Field of work
Postdoctoral fellow on the project "Early Intervention" at the Centre for Care Research, West.
Postdoc project: "Legitimation in allocation of municipal health and care services".
I have a PhD in Political Science from the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternlism (DIPA) and the Department of Government, and a Master's degree in Sociology from the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen.
My dissertation, «The Fellowship of Acceptable State Interventions» (2023), deals with the Child Welfare Tribunal's reasoning and justification of care orders in cases of suspected violence. My research interests are focused on the application of knowledge in public decision-making, and I work with questions of legitimacy and accountability in this field, with a particular focus on municipalities, tribunals, and the courts. I focus on the state's encounter with citizens, and the role, competency, and practices of employees (street-level bureaucrats) – how employees navigate ethics, rights, and conflicting norms, when they make decisions informed by professional training and research, can change citizens' lives. Methodologically, I have developed a multi-methodological approach and competency, I work primarily qualitatively (with particular experience from document analysis and interviews), but also work quantitatively with surveys, vignettes, and survey experiments.
After I submitted my thesis, I worked as a researcher at DIPA on the project "Children's Rights to Particiaption" with a particular focus on children's participation in decision-making processes in child welfare, tribunals, and court. Participation is of particular interest in decision-making processes that involve both professional knowledge and lay knowledge, where power asymmetry and liberal democratic principles such as equality and neutrality come into play.
Publications
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Dilemmas of children’s participation and the role of practice guidelines: the views of judicial decision-makers in Norway
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Om å balansere paternalisme og barne-sentrisme: En nordisk befolkningsstudie om barns rettigheter i barnevernet
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The Fellowship of Acceptable State Interventions: Knowledge, Norms, and Justifications in Norwegian Child Protection Care Order Cases
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Experts and migrants – A survey experiment on public acceptance of violence and child protection interventions
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Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence