Evelina Fridell LifPhD student

About me

My ongoing project concerns Swedish foster care, particularly focusing on independent foster care, which is a form of foster care where social services contracts organizations to recruit and support foster families.

Supervisors: prof. Stefan Wiklund & David Pålsson, PhD

Publications:

Fridell Lif, E. (2025). Social work professionals’ perspectives on using independent foster care: A contested way to compensate for organisational failure? Adoption & Fostering, 49(1), 102-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/03085759251316575 (Original work published 2025)

Fridell Lif, E. (2023) The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?, European Journal of Social Work, DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2166017

Fridell Lif, E., Brännström, L., Vinnerljung, B., & Hjern, A. (2017). Childhood Adversities and Later Economic Hardship among Swedish Child Welfare Clients: Cumulative Disadvantage or Disadvantage Saturation? British Journal of Social Work, 47(7), 2137–2156. https://doi-org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.1093/bjsw/bcw167

Teaching activities

Teaching at social work programme at basic and advanced level, mainly concerning child and family social work. Supervision of bachelor essays.