By using multimodal conversation analysis, my research focuses on interaction among couples living with dementia as well as needs assessments for elder care services, drawing both on videorecorded interviews and naturally occurring data. I am also a member of Conversation Analysis and Social Work (CASW) group. As an affiliate of CARM-The Conversation Analytic Role-Play Method by Elizabeth Stokoe, I am currently providing research-based communication training with care-managers across Sweden.
Elin Nilsson
Associate Professor
My research focuses on social work encounters involving couples living with major neurocognitive disorders. Specific analytical aspects highlighted by means of multimodal conversation analysis are knowledge claims, pronoun use and inclusion.
How couples living with dementia manages changes
I am a senior lecturer in Social Work at Linköping University, Sweden.
Research
Social work interaction involving individuals and families living with major neurocognitive disorder (dementia).
I am currently leading a longitudinal research project in which she, together with Associate Professor Anna Ekström and Professor Lars-Christer Hydén, examines how couples living with dementia manages changes. Elin has finished a postdoctoral project at Uppsala University, Sweden, which focused on how needs assessments between care managers and older couples are carried out, with a specific interest in self-determination, alliances, and management of resistance from clients with dementia.
I am also working in a research project led by Associate Professor Anna Olaison at Linköping University, in which they have conducted focus group interviews with care managers regarding needs assessments with couples. The research findings from these three projects provide a basis for CARM workshops with care managers and potentially other professionals who meet and provide services for persons living with dementia.
Research Collaborations and Research Environment
Publications
2023
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2022
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Education
Teaching
I am teaching at the Social Work program, where I am responsible for courses at base and advanced level focusing on institutional interaction and communication for social workers.
Academic background
Degree
Degree of Masters of Social Psychology, 2010
Doctoral degree in Social Work, 2018
