{"id":3511,"date":"2026-03-02T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/?post_type=bc_employee&#038;p=3511"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:08:31","slug":"maria-clara-marine","status":"publish","type":"bc_employee","link":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/personer\/maria-clara-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar\u00eda Clara Marin\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Cross-National Comparison of Young People\u2019s Understandings of Co-Construction <\/strong><br><em>Institution: ISCSP (Instituto Superior de Ciencias Sociais e Pol\u00edticas) &#8211; Universidade de Lisboa<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This doctoral research is developed within the COCOSO Doctoral Network (Co-Construction in the Field of Social Welfare), an EU-funded programme bringing together universities and non-academic partners across eight European countries. The network seeks to advance co-construction as a core dimension of democratic innovation in social welfare systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the increasing use of co-construction and co-production in policy discourse, these concepts often remain normatively assumed and conceptually blurred. Moreover, empirical evidence on how young people themselves understand and experience co-construction within welfare systems,particularly in contexts of structural vulnerability, is limited. This project addresses that gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study investigates how young people aged 18\u201330, engaged with local social services, perceive and participate in co-construction processes across diverse European welfare regimes (Portugal, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Denmark, Austria and Poland). It also examines how institutional arrangements, professional practices and broader socio-political contexts shape participation opportunities and power dynamics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grounded in a critical epistemological framework, the research conceptualizes co-construction as an ambivalent process mediated by structural inequalities, adultism and institutional constraints. It explicitly distinguishes co-construction from participation and co-production while analysing how these concepts intersect in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Methodologically, the project adopts a mixed-methods design. A transnational survey identifies macro-level patterns in young people\u2019s understandings of co-construction, while an ethnomethodological case study conducted in Valencia (Spain), in collaboration with the NGO Joves\u00f3lides, explores lived experiences and micro-level dynamics. An intersectional lens is applied throughout to capture how class, gender and social location shape participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By articulating comparative and situated insights, the research aims to contribute to conceptual clarification, map European youth experiences of co-construction, and develop an exportable theoretical and practical model to inform more democratic, inclusive and ethically grounded social welfare practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","bc_tax_gruppering":[33],"class_list":{"0":"post-3511","1":"bc_employee","2":"type-bc_employee","3":"status-publish","5":"bc_tax_gruppering-medlemmer"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_employee\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_employee"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bc_employee"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_employee\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_employee\/3511\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bc_tax_gruppering","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_tax_gruppering?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}