Clara Iversen
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Social Work; Faculty
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 15 01
- E-mail:
- clara.iversen@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla torget
Gamla Torget 3
75120 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA
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My background is in social psychology and my research interests concern how participants in social and health care encounters manage shared understanding. I am currently working with research on helpline interaction, supported living services, and support to foreign-born adoptees.

Publications
Recent publications
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Part of Child & Family Social Work, 2026
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Distant Presence: Care Workers' Experiences of Digital Monitoring Systems in Dementia Care
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2026
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The morality of anxiety: Emotion and credibility in helpline interaction
Part of Qualitative Psychology, 2026
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Robot dilemmas: Deception and digital emotional labor in dementia care work
Part of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2025
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Robot animals and the emotional labor of caregivers
Part of How that robot made me feel, p. 107-125, MIT Press, 2025
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Child & Family Social Work, 2026
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Distant Presence: Care Workers' Experiences of Digital Monitoring Systems in Dementia Care
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2026
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The morality of anxiety: Emotion and credibility in helpline interaction
Part of Qualitative Psychology, 2026
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Robot dilemmas: Deception and digital emotional labor in dementia care work
Part of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2025
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Part of Ageing & Society, p. 1585-1606, 2025
- DOI for Playful framings of social robots in dementia care: reconsidering the principle of transparency in interactions with robot animals
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Self-disclosures in online crisis counselling: Levelling asymmetries while maintaining client-focus
Part of Nordic Social Work Research, p. 332-347, 2025
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Part of Sociology of Health and Illness, p. 1547-1586, 2024
- DOI for Dealing with callers’ racialised talk in suicide preventive helplines: Accomplishing (anti)racism in the context of unconditional support
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Part of Sociology of Health and Illness, p. 1192-1211, 2024
- DOI for Making robots matter in dementia care: Conceptualising the triadic interaction between caregiver, resident and robot animal
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Part of British Journal of Social Psychology, p. 1608-1624, 2024
- DOI for The subjective and objective side of helplessness: Navigating between reassurance and risk management when people seek help for suicidal others
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Can robots lie?: A posthumanist approach to robotic animals and deceptive practices in dementia care
Part of Journal of Aging Studies, 2024
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Users’ Perspectives on Crisis Helplines in Relation to Professional Mental Health Services
Part of Crisis, p. 173-179, 2024
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Part of Frontiers in Sociology, 2024
- DOI for Robotic misinformation in dementia care: emotions as sense-making resources in residents' encounters with robot animals
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Working with Robotic Animals in Dementia Care: The Significance of Caregivers' Competences
Part of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, p. 49-69, 2023
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Part of Qualitative Social Work, p. 1043-1062, 2022
- DOI for The uses of small talk in social work: Weather as a resource for informally pursuing institutional tasks
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Part of Journal of Pragmatics, p. 83-97, 2022
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Part of Sociology of Health and Illness, p. 2066-2084, 2021
- DOI for Making sense of experiences in suicide helpline calls: Offering empathy without endorsing suicidal ideation
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En människa bland andra?: Äldre människors begripliggörande av vardagen under covid-19-krisen
Part of Sociologisk forskning, p. 53-76, 2021
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Social närhet i en tid av fysisk distans
Part of Äldre i Centrum, p. 86-89, 2020
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Part of Qualitative Research in Psychology, p. 430-449, 2020
- DOI for Respecifying uncertainty in pupil health team collaboration: The morality of interpreting pupils’ school problems
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Äldres behov av anonyma relationer under Covid-19-krisen
Part of Tidningen Mind: om psykisk hälsa, p. 36-39, 2020
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Beyond accessing information: Claiming to understand in child social welfare interviews
Part of British Journal of Social Psychology, p. 550-568, 2019
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Traffic risk work with sleepy patients: from rationality to practice
Part of Health, Risk and Society, p. 23-42, 2018
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Now or never: Smoking cessation discussions in the face of serious illness
Part of Sociology of Health and Illness, p. 1330-1348, 2017
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, p. 895-903, 2017
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Part of European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2017
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"I don't know if I should believe him": Knowledge and believability in interviews with children
Part of British Journal of Social Psychology, p. 367-386, 2014
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Part of Childhood, p. 273-288, 2014
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Recordability: Resistance and collusion in psychometric interviews with children
Part of Discourse Studies, p. 691-709, 2012
Articles, review/survey
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Caregivers' use of robots and their effect on work environment: a scoping review
Part of Journal of technology in human services, p. 251-277, 2022
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Conversation analysis in social work research: A scoping review
Part of Qualitative Social Work, p. 1011-1042, 2022
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Chapters in book
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Robot animals and the emotional labor of caregivers
Part of How that robot made me feel, p. 107-125, MIT Press, 2025
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Part of Research Handbook on Social Interaction, p. 457-474, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
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Part of Research Handbook on Social Interaction, p. 457-474, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
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Utredande barnintervjuer och barns röster om våld och rädsla
Part of Våld i nära relation, p. 161-178, Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
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Part of Interventions in delicate clinical and counselling interaction in healthcare, p. 57-90, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
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Avslutning: Samtalsanalytiska insikter och hur de kan användas inom socialt arbete
Part of Samtal i socialt arbete, p. 183-194, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
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Mellan kunskap och förståelse: Intervjuer med våldsutsatta barn
Part of Samtal i socialt arbete, p. 69-81, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
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Robotic animals in dementia care: Conceptions of animality and humanity in care organizations
Part of The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies, p. 409-C27.P103, Oxford University Press, 2022
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Part of Samtal i socialt arbete, p. 25-47, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
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Samtal i socialt arbete: En introduktion
Part of Samtal i socialt arbete, p. 15-24, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
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Att ge ett annat perspektiv: Hjälplinjesamtal om självmordstankar
Part of Samtal i socialt arbete, p. 169-180, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
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Kroppen som objekt och resurs för interaktion
Part of Multimodal interaktionsanalys, p. 269-286, Studentlitteratur AB, 2020
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Part of Discursive Psychology, Routledge, 2015
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Part of Barns röster om våld, p. 213-227, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2015
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Judit Butler: Makt och performativitet
Part of Det socialpsykologiska perspektivet, p. 231-250, Studentlitteratur, 2010
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Part of n()n()a()g()e()n()t(), p. 210-224, Uppsala universitet, 2008
Collections (editor)
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Samtal i socialt arbete: ett samtalsanalytiskt perspektiv
Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
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2025
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2025
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2024
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2024
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From role-play to analysis: Using CA in communication skills training with first-year students
2024
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Children’s agency and narrations of fear in child welfare risk and safety interviews
2023
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Caregivers’ Practical, Social, and Ethical Competence When Using Robotic Animals
2023
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2023
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Robot Animals and the Emotional Labor of Caregivers
2023
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2022
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2022
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Examining Inclusion in Social Work Interactions: Contributions of Conversation Analysis
2022
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Being personal in online suicide helpline counselling
2021
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2021
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2021
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2021
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Being close at a distance: Anonymous peer support during the Covid-19 pandemic
Part of Conversation analysis and social work conference (CASW), online, 15/12 2020, 2020
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How is conversation analysis used in social work research?
Part of Conversation analysis and social work conference, online, 15/12 2020, 2020
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Kroppens dubbla roll i medicinsk interaktion: Iscensättande av symptom i sömnapnékonsultationer
2018
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2018
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2018
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Claims of understanding in child social welfare interviews
2018
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Empathic moments in interviews with abused children
2017
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2017
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Expertise and experience in medical traffic risk assessment
2016
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Safety Last?: Raising Issues of Risk Behavior in Medical Treatment Consultations
2016
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Patientability: Translating medical data to older patients' experiences
Part of IPrA, 2015
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Normalizing actions in interviews
2014
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No time like the present?: Talking smoke cessation with older patients
2014
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2014
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No time like the present?: Talking smoke cessation with older patients
2014
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2014
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Believability: Epistemic stance in interviews with abused children
2013
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2012
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Recordability: Resistance and Collusion in Psychometric Interviews with Abused Children
2012
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Resistance and recordability: Analyzing talk-in-interaction in interviews with abused children
2012
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Re-specifying Coherence: Construction of beliefs and evidence in interviews with children
2012
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2011
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Sad, Improved, and Apologetic: Children Accounting for Perpetrators’ Regret in Research Interviews
2011
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Epistemic viability: Situating resistance in standardized interviewing
2011
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2010
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Giving the Child a Voice?: Recognition and Stigmatization in Research about Child Victims
2009
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2009
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Moraliska subjekt i polisförhör om sexualbrott mot barn
Part of Policing in Scandinavia, p. 197-214, 2008
Reports
Other
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Robotisering och arbetslivets omorganisering
Part of Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv, p. 72-78, 2021