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Ninni Maria Kristina Carlsson

Senior Lecturer

Department of Social Work
Telephone
+46 31-786 63 74
+46 766-18 63 74
Mail
ninni.carlsson@socwork.gu.se
Visiting address
Sprängkullsgatan 23
41123 Göteborg
Room number
K310
Postal address
Box 720
405 30 Göteborg

About Ninni Maria Kristina Carlsson

Presentation Ninni Carlsson, PhD Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor and Excellent Teacher, works at the Department of Social work, University of Gothenburg, as a researcher, teacher, course director and course developer. She is also mentor in teaching and learning for PhD students and directs academic development courser for university staff at the Unit for Pedagogical Development and Interactive learning (PIL). Ninni is specialized in gender based violence and has developed several courses on violence against women (VAW) and domestic violence (DV) for the bachelor and masters’ programs in Social work.

Ninni’s professional training within the field of Social Work is Social Pedagogy and Social Care, with an additional bachelors degree in Biomedicine and Human Sciences. Her experience of Social Work practice has mainly been aiming at supporting and empowering women and children in exposed social positions. She has for many years been active on issues of gender and sexual violence.

Doctoral thesis In her PhD thesis, A time of telling (2009), Ninni examined the phenomenon of working through child sexual abuse, and it’s personal, social, structural and historical conditions. From a wider international perspective, the structural prerequisites had never before been explored. The thesis is the first Swedish study regarding the process of working through sexual abuse. It is also the first thesis in the field of Social Work in Sweden, studying child sexual abuse from the perspective of the victims. The thesis was funded by the Crime Victim Fund at The Swedish Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority (Brottsoffermyndigheten).

Ongoing reseach project Ninni is currently studying the educational needs of higher education staff, when developing programs and training students on the subject of VAW and DV. Two first studies, in 2019 and 2022, was conducted on comission from The Gender Equality Authority. Priorities taken by the Agency, to support universities in their efforts to introduce a new national learning outcome on VAW and DV into eight professional programs, were made on the basis of results.

Areas of expertise violence against women, domestic violence, gender based violence, child sexual abuse, social support, social pedagogy, care, power, gender, social constructions, narrativity, academic development, course development, teaching, learning and assessment in higher education.