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Areas of expertise
Biography
My research activities and publications as well as my teaching topics embrace social work with migrants and ethnic minorities, child welfare social work, gender and social work and social work ethics.
My methodological emphasis is on qualitative research.
My current activities contain the specialization education of child, youth and family social work.
I supervise master´s and doctoral students.
My doctoral dissertation defended in 2008, was titled Social Work and Immigrants - Interaction and Interpretations of Child Protection Professionals and Clients.
I am also a licentiate social worker.
Teaching
Cultural diversity, immigration and minority issues in social work, social work and gender
Qualitative research methods
Child, youth and family social work specialization education
Guidance of master´s thesis and post graduate studies
Research
My current research topics are:
- Child protection expertise in social work with migrant children and families, Lampe-research project: https://www.chydenius.fi/fi/sosiaalitieteet/tutkimus/lastensuojelun-asiantuntijuus-maahanmuuttajalasten-ja-perheiden-sosiaalityossa-lampe
- Youth in child protection and adolescent psychiatry services, Lanups-research project: Lastensuojelun sosiaalityön ja nuorisopsykiatrian yhteistutkiminen ja -kehittäminen Länsi- ja Itä-Suomessa, LANUPS-hanke | Sote-akatemia (utu.fi)
- Adolescents with neuropsychiatric symptoms in the turmoil of the service system: The NEPSOS interdisciplinary study of social work, adolescent psychiatry and special education, https://sites.utu.fi/sote/yhteistyo-ja-hankkeet/hankkeet/nepsos-neuropsykiatrisesti-oireilevat-nuoret-palvelujen-pyorteissa/