Malin Jørgine Fævelen
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Helgasetr, Øya
About
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Work. My research focuses particularly on the tension between care and control in welfare state services. I am especially interested in how social inequality and power are shaped and negotiated in encounters between families and child welfare services. In this context, my current research focuses on how parental resistance is expressed and how it is understood in these encounters.
Before I started working at NTNU, I worked for several years with unaccompanied minor refugees and asylum seekers in both municipal and state child welfare services.
Publications
2026
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Fævelen, Malin;
Røkkum, Nina Helen Aas.
(2026)
Detaljstyrt omsorg? Sivilisering av foreldreskap i barnevernet.
Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift
Academic article
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Fævelen, Malin.
(2026)
Exploring parents’ repertoire of everyday resistance in child welfare services — Towards a power-sensitive understanding of resistance.
Children and Youth Services Review
Academic article
2025
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Simola, Jenni;
Fævelen, Malin Jørgine.
(2025)
Understanding service user resistances in social welfare research – a literature review.
Nordic Social Work Research
Academic literature review
2024
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Fævelen, Malin;
Kojan, Bente Heggem.
(2024)
Sensibility to the Role of Child Welfare Services in the Machinery of Stigma.
The British Journal of Social Work
Academic article
2023
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Fævelen, Malin;
Sørly, Rita;
Kojan, Bente Heggem.
(2023)
‘Good parenting’ among middle-class families: a narrative positioning analysis of Norwegian child welfare workers’ stories.
European Journal of Social Work
Academic article
2022
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Fævelen, Malin;
Fauske, Halvor;
Kojan, Bente Heggem;
Kaasbøll, Jannike.
(2022)
Family involvement in child welfare services: The association between socio-economic status and self-reported parenting practices.
Child & Family Social Work
Academic article
2021
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Fævelen, Malin;
Kaasbøll, Jannike;
Kojan, Bente Heggem;
Fauske, Halvor.
(2021)
Sosioøkonomisk status og foreldreskap hos foreldre i barnevernet.
Academic chapter
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Kojan, Bente Heggem;
Storhaug, Anita S.;
Paulsen, Veronika;
Ulset, Gro;
Fævelen, Malin;
Thrana, Hilde Marie;
Øverland, Mari Bore;
Lichtwarck, Willy;
Halvorsen, Thomas;
Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim;
Kaasbøll, Jannike;
Fauske, Halvor.
(2021)
Anbefalinger for barnevernets arbeid med familier som erfarer sosioøkonomiske vansker.
Academic chapter
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Alseth, Ann Kristin;
Fævelen, Malin;
Kojan, Bente Heggem;
Røkkum, Nina Helen Aas;
Storhaug, Anita S.;
Wilson, Samita.
(2021)
Norway - National report on Family Support Policy & Provision.
Non-fiction chapter
2016
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Fævelen, Malin.
(2016)
Rom for forskjell? Barnevernstjenestens møte med norske romer.
Fontene forskning
Academic article
2014
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Fævelen, Malin.
(2014)
Rom for forskjell? Barnevernarbeideres forståelser, vurderinger og handlinger i arbeid med norske romer.
OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet
Master thesis
Journal publications
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Fævelen, Malin;
Røkkum, Nina Helen Aas.
(2026)
Detaljstyrt omsorg? Sivilisering av foreldreskap i barnevernet.
Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift
Academic article
-
Fævelen, Malin.
(2026)
Exploring parents’ repertoire of everyday resistance in child welfare services — Towards a power-sensitive understanding of resistance.
Children and Youth Services Review
Academic article
-
Fævelen, Malin;
Kojan, Bente Heggem.
(2024)
Sensibility to the Role of Child Welfare Services in the Machinery of Stigma.
The British Journal of Social Work
Academic article
-
Simola, Jenni;
Fævelen, Malin Jørgine.
(2025)
Understanding service user resistances in social welfare research – a literature review.
Nordic Social Work Research
Academic literature review
-
Fævelen, Malin.
(2016)
Rom for forskjell? Barnevernstjenestens møte med norske romer.
Fontene forskning
Academic article
-
Fævelen, Malin;
Sørly, Rita;
Kojan, Bente Heggem.
(2023)
‘Good parenting’ among middle-class families: a narrative positioning analysis of Norwegian child welfare workers’ stories.
European Journal of Social Work
Academic article
-
Fævelen, Malin;
Fauske, Halvor;
Kojan, Bente Heggem;
Kaasbøll, Jannike.
(2022)
Family involvement in child welfare services: The association between socio-economic status and self-reported parenting practices.
Child & Family Social Work
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Fævelen, Malin;
Kaasbøll, Jannike;
Kojan, Bente Heggem;
Fauske, Halvor.
(2021)
Sosioøkonomisk status og foreldreskap hos foreldre i barnevernet.
Academic chapter
-
Kojan, Bente Heggem;
Storhaug, Anita S.;
Paulsen, Veronika;
Ulset, Gro;
Fævelen, Malin;
Thrana, Hilde Marie;
Øverland, Mari Bore;
Lichtwarck, Willy;
Halvorsen, Thomas;
Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim;
Kaasbøll, Jannike;
Fauske, Halvor.
(2021)
Anbefalinger for barnevernets arbeid med familier som erfarer sosioøkonomiske vansker.
Academic chapter
-
Alseth, Ann Kristin;
Fævelen, Malin;
Kojan, Bente Heggem;
Røkkum, Nina Helen Aas;
Storhaug, Anita S.;
Wilson, Samita.
(2021)
Norway - National report on Family Support Policy & Provision.
Non-fiction chapter
Student thesis or dissertation
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Fævelen, Malin.
(2014)
Rom for forskjell? Barnevernarbeideres forståelser, vurderinger og handlinger i arbeid med norske romer.
OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet
Master thesis
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2025
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LectureFævelen, Malin Jørgine. (2025) Foreldres motstand mot barnevernet. I et makt- og ulikhetsperspektiv. Faglig utviklingsarbeid
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Conference lectureSimola, Jenni; Fævelen, Malin Jørgine. (2025) Understanding service user resistances in social welfare research – a literature review. 14th European Conference for Social Work Research
2023
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Conference lectureFævelen, Malin Jørgine. (2023) Acts of everyday resistance in the welfare state – parents’ reactions to the child welfare services’ exercise of power. 12th European Conference for Social Work Research
2021
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Conference posterFævelen, Malin Jørgine. (2021) Families’ involvement with child welfare services: The association between socioeconomic status and self-reported parenting practices. European Conference for Social Work Research
2019
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Conference lectureFævelen, Malin Jørgine. (2019) Negotiating Parenthood in Norwegian Child Welfare Services (CWS): Intersections of Inequality. Perspectives from Parents and Social Workers. European Conference for Social Work Research