I hold degrees in Gender studies (BSc.) and in the Social sciences (MSc.) and I am a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Social Work. In 2020, I finalised my doctoral dissertation on intersecting injustices in childhoods and children's participation in child welfare. Today, my primary research interests focus on international and green social work with children and young people in the Global South, as well as internationalisation of higher education.
In addition to teaching and research, I serve as internationalisation and sustanability manager for the social work study programme, and hold responsibility for qualitative methods. Strenghtening the seminar culture is an important part of my work. I have coordinated higher seminars in social work and today I coordinate two seminar series: Health, Culture and Society (together with a colleague) as well as higher seminars in Educational Science.
I teach in many courses, including about international social work, international perspectives on social policy, ethnography, discourse analysis, gender-based violence, postcolonial theory, and organisation theory. In addition to this, I coordinate four courses and supervise and assess student theses.
I cross disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences and humanities, typically by using postcolonial feminist theory, critical childhood studies and anthropology as inspiration.
My research deals with the status of children and young people in a wide range of contexts. Issues of knowledge, power and resistances are major areas of interest.
Currently, I am the research coordinator of a research project that focuses on climate and environental justice in the coastal communities in Indonesia, and from the perspetives of children and young people. Together with a research partner from Halu Oleo University, I also examine international and regional climate- and environment-related interventions in the area.
Another research project focuses on young people as digital health activists and how discourses of health become arenas for recognition, rights and resistance.
Internationalisation, emerging forms of international social work and global North-South inequalities are additional research areas. This includes analyses of social interventions targeting children in the Global South as well as how norms that circulate globally affect childhoods. In addition to this, I am seeking to develop strategies and methods for sustainable and reciprocal international exchange.
I am a member of Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi/Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) and Sveriges Antropologförbund/Swedish Anthropological Association (SANT).