| 22.10.2007 |
Will the Nordic Welfare State Survive? |
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Kristin Clemet and Mogens Lykketoft will hold the opening lectures at the kick-off conference for NCoE: REASSESS. During two whole days in Oslo prominent international researchers are put to the task of scrutinizing the Nordic Welfare Model.
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| 10.10.2007 |
Historical agreement on disability policy research and development |
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NOVA - Norwegian Social Research and The Burton Blatt Institute: Center of Innovation on Disability at Syracuse University (BBI) have signed an agreement to work together to enhance international research and development activities.
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| 10.10.2007 |
Well-being, control and ageing |
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Mastery is a major predictor for subjective well-being. As mastery declines with age, one should expect also a decline in well-being. When this is not the case, it might be explained by mastery becoming less important for well-being with increasing age, and a move over to more passive coping styles. The hypothesis is, however, not supported by the present findings from the Norwegian Life-Course, Ageing and Generation Study (NorLAG).
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| 27.09.2007 |
Sexual abuse among adolescents |
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A new NOVA report publishes results from a unique study of adolescent´s sexuality in the Baltic Sea Region and Norway. The data show that 16 percent of the 18 year old boys and 4 percent of the girls had been sexually abusive towards others. Generally, girls were more often victims of sexual abuse than boys.
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| 03.09.2007 |
Kick-off conference for REASSESS |
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The first conference of NOVA´s Nordic Centre of Excellence will take place 24-25 October 2007 in Oslo. Invited speakers include Kristin Clemet, Mogens Lykketoft and Ann Shola Orloff. The Nordic welfare states will be scrutinized as researchers debate challenges facing the Nordic welfare model.
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| 24.08.2007 |
Economic Conditions and Public Attitudes to Welfare Policies |
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NOVA researcher Morten Blekesaune claims that people around the world support less governmental provision and economic redistribution when the economy is good, than in periods of economic strain. The attitudes are mostly formed by the economic situation of the society as a whole, and not necessarily the situation each person finds themselves in.
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| 13.08.2007 |
PhD course in Oslo |
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NOVA and Reassess announces a three-day PhD course 7-9 November in Oslo: Social Policy, Gender, and the Life Course. The aim of the course is to explore the interplay of social policy and the lives of men and women, with focus on aldulthood.
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| 10.08.2007 |
Nordic Centre of Excellence in Welfare with new website |
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NOVA´s Nordic Centre of Excellence in Welfare Research: Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model has launched its new website. Visit reassess.no regularly to stay updated on research news concerning the Nordic welfare model: publications, research grants, workshops and conferences.
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| 16.07.2007 |
Well-Being Among Cohabitors and Married Individuals |
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In a recent article NOVA researcher Thomas Hansen together with Torbjørn Moum (Univ. of Oslo) and Adam Shapiro (Univ. of North Florida) question whether American studies linking cohabitation as compared with marriage to lower well-being will replicate in Norway, where cohabitation is much more widespread and socially accepted.
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| 03.07.2007 |
New web pages for NorLAG |
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The Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation Study - NorLAG - has launched its new web pages. You will now have easier access to the results from this unique longitudinal study which follows 5000 persons from age 40 and up.
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| 16.04.2007 |
New Book: Exploring Gypsiness: Power, Exchange and Interdependance among Gypsies in a Transylvanian Village |
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Ada Engebrigtsen, researcher at NOVA, has written a book on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania, Romania. Through one year of fieldwork in Transylvania she has explored their social life and cosmology.
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| 13.03.2007 |
Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States |
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Bjørn Hvinden (NOVA)together with Håkan Johansson (Vaxsjö University) has edited the book Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States published at Routledge. The book analyzes how the relationship between citizens and the welfare state changes as a result of Europeanization and individualization.
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