Angelika Thelin

Angelika Thelin

Senior Lecturer
Department of Social Work Faculty of Social Sciences
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My early academic qualifications consist of a Bachelor's degree in social work from Lund University in Sweden. I also have a Master's degree in "European Social Policy Analysis" after studies at Roskilde University in Denmark and Bath University in England. I came to Linnaeus University 2006, from an employment as a policy expert on social security in the Swedish parliament. Before that, I worked as a child-welfare officer in Tomelilla in south of Sweden and Stockholm.

Teaching

Between 2014 and 2017, I was the manager of the social work education. I give lectures in the social work education on social policy; vulnerability, living conditions and social interventions; as well as leadership, stearing and organisation.

Research

In the end of 2013, I defended my thesis "Elderly poverty. Economic hardship in young pensioners' everyday lives". In the dissertation I qualitatively examined relative economic hardship, it's consequences in older peoples' everyday life and their ways of handling the situation. 

After that I have continued researching about vulnerability, living conditions and social interventions for older people. I have also conducted research about social policies, innovative and implementation processes and governance. Currently, I am working on research projects on ethical dilemmas in cases of reduced descision-making abitlity as well as economic violence in the context of care. I do also, through a programme for practice-research partnership (Connected Children), follow development work at four sites in Sweden - all of which draw inspiration from the Scottish GIRFEC (Getting It Right For Every Child) model.

I am part of the following research networks:

At the Department of Social Work, Linnaeus University:

Social work, disability and ageing (SODA)

Research on Interventions and Support for Children and Youth (Riscy)

At Linnaeus University: 

Sustainable Health

At a national level and other universities: 

National network for social science on older peoples' living conditions

The Norma Elder Law Research Environment, Faculty of Law, Lund University 

 

Publications

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Report (Refereed)

Book (Other academic)

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)

Report (Other academic)

Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))