Children in foster care and their relations with their network of origin
In this research project, we want to gain knowledge about children and young people who live in foster care and their relationships with their network of origin.
Social Work
Social work as a research subject includes studies of social problems and vulnerability as well as their causes and consequences at the individual, group, and societal levels.
The subject studies social interventions and the professional practice aimed at managing or solving social problems. The subject also studies issues relating to the design and implementation of social policy and the organisation of welfare systems.
Ongoing Research Projects
Conditions for student health teams’ work with pupils in need of special support
We are going to study schools’ student health teams’ conditions for working with students in need of special support. The study focuses the schools’ prerequisites to develop their work based on...
Enhanced support for older people with suspected or confirmed risk or substance abuse. Training and collaboration initiative for home care services
How do home care employees act when they meet older users with suspected high consumption of alcohol? Involved municipalities and MIUN create a research-based, effective, and working model to provi...
Fewer Evictions Through Collaboration – An Interview Study with Landlords, Social Services, and the Enforcement Authority
This study examines how landlords, social services, and the Enforcement Authority collaborate during the eviction process in Östersund. Through 12-15 semi-structured interviews, including 8-10 with...
Forced migration, older refugees and displacement: Implications for social work as a human rights profession
This project explores the conditions of globally displaced older refugees and outlines the implications for social work as a human rights profession.
GovTech Challenges Research School
The goal is to create opportunities to analyse and develop through a long-term investment in a joint graduate school in two phases. deeper knowledge and new ways of working around the digitalisatio...
Local labor market interventions for labor market inclusion: a review of social services’ interventions to people with social assistance
Municipal labor market professionals face an increasingly complex target group, and they seek a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of the various, often fragmented initiatives aimed at enhancing...
Procurement of ’digitalization’ in Social Services – an analysis of barriers for value creation
We constantly see high hopes linked to the digitalization of the public sector, while as many as 87.5% of digitalization initiatives fail. This project therefore focuses on procurement processes...
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