Helene Brodin holds a PhD in Economic History and is Associate Professor of Social Work, Stockholm University. 

Her main research interests concern care work and care entrepreneurship from a gender perspective, with a particular focus on working conditions, work environment and the valuation of care work in different organisational contexts.

Research

Helene leads the research project Love and skills: comparing the valuation of care work in different arenas funded by the Swedish Research Council and participates in the project Swecare 2025 (PI Rebecka Strandell, funded by Forte). Helene was previously responsible for the project Workplace violence in home-based social services; approaches, responses and reporting of client-initiated threats and violence in four different fields of social work and Sustainable Care in a Customer Choice Model? Dilemmas and possibilities of small care enterprises, both funded by Forte.

Helene has participated in several national and international projects, such as Care work on different arenas (PI Marta Szebehely, funded by Forte); Individualised care and universal welfare (PI Marta Szebehely, funded by Forte); The future of health and social care for older people living at home (PI Minna Zechner, funded by NOS-HS); and Social inequalities in ageing (PI Johan Fritzell, funded by Nordforsk).

Teaching

Helene primarily teaches at the master level, where she is responsible for the master courses Social work with older people; Social work and ageing; and Organisation and leadership in social work. She is interested in supervising essays on gender and/or intersectional perspectives on social work.