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Caste Exclusion and Health Discrimination in South Asia: A Systematic Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)The caste system is social stratification system that has been used over the last 3 millennia. This review aims to investigate caste-based inequity in health care utilization in South Asia, particularly focusing those at ... -
Challenges in making school social work a reality in Brazilian schools
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)At the end of 2019, the presence of social workers became mandatory in Brazilian state-funded elementary schools. This brief note explores the challenges schools may have in translating the new legislation from paper to ... -
The child, the parents, the family and the state - Chile and Norway compared
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)There is a lack of research comparing Latin American and European countries alongside how family policy relates to social work practices. This study fills in the research gap, and compares Chilean and Norwegian social ... -
Children and childhood in Chile: Social worker perspectives
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This study explores understandings of children and childhood among 21 social workers from five child protection services in Chile. To help grasp multiple ideas about children and childhood, we use Q methodology and the ... -
Children's experiences with Child Protection Services: A qualitative synthesis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)Background Research shows that young adults, previously in contact with Child Protection Services (CPS) often have lower overall wellbeing when compared to their peers in the general population. To redress this balance ... -
Children’s early reading through the sense of smell: a typology of olfactory engagement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)We investigated adult–child shared book reading of olfactory books that stimulate the sense of smell through scratch-and-sniff surfaces. We observed ten adult–child dyads reading olfactory books at home and documented the ... -
A COLAB model of workplace transformation in the criminal justice context
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter presents the COLAB model for promoting organisational learning and innovation with potential application in criminal justice-related organisations. We describe this model as a toolkit that built on the Change ... -
The complexities in social work practice
(Journal article, 2021)An understanding of the social work profession starts with an intense appreciation of the person that the social worker serves, the context where this is done and the processes involved in offering services, as well as who ... -
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Nigeria
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)This article chronicles the present situation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Nigeria. A systematic search was conducted on three bibliographic ... -
The COVID-19 pandemic impact on wellbeing and mental health in people with psychotic and bipolar disorders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic affects people globally, but it may affect people with psychotic and bipolar disorders disproportionally. Our aims were to investigate the pandemic impact on perceived wellbeing and ... -
Creating spaces for emancipatory praxis with social work students in a diverse classroom context
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)Against neoliberal and new managerial pushes in higher education, educators have a responsibility to engage students in transformational learning and prepare them for the complex world of work. This article describes the ... -
Critical Perspectives on Social Work and Social Policy Practice with Vulnerable Migrants in an Era of Emergencies
(Social Policy Review;, Chapter, 2022-06-27)The acceleration of global warming and climate change (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2021), alongside democratic decay and the escalation of authoritarianism worldwide (Daly, 2020), the Covid-19 global ... -
Current human ecology in the Amazon and beyond: A multi-scale ecosemiotic approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Umwelt theory is an expression of von Uexküll’s subjective biology and as such usually applied in analysis of individual animals, yet it is fundamentally relational and therefore also suitable for analysis of more complex ... -
«Da går jeg hjem og googler det i stedet». Improvisasjon og medskaping i møter mellom elever og rådgivere
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Basert på fokusgruppeintervjuer undersøker denne studien hvordan elever opplever møter med rådgivere i ungdomsskoler og videregående skoler. Individualisering danner en sentral kontekst for elevers valgprosesser. Improvisasjon, ... -
Deliberative and material organizational becoming : Sociotechnical leadership of digital transformation
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter directs attention to dilemmas and paradoxes embedded in information and communication technology (ICT) changes and transformations. Through the case of a merger between industrial groups, we examine and compare ... -
Dementia as Zeitgeist: Social problem construction and the role of a contemporary distraction
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06)The global impact of dementia on social, political, economic, and health systems is of contemporary concern. As the world’s population ages, differentially, across countries in the Global North and Global South, dementia ... -
Demographical, personality, alcohol use, and mental health characteristics associated with different alcoholic beverage preferences among students
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The study investigates correlates (i.e. demographics, personality, alcohol use and alcohol-related harm, alcohol expectancies, and mental health) of different alcoholic beverage preferences (i.e. beer/alcopops/cider, wine, ... -
Demographics, personality and substance-use characteristics associated with forming romantic relationships
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07)The current study aimed to identify demographic, personality and substance-use characteristics associated with forming romantic relationships. Data were collected by two online surveys among students in Bergen, Norway, ... -
Development and validation of the AI attitude scale (AIAS-4): a brief measure of general attitude toward artificial intelligence
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07)The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has generated an increasing demand for tools that can assess public attitudes toward AI. This study proposes the development and the validation of the AI Attitude Scale ... -
Differences in dogs’ event-related potentials in response to human and dog vocal stimuli; a non-invasive study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-04)Recent advances in the field of canine neuro-cognition allow for the non-invasive research of brain mechanisms in family dogs. Considering the striking similarities between dog's and human (infant)'s socio-cognition at the ...