Foto av Hanna Kara
  • PL 54 (Unioninkatu 37)

    00014

    Finland

  • Finland

20062024

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Personlig profil

Information om forskning och undervisning

I work as university lecturer in social work at University of Helsinki and as researcher in the following research projects: ReJustice - Linguistic justice, global migration and the Nordic welfare state (2023-2027, funded by Swedish Research Council); LIVICS - Identifying and counteracting language-based vulnerabilities in social work with children through the lens of professional discretion (2024-2026, funded by Ministry of Social Affairs and Health); SWORD - Social work dissertations in Finland 2007-2022 (2020-ongoing, no external funding). 

Previously, I have researched migrant families' encounters with social services and social work in Finland, linguistic diversity in Finnish social services, and the transnational migration of Latin American women in Spain. I have written, for example, on the role of public service interpreters in social work and social services, transnational care and family relations, transnational daughtering, and research ethics. I am affiliated researcer with the MICA research group in the Center of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care at the University of Helsinki.

During the academic year 2024–25, I teach courses on qualitative methods in social research, knowledge production in social work, and social work Master's thesis seminar. I am also supervising teacher in Bachelor's Programme in Social Research and co-ordinator of social work Bachelor's thesis seminars. I supervise theses on master and doctoral levels.

I am member of the Sosnet (Finnish National University Network for Social Work) committee on collaboration in research and doctoral training and co-editor of Social work research blog https://sosiaalityontiedeblogi.home.blog/.

Vetenskapsgrenar

  • 5145 Socialt arbete
  • 5142 Social- och samhällspolitik

Internationellt och inhemskt samarbete

Publikationer och projekt inom de senaste fem åren.