In my dissertation, I research aspects of hindrances and possibilities for user participation in the social services' individual and family care (IFO).

Analyses of local variation in measures aimed at youth not in employment, education or training

Conflicting goals in compulsory care for young people?

Children and youths exposed to 'stigma-related trauma': Narration, agency and support needs is a research project led by Anneli Silvén Hagström at the Department of Social Work.

Criminal careers from adolescence to retirement age in individuals with experience of out-of-home care: prevalence, patterns and intergenerational associations (CRIMCAR)

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.

Foster children as midlife adults: For whom and under what circumstances may placement in foster care counteract social and health-related adversity across the life course?

Each year, around 1 percent of European children are placed in out-of-home care (OHC ). In Sweden, the risk of placement is greatest during the teenage years. However, a significant proportion of all children are placed in OHC as infants (<12 months).

The concept of matching refers to the process when a foster home is selected to fit an individual child in placement. Matching is important for the quality of care, as the foster carers need necessary resources to meet the child’s needs.

Two thousand children and youth in eight municipalities will be subject to a prospective, longitudinal study of their trajectory through the child welfare system for six years. The study is conducted by an interdisciplinary research team with academic competence in social work, sociology, law and criminology, collaborating with FoU-Nordväst.

Multidisciplinary network to unite Nordic researchers with expertise in longitudinal welfare research.

Perceptions, reactions and reporting of client-related threats and violence in four different areas.

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.

"Privatising the central core of social work – staffing agencies and decision-making in the personal social services" is the full name of a research project led by Emelie Shanks.

The purpose of this study is to investigate national, organisational and individual dimensions of school attendance problems (SAP) among 15 to 17-year-olds in Sweden, the UK, Germany and Japan.

An exploration of youth's experiences

The research program is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Criminology (Stockholm University), the Department of Social Work (Stockholm University), and the Social Affairs Administration of the city of Stockholm. The research will span over six years, starting in the fall of 2024.

The project follows "Soc för unga" which aims to make social services more known and accessible to children and young people. Specifically, the project focuses on the part of this work where social services, schools and young people together have developed a material for teaching about social services in schools.

"The public responsibility for children in foster care: preconditions, strategies and meanings of social services monitoring" is the name of a research project led by David Pålsson.

Despite a strong emphasis on person-centered care in social service provision, scientific knowledge is limited regarding the actual impact and how these goals can be realized.

Out-of-home care (OHC; foster-family care and residential care) experience is linked to numerous negative life-course outcomes, including poor health, premature death, criminal involvement and poor employment prospects. However, it remains unclear to what extent adolescents living in foster-family care have elevated risks for victimization compared to peers

"Violence between young people in close relationships – prevalence, context and young people's own voices" is the name of a research project led by Carolina Överlien in collaboration with Sibel Korkmaz, Stefan Wiklund and Helene Lagerlöf at the Department of Social Work.

Education is an important basis for children's development and is usually described as a way out of vulnerability. The project deals with the educational careers of a particularly vulnerable group, namely children with experience of community care in the form of placements in foster homes or institutions.

Vulnerability of minor girls and young women to honor-related oppression and violence due to exceeding the family's requirements for decent dress