Petra Ulmanen Senior lecturer

Petra Ulmanen, PhD in Social Work, is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Work, Stockholm University. Her main research interests concern social care, social policy and gender, and she has focused on long-term care and informal care for older persons. She has explored the changing roles of the state, the family and the market in providing care for older people an

d the social and economic consequences of providing informal care. Her current research concerns family members' experiences of and contacts with health and social care services, and the managerial caregiving role they often assume to make care services meet the needs at hand. She is also exploring the consequences of the de-institutionalisation of Swedish eldercare for older people and their family members.

Petra is currently involved in three research projects, When collaboration falters: Family members' managerial caregiving (PI Loretta Platts,Stockholm University, financed by Forte, the

Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare),

(PI Pär Schön,

financed by Forte, the

Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare)

and

(PI Heidi Gautun, financed by the Research Council of Norway).

Petra has previously been involved in several national and international research projects (please see the CV available on the right-hand side).

She teaches and supervises students in the Bachelor's Programme and the Master's Programme in Social Work. She is among the course directors for the international master courses The Swedish Model and Perspectives on Social Work and Social Policy in the Swedish welfarestate. She also supervises doctoral students.

Before her Ph.D. studies, she worked as a researcher, journalist and editor of cultural magazines. She participated in the set-up of the Swedish feminist magazine Bang in the early 1990s, where she worked as editor. She worked at the National Board of Health and Welfare in a Government commission about social services from a gender perspective and was appointed by the Government to work on the Inquiry on Gender Equality Policy.