- E-mailHege.Helland@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 84 51
- Visitor AddressChristies gate 175007 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78025020 Bergen
Researcher at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism.
Helland, H.B.S., Kriz, K., Sánchez-Cabezu, S.S. & Skivenes, M. (In press). Are there Population Biases against Migrant Children? An Experimental Analysis of Attitudes towards Corporal Punishment in Austria, Norway and Spain. Children and youth services review 2017
- (2022). Promoting participatory approaches to child maltreatment surveillance.
- (2022). Discretionary Assessments of Contact in Decisions on Adoption.
- (2022). Comparing population view´s on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics. Journal of Public Child Welfare. 1-22.
- (2021). Understanding attachment in decisions on adoption from care in Norway. 17 pages.
- (2021). UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 3 and 12: Opportunities and Challenges.
- (2021). Reasoning between rules and discretion: A comparative study of the normative platform for best interest decision-making on adoption in England and Norway. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. 1-28.
- (2021). In the Best Interest of the Child? Justifying Decisions on Adoption from Care in the Norwegian Supreme Court. The International Journal of Children's Rights. 609-639.
- (2021). Discretion and the Demand for Reasons: Justifications for the Child’s Best Interests in Decisions on Adoption from Care in England and Norway. .
- (2021). Deciding between continued foster care and adoption - When adoption is not considered to be in the best interest of the child.
- (2021). Adoption from care in Norway.
- (2021). Adopsjon som barneverntiltak.
- (2020). Tipping the scales: The power of parental commitment in decisions on adoption from care. Children and Youth Services Review.
- (2020). Gjennomgang av ti særlig konfliktfylte barnevernssaker i Bergen kommune. .
- (2020). Delrapport til strategiprosessen BarnUnge21: Forskning som støtter praksis, utdanning og innovasjon. .
- (2020). Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries. Children and Youth Services Review.
- (2020). Blogpost: "Time to recognize children’s right to post-adoption contact with siblings".
- (2020). Blogpost: "Adopsjon eller offentlig omsorg?".
- (2020). Barns medvirkning – presentasjon av en forstudie og Fjeld-utvalgets hovedfunn.
- (2020). Adoption or public care? Views on adoption as a child protection measure. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning. 124-139.
- (2020). Adopsjon som barneverntiltak - Terskler og skjønn.
- (2019). Rapport: Adopsjon som barneverntiltak. .
- (2019). Mot et Barneperspektiv i Barnevernet: En studie av implementeringen av programmet Mitt Liv Barnevern . .
- (2019). Lovfestet kjærlighet - Endringer i barnevernloven gir barn rett til kjærlighet. Det er unikt i verdenssammenheng. Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern. 282-284.
- (2019). In the Best Interest of the Child – An Analysis of Judgments on Involuntary Adoption in the Norwegian Judicial System .
- (2019). Barns rett til familieliv. Dagbladet. 62-63.
- (2019). Adopsjonspraksis. 162-192. In:
- (2019). Rapport: Adopsjon som barneverntiltak. .
- (2019). Adopsjon som barneverntiltak – hvor er vi og hvor går vi? 193-206. In:
- (2019). Rapport: Adopsjon som barneverntiltak. .
- (2019). Adopsjon som barneverntiltak - Nordland 2019.
- (2019). Adopsjon som barneverntiltak.
- (2019). Adopsjon som barneverntiltak.
- (2019). Adopsjon som barneverntiltak. Fosterhjemskontakt : tidsskrift om fosterhjemsarbeid. 2-7.
- (2019). Adopsjon som barneverntiltak.
- (2019). Adopsjon som barnevernstiltak – lansering av forskningsrapport.
- (2018). The Critique of Child Protection and Children’s Rights .
- (2018). In the Best Interest of the Child – An Analysis of Judgments on Involuntary Adoption in the Norwegian Judicial System.
- (2018). Fag og forskning 2018 - Hege Stein Helland .
- (2018). Et barnevern i krise? Om skjønn, legitimitet og beslutninger i barnevernet.
- (2018). Child’s best interest principle.
- (2017). The role and function of spokesperson in care order proceedings: A cross-country study in Finland and Norway. Children and Youth Services Review. 8-16.
- (2017). Are there population biases against migrant children? An experimental analysis of attitudes towards corporal punishment in Austria, Norway and Spain. Children and Youth Services Review. 151-157.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
- PhD-candidate at the research project "The Acceptability of Child Protection Interventions: A Cross-Country Analysis" with project "Adoption in the best interest of the child: A study of paternalism and the normative boundaries for legitimate welfare state intervention in England and Norway"
- Researcher at the research project "Adoption as a Child Welfare Measure". The project aims to examine how laws on adoption are being implemented and practiced in the front line and in the courts. The project aims to create a knowledge base that can contribute to the proper use of adoption as child welfare measure, and also shed light on best practices and identify factors that can help decision-makers to consider measures for children in long-term placements. The project is funded by The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs and runs from November 2016 to December 2018.
- Research Assistant at the research project "Legitimacy and Fallibility in Child Welfare Services: A Cross-Country Study of Decision-Making" on child welfare services in Norway, Finland, England and USA. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and runs from September 2012 to June 2017.
Master's Degree in Sociology (2015) with thesis "Den sosialt og geografisk strukturerte mobiliteten: Ei kvantitativ analyse av samanhengen mellom geografisk opphav, geografisk mobilitet og utdannings- og klassemobilitet i Vestlandsregionen for fødselskohortane 1955 og 1960" [The socially and geographically structured mobility: A quantitative analysis of the relationship between geographic origin, geographic mobility and education- and class mobility in the [Norwegian] Western region for birth cohorts 1955 and 1960].
Fields of competence