Department of Social Work

My dissertation is about social work in families with complex needs and about the family as a basis for interventions in Swedish social services.

PhD-student within the CollAGE-research programme. Studying the collaboration between social services and spatial planning when planning for age-friendly communities in Swedish rural municipalities.

I am a trained social worker who has mainly worked in elderly care at various levels. The subject for my thesis is welfare technologies in eldercare. I am also teaching at the Social Work programme. 

Anna-Lena Perdahl, PhD in social work at Umeå University, specializes in organizational development. She developed an interactive model to enhance processes in social services.

Professor of social work and director of Umeå Center for Evaluation Research (UCER)

My current research investigates the importance of schools for the wellbeing of pupils, as well as the effects of parental unemployment on the health of children. 

International contactperson

My research and teaching is about refugeemigration and labourmarket- and housing integration for newly arrived refugees and migrantlabour.

Title of Docent and Associate Professor in Social work with responsibility for PhD postgraduate education and the higher seminar series at the department

My current research explores service user engagement in the mental health sector, as it is expressed through collective and personalised forms of mobilisation.

Title of Docent and Ph.D. in social work

PhD in Political Science. My research focuses on the governing of social and political problems such as safety, gender equality and gendered violence, from feminist & (post)colonial perspectives. 

Senior lecturer at The Department of Social Work. Research interests include interpersonal violence, human service organizations and digital welfare tehchnology.  

PhD-student in social work. My research concerns preconditions for language studies (SFI) among newly arrived migrants with short educational backgrounds.

Associate professor and senior lecturer in social work. I am leading the research profile Age, Ageing and Social Welfare at the department.

I am a social worker, professor in Social Work and Associate professor in Public Health.

Phd-student at in social work at the Department of Social Work since 2021.

My current research concerns the importance of school policy for students' health, in Sweden and internationally.

Mojgan Padyab is an associate professor (Docent) in social work and assistant director at CEDAR.

I work as a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Social Work.

Professor at the Department of social work. Deputy head of the department, with responsible for research activities. Research about community mental health services and service user involvement.

Phd and senior lecturer in Social Work. 

research interest: Mental Health,  Substance Use, and Aging

Methods: Register based study; Latent variables; Longitudinal analysis