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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.

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.

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.

Colleagues

Research Collaborations and Research Environment

Publications

2024

Elin Nilsson, Anna Olaison, Annika Taghizadeh Larsson, Johannes Hjalmarsson Österholm (2024) 'Control or support?' Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences Journal of Social Work Practice, Vol. 38, p. 387-408 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Elin Nilsson, Anna Olaison (2023) "I See What You Mean"-A Case Study of the Interactional Foundation of Building a Working Alliance in Care Decisions Involving an Older Couple Living with Cognitive Decline Healthcare, Vol. 11, Article 2124 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2022

Elin Nilsson, Anna Olaison (2022) Persuasion in practice: Managing diverging stances in needs assessment meetings with older couples living with dementia Qualitative Social Work, Vol. 21, p. 1123-1146 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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

 

Organisation

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