Angelika Thelin
Senior LecturerMy 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
My ongoing research projects
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Project: Connected Children: Partnership for a knowledge-based and innovative prevention This project combines practice and research for the development of knowledge-based prevention. The aim is to…
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Project: Organizing for trust – coordinated efforts for children's best This research project aims to contribute with knowledge-based support within the initiative ”Barnens bästa gäller! i Kronoberg”…
My completed research projects
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Project: Financial neglect financial abuse and against older people The research project begins in a study among staff in elder care, about their experience of the problem. Later, another study is…
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Project: Transnational Living Lab for Active Ageing How can we change the experience of being old and ageing?
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Project: Whose voice? Law, care management and dementia The overall aim is to investigate whether the conditions for achieving the goals and requirements of the Social Services Act can be fulfilled…
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Anderberg, M., Forkby, T., Thelin, A. (2022). A pendulum swing in child welfare policy : the case of implementing GIRFEC in Sweden. Nordic Social Work Research. 12 (4). 578-591.
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Thelin, A. (2021). Care Ethics for Supported Decision-making : A Narrative Policy Analysis Regarding Social Work in Cases of Dementia and Self-neglect. Ethics and social welfare. 15 (2). 167-184.
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Thelin, A., Van Regenmortel, S. (2019). Parcours de vie des personnes âgées à faibles revenus : Étude secondaire de données qualitatives issues d’entretiens en Suède et en Belgique. Retraite et société. 81 (1). 65-90.
Status: Published
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Enell, S., Thelin, A., Forkby, T. (2021). Displacement or involvement : paradoxes for social work in early coordinated support for children. Presented at FORSA, Reykjavik (online), 11-12 November, 2021.
- Thelin, A. (2021). Inclusive elder care in cases of self-neglect : Through soft governance and knowledge management based in research?. Presented at FORSA, Reykjavik (online), 11-12 November, 2021.
- Thelin, A., Eriksson, M. (2019). Interventions against financial abuse among older people with dementia who are ageing in place : Lessons from qualitative interviews with staff in social services and social care in sweden. Presented at IAGG-ER, Gothenburg, 23-25 maj, 2019.
- Thelin, A., Forkby, T., Anderberg, M. (2019). To get things right for children : Implementation of a public social living lab model for coordinated support for children in need. Proceedings of the OpenLivingLab Days Conference 2019 : Co-creating Innovation: Scaling-up from Local to Global. 99-112.
- Tham, M., Hyltén-Cavallius, S., Akiyama, H., Thelin, A. (2018). Evaluating Impact of Co-creation. OpenLivingLab Days (OLLD) 2018.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Van Regenmortel, S., Winter, B., Thelin, A., Burholt, V., De Doner, L. (2021). Exclusion from Social Relations Among Older People in rural Britain and Belgium : A Cross-National Exploration Taking a Life-Course and Multilevel Perspective. Social Exclusion in Later Life : Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives. Cham, Springer. 83-98.
Report (Refereed)
- Thelin, A., Enell, S., Forkby, T. (2021). Att göra prevention och samverkan : om professionellas roller i den skotska policyn GIRFEC. Växjö, Linnaeus University. 83.
- Gynnerstedt, K., Thelin, A., Melin Emilsson, U. (2017). Gammal i Småland på 2000-talet : En kunskapsöversikt av forskning kring äldres vardag. Linnaeus University, Fakulteten för samhällsvetenskap, Institutionen för socialt arbete. 42.
- Thelin, A. (2009). Den tredje åldern : - en kunskapsöversikt. Växjö, IVOSA. 64.
Book (Other academic)
- Giertz, L., Mattsson, T., Thelin, A. (2021). Nedsatt beslutsförmåga : rätt, riktlinjer och praktik. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- Thelin, A. (2011). Tredje åldern - ett mångtydigt och problematiskt begrepp. Tredje åldern : Sociala aspekter och medborgarskap. Malmö, Gleerups Utbildning AB. 33-47.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Thelin, A. (2013). Äldrefattigdom : Ekonomisk utsatthet i yngre ålderspensionärers vardag. Doctoral Thesis. Växjö/Kalmar, Linnaeus University Press. 189.
Report (Other academic)
- Myck, M., Ogg, J., Aigner-Walder, B., Kåreholt, I., Kostakis, I., et al. (2017). Economic Aspects of Old Age Exclusion : A Scoping Review. European Cooperation in Science and Technology. 37.
Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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Thelin, A., Eriksson, M. (2019). Vi behöver se, veta och göra mer åt det ekonomiska våldet mot äldre personer. Ä. En tidskrift från Riksföreningen Sjuksköterskan inom Äldre- och Demensvård. (1). 27.
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Hadziabdic, E., Thelin, A. (2011). Tankestilar om kritiskt tänkande i sjuksköterskeutbildning. Vård i Fokus. 28 (4). 4-8.
Status: Published
Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Thelin, A., Wolmesjö, M. (2014). Tid att leda : En kunskapsöversikt om hur chefskap påverkar äldreomsorgens kvalitet. 21.