CV

Positions 

2023 - ongoing: Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Social Work of Lund University, Sweden.

2021-2023: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology of Lund University, Sweden.

2020: Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology of Uppsala University.

2019: Temporary lecturer at the Centre for Social Work (CESAR) at the Department of Sociology of Uppsala University.

2019: Researcher in the project “Samarbete som förutsättning och föräldraförmåga? [Collaboration as condition and parental ability]?”, Scientific coordinator: Stina Fernqvist, at the Centre for Social Work (CESAR) at the Department of Sociology of Uppsala University.

2013: Doctoral student at the Department of Sociology of Uppsala University.

2013-2016: Research assistant in the EU project DISCIT (Making persons with disabilities full citizens) involving 9 European countries, funded by the 7th framework programme (grand agreement number: 320079), Scientific coordinator: Bjørn Hvinden (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway).

Education

2019: Ph.D. in sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden.

2012: MSc in sociology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

2010: BA in sociology and anthropology, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Belgium.

International visits

2024: Visiting researcher in the Communities of Care Project funded by the Mellon Foundation at the University at Buffalo, USA (autumn 2024).

2021-2022: Visiting researcher at the Center for Disability Studies of the University at Buffalo, USA (virtually). 

2020: Visiting researcher at the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research of the University of Glasgow, UK (spring 2020).

2016: Visiting researcher at the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of York, UK (May 2016). 

Awards

2019: Young Author Prize, awarded by Alter - European Society for Disability Research.

Stipends and grants

2026: Internal research grant awarded by the School of Social Work, Lund University, for the project “The right to self-determination: an ethical dilemma or an opportunity to re-imagine support for persons with disabilities?”

2024: Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation, as part of the Communities of Care Project at the University at Buffalo, USA.

2024: Stipend from Include to conduct the project "Mot ett LU för alla-Teaterhögskolan som en försöksverksamhet för breddad rekrytering och breddat deltagande [Towards a Lund University for all - The Theatre Academy as an experimental lab for broadened recruitment and participation]" 

2020: Postdoc fellowship from the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff).

Assignment as scientific expert

Scientific committees:

o   Member of the scientific committee of the Prespol project (Promoting the economic autonomy of disabled people through employment and social policy (PRESPOL) at Sciences Po, France

Referee assignments for academic journals and book publishers:

o   Journal of Human Rights and Social Work; Citizenship Studies; Disability and Society; Population Research and Policy Review; Disability and Rehabilitation; Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research; Qualitative Inquiry; Frontiers in Sociology; Alter – European Journal of Disability research; Current Sociology; International Journal of Disability and Social Justice; The Age of Human Rights; Canadian Journal of Disability Studies

o   Routledge; Helsinki University Press

Teaching 

Undergraduate level

·         Introduction in sociology

·         Social policy and welfare

·         Social conditions and social problems

·         Education, culture and lifestyle in Sweden

·         Social work as a subject and a profession

·         Perspectives on social problems and interventions

·         People's living conditions, needs and rights

·         Social work as a research field

·         Social work as a profession

·         Bachelor thesis course

Postgraduate level

·         Disability – perspectives from social sciences

·         Social work with a focus on norm-breaking functional variations

Leadership and organisation roles

2024-present:  Gender equality and equal opportunities group (Jämställdhet och Jämlikhet) at the School of Social Work at Lund University

2023-present: Member of the board of the Nordic Network on Disability Research.

2020-2022: Coordinator of Kritfunk, the Swedish Network for Critical Disability Studies, together with Ida Norberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)

2020: Coordinator of the Welfare Research Group at Uppsala University, together with Hannah Bradby (Uppsala University)

2016: Member of the organising committee for the 5th Annual Conference of Alter, European Society for Disability Research, June 30-July 1 in Stockholm

2015-2019: Doctoral student representative in the board of the Centre for Disability Research (Centrum för funktionshinderforskning) at Uppsala University

Languages

French, Dutch, English and Swedish.