RDV: Interviews of children exposed to maltreatment, violence, and sexual abuse

Date: 11 February 2021
Time: 14.15:15.45

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

Presentation
Gunn Astrid Baugerud: Interviews of children exposed to maltreatment, violence, and sexual abuse       

Gunn Astrid Baugerud is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, Oslo Metropolitan University. Baugerud has a background in cognitive developmental psychology, and her research interests include child maltreatment, children’s memory development and children as victims/witnesses, and investigative interviews with children. Baugerud was recently awarded a prestigious FRIPRO grant from the Research Council of Norway for the project “Interview training of child-welfare and law-enforcement professionals interviewing maltreated children supported via artificial avatars”. 

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.