Siv-Britt Björktomta

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Social Work; Faculty

Telephone:
+46 18 471 78 04
Mobile phone:
+46 70 425 08 61
E-mail:
siv-britt.bjorktomta@uu.se
Visiting address:
Gamla torget
Gamla Torget 3
75120 UPPSALA
Postal address:
Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA

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ORCID:
0000-0001-5837-7861

Keywords

  • children and family
  • honour-based violence
  • norms of honour
  • domestic violence
  • professional identity of social workers

Biography

Björktomta' thesis fom 2012: About Patriarchy, resistance and breaking up - young girls´movement in social spaces. In 2016 she came to Uppsala University. At the turn of the year 2017/18 she was assigned as director of the newly formed Center for Social Work (CESAR) to lead and develop the operations; the social work program, master's and doctoral education in social work. At the turn of the year 2022/23 Cesar transitioned to become its own department for social work.

Dr. Björktomta has long experiences in teaching social work in subjects connected to her research areas, about qualitative research methods and about professional skills for social workers.

She is a member of the research group Professional, Prevention, Practice

Research

Björktomta´s research deals mainly with children and young people concerning different aspects of family relations. The research focusing specially the use of parental authority/power and different forms of violence. A new research area, under development, is digital society and social welfare services attitudes towards social media. The digital age implies an increased use of social media which challenge social workers’ meetings with children and young people. The social dynamics of digital society needs to be a part when the society´s lay down the general outlines concerning children´s and young people´s psychosocial health.

Current research projects:

I am the project leader for a sub-project within the Forte-funded research programme ‘What works?’, which aims to develop methods and increase knowledge in order to identify children and young people at risk of harm at an early stage.

The research program What works?

Siv-Britt Björktomta

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