I am teaching at the Department of Social Work at Stockholm University and other contexts in topics such as service user involvement, gambling and substance use problems, care and treatment and motivational interviewing (MI).

In close collaboration with the City of Stockholm within the FUSS research programme, we conduct research aimed at improving understanding of clients’ needs and their pathways through the care system, in order to develop more accessible and coherent interventions.

Within a specific study focusing on clients with complex needs, Social Work with Comorbidity, we examine how intensive case management approaches and harm-reduction-oriented social work can enhance services and living conditions for a particularly marginalised group.

In the research project RISK we have studied how people who inject drugs, treatment staff and other societal actors reason about whether and how risks and harms can be prevented, and how this relates to the interaction between individuals, social situations (e.g., social network, injection) and institutions (e.g., drugs policy, public debate).

The post doc project Dilemmas of help-seeking – needs, experiences and barriers of contact with care in the case of gambling and alcohol problems was financed by Forte and took place during 2018 and 2019. The project is part of the Department of Public Health Sciences research program on gambling problems – REGAPS (Responding to and Reducing Gambling Problems Studies) which includes research on availability of support and treatment, measurement, comorbidity and policy impacts.

Together with researchers at the Department of Public Health Sciences I am conducting interviews to understand the declining drinking habits and health approaches among youth.

I finished my PhD in 2015. The aim of the thesis Use or misuse? Addiction care practitioners’ perceptions of substance use and treatment was to study boundary-making in addiction care practitioner’s perceptions of substance use and treatment. The four papers were based on two quantitative surveys and a focus group interview study. Boundary-making was actualized in differentiating between various substances, with alcohol use being perceived as a less severe problem than narcotics use and requiring less comprehensive treatment measures. Boundary-making processes were also found in relation to the specific user’s age, family situation, socio-economic status and in some cases gender, with young women’s drinking being assessed to be more severe than young men’s drinking for example. It was concluded that to avoid disparities in addiction care delivery, it is of major importance that practitioners are given room to reflect on the assumptions and values that underlie the assessments made in practice.

I have previously studied change trajectories in gambling habits and problems with Kristina Sundqvist and Jenny Cisneros Örnberg.

Previously I have also worked with a project about service user involvement in substance abuse practice.