Stina Fernqvist
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of social work; Faculty
- Mobile phone:
- +46 72 999 96 58
- E-mail:
- stina.fernqvist@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA
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- Academic merits:
- FD, docent
Short presentation
I have been involved in several research projects that explores the relationship between socially and financially challenged families and the welfare state, from different perspectives and points of departure. Since 2022 I hold a position as senior lecturer at the Department for Social Work where I am also the director of doctoral studies.

Publications
Recent publications
Underhåll när föräldrar inte lever tillsammans – föräldraansvar, risker och Försäkringskassans roll
Part of Socialförsäkringar för socionomer, Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
Part of Violence against Women, p. 3879-3899, 2024
- DOI for "He won’t pay": The entanglement of financial abuse and negligence in Swedish child maintenance processes
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"Han kommer inte betala!": Ekonomiskt våld i samtal om underhåll
2024
Part of Journal of family Violence, p. 127-138, 2023
- DOI for “And all Hell Broke Loose”: How Child Maintenance Regulations Contribute to Re-actualizing Intimate Partner Violence between Separated Parents in Sweden
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Part of International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, p. 359-373, 2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Violence against Women, p. 3879-3899, 2024
- DOI for "He won’t pay": The entanglement of financial abuse and negligence in Swedish child maintenance processes
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Part of Journal of family Violence, p. 127-138, 2023
- DOI for “And all Hell Broke Loose”: How Child Maintenance Regulations Contribute to Re-actualizing Intimate Partner Violence between Separated Parents in Sweden
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Part of International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, p. 359-373, 2023
Part of Discourse Studies, p. 641-663, 2023
- DOI for Challenges in recognizing and facilitating disclosures of intimate partner violence in customer service calls about maintenance support
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Part of JARID, p. 1380-1389, 2022
- DOI for Parents with Intellectual Disability Reporting on Factors Affecting their Caregiving in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study
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Court Cases on Poor Children’s Access to Normalcy
Part of Social Inclusion, p. 53-62, 2022
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Guaranteed or conditional child maintenance?: Examining the 2016 reform in Sweden
Part of Critical Social Policy, p. 428-447, 2022
- DOI for Guaranteed or conditional child maintenance?: Examining the 2016 reform in Sweden
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Part of Nordic Social Work Research, p. 245-256, 2020
‘One does one’s best’: performing deservingness in income support case records
Part of Critical and radical social work An international journal, p. 329-343, 2018
Part of PLAN, p. 26-29, 2017
Välfärdsstatens logik?: Erfarenheter från föräldrar med kognitiva och ekonmiska svårigheter
Part of Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, p. 1-18, 2016
Dubbel utsatthet - om samband mellan ekonomisk utsatthet, föräldraskap och kognitiva svårigheter
Part of SocialPolitik, 2015
Negotiating parenthood: Experiences of economic hardship among parents with cognitive difficulties
Part of Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, p. 215-229, 2015
Joining in on different terms: dealing with poverty in school and among 'peers'
Part of Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research, p. 155-171, 2013
Fattig svensk debatt om fattiga barn
Part of SocialPolitik, 2013
Part of Sociologisk forskning, p. 173-188, 2012
Redefining participation?: On the positioning of children in Swedish welfare benefits appeals
Part of Childhood, p. 227-241, 2011
(Inter)Active Interviewing in Childhood Research: on children’s identity work in interviews
Part of Qualitative Report, p. 1309-1327, 2010
Det osynliga barnet i biståndsärenden
Part of Advokaten, 2008
Part of SocialPolitik, 2007
Books
Barnfattigdom: Barnfamiljers och professionellas perspektiv
Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2020
Chapters in book
Underhåll när föräldrar inte lever tillsammans – föräldraansvar, risker och Försäkringskassans roll
Part of Socialförsäkringar för socionomer, Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
Barns rätt till bostad?: Välfärdsstatens hantering av barnfamiljers instabila boendevillkor
Part of Allas rätt till bostad, p. 81-95, Daidalos, 2022
Barn som anhöriga, utsatta och omvårdare - två typexempel
Part of Att se barn som anhöriga , p. 345-366, Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga och Linneuniversitetet, 2015
Part of Att se barn som anhöriga, p. 21-42, Nationells komptenscentrum anhöriga och Linnéuniversitetet, 2015
Part of Barns röster om våld, p. 149-166, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2015
Ekonomiskt våld och barns utsatthet
Part of Barns röster om våld, p. 158-177, Gleerups, 2008
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
"Han kommer inte betala!": Ekonomiskt våld i samtal om underhåll
2024
Re-actualizations of abuse? Outcomes of the 2016 maintenance reform in Sweden
Part of 11th Conference of the European Society on Family Relations, 14-16 juni, Roskilde, 2023
Emotional dissonance and boundary work among case officers at a Swedish government agency
2022
Disclosures of intimate partner violence in child maintenance cases
2022
Emotion and disclosures of domestic violence in social insurance service calls
Part of Emotion in Institutional Encounters (organized by Bethan Benwell, Jack Joyce, Catrin Rhys), 2021
Violence in Post-separations: a Consequence of State Regulations
2021
Part of 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), August 20-23, Manchester, UK, 2019
Part of Women, vulnerability and welfare services, 2018
Performing Propriety in Swedish Social Benefits Case Records
2018
2018
2017
2016
Vikten av att vilja : Framställningar av vräkningshotade föräldrar i socialtjänstens akter
2016
2015
Negotiating parenthood: Economic hardship among parents with cognitive difficulties
2014
Redefining participation?: On the positioning of children in Swedish welfare benefits appeals
2012
Joining in on different terms: experiencing child poverty in school and among 'peers'
2011
Part of Arbete med barn i socialt utsatta situationer, 2008
Barn, ekonomisk utsatthet och identitetsskapande: inför en kvalitativ analys av barns narrativ
2008
Ekonomiskt våld och barns delaktighet
2008
2007
Professional’s views on children in economic hardship
2007
2006
2006
Reports
Other
Regler för underhållsstöd försvårar för föräldrar som utsatts för våld
2022
Sara Eldén, Forskningsetik. Vägval i samhällsvetenskapliga studier. Studentlitteratur, 2020.
Part of Sociologisk forskning, p. 183-185, 2021
- DOI for Sara Eldén, Forskningsetik. Vägval i samhällsvetenskapliga studier. Studentlitteratur, 2020.
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Part of Critical Social Policy, p. 329-330, 2019