Marit Skivenes - Curriculum Vitae#
Project management experience (selected)
- 2021 - present “Children's Right to Participation”. (Norwegian Research Council - NRC, NOK 12 mill.)
- 2020 - present “Legitimacy challenges – An analysis of mistrust in core institutions and the normative fundament of the welfare state”. (NRC, NOK 12 mill.)
- 2017 - presemt “Discretion and the Child’s Best Interest in Child Protection”. Principal Investigator. (ERC Consolidator Grant, NOK 18 mill.)
- 2017 - present “The Acceptability of Child Protection Interventions” (NRC, NOK 10 mill)
- 2012 - 2017 “Legitimacy and Fallibility in Child Welfare Services” (NRC, NOK 11 mill)
- 2010 - 2017 “Norwegian Child Welfare System in a Comparative Perspective” (NRC NOK 8 mill.)
Institional appointments (selected)
- 2018 Director, Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, UiB
- 2015 Steering Committee and Head of the Child Rights Unit, the Centre on Law and Social Transformation
- 2013 Board member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Social Sciences, UiB.
- 2013 Council member of the Department Council , Dept. of Administration and Organization Theory, UiB.
Other outputs of relevance
- Visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley (2011 –2012, 2009 - 2010) and Harvard University (2005, 2006, 2007).
- Invited speaker at various professional / public seminars, in 2020 including events by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (06.11.20) and Danish National Parliament (23.09.20).
- Commentaries and interviews in newspapers. In 2020 including Dagbladet (16.09), Bergens Tidende (16.10), Vårt Land (30.04). 50 entries in the Retriever database of Norwegian newspapers from 2016-2020.
