Associate professor in Social work. My research primarily concerns the governing of social issues such as safety and gendered violence, from feminist & (post)colonial perspectives.
I work as an Associate professor at the department of Social Work and have a PhD in political science. My research primarily focuses on the governing of social problems such as safety, gender equality and gendered violence, from feminist, (post)colonial and Indigenous perspectives. I am currently working with four different research projects:
Project manager and coordinator of the "Nordic Network on Gendered Violence in Sámi and Inuit communities" (2025-2027 Nordforsk)
Project manager of the project "Gender-based violence in Sápmi: analysing and developing the social service’s possibilities to meet the needs of abused Sámi women" (2025-2027 FORTE).
Main researcher in the project "Violence against Sámi women" (2021-2025 the Sámi parliament in Sweden).
Participating researcher in the project "Together for Safety: The role of civil society in creating safe public spaces" (2024-2027 Formas), anchored at Umeå Center for Gender Studies.
In my dissertation "", from 2022 I examined how (un)safety in public space is addressed and given meaning as a political problem.
I am affiliated to the research group Lávvuo - research and education for Sámi health, to Umeå Centre for Gender Studies and to the Arctic Centre at Umeå University.
2024
Umeå: Umeå University 2024
Brandén, Jennie; Nilsson, Lena Maria; Burman, Monica; et al.
I have broad experience in teaching and supervising at both basic and advanced levels. I have mainly taught courses related to theory and method within political science, gender studies and public health. I have experience teaching in both Swedish and English, digitally and on campus.
I am currently responsible for the PhD course "Introduction to Gender Studies" (7,5 credits) through the Gender Research School, and for the courses "Violence in close relations" (7,5 credits) and "Social work as a research field II" (7,5 credits) connected to the program for Social work at Umeå university.