What characterizes good welfare?

Societal changes requires adapting welfare services and updated knowledge. The researchers at UiS are exploring several issues related to Nav, mental health, prison care and child welfare, among other things.

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Facts
Name of program area

Velferdstenesteforsking

Duration

2015-2021

Participants

23

Projects

7

As society changes, politicians need up-to-date knowledge of welfare services to be able to develop and adapt their politics.

Siv OItedal , professor at the Department of Social Studies

About

Welfare policy should ensure the population good living conditions, health and quality of life. When society changes, politicians need new and updated knowledge about welfare services so that they can shape a welfare policy adapted to a new era. For example, they need to know something about users in general and about vulnerable groups in particular. This is knowledge our researchers can help them with.

How will societal changes affect our welfare model? What kind of welfare system is best suited in the face of an increasingly pluralistic society? How do social workers within different welfare systems work with users and families with complex needs? These are some of the questions the researchers at UiS will explore, together with practitioners and external researchers, when they study social work and social politics in a local and international perspective.

The main page for this program area and the associated projects is in Norwegian, and you can visit that page by changing the language in the upper right of the page.

The research group

Professor
51831511
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Associate Professor
51833618
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Professor
51834137
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Professor
51834149
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Professor
51833064
UiS School of Business and Law
Department of Innovation, Management and Marketing
Associate Professor
51832799
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Associate Professor
51832152
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Associate Professor
51831521
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Professor
51831691
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Associate Professor
51833024
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Head of Department
51833752
UiS School of Business and Law
Department of Economics and Finance
Associate Professor
51833684
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Førsteamanuensis
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Associate Professor
51831192
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Associate Professor
51834259
Kjell Arholmshus. 2. etg
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Assistant Professor
51831381
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Assistant Professor
51831050
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Associate Professor
51831360
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Associate Professor
51832840
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Assistant Professor
51832801
Læringsmiljøsenteret, Stavanger
Faculty of Arts and Education
Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioral Research in Education
Ekstern sensor
51832586
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies
Adviser
51832751
University of Stavanger
Faculty of Science and Technology
Faculty Administration TN
Project Support and PhD Administration TN
Ekstern tilknyttet UiS
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Social Studies

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