Children in foster care and their relations with their network of origin
In this research project, we want to gain knowledge about children and young people who live in foster care and their relationships with their network of origin.
Social Work
Social work as a research subject includes studies of social problems and vulnerability as well as their causes and consequences at the individual, group, and societal levels.
The subject studies social interventions and the professional practice aimed at managing or solving social problems. The subject also studies issues relating to the design and implementation of social policy and the organisation of welfare systems.
Ongoing Research Projects
Cultivating Connections: Climate Justice and Transformative Social Work
The climate crisis is a "wicked problem"; global in scale and local in its effects (glocal), generating a deluge of intersecting climate injustices.
Geographies of Last Resort: The Territorial Restructuring of Swedish Social Assistance, 1986–2020
The PhD project examines long-term changes in social assistance recipiency and duration, as well as geographical clustering and interdependence between Swedish municipalities from 1986 to 2020.
GovTech Challenges Research School
The goal is to create opportunities to analyse and develop through a long-term investment in a joint graduate school in two phases. deeper knowledge and new ways of working around the digitalisatio...
Local labor market interventions for labor market inclusion: a review of social services’ interventions to people with social assistance
Municipal labor market professionals face an increasingly complex target group, and they seek a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of the various, often fragmented initiatives aimed at enhancing...
Neoliberal Globalization and the Climate Crisis: Implications for Social Work
The thesis examines how the climate crisis and its consequences for human well-being are understood, integrated and addressed within social work in Sweden.
Procurement of digital information systems in social services
The project focuses on the procurement of digital information systems in social services, with particular attention to how procurement processes create opportunities and constraints for social...
Protected shelters in transition: marketization dynamics and policy shifts
Protected shelters are vital for women exposed to violence and is provided by non-profit or for-profit actors. In 2024, the government introduced regulation because of “unscrupulous actors,” which...
Rural Conditions for Student Health Work: How Conditions, Professions and Place Shape Everyday Practice
How is student health work shaped in rural schools? This project examines how organisational, professional and geographical conditions influence the leadership, organisation and practice of student...
Social services in cooperation
The aim is to carry out a feasibility study to gather basic information on the work of social services in geographically peripheral areas, with a focus on interventions targeting children in need.
Social work with older adults and the ambitions of the new Social Services Act – A mapping of preventive social work in the field of elderly care
The project’s primary focus is on developing knowledge regarding preventive interventions in social work with older adults, adopting a social rights perspective.
The future of Torvalla: a place for participation, engagement and chance
The project is an interactive evaluation study of the work being carried out to create meeting places for young people (16-24 year) in Torvalla, Östersund. The aim is to produce knowledge about...
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