Terje Olsen has extensive experience as a researcher. He has led and participated in a number of research projects on the welfare state's organization and working methods.
He has been involved in working life studies, disability research, young people at risk of long-term exclusion, legal protection and security for vulnerable groups.
Terje Olsen is editor-in-chief of Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research.
Education
PhD, Uppsala University, Department of Sociology
Area of work
Current projects
The diversity of the Norwegian population has received increasing attention in the development of public policy and services in recent decades. A diversity perspective implies an acknowledgement that the risk of violence and discrimination, the form and direction of the violations, as well as the victims' and practitioners' need for help, can vary between and within groups - based on constellations of and intersectional interaction between a number of dimensions of inequality and power, such as gender, age, social background, ethnicity, religion, functional ability, sexual orientation, etc.
A research-based evaluation of Sparebankstiftelsen SR-Bank’s initiative FOR EVERYONE! The evaluation will provide knowledge about the extent the donations reach the target groups, and what, if any, characterizes the projects that have good goal achievement.
Fafo publications
Articles and book chapters
Completed projects
Fafo and ISF will together explore the Norwegian food aid system.
Innovation project. Stavanger municipality will create new possibilities for inclusion, self-determination and participation in work and activity for adults with intellectual disabilities.
In this project, we will investigate how NAV ensures predictability and equal treatment for service users in more marginal areas of the legal framework. We will do this by using decisions on sickness benefit, nursing benefits and parental benefits for people who combine income as workers, freelancers and self-employed. The purpose is to shed light on the challenges that arise for supervisors and case officers in NAV in the process from the user's first contact with NAV until a final decision is made.
Microaggression is the sum of remarks, derogatory comments, and negative reminders about being different. Disabled people In Norway are harmed by microaggression although the extent is not known. The project will develop knowledge about the forms of microaggression that affects young people with disabilities or chronic diseases. This has not been investigated before in Norway. International studies have shown links between microaggression and reduced mental health and social participation. The aim is to map expressions and forms of microaggression and study any consequences for the individual and for society.
The project will study the processes that lead to job advertisements in health and the care sector in the municipalities, especially part-time positions
Evaluation of three concepts implemented as part of Oslo municipality's project on living conditions 2018-2019