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Anneli ÖljarstrandSenior lecturer/Director of Studies

Research projects

Reaching secondary school? School's support for parents.

School support for parents to be able to support their children is important, especially for parents of children with different challenges. In the project, we want to develop new knowledge about how schools cooperate with parents of students who risk not being qualified for upper secondary school.

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Publications

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

  • ”När jag slutar känna, är det dags att byta jobb!” Om begravningsentreprenörers känsloregler och känslohantering

    2020. Anneli Öljarstrand. Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv 26 (1), 70-89

    Article

    Många yrkesgrupper hanterar död och sorg i sitt arbete och en av dem är begravningsentreprenörer som dagligen arbetar med döden. Yrket är dock näst intill osynligt inom arbetslivsforskning så väl som emotionsstudier i Sverige. Föreliggande studie är ett bidra till denna kunskapslucka. Studiens mer specifika syfte är att undersöka känsloregler och känslohantering inom branschen, utifrån ett sociologiskt perspektiv, genom att intervjua sju begravningsentreprenörer. Resultatet visar bland annat på flera känslomässigt svåra arbetssituationer med olika känsloregler. För att hantera sina känslor frontstage använder begravningsentreprenörerna kognitiv-, fysisk- och experessiv känslohantering samt fokuserar på praktiska uppgifter. Backstage kan genuina känslor släppas fram och samtal med kollegor samt humor och skratt, verkar vara viktiga känslomässiga ventiler.

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  • Dirty workers emotional work: A pilot study about Swedish funeral directors

    2019. Anneli Öljarstrand.

    Conference

    Purpose – The purpose of the study is to investigate emotionally challenging situations in Swedish funeral directors’ daily work with death and their emotional work in these situations. Design/methodology/approach – This qualitative pilot study is based on seven in-depth interviews with funeral directors from three funeral office in Sweden. The data was analyzed using the method meningskategorisering (Kvale 1997) e.g. data was coded in several steps that ended up in some empirical themes. Theoretical focus – The study has a symbolic interactionist perspective which means; emotions are accepted as something physiological and valued as a form of cognition, but also understood as an effect of social and cultural forces, shaped by the social world, and located and contextualised within social practice. The analyse is guided by theory about spontaneous and genuine emotional labour, e.g. workers’ natural and spontaneous emotions, complying with social expectations and organizational display rules. Major conclusions – The results show that Swedish funeral directors face several emotionally stressful situations in daily work. The most emotionally challenged situations are taking care of dead children or parents of children and young people. To deal with the genuine feelings of sadness and powerlessness, they use different tools: Frontstage they try to manage their thoughts and pay attention to practical tasks and backstage they talk about difficult experiences with their mates and use humour and laughter as an important emotional vent.

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