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:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - 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 and interaction between people and social robots.

Publications
Recent publications
2025
2025
Robot animals and the emotional labor of caregivers
Part of How that robot made me feel, MIT Press, 2025
Utredande barnintervjuer och barns röster om våld och rädsla
Part of Våld i nära relation, p. 161-178, Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
Part of Interventions in delicate clinical and counselling interaction in healthcare, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
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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Part of Ageing & Society, p. 1-22, 2024
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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Self-disclosures in online crisis counselling: Levelling asymmetries while maintaining client-focus
Part of Nordic Social Work Research, p. 1-16, 2023
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
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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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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Social närhet i en tid av fysisk distans
Part of Äldre i Centrum, p. 86-89, 2020
Äldres behov av anonyma relationer under Covid-19-krisen
Part of Tidningen Mind: om psykisk hälsa, p. 36-39, 2020
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
Now or never: Smoking cessation discussions in the face of serious illness
Part of Sociology of Health and Illness, p. 1330-1348, 2017
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, p. 895-903, 2017
Part of European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2017
"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
Part of Childhood, p. 273-288, 2014
Recordability: Resistance and collusion in psychometric interviews with children
Part of Discourse Studies, p. 691-709, 2012
Articles, review/survey
Conversation analysis in social work research: A scoping review
Part of Qualitative Social Work, p. 1011-1042, 2022
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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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Chapters in book
Robot animals and the emotional labor of caregivers
Part of How that robot made me feel, MIT Press, 2025
Utredande barnintervjuer och barns röster om våld och rädsla
Part of Våld i nära relation, p. 161-178, Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
Part of Interventions in delicate clinical and counselling interaction in healthcare, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Mellan kunskap och förståelse: Intervjuer med våldsutsatta barn
Part of Samtal i socialt arbete, p. 69-81, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
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
Avslutning: Samtalsanalytiska insikter och hur de kan användas inom socialt arbete
Part of Samtal i socialt arbete, p. 183-194, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
Samtal i socialt arbete: En introduktion
Part of Samtal i socialt arbete, p. 15-24, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
Part of Samtal i socialt arbete, p. 25-47, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
Att ge ett annat perspektiv: Hjälplinjesamtal om självmordstankar
Part of Samtal i socialt arbete, p. 169-180, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
Kroppen som objekt och resurs för interaktion
Part of Multimodal interaktionsanalys, p. 269-286, Studentlitteratur AB, 2020
Part of Discursive Psychology, Routledge, 2015
Part of Barns röster om våld, p. 213-227, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2015
Judit Butler: Makt och performativitet
Part of Det socialpsykologiska perspektivet, p. 231-250, Studentlitteratur, 2010
Part of n()n()a()g()e()n()t(), p. 210-224, Uppsala universitet, 2008
Collections (editor)
Samtal i socialt arbete: ett samtalsanalytiskt perspektiv
Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2022
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
2025
2025
2024
From role-play to analysis: Using CA in communication skills training with first-year students
2024
2024
Children’s agency and narrations of fear in child welfare risk and safety interviews
2023
2023
Robot Animals and the Emotional Labor of Caregivers
2023
Caregivers’ Practical, Social, and Ethical Competence When Using Robotic Animals
2023
2022
2022
Examining Inclusion in Social Work Interactions: Contributions of Conversation Analysis
2022
Being personal in online suicide helpline counselling
2021
2021
2021
2021
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
How is conversation analysis used in social work research?
Part of Conversation analysis and social work conference, online, 15/12 2020, 2020
Kroppens dubbla roll i medicinsk interaktion: Iscensättande av symptom i sömnapnékonsultationer
2018
2018
2018
Claims of understanding in child social welfare interviews
2018
2017
Empathic moments in interviews with abused children
2017
Expertise and experience in medical traffic risk assessment
2016
Safety Last?: Raising Issues of Risk Behavior in Medical Treatment Consultations
2016
Patientability: Translating medical data to older patients' experiences
Part of IPrA, 2015
Normalizing actions in interviews
2014
No time like the present?: Talking smoke cessation with older patients
2014
No time like the present?: Talking smoke cessation with older patients
2014
2014
2014
Believability: Epistemic stance in interviews with abused children
2013
2012
Recordability: Resistance and Collusion in Psychometric Interviews with Abused Children
2012
Resistance and recordability: Analyzing talk-in-interaction in interviews with abused children
2012
Re-specifying Coherence: Construction of beliefs and evidence in interviews with children
2012
2011
Sad, Improved, and Apologetic: Children Accounting for Perpetrators’ Regret in Research Interviews
2011
Epistemic viability: Situating resistance in standardized interviewing
2011
2010
Giving the Child a Voice?: Recognition and Stigmatization in Research about Child Victims
2009
2009
Moraliska subjekt i polisförhör om sexualbrott mot barn
Part of Policing in Scandinavia, p. 197-214, 2008
Reports
Other
Robotisering och arbetslivets omorganisering
Part of Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv, p. 72-78, 2021