RDV: Child´s Right to Participation and Professional Practice in Child Protection Services

Date: 20 May 2021
Time: 14:15-15:45

Venue: Zoom. To receive an invitation to the Zoom-webinar, contact discretion@uib.no

Presentation
Asgeir Falck-Eriksen: Child´s Right to Participation and Professional Practice in Child Protection Services.

Asgeir Falck-Eriksen is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, Oslo Metropolitan University. He is a political scientist with the main research interests being political theory, trust theory, public administration, epistocracy, politics of families and child protection. These interests have culminated in an interest in empirical research on constitutional Democracy and trust between Citizens and citizens’ trust in government. Falck-Eriksen is the PI of the project “Child Protection and Pluralism”, and co-PI of Cosmopolitan Turn and Democratic Sentiments (CONSENT). He is also Associate Professor II at the DIPA-centre, University of Bergen.

The webinar is part of the RDV seminar series – a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) and the Center on Law and Social Transformation – Lawtransform (UiB/CMI). Seminars consist of guest lectures or presentation of papers from the group members.