Sofia Enell
Senior lecturerResearch
I am, by profession, a social worker with work experiences from residential care and child protection services. My research focuses on assessment practices, preventive work and compulsory treatment within the context of child welfare services. I´m interested in exploring the interplay between organisational context, institutional logics, agency and interpersonal relations – how are people and their relations affected by, and how do they in turn affect organizational and institutional contexts? Particularly, my research is concerned with the voices and experiences of children and young people involved in various forms of institutional care and protection.
An extensive body of my research is based on qualitative in-depth interviews and analysed through the prism of interactionism. So far, I have explored how young people make sense of assessment processes while being placed in involuntary care and secure care settings. Doing this I have also focused on their identity work in relation to secure care and the assessments practices. My most recent work explores young people’s relations and the relational dimension of institutional practices.
Currently, I´m working in three research projects. 1) A study about family relations from the perspective of young adults with experience from secure care, and their family members. 2) I´m involved in an interdisciplinary project about implementing and integrating the Scottish model of preventive measure for children “GIFREC” in a Swedish context. 3) I am also engaged in another inter-disciplinary research project exploring potential conflicts in social work practice between a children´s right perspective and a standardised, evidence-based agenda for young people in secure care.
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
- Enell, S., Wilińska, M. (2020). Negotiating, opposing and transposing dangerousness : a relational perspective on young people’s experiences of secure care. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. 1-24.
- Bergnéhr, D., Aronson, O., Enell, S. (2020). Friends through school and family : Refugee girls’ talk about friendship formation. Childhood. 27. 530-544.
- Enell, S., Denvall, V. (2017). Searching for the right track : managing care trajectories in child welfare. Child & Family Social Work. 22. 398-408.
- Enell, S. (2017). 'I Got to Know Myself Better, My Failings and Faults' : Young People's Understandings of being Assessed in Secure Accommodation. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. 25. 124-140.
- Enell, S. (2015). Young people in limbo : perceptions of self-presentations when being assessed in secure accommodation. Nordic Social Work Research. 6. 22-37.
- Enell, S. (2014). Banor i samhällsvården : en tvåårig studie om unga som utretts på SiS-institution. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. 21. 48-69.
Report (Refereed)
- Enell, S., Denvall, V. (2018). Att överskrida gränser för barnens bästa : Tidigt och förebyggande arbete i Växjö kommun. Växjö, Institutionen för socialt arbete, Linnéuniversitetet. 60.
- Enell, S., Denvall, V. (2013). Vägen från utredning till åtgärd : utredningsplaceringar vid särskilda utredningshem. Stockholm, Statens institutionsstyrelse. 104.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- Enell, S., Gruber, S., Vogel, M.A. (2018). Tvångspraktiker på institution : Summering och avslutande reflektioner. Kontrollerade unga : Tvångspraktiker på institution. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 285-292.
- Enell, S., Gruber, S., Andersson Vogel, M. (2018). Tvångspraktiker på institution : Teoretisk och historisk inramning. Kontrollerade unga : Tvångspraktiker på institution. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 19-36.
- Enell, S. (2018). Anpassningsstrategier och tolkningsföreträde : Ungas erfarenheter av att utredas på institution. Kontrollerade unga : Tvångspraktiker på institution. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 143-166.
- Enell, S., Vogel, M.A. (2018). Behovet av förändring vid de särskilda ungdomshemmen. Manifest : För ett socialt arbete i tiden. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 173-184.
- Vogel, M.A., Enell, S. (2018). Staten och kapitalet : Om Statens institutionsstyrelse och deras roll på barnavårdsmarknaden. Socialtjänstmarknaden : Om marknadsorientering och konkurrensutsättning av individ- och familjeomsorgen. Stockholm, Liber. 183-205.
Report (Other academic)
- Bergnéhr, D., Enell, S. (2018). Ungdomars och unga vuxnas levnadsvillkor i Sverige : En kunskapsöversikt med fokus på ojämlikhet. Stockholm, Forte - Forskningsrådet för hälsa, arbetsliv och välfärd. 120.
Collection (editor) (Other academic)
- Enell, S., Gruber, S., Andersson Vogel, M. (2018). Kontrollerade unga : Tvångspraktiker på institution. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 296.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
- Enell, S. (2015). Transit i samhällsvården : När unga utreds på särskilda ungdomshem. Doctoral Thesis. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 128.
Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Andersson, P., Enell, S., Nolbeck, K., Pettersson, T., Rennerskog, J., et al. (2021). Barnkonventionen gäller även unga som begår brott. Tidskrift för kriminalvård.