Margareta Bäck-Wiklund

GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY

CURRICULUM VITAE
Department of Social Work /November 2001

Name
Date of birth January 17, 1944
Home address Ljungmarksgatan 9
S-431 39  MÖLNDAL, Sweden
Tel Int + 46 31 412242
Fax Int + 46 31 412242
University address Göteborg University Department of Social Work Box 720
SE 405 30  GÖTEBORG, Sweden

Tel Int + 46 31 7731614 Fax   Int + 46 31 7731888

Roles and affiliations

Areas of expertise
 
 Qualifications
 

Since 1993 Professor of Social Work and Family Policy at Göteborg University
Since 1996 Chairman of the Centre for  Public Sector Research at Göteborg University
Since 1994  Member of the Scientific Committee of the National Board for Public Health
Since 2001 Member of the board and vice chairmen of the Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Social Sciences (FAS).

1. Parenting and Childhood in Modern Family Cultures.

2. Parenting and Family Life in different National Cultures.
3. Social Work – training, work role and praxis in an European perspective.
An area which I currently follow . Participated in a European Council Study on this topic, several invitation to France to present papers on the topic, an effort that resulted in a Eurpean network.

Currently directing a program ( are 1 & 2) with doctoral students and senior researchers. The Social Construction of  Gender in the Social Services,  Workplace Cultures and Modern Parenthood  are two of the projects in progress and Childhood in Linked Family Systems and The intimate life of the foster family are two recent doctoral thesis. Member of a comparative study of family life between Sweden and Turkey. The results Autonomy and Dependency in Family – Turkey and Sweden in Critical Perspective. My contribution is The Family and the Welfare State – A Route to de-familization.