Rakel Eklund

Researcher at Department of Women's and Children's Health; Medical psychology and care science

E-mail:: rakel.eklund@uu.se
Visiting address:: MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala
Postal address:: Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA

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Visiting researcher at Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences; Social Medicine/CHAP

E-mail:: rakel.eklund@uu.se
Visiting address:: BMC, Husargatan 3, Uppsala
Postal address:: Box 564
751 22 Uppsala

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ORCID:: 0000-0002-9396-9800

Short presentation

Rakel Eklund is Associate Professor in Care Science and Assistant Senior Lecturer specializing in children’s grief. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of psychosocial support for bereaved children.

With a particular interest in children’s rights, the implementation of the UNCRC, children’s participation, and their opportunities to be heard in different contexts, Rakel aims to give bereaved children a voice.

She is part of the network for existential health among young people.

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Research

Rakel defended her PhD in 2020 with a dissertation on children as relatives in palliative care, including an evaluation of The Family Talk Intervention from the children’s perspective.

Between 2020 and 2022, she completed her postdoc at the National Centre for Disaster Psychiatry, where the research focused on developing and evaluating an app for parents who had lost a child, “Min sorg” (“My Grief”). In addition, research was conducted on Covid-19 and its psychosocial consequences.

In 2022, Rakel was employed as a researcher in a project aimed at developing an app for teens bereaved by the loss of a family member, at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health.

Since 2024, Rakel has been PI of a project on children’s return to school after the loss of a family member, as well as schools’ support and response to bereaved children, funded by the Swedish Cancer Society and the Majblomman Foundation.