Evelina Fridell LifPhD student

About me

My ongoing project is about independent foster care, a form of foster care where social services contracts organizations to recruit and support foster families.

Supervisors: prof. Stefan Wiklund & David Pålsson, PhD

Publications:

Evelina Fridell Lif (2023) The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?, European Journal of Social Work, DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2166017

Evelina Fridell Lif, Lars Brännström, Bo Vinnerljung, Anders Hjern, Childhood Adversities and Later Economic Hardship among Swedish Child Welfare Clients: Cumulative Disadvantage or Disadvantage Saturation?, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 47, Issue 7, October 2017, Pages 2137–2156, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcw167

Research projects

Ongoing

Completed

Foster care: a layman assignment in a time of professionalization and privatization

The aim of this proposal is to map the current diversified field of foster care by using register data and by distributing a survey to municipalities nationwide.

Privatisation and competitive tendering within the personal social services in the Nordic countries

Network that gathers junior and senior researchers working with questions concerning privatisation and competition of services provided through the municipal personal social services in the Nordic countries.