Anne Kielland
Anne Kielland
Researcher

    Academic background:

    Master of Political Science, University of Oslo
    PhD in Sociology, University of Oslo


Area of work:

Education and out-of-school children; child protection; child vulnerability; children living with a disability; child labour; child mobility; child migration; child trafficking; the role of children in household risk management strategies.


Research areas:

Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa | Global education and out-of-school children | Care services


Anne Kielland is primarily involved in child and youth research, and is affiliated with the Global Studies Group at Fafo. She collaborates with the Welfare Group on projects for vulnerable populations in Norway.  Kielland started to work for Fafo in 2006, after 10 years at the World Bank, where she had mainly worked with programs for vulnerable children in Africa, but also in South and Central America. Lately she has increasingly worked with the inclusion of vulnerable groups in education in West Africa and Haiti. She has developed and secured funding for 4 large-scale programs financed by the Research Council of Norwegian in the West African region, and later led the work on those programs.

Kielland also conducts research with vulnerable groups in Norway, in particular related to living conditions and encounters with welfare, health and education services.

She currently works on two such programs; the first financed by the Research Council of Norwegian on people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), and the second with children and youth with neurobiological diagnoses and their families, financed by Extra-Dam. Kielland mainly works quantitatively, but also leads qualitative work under some of her projects.

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Jing Liu, Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Hedda Flatø and Anne Kielland
Children with disabilities during Covid-19. Tabulation report
Survey Data from rural Niger in 2019 and 2022
Fafopaper 2022:11
Anne Kielland, Anne Hatløy, Tone Sommerfelt, Tewodros Aragie Kebede and Kathleen M. Jennings
Hidden in the numbers: Barriers to girls’ education in West Africa
A scoping study concerning knowledge about trends and sub-variations
Fafo-report 2017:39
Anne Kielland
Økonomiske og sosiale utviklingstrekk i norske satsingsland for utdanning
Betydning for norsk utdanningsbistand i Malawi, Niger, Etiopia, Sør-Sudan og Nepal
Fafo-rapport 2016:14
Anne Kielland
Fafo-report 2016:12
Fafo-report 2010:44
Anne Kielland and Furio Rosati
Broadening the approach to Education for All
Including working and other hard-to-reach children. Issues from the workshop Child labor and the EFA initiative: The challenge of including the “hard-to-reach” children. Oslo 20–21 October 2008
Fafo-report 2008:48

Anne Kielland, Jing Liu, and Leonard A Jason

Do diagnostic criteria for ME matter to patient experience with services and interventions?
Key results from an online RDS survey targeting fatigue patients in Norway
Journal of Health Psychology 2023 | Open Access

Marie-Lisbet Amundsen, Anne Kielland & Geir Møller

School refusal and school-related differences among students with and without diagnosis
Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk 2022 | Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk

Lena Morgon Banks, Jing Liu, Anne Kielland, Ali Bako Tahirou, Abdoul Karim Seydou Harouna, Islay Mactaggart, Ragnhild Dybdahl, Dan Firoun Mounkaila, Arne Grønningsæter

Childhood Disability in Rural Niger
A Population-based Assessment Using the Key Informant Method. BMJ Pediatrics
BMJ Pediatrics 2021 | Open access

Anne Kielland & Tewodros Aragie Kebede

Drought Vulnerability and Child Mobility in Rural Senegal
Forum for Development Studies 2020

Anne Kielland

Child mobility as household risk management
Forum for Development Studies 2009 | Link

Anne Kielland

Barnearbeidsmigrasjoner i ulike landskap
En sammenstilling av barns arbeidsvandringer i Vest-Agder (1830-1910) og Vest Afrika (1980-2009)
2009 | Link

Guy Blaise Nkamleu and Anne Kielland

Modeling farmers' decisions on child labor and schooling in the cocoa - sector
A multinomial logit analysis in Cote d'Ivoire
Journal of Agricultural Economics 2006 | Link

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