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Jennie Brandén

Associate professor in Social work. My research is based in feminist & (post)colonial perspectives and primarily concerns the governing of safety and gendered violence.  

Works as

Affiliation
Associate professor at Department of Social Work
Location
Samhällsvetarhuset, plan 5, Biblioteksgränd 4 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I work as an Associate professor at the department of Social Work and have a PhD in political science. My research primarily focuses on how social and power related problems such as safety, gender equality and gendered violence are addressed in policy and practice. I am particularly interested in feminist, (post)colonial and Indigenous perspectives in these issues and am currently working with four different research projects:

In my dissertation "In the Name of Safety: power, politics and the constitutive effects of local governing practices in Sweden", from 2022 I examined how (un)safety in public space is addressed and given meaning as a political problem.

I am affiliated to the research group Lávvuo - research and education for Sámi health, to Umeå Centre for Gender Studies and to the Arctic Centre at Umeå University.
 

Umeå: Umeå University 2024
Brandén, Jennie; Nilsson, Lena Maria; Burman, Monica; et al.
Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, Fahlbeckska stiftelsen 2024, Vol. 126, (4) : 703-718
Brandén, Jennie; Olivius, Elisabeth
Critical Policy Studies, Routledge 2023, Vol. 17, (4) : 619-636
Brandén, Jennie
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, Oslo: 2023, Vol. 47, (2-3) : 113-129
Brandén, Jennie; Nilsson, Lena Maria; Burman, Monica; et al.
Statsvetenskapliga institutionens skriftserie, 2022:1
Brandén, Jennie
Space & Polity, Routledge 2021, Vol. 25, (1) : 1-19
Brandén, Jennie; Sandberg, Linda
(O)tryggt?: Texter om makt, plats och motstånd, Premiss förlag 2020 : 75-98
Brandén, Jennie; Olsson, Josefin; Sandberg, Linda
Offentlig Förvaltning. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet 2019, Vol. 23, (3-4) : 23-41
Brandén, Jennie; Rönnblom, Malin
Umeå: Umeå universitet 2017
Sandberg, Linda; Brandén, Jennie; Rönnblom, Malin; et al.

Research groups

Network coordinator and project manager
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Research projects

1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024

I have broad experience in teaching and supervising at both basic and advanced levels. I have mainly taught courses related to theory and method within political science, gender studies and public health. I have experience teaching in both Swedish and English, digitally and on campus. 

I am currently responsible for the PhD course "Introduction to Gender Studies" (7,5 credits) through the Gender Research School, and for the courses "Violence in close relations" (7,5 credits) and "Social work as a research field II" (7,5 credits) connected to the program for Social work at Umeå university.