Jennie Brandén

I work as an Associate professor at the department of Social Work and have a PhD in political science. My research primarily focuses on the governing of social problems such as safety, gender equality and gendered violence, from feminist, (post)colonial and Indigenous perspectives. I am currently working with four different research projects:

• Project manager and coordinator of the "Nordic Network on Gendered Violence in Sámi and Inuit communities" (2025-2027 Nordforsk)
• Project manager of the project "Gender-based violence in Sápmi: analysing and developing the social service’s possibilities to meet the needs of abused Sámi women" (2025-2027 FORTE).
• Main researcher in the project "Violence against Sámi women" (2021-2025 the Sámi parliament in Sweden).
• Participating researcher in the project "Together for Safety: The role of civil society in creating safe public spaces" (2024-2027 Formas), anchored at Umeå Center for Gender Studies.

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.