Johanna Sköld

Research

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Foster carer retention. How foster carers experience their role and what influences their willingness to continue fostering.

Foster care is often regarded as the best option, but many local authorities lack sufficient foster carers. The project examines the factors that influence foster carers’ willingness to continue or to end their engagement.

Profile area - Societal Transformations

Societal Transformations meet the challenges facing society where a comprehensive approach is required that takes into account several dimensions. Together we can meet the challenges and contribute to developing new innovative solutions.

The Age of Inquiry

This pilot project is mapping the rise of inquiries into historical institutional child abuse to better understand the form and remit of different inquiries, and to illuminate global trends and national differences.

Inquiries into child abuse and neglect

Since the 1990s, a number of countries have established into historical child abuse and neglect from tens of thousands of care leavers. What do these inquiries tell?

Publications

2026

Johanna Sköld (2026)

Historiska kritiska åldersstudier Historisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 146, p. 323-333 (Article in journal)

Linnea Bodén, Jessica Eng, Lina Lago, Linda Mossberg, Johanna Sköld, Anna Sparrman, Angelica Wågby Gräfe (2026)

Nu stryps rättigheterna för Sveriges unga Dagens Nyheter (Article in journal)

Judith Lind, Cecilia Lindgren, Johanna Sköld (2026)

Is There an Unrecognized Potential Pool of Foster Carers? Child & Family Social Work, Vol. 31, p. 201-213 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13261

2025

Veronica Hällqvist, Johanna Sköld (2025)

Supporting the Ordinary Family: Finding the Organisational Spacefor Foster Care Support Social Inclusion, Vol. 13, Article 10771 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.10771

Bengt Sandin, Johanna Sköld, Johanna Sjöberg (2025)

Tvärvetenskap och barnperspektiv: Tema Barns uppstart vid Linköpings universitet Utbildningshistorisk forskning under 2000-talet: Det utbildningshistoriska nätverket, forskningsmiljöer, konferenser och föreningar, p. 79-107 (Chapter in book)

Supervision

Joel Löw

Assistant Professor

Rebecka Andersen

PhD student

Karin Zetterqvist Nelson

Professor Emerita

Bengt Sandin

Professor Emeritus

Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal

Professor

Joel Löw

Assistant Professor

My division and department

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Child Studies (TEMAB)

Education and research at Child Studies is about childhood and family with a focus on interaction and language, children's culture and consumption, and childhood over time and space, all to better see the perspectives of children and young people.

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Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA)

In an increasingly complicated world, there is a need for researchers that can handle both breadth and depth, and can collaborate across disciplinary borders. Major societal questions are studied from an interdisciplinary perspective at TEMA.

Johanna Sköld

Research