Skip to content
Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA)
Search
  • Home
    • News
  • About
    • About the Centre
    • Gallery
    • Research impact
    • Contact us
    • Om senteret (Norsk)
    • Connect
      • Guest researcher
      • Vacancies
      • Volunteer
      • Student
  • Projects
    • Protect
    • Child Protection Systems Across the World
    • Children’s Right to Participation
    • Legitimacy Challenges
    • Child Rights Unit
    • Previous projects
  • Publications
    • Publication list
    • Translated summaries
    • Short reads
    • Blogposts
    • Videos
    • DIPA Podcasts by AI
    • Newsletters
  • Transparency
    • Ethics
    • Appendices
    • Document Analysis
    • Survey Data
    • Interviews
    • Pre-Analysis Plans
    • Resources
      • Newborn Care Order Judgments
      • A Brief Overview of 10 Child Protection Systems
      • Requirements for Judgments in 8 Jurisdictions/Countries
      • Adoption from Care Proceedings
      • Legal Frame for Care Order Processes of Newborn Babies
      • External resources
  • People
    • Principal investigator
    • Staff
    • Collaborators
  • Events
    • Barnevernfrokost
    • RDV-webinar series
Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA)
Close menu
  • Home
    • News
  • About
    • About the Centre
    • Gallery
    • Research impact
    • Contact us
    • Om senteret (Norsk)
    • Connect
      • Guest researcher
      • Vacancies
      • Volunteer
      • Student
  • Projects
    • Protect
    • Child Protection Systems Across the World
    • Children’s Right to Participation
    • Legitimacy Challenges
    • Child Rights Unit
    • Previous projects
  • Publications
    • Publication list
    • Translated summaries
    • Short reads
    • Blogposts
    • Videos
    • DIPA Podcasts by AI
    • Newsletters
  • Transparency
    • Ethics
    • Appendices
    • Document Analysis
    • Survey Data
    • Interviews
    • Pre-Analysis Plans
    • Resources
      • Newborn Care Order Judgments
      • A Brief Overview of 10 Child Protection Systems
      • Requirements for Judgments in 8 Jurisdictions/Countries
      • Adoption from Care Proceedings
      • Legal Frame for Care Order Processes of Newborn Babies
      • External resources
  • People
    • Principal investigator
    • Staff
    • Collaborators
  • Events
    • Barnevernfrokost
    • RDV-webinar series
Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA)
Search Toggle menu

Tag: child's best interests

26 May 2026News

Marit Skivenes presented at book launch of Child-Centered Music Therapy

Professor Marit Skivenes delivered the presentation “Remarks on Child Rights in Constitutions, Law and […]

05 May 202620 May 2026News

Keynote at VIA University College in Aarhus, Denmark

On April 29, 2026, DIPA director Marit Skivenes gave a keynote titled Child Protection Systems and Legitimate Interventions […]

30 April 202604 May 2026Blogposts, News

A matter of autonomy? Norway’s proposed social media ban for youth

BLOG: The autonomy argument is invoked on both sides of the ban on social […]

23 February 2026Blogposts

What’s in an Age? Children’s Rights, Age Assessment and Immigration Control in the UK

BLOG: Chronological age cannot be accurately determined by any existing method, either individually or […]

30 January 202630 January 2026Literature update, News

PROTECTing Children’s Rights Within Crime Prevention, the Nordic Countries at a Crossroad?

NEW ARTICLE written by Post Doctoral Researcher, Lucie Margot Ducarre, Marit Skivenes, and Linda […]

12 January 2026Blogposts

When religion and a child’s stability in foster care clash: people choose stability

BLOG: Against a backdrop of legal battles over religion and children across the globe, […]

16 September 2025Literature update, News, Publications

What about their future? An analysis of child protection systems’ focus on the future of new-born children in care order decisions

NEW ARTICLE: The researchers Jenny Krutzinna, Katre Luhamaa, Tarja Pösö and Marit Skivenes have just published […]

13 December 202426 February 2025Events, News, Ukategorisert, Videos

Breakfast-seminar: Impact of Social Inequality on Children and Families’ Interaction with Child Welfare Services in Norway 

Our “Breakfast Seminar for practitioners” (Barnevernfrokost) is a video seminar which aims to communicate […]

Title page of the PowerPoint presentation for the RDV seminar on 06.12.2024.
06 December 202417 February 2025Events, News, Videos

RDV-seminar: Desegregation of education – Czech Republic 

Video: In the seminar Desegregation of Education in the Czech Republic: The Role of […]

Posts pagination

1 2 … 5 >

About Us

An interdisciplinary Research Centre studying government’s use of power toward its citizens and the justifications of state interventions.

 

AFZ

DIPA is an apartheid-free zone (AFZ) that actively rejects apartheid, occupation, and oppression.”

 

Postal address

University of Bergen
Department of Government
DIPA, P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen, Norway

VISITOR ADRESS:
Christiesgate 17
Google Maps

Contact us

Marit Skivenes
Phone:
+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87
E-mail:
Marit.Skivenes@uib.no
discretion@uib.no