The Norwegian Centre for Child Research (NOSEB) is a national, interdisciplinary centre that started their activities in 1982. NOSEB does basic and applied long-term research on children and childhood. The centre offers an international, interdisciplinary master programme through MPhil in Childhood Studies and a PhD programme in interdisciplinary childhood research.
The Norwegian Centre for Child Research (NOSEB) is a national, interdisciplinary centre that started their activities in 1982. NOSEB does basic and applied long-term research on children and childhood. The centre offers an international, interdisciplinary master programme through MPhil in Childhood Studies and a PhD programme in interdisciplinary childhood research.
Through teaching and research NOSEB give insights to the activities and the conditions of children’s adolescence by initiating and carry out interdisciplinary research projects. NOSEB attach great importance to international collaboration. The centre’s numerous research conferences is a vital part of this. Childhood, the leading journal within the field of childhood research, published in collaboration with Sage Publications Ltd., is another example. NOSEB’s international profile is also attended to through the centre’s participation in several research networks and through the fact that it is a key institution in Childwatch International. Furthermore, the centre is a working place for a whole range of internationally acclaimed child researchers. NOSEB’s master and PhD education also has a distinct international profile.
On a national level NOSEB emphasise the development of the field of child research through participation in networks within similar scientific fields, like geography, social anthropology, sociology, history and pedagogy. The centre’s journal Barn is an important national and Nordic channel of mediation for this interdisciplinary child research.
NOSEB is organized as part of the Faculty for Social Science and Technology Management and NTNU Social Research Ltd.
NOSEB has 25 staff members: two professors, five adjunct professors, two associate professors, two researchers, eleven doctoral students and three senior executive officers.
