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