News archive for Faculty of Psychology

The Norwegian child welfare services’ ways of addressing multicultural challenges is a recurring topic in national and international debates. Fear of the child welfare services among ethnic minority parents are under researched in Norway, and has been addressed in a new article by researchers from the research group Child welfare, Equality and Inclusion, UiB.

Presentation by visiting researcher Mohammad Salehin 10 December 2014

Cross-linguistically similar order of acquisition of quantifiers have been found

Educational background, wishes and needs, have been investigated in a qualitative study among prisoners from Iraq, Poland, Russi, Serbia and Somalia

The faculty has announced six new PhD scholarships, and one of them is with the SIPA-group. Deadline for application is January 31.

Up to this date, few studies have investigated the occurrence of sexual harassment in Norwegian working life. However, a new study from Bergen Bullying Research Group show that sexual harassment can be considered as a prevalent problem with serious consequences for those exposed.

Education in the Nordic prison has been surveyed by a questionnaire in all the Nordic countries. The study is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers. This work represents a pioneering work, and the report is also translated and published in English.