Anja Bredal

Anja Bredal is a Senior Researcher at OsloMet's Center for Welfare and Working Life Research, specializing in sociology and violence in close relationships. She holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oslo (2004) with a thesis on immigrant youth, arranged marriages, and family dynamics.

Her research focuses on

• Violence in close relationships from a diversity perspective
• Forced marriage and honor-related violence
• Child welfare services and minority communities
• Public policy and victim support systems

Recent publications analyze

• Transnational violence against women
• Minority youth experiences with parental restrictions
• Intimate partner violence disparities
• Civil vs. religious marriage boundaries

She contributes to the Violence Program research initiative and collaborates with institutions like the National Association for Child Welfare and Sarpsborg Municipality on the CoChildren project, which examines inter-agency cooperation for vulnerable youth.

Research groups include Childhood, Family and Child Welfare. She frequently mediates findings through policy evaluations and workshops, notably on child marriage criminalization and strengthening child welfare responses to violence.