.
Tarja Pösö er professor ved Universitetet i Tampere (Finland) og tilknyttet Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism.
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RDV: Landscapes of adoption in India (Sheila Ramaswamy)
2022-05-12 14:15 - 15:30
Sheila Ramaswamy has a background in Medical and Psychiatric Social Work and Public Health and is Technical and Operational Lead at SAMVAD (Support, advocacy & mental health interventions for children in vulnerable circumstances and distress) in India. Her technical areas of work over the years, include maternal and child health, nutrition and food security, water and sanitation, and child and adolescent mental and psychosocial healthcare. In recent years, through her work at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, she has been engaged in child protection and mental health work, ranging from designing and initiating community child mental health interventions to policy and advocacy initiatives pertaining to child sexual abuse and juvenile justice laws. She is experienced in providing interventions on issues such as adoption, childhood trauma, and children in conflict with law and is currently doing a PhD on these themes at Vrije University of Amsterdam. https://nimhanschildprotect.in/meet-the-team/
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RDV: High workloads and street level bureaucracy [tentative title] (Staffan Höjer)
2022-06-09 14:15 - 15:30
Staffan Höjer is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Social Work (University of Gothenburg, Sweden). Höjer’s PhD from year 2000 was titled “Knowledge, academication and professionalisation in social work”. Since then, he has continued with research evolving around topics related to knowledge, organisation, and profession. One of the projects Höjer has been affiliated with, Improving Decisions through Empowerment and Advocacy (IDEA), is a five-country training project for child protection professionals on children’s rights funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers. Staffan Höjer has teaching experience at all university levels and has been a guest researcher at Berkley (UCLA), University of Texas (Arlington), New York University, and the University of York (Social Policy Research Unit). https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/staffanhojer
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RDV: Shifts and legal changes in the Swedish child protection system – reflections on what is needed and the political dimension in law reform (Pernilla Leviner)
2022-08-18 14:15 - 15:30
Pernilla Leviner is Professor in Public Law, focusing on welfare and child law, at Stockholm University. She is director and board member of the interdisciplinary Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child, and editor of Nordic Journal of Social Welfare Law (Nordisk socialrättslig tidskrift). As a researcher, Leviner is interested in different aspects of the relation between the state, family, and individual, often focusing on the responsibility and role of public authorities. As can be seen from her publications, she has researched topics such as child protection issues, children’s rights within the health care sector, the right to a fair trial from a child’s perspective, the role and function of courts in child protection cases, non-discrimination and equal treatment of children in social welfare, and children’s right to participation through legal representatives. https://www.su.se/english/profiles/plevi-1.184442
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RDV: No Separate Peace: On Intersectional Coalition Solidarity and Rights Radicalism (Michael McCann)
2022-09-01 14:15 - 15:30
Michael McCann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. Professor McCann’s research focuses on the politics of rights and rights-based struggles for social justice, with an emphasis on challenges to race, gender, and class hierarchies. He also was an important figure in the interpretive turn toward scholarly analysis of legal discourse as a constitutive form of power. He is author of over sixty article-length publications and author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of eight books, including the award-winning books Rights at work: Pay equity reform and the politics of legal mobilization (1994) and Distorting the law: Politics, media, and the litigation crisis (2004). https://lsj.washington.edu/people/michael-mccann
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RDV: Toxicity in the public sphere - the implications for the law reform process and academia (Elaine Sutherland)
2022-09-15 14:15 - 15:30
Elaine Sutherland is Professor Emerita of Law at the University of Stirling (Scotland) and part of the LEGITIMACY CHALLENGES project at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, where she holds a position as Professor II. Sutherland is an internationally renowned expert on child and family law, as she is the author of well over 100 articles and book chapters and 6 books, and the editor or co-editor of 9 other volumes. https://discretion.uib.no/people/staff/elaine-sutherland-2/
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RDV: Judicial Politics in the European Court of Human Rights (Øyvind Stiansen)
2022-09-29 14:15 - 15:30
Øyvind Stiansen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. His research interests include judicial politics, the appointment of judges, judicial impact, compliance with judicial decisions, and applied quantitative methods. He is also interested in the European Court of Human Rights and international courts and tribunals, and has researched judges’ career incentives and ideology, and how judge behavior is affected by changes in the political context. Among other research projects, Stiansen is affiliated with the ENROL project at UiO, studying democratic backsliding and diminishing respect for the rule of law in EU member states such as Poland, and the ELITE project on elite political dynamics in electoral autocracies at PRIO, where Stiansen is Senior Researcher. https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/people/aca/oyvinsti/index.html
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Barnevernfrokost: Rettssikkerhet for barn i barnevernet - Marit Skivenes
2022-09-30 09:00 - 09:45
Regjeringen har nedsatt Barnevernsutvalget som skal vurdere tiltak for å styrke rettssikkerheten i alle ledd av barnevernets arbeid, fra undersøkelsesfasen til ettervernsfasen. Marit Skivenes er leder for utvalget og vil i dette foredraget presentere sentrale utfordringer i norsk barnevern som utvalget arbeider med.
Skivenes er professor i statsvitenskap ved Universitetet i Bergen og senterleder ved Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism. Hun er anerkjent som ledende innen internasjonal barnevernsforskning.
Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

RDV: Rethinking domestic abuse in child protection (Brid Featherstone)
2022-10-13 14:15 - 15:30
Brid Featherstone is Professor of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield (England) and Associate Director of the Just Futures Centre, a centre of excellence for research that seeks to address contemporary social problems affecting children, young people, families, and communities. She worked in the field of social work from 1982-1992 and has since been involved in social work education and research at several universities. Professor Featherstone is internationally recognized in the areas of gender, fathers, and child protection and an awarded researcher. The book Re-imagining child protection: Towards humane social work with families (2014), of which she is a co-author, has been highly influential and led to invitations to speak and advise on reforming child protection nationally and internationally, and the article “A marriage made in hell: Early intervention meets child protection”, also of which she is co-author, won the Kay McDougall prize for article of the year in 2015. https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/brid-featherstone
How to participate:
To receive an invitation to the webinar, please contact discretion@uib.no.
If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.

The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB), LawTransform (UiB) and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Barnevernfrokost: Gjenforening etter EMD-dommene - Kirsten Sandberg
2022-10-14 09:00 - 09:45
På fredagens barnevernfrokost kommer professor Kirsten Sandberg og gir et foredrag om gjenforening etter EMD-dommene. I flere artikler har professor Sandberg analysert rettstilstanden og diskutert implikasjonene av EMD avgjørelsene for norsk barnevern. I foredraget får vi presentert noen av hovedresultatene fra disse arbeidene.
Kirsten Sandberg er en internasjonalt ledende og anerkjent barnerettighetsjurist, som har blant annet vært leder for FNs komité for barns rettigheter i 2013-2015.
Kirsten Sandberg er professor ved Universitetet i Oslo og instituttleder ved Institutt for offentlig rett.
Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

Peder Sather 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
2022-10-26 18:00 - 21:00
On October 26, 2022 from 9am-12pm (PDT) | 18:00-21:00 (CEST), the Peder Sather Center (PSC) will celebrate its 10 Year Anniversary. We would like to cordially invite you to join us for this momentous occasion.
The celebrations will consist of a series of presentations from researchers at the Center, followed by a joint lunch and dinner for our guests in Berkeley.
This event will take place in-person at the Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall on UC Berkeley Campus. You are also welcome to attend virtually over Zoom (Sign-up Deadline: 06.10.2022).

*Cancelled/Postponed* RDV: Protecting children from what? An overview of child protection in legal history (Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde)
2022-10-27 14:15 - 15:30
Cancelled / postponed – We are looking into the possibility of arranging Jørn’s seminar at a later date and will return with more information, so stay tuned.
Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde is Professor in legal history at the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo. He has authored and edited numerous books, including one on the history of the Norwegian Supreme Court, as well as several articles and book chapters, such as a chapter on the history of Nordic legal culture and court culture in the 2021 Springer book, Rethinking Nordic Courts. Professor Sunde has been dedicated to dissemination. He has held over 600 speeches outside academia, participated in the making of historical exhibitions, radio and TV programs, and written a series of newspaper articles. Sunde is three times awarded lecturer of the year at the Faculty of Law in Bergen, where he was previously a professor. https://www.jus.uio.no/ior/english/people/aca/jornosu/index.html
How to participate:
To receive an invitation to the webinar, please contact discretion@uib.no.
If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.

The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB), LawTransform (UiB) and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

RDV: Political Trust in Changing Welfare States: Bringing Performance Back In (Staffan Kumlin)
2022-11-10 14:15 - 15:30
Staffan Kumlin holds a position as Professor at the Department of Political Science (University of Oslo). Kumlin’s research concerns comparative political behaviour, public opinion, and democracy in European welfare states. He is the author of the book titled The Personal and the Political: How Personal Welfare State Experiences Affect Political Trust and Ideology (2004) and co-editor of How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Attitudes (2014). He has also published in prestigious scientific journals, authored chapters in numerous edited books, as well as co-designed the «welfare state module» in the 2016 European Social Survey. https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/people/aca/persku/index.html
How to participate:
To receive an invitation to the webinar, please contact discretion@uib.no.
If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.

The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB), LawTransform (UiB) and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

RDV: Accommodating multiculturalism and the phantom right of exit: Lessons from Hasidic education and custody battles
2022-11-24 14:15 - 15:30
Zalman Rothschild is a Nonresident Fellow at Stanford Law School, an Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, and a Litigation Associate at a law firm in NYC, being a Doctor of both Law and Religion. He has a keen interest in children and the law and has taught a course by the same title. As for recent publications, Rothschild has published essays in Columbia Law Review on children in multicultural communities’ right to secular education (2019) and in Texas Law Review on religious adoption agencies (2021). https://law.stanford.edu/directory/zalman-rothschild/
To receive an invitation to the webinar, please contact discretion@uib.no.
If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.

The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB), LawTransform (UiB) and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Barnevernfrokost: "Må hjelpe for oss" (Forandringsfabrikken)
2022-12-16 09:00 - 09:45 | Online, Norway
I en av de aller første undersøkelsene til dags dato om barns erfaring med familieveiledning som hjelpetiltak, viser rapporten «Må hjelpe for oss» at barn ofte ikke er involvert. Mange barn har ikke fått informasjon om at familien får veiledning, om hvem som gir veiledning, hva som gjøres i veiledningen og hvorfor de voksne får veiledning. I rapporten gis det oppsummerte råd fra barna til hvordan voksne kan gi informasjon, være voksne barn er trygge på og hvordan hjelpe kan bli nyttig. Barna som deltok i undersøkelsen ble invitert fra kommunalt barnevern, statlig barnevern (MST, FFT), barneverninstitusjoner, BUP, kommunale psykiske helsetjenester, familievernkontor, politi, Blå Kors og Alternativ til vold.
Fabrikkarbeider Anika Kurshed, sammen med to barnevernproffer, presenterer hovedfunn fra rapporten.
I presentasjonen tar proffene opp hovedfunn fra rapporten og gi råd om hvordan familieveiledning kan gis på måter som oppleves trygge og nyttige for de barna og ungdommene det gjelder:

Hvordan kan barn og unge bli samarbeidet med, for at det skal kjennes trygt?
Hvordan kan de få informasjon og uttale seg fritt, for at beslutningene tas til deres beste og at deres menneskerettigheter dermed skal sikres, vil også være tema.

Zoom-lenke:
https://uib.zoom.us/j/64058736413?pwd=[REDACTED]

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