Maren Svendsen Folkvord is currently working as a research fellow at Østfold University College. Her PhD project explores children's digital everyday lives through ethnographic fieldwork in a 7th grade at a primary school in Oslo with participant observation, interviews, as well as creative methods such as photo and video diaries and Q-method. Prior to that, Folkvord worked a total of 2.5 years as a research assistant and researcher at Welfare Research Institute (Nova), OsloMet. Here she worked for two years at the Childhood, Family and Child Welfare Section where she researched vulnerable young people and their families (from 2022-2024), and six months at the Health and Welfare Section, where she had a full-time position on the research project STRIDE. She holds a master's degree in sociology from the University of Oslo (2021). Folkvord's research interests include children and young people, digital communication and social media, digital childhoods, body and emotions, inclusion, friendship and community.