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- Heule, Cecilia, et al.
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The gap-mending concept: theory and practice
- 2021
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Ingår i: Involving Service Users in Social Work Education, Research and Policy : A Comparative European Analysis - A Comparative European Analysis. - : Policy Press. - 9781447358329 ; , s. 11-22
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Hemlöshet
- 2020
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Ingår i: Forskning i korthet. - 2001-4287. ; :14, s. 1-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Homelessness
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Ingår i: Forskning i korthet. - 2001-4287. ; :14, s. 1-8
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Missing Hero : Co-Producing Change in Social Housing Programmes
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Ingår i: Social Inclusion. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-2803. ; 9:3, s. 234-244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to develop theory and generate knowledge about the challenges and possibilities of co-producing change in a social housing programme. The purpose of the project was to implement the Housing First philosophy in the social housing programme in the city of Helsingborg, Sweden. The aim was also to create opportunities for service user involvement. Several innovative measures were implemented in order for these changes to occur from autumn 2016 to summer 2017. The social services commissioned a university course on which social workers and their clients studied together on equal terms to create project plans for the further development of their own workplace. A "Future" workshop was held by the researchers with representatives from all the different housing options (the shelter, transitional housing, category housing, Housing First apartments), both clients and social workers. Repeated dialogue meetings were conducted at the different housing options to discuss how service user involvement could be developed and to discover new ways of participation. This article is based on a strengths-based perspective using the theoretical discussions on social traps, as well as the concepts of enabling and entrapping niches. We show the importance of social workers identifying and supporting missing heroes-service users who want to participate and be involved in co-producing change. We also show that if an organisation is not prepared for the initiated changes, there is a risk of disappointment due to awakened expectations that are not fulfilled. Building trust is also an important component to emerge from the material, but we also found that change processes can be initiated that continue and have impact beyond the initial project's goals.
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Missing Hero: Co‐Producing Change in Social Housing Programmes
- 2021
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Ingår i: Social Inclusion. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-2803. ; 9:3, s. 234-234
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to develop theory and generate knowledge about the challenges and possibilities of co‐producing change in a social housing programme. The purpose of the project was to implement the Housing First philosophy in the social housing programme in the city of Helsingborg, Sweden. The aim was also to create opportunities for service user involvement. Several innovative measures were implemented in order for these changes to occur from autumn 2016 to summer 2017. The social services commissioned a university course on which social workers and their clients studied together on equal terms to create project plans for the further development of their own workplace. A “Future” workshop was held by the researchers with representatives from all the different housing options (the shelter, transitional housing, category housing, Housing First apartments), both clients and social workers. Repeated dialogue meetings were conducted at the different housing options to discuss how service user involvement could be developed and to discover new ways of participation. This article is based on a strengths‐based perspective using the theoretical discussions on social traps, as well as the concepts of enabling and entrapping niches. We show the importance of social workers identifying and supporting missing heroes—service users who want to participate and be involved in co‐producing change. We also show that if an organisation is not prepared for the initiated changes, there is a risk of disappointment due to awakened expectations that are not fulfilled. Building trust is also an important component to emerge from the material, but we also found that change processes can be initiated that continue and have impact beyond the initial project’s goals.
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Reception – hospitality and hostility.
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reception – hospitality and hostilityMarcus Knutagård and Arne KristiansenSchool of Social Work, Lund UniversityThe aim of this paper is to analyse the practice of reception of newly arrived migrants. The paper is part of an ongoing project Scanian homes: Reception, settlement or rejection – homelessness policies and strategies for refugee settlement. The aim of the project is to investigate the practice, interaction and results of municipal homelessness policies and refugee reception strategies in Skåne county in Sweden, in order to identify policy elements that are helpful for providing secure and adequate housing for these groups. The project consists of several sub studies. In this paper we will particularly focus on the focus group interviews conducted with social workers with a responsibility of coordinating housing and accommodation for refugees and homeless people in ten municipalities. Theoretically, the paper draws on Zacka’s (2017) discussion on street-level bureaucrats’ moral dispositions of taking a reductive position that tend to become pathological. Street-level bureaucrats are those who implement policies. In this way, we try to analyse municipalities as having a policy making disposition that is either enforcing, indifferent or caregiving. In some contexts, they have the possibility to act as sensible moral agents, while in other contexts, their agency is severely undermined. Our preliminary results show that several municipalities took up the settlement of new arrivals ambitiously and successfully when The Settlement Act was passed in 2016, and planned for "permanent residence". This law obliges the municipalities to receive and settle a certain number of newly arrived refugees each year. The state subsidies initially contributed to the settlement gaining a higher status in the municipality; new administrations were engaged. In several municipalities, the ambitions have gradually been cut down or changed direction. The length of residence and living conditions for newly arrived migrants vary greatly between municipalities. Several municipalities highlight "social dumping" as a problem.
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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RECO: Resilient Communities by Sustainable Welfare Transformation
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- 17th European Research Conference on HomelessnessLeuven, September 14th and 15th, 2023Marcus Knutagård, Arne Kristiansen & Cecilia HeuleRECO: Resilient Communities by Sustainable Welfare TransformationHomelessness is an extensive societal problem in Sweden which poses major challenges for the social services in developing sustainable and effective methods that can meet the service user’s needs. The RECO project is based on practice research and has mutual learning at its core. The aim is to investigate and analyse how evidence-based methods like Housing First can be sustained within the social services and how implemented methods can become resilient towards external pressures. The research questions are:•What factors facilitate or hinders high programme fidelity and what are the Housing First tenants’ experiences of the programme?•What conditions are beneficial when trying work knowledge-based in the social services efforts to combat homelessness?•What methods enables participation and involvement with service users?•What impact and consequences do the participation have on the involved social workers and service users? Our ambition is to present the ongoing research project and also briefly present the new homelessness strategy in Sweden.
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