I am Professor in Social Work at the School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna University, and Researcher at the Aging Research Center at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University.
I am member of the Scientific Advisory Committee at the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services and member of an expert group on loneliness at the Nordic Welfare Centre. Also, I have searved on the boards of the Swedish Gerontological Society and the National Graduate School on Ageing and Health.
Previously, I have been based at Stockholm Gerontology Research Center (1994-1995), Dalarna Research Institute (1995-2004, 2009-2012) and Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom (2004-2009). In 2004, I was awarded a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University.
At Dalarna University, I am mainly teaching on the social work programme, but also in social work at advanced level and on the postgraduate programme in care for older people.
I am supervising the following PhD students: Mahwish Naseer, Dalarna University and Karolinska Institutet (principal supervisor, 2017-), Ann-Christine Persson, Karolinska Institutet (co-supervisor, 2018-), Marcus Falk Johansson, Dalarna University (co-supervisor, 2018-), Isabelle von Saenger, Karolinska Institutet (co-supervisor, 2020-), Jing Jing, Royal Institute of Technology (co-supervisor, 2020-), Jerry Norlin, Dalarna University (principal supervisor, 2021-), and Mariam Kirvalidze, Karolinska Institutet (co-supervisor, 2022-).
My research concerns living conditions of older adults, with primary focus on loneliness, social exclusion and informal care .
