Anna-Karin Larsson
Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal SciencesEmail: YW5uYS1rYXJpbi5sYXJzc29uO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 303814
Room: L2304
About Anna-Karin Larsson
Anna-Karin Larsson is a historian, senior lecturer in social work and vice-dean for equality and education at the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Research
Anna-Karin Larsson's research areas include historical research on the health of children and young people, as well as social science research on men's violence against women.
The historical research spans medicine and social history, as well as gender and childhood history, primarily during the 19th and 20th centuries. It has addressed medical perceptions of children, youth, gender, health, and illness. In the research project "Youth Mental Health circa 1970-2010," perspectives on, issues related to, and explanations for the mental health of children and young people have been examined from a gender perspective. The project has been conducted within the framework of the interdisciplinary program Three-City Study on Youth Mental Health.
Social science research is conducted within the RiskSam project, where Larsson is involved in several sub-studies. In Livsam, the significance of risk management according to the RiskSam model for the quality of life of those affected, as well as perceptions of societal support and the consequences of post-violence, is examined. Verksam explores the work of police officers and social workers in risk assessment and risk management of domestic violence and stalking, as well as their experiences and perceptions of internal and external collaboration. Risk Management in Practice applies a rural and countryside perspective to the work of professionals to learn more about the specific conditions, challenges, and needs of working with domestic violence in rural areas.
Teaching
Anna-Karin Larsson teaches courses on scientific theory and research methods within the Social Work program and supervises bachelor's and master's theses.
Collaborations and assignments
The interdisciplinary research network FlickForsk! - Nordic Network for Girlhood Studies has been based at the Department of Social Work at Örebro University since January 2022. Anna-Karin Larsson coordinates the network together with Linda Arnell and participates in the network's steering group.
Larsson is also active in the research group Children's Living Conditions and Well-being (BLIVA).
Together with Rúna Baianstovu, she is the editor of the publication series "Working Papers and Reports in Social Work."
Research projects
Active projects
- Children in focus- for a sustainable integration for families with children
- Exploring the Role of Pets in Children's Well-being and Mental Health
- RISKSAM: Structured collaboration to prevent stalking and intimate partner violence - Implementation and evaluation of a risk management model for the social services and the police
- Violent Girls. Girls' Violence in News Media from the 1980s to Today.
Completed projects
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Larsson, A. , Arnell, L. & Moberg Stephenson, M. (2024). Breaking Norms: Depictions of Violent Girls in Swedish Newspapers. Deviant behavior. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. L. , Olsson, H. & Strand, S. J. M. (2024). Challenges and opportunities in collaborative approaches to responding to intimate partner violence: insights from social workers and police in Sweden. Journal of Social Work Practice, 38 (2), 143-157. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. L. (2024). Flickors röster om sexuell hälsa i ett historiskt perspektiv. Finsk tidskrift : kultur, ekonomi, politik (5). [BibTeX]
- Vikander, M. , Larsson, A. L. & Källström, Å. (2024). Managing post-separation violence: mothers’ strategies and the challenges of receiving societal protection. Nordic Social Work Research, 14 (3), 360-373. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. (2024). Mäns våld mot kvinnor i ett historiskt perspektiv. Texter om våld (1), 8-16. [BibTeX]
- Olsson, H. , Larsson, A. L. & Strand, S. J. M. (2024). Social Workers’ Experiences of Working with Partner Violence. British Journal of Social Work, 54 (2), 704-722. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. , Arnell, L. & Moberg Stephenson, M. (2024). Våldsamma flickor. Texter om våld (1), 17-24. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. (2023). Girls’ Responsibilities, Boys’ Needs: Sexual Health, Gender and Youth in Sweden 1970–1999. European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 80, 96-118. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. & Boersma, K. (2020). Historiskt perspektiv på ungas psykiska ohälsa: Medicinsk diskurs och självskattad hälsa under 1970- och 2010-talen. Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, 97 (5-6), 743-759. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. (2020). Ungas psykiska ohälsa i medicinsk media 1970-2017. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 27 (1), 5-23. [BibTeX]
- Frih, A. (2013). Becoming Healthy, Free and Physically Active: Medical Discourse on Girls in Sweden c. 1880-1930. Girlhood Studies, 6 (2), 101-118. [BibTeX]
- Frih, A. (2013). Den "normala" flickan i hälsoundersökningar från 1800-tal till 2000-tal. Finsk tidskrift : kultur, ekonomi, politik (7-8), 43-53. [BibTeX]
- Frih, A. (2004). "Flickorna äro sjuka, klena och öfveransträngda": sjukligheten bland flickor och pojkar utifrån svenska hälsoundersökningar ca 1870-1930. Svensk medicinhistorisk tidskrift, 8 (1), 67-97. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. (2001). Uppfostran till självsvält?: Om yttre och inre kontroll av den unga flickans kropp och karaktär kring sekelskiftet 1900. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 8 (1-2), 96-111. [BibTeX]
Articles, book reviews
- Larsson, A. L. (2023). Book review: The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children: Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day Edited by Simon Bacon and Leo Ruickbie. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 16 (1), 156-158. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. (2023). Ny bok: A. Behtoui, F. Hertzberg och A. Neergard (red) (2020): Ungdomars fritidsaktiviteter: deltagande, möjligheter och konsekvenser. Studentlitteratur. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 30 (1), 503-506. [BibTeX]
- Frih, A. (2010). Den gränslösa hälsan : Signe och Axel Höjer, folkhälsan och expertisen [av Annika Berg] [The boundless health: Signe and Axel Hojer, and public health expertise]. Scandia (1), 178-179. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Frih, A. (2011). Flickor och kvinnor på kurort: sjukdomar och behandlingar vid Loka brunn och Porla brunn ca 1870-1920. In: Motzi Eklöf, Naturen, kuren & samhället: vård på sanatorier och kurorter ca 1870-2010 (pp. 144-169). Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag. [BibTeX]
- Frih, A. (2010). Flickor och fysisk aktivitet kring sekelskiftet 1900. In: Anna-Karin Frih, Eva Söderberg, En bok om flickor och flickforskning (pp. 61-84). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. (2003). Från korsett till kost: Nya hälsoideal för unga kvinnor i Sverige 1880-1930. In: Birgitta Meurling, Varför flickor? : Ideal, självbilder och ätstörningar (pp. 41-65). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. (2003). 'Sjuk nästan jemt...’: Klorotiska flickor och kvinnor vid Loka och Porla brunn ca 1880-1910. In: Yvonne Torstensson, Kvinnor i Örebro län (pp. 111-126). Örebro: Örebro läns museum. [BibTeX]
Collections (editor)
- Frih, A. (ed.) & Söderberg, E. (ed.) (2010). En bok om flickor och flickforskning (1ed.). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Larsson, A. L. (2023). Att bedöma och hantera risk för våld i nära relation i gles- och landsbygd. Paper presented at Centrum för våldsstudiers årliga konferens: Riskhantering för våld i nära relation, Örebro universitet, Örebro, 22 november 2023. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. L. , Backman Prytz, S. , Hamberger, A. & Andersen, R. (2023). Att göra flickors röster hörda: Om flickforskningens möte med historievetenskapen. Paper presented at Nionde Svenska historikermötet, Umeå, 14-16 juni, 2023. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. L. (2022). Flickors och unga kvinnors sexuella hälsa i Sverige ca 1970-2000. In: Flickforskning på bredden och tvären FlickForsk! nationella konferens i Örebro 2022. Paper presented at Flickforskning på bredden och tvären, Örebro, 7 oktober 2022. (pp. 1-1). [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. L. (2022). Youth mental health in Swedish medical literature, 1970-2017. Paper presented at 50th Anniversary Conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM 2022), Swansea University, Wales, UK, June 29 - July 2, 2022. [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. L. (2019). Youth mental health in Swedish medical literature 1970-2017. Paper presented at 7th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI 2019), Tartu, Estonia, August 27-29, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Frih, A. (2014). Systematic review of research on language, identity and participation with special focus on young people and deaf studies. Paper presented at LanDpost - Languaging and Diversity in the age of post-colonial-medialization, Mysore, India 15-17 October 2014. [BibTeX]
- Frih, A. (2010). The Girl in Medical Science: Nordic Girlhood Cultural Studies. In: Reimagining Girlhood: Communities, Identities, Self-Portrayals. Paper presented at Girlhood studies, State University of New York College at Cortland, Cortland, New York, USA, October 22-24, 2010. [BibTeX]
- Frih, A. (2007). The Girl in the Medicine: Gender, Youth and Illness in Sweden 1870-1930. In: "In the name of the child" The social and cultural history of children and youth. Paper presented at Society for History of Children and Youth Fourth biennial conference, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden, June 27-30, 2007. [BibTeX]
- Frih, A. (2007). Water-cures for chlorotic girls: Swedish spas as health care providers in the late nineteenth century. In: Martin Dinges, Health and health care between self-help, intermediary organizations and formal poor relief (1500-2005) proceedings of the Conference of the Phoenix TN (European Thematic Network on Health and Social Welfare Policy), in Braga, Portugal, 2004. Paper presented at The Conference of the Phoenix TN (European Thematic Network on Health and Social Welfare Policy), in Braga, Portugal, 2004. (pp. 157-167). Évora: Ediçōes Colibri. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Frih, A. (2007). Flickan i medicinen: ungdom, kön och sjuklighet 1870-1930. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebro universitetsbibliotek. [BibTeX]
Reports
- Larsson, A. , Petersson, J. & Strand, S. (2023). Att bedöma och hantera risk för våld i nära relation i gles- och landsbygd: Nyttiggörande av forskningsresultat från RISKSAM-projektet i dialog med socialtjänst och polis. Örebro: Centrum för våldsstudier, Örebro universitet (Texter om våld. Rapport 2023:2). [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. , Callerstig, A. , Weiss, E. , Garcia, F. & Andersson, J. (2023). Modellinstitution: Ett systematiskt förbättringsarbete kring jämställdhetsintegrering i akademin. Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]
- Frih, A. (2010). ÖRE2010. Örebro Research Evaluation.: Utvärdering av forskningen vid Örebro universitet. Örebro: Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]
- Gidlund, G. & Frih, A. (2008). Inflytande över stöd till riksdagsledamöternas och partigruppernas arbete i riksdagen. Stockholm: Riksdagens förvaltning (Utredningar från riksdagsförvaltningen 2007/08:URF 1). [BibTeX]
- Larsson, A. & Ohlander, A. (2003). Genus på museer: Slutrapport från arbetsgruppen Genus på museer. Stockholm: Fritzes offentliga publikationer (Ds 2003:61). [BibTeX]