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Three new projects at Fafo about child protection
23.02.2005
Fafo and NOVA have signed two contracts with the Norwegian Ministry
of Children and Family Affairs; one project is about working hours
in institutions for child protection; another is a survey among
residents in these institutions. Further; Fafo will evaluate the
financial system of the child protection services and institutions
in Oslo kommune (City of Oslo), and we are also working on a project
where we compare the developments of child protection services in
Oslo and Bergen. Read more here (in Norwegian). |
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Do you need help?
23.02.2005
In this new report Fami (a research collaboration between Fafo and
NOVA) evaluates a project about evictions, carried out for The Directorate
for Health and Social Affairs in Norway.Read more here (in Norwegian) |
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 Flexibility
has a price
21.02.2005
Researcher Dag Olberg presented his new Fafo paper at a LO (Norwegian
Confederation of Trade Unions) press conference last Friday (Feb
18).Read more about the paper here
(in Norwegian).See also press publicity: Fafo
in the Press.
(Photo: Åsmund Lang, Magasinet Aktuell) |
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 Living
Conditions in Liberia
18.02.2005
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has offered Fafo a grant
of NOK 500,000 to start design on a Liberia Living Conditions Survey.
Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy (pictured)
are the main Fafo researchers in the project. |
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Service Delivery in the Middle East
18.02.2005
The World Bank has asked Fafo to design, monitor and analyse eight
country studies of service delivery in the Middle East. The actual
studies will be carried out by local consultants and mainly use
focus groups as the methodological approach. Deputy Managing Director
Mark Taylor at Fafo will be in charge of the study, and he will
present results in April-May. |
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Fafo Østforum (Forum on EU Enlargement) Seminar Thursday
3 March
17.02.2005
Fafo Østforum invites you to an open seminar on Thursday,
3 March (14.00-16.00) at Fafo's conference center, Borggata 2 B,
Oslo.For program and
registration, click here. The seminar and all materials are
in Norwegian language. |
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 Kristine
Nergaard is published on PIE - Peter Lang
18.02.2005
Kristine has written the chapter "Norway: Adapting Slowly",
in the book Restructuring Representation. The Merger Process
and Trade Union Structural Development in Ten Countries, edited
by Jeremy Waddington. The chapter provides an overview of trade
union mergers in Norway in the period 1945 to 2000.Place
your order at Peter Lang |
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Working hours in childcare institutions
07.02.2005
What effect do working hours in childcare institutions have on the
quality of childcare and employees' health and welfare? This important
question will be examined in a project by Fafo and NOVA for the
Norwegian Ministry of Children and Family Affairs. The researchers
will analyse the functioning of several types of childcare institutions
and carry out a survey of managers. Dag Olberg (Fafo) and Karen-Sofie
Pettersen (NOVA) are the main researchers in the project. Read more here (in Norwegian). |
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 Fafo
researcher Thomas Lorentzen in the "Journal of European Social
Policy"
31.01.2005
In Active labour market programmes in Norway: are they helpful for
social assistance recipients?, Lorentzen and co-author Espen Dahl
examine nine "active labour market programmes (ALMPs)"
to determine whether and to what extent they are helpful in moving
the most disadvantaged in Norwegian society from social assistance
to self-sufficiency. Lorentzen and Dahl find that most ALMPs yield
a positive and, in most cases, significant effect on subsequent
employment and earnings in the short and long run.Find more here
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 Fafo
and Work Research Institute (AFI) with four-year project about working
life, technology, and barriers for people with disabilities
28.01.2005
Fafo and AFI have jointly received NOK 7 million from the Norwegian
Research Council for a project on working life, technology, and
barriers for people with disabilities.The four-year project will
examine the interaction between extensive developments in the area
of ICT and public initiatives under various market-related conditions.
The project will provide the basis for Fafo researcher Hilde Haualand's
doctoral thesis in Social Anthropology. Read more here (in Norwegian).
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 KRIG
- På scenekanten (WAR - On stage edge), The National Theatre
3 March
27.01.2005
This is a special collaboration between Fafo and the Norwegian National
Theatre with focus on war. The evening will begin with a staging
of the play "Krig" ("War") by Swedish playwright
Lars Norén, followed by "På scenekanten"
("On stage edge"), a seminar and discussion led by Fafo
researchers. For ticket information, go to
Nationaltheatret |
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 Norwegian
Research Council grants Fafo NOK 3 million for research on the EU's
eastward expansion
26.01.2005
Labour- and company migration in light of EU's eastward
expansion' is the name of a new institution-based strategic research
program at Fafo. The program receives NOK 3 million from the Norwegian
Research Council over a three-years period. "This gives us
the possibility to go deeper into the consequences of EU expansion
for the Norwegian labour force and will be a good supplement to
the work we are doing with Fafo's
Forum on the EU enlargement," said project leader Jon Erik
Dølvik.
Read more here (in Norwegian).
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 New
Dr. med. Trude Margrete Arnesen
25.01.2005
Counting health? A critical analysis of Cost Utility Analysis as
a tool for setting priorities in health, d Det medisinske fakultet,
Universitetet i Oslo. Read more here (in Norwegian).
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