Initially I started as a gender studies scholar but my interest in childhoods and young people led to a doctor's degree in social work. In 2020, I finalised my doctoral dissertation on intersecting justice issues in childhoods and children's participation in child welfare. Today, my primary research interests focus on international issues related to international social work, internationalisation, young people's health activism and other social movements.
In my research, I cross disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences and humanities, typically by using postcolonial feminist theory, critical childhood studies and medical anthropology as inspiration.
In addition, I work as internationalisation manager/coordinator in social work, with responsibility for sustainability and qualitative methods. I lead and coordinate seminars in social work together with colleagues.
I teach in several different courses, including about international social work, international perspectives on social policy, ethnography, discourse analysis, gender-based violence, and organisation theory. In addition to this, I coordinate four courses and supervise and assess student theses.
My research often deals with the status of children and young people in a wide range of contexts. Knowledge and power issues are other major areas of interest. My current research focuses on how scientific and other discourses related to medicine, health, social work and children and young people become arenas for recognition, rights, power and resistances.
Internationalisation, international social work and global North-South inequalities are additional research interests as I am currenly seeking to develop strategies and methods for sustainable and reciprocal international exchange.
