By profession, I am a reg nurse, and reg midwife and I have a PhD in medical science. I teach at the nursing programme, the district nursing program, the midwifery program and the global master's program in Sexual and Reproductive Health.
I have worked as a midwife in childbirth and post-natal care since 1996. I was the head midwife at the obstetric and maternal ward at the University Hospital in Örebro, Sweden, for six years. I am working with teaching and research after being awarded my PhD at the Department for Women and Children's Health at Uppsala University in 2013. I have been working at Dalarna University since 2020.
My teaching focuses on the complicated and winding path same-sex women undergo to form a family with children. The seminars are based on my and others’ research and address legal, emotional, and practical aspects of family formation in families with two mothers. The (non) role of the donor in the family, the co-mother’s unique parental role and the family’s need for support are discussed. A large part of my teaching is dedicated to supervising foundation and advanced level dissertations.
Family formation and Assisted Reproduction Techniques
My research is in the field of psychosocial obstetrics and sexual and reproductive health and rights. This includes specific topics such as assisted reproduction treatment, donation treatment with donated gametes (egg or sperm), family formation in families with two mothers, women’s experiences of infertility and infertility treatment, and transgender individuals' experience and access to respectful sexual and reproductive health and care.
