Initially I started as a gender studies scholar but my interest in childhoods and young people led me to child welfare and protection and 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 internationalisation of higher education, international social work and young people's activism.
In addition to teaching and research, I work as internationalisation and sustanability manager for the social work study programme, and hold responsibility for qualitative methods. I lead and coordinate seminars in social work and well as the seminar series Health, Culture and Society, together with colleagues.
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.
One of my research projects focuses on young people as digital health activists and how discourses of health become arenas for recognition, rights and resistances.
Internationalisation, international social work and global North-South inequalities are additional central research areas. This includes analyses of social interventions targeting children in the Global South as well as how global norms childhoods. In addition to this, I am seeking to develop strategies and methods for sustainable and reciprocal international exchange.