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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Mobilisering inom socialarbetarutbildningen
- 2011
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In: Social mobilisering – en utmaning för socialt arbete. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. ; , s. 157-168
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- Kristiansen, Arne, et al.
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Forskning och social mobilisering
- 2016
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In: Social mobilisering. En utmaning för socialt arbete 2:a upplagan. - 9789140691798 ; , s. 65-78
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- Antoniusson, Eva-Malin, et al.
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Vad ska vi med kunskapsöversikter till?
- 2006
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In: Alkohol och Narkotika. - 0345-0732. ; :1, s. 29-31
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Forskarna Eva-Malin Antoniusson, Arne Kristiansen, Leili Laanemets, Bengt Svensson och Dolf Tops har granskat skriften Sprututbyte – En genomgång av den internationella forskningen och den svenska debatten (Fri förlag 2005) och menar att det är ett exempel på en starkt politiserad kunskapsöversikt.
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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Brukaren och socialarbetarutbidningen
- 2007
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In: Normer och normalitet i socialt arbete. - : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144022192 ; , s. 289-306
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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Mobiliserande arenor
- 2011
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In: Social mobilisering – en utmaning för socialt arbete. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. ; , s. 103-117
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- Denvall, Verner, 1951-, et al.
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Mobilisering inom socialarbetarutbildningen
- 2016. - 2
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In: Social mobilisering. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140691798 ; , s. 165-178
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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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On Equal Terms - a University Course for Social Work Students and Service Users
- 2006
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- It is crucial for social work education to provide opportunities for students to gain a sincere and genuine knowledge of the conditions of life that are common for their forthcoming clients and patients. Social work students and service users with experiences with multiple social and personal problems now meet, as they are participants in an experimental course at the School of Social Work in Lund, Sweden. In this paper the teachers report their experiences.
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- Denvall, Verner, 1951-, et al.
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Social mobilisering i dåtid och nutid
- 2016. - 2
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In: Social mobilisering. - Malmö : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140691798 ; , s. 253-261
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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
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Taking the next step – service users and the training
- 2007
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- During the last decades, many new ideas about the proper ways to educate social workers have been brought up by the profession and the social work research as well as by employers and educational institutions. Lately though, a new voice has been heard – that of the client and the service user. “We want to contribute to the education, we have a lot to teach the students” they say. Social work education in the UK is now obliged to engage service users as coteachers. The authors of this paper support this voice and claim that it is time to leave the competency model behind (feed the student with as much knowledge as possible) for an advanced training of professionals based on critical reflection and the sharing of everyday life with the people who are to become the students’ future clients. However, this takes more than simply engaging clients as speakers. In this paper, we report from an experimental course at the School of Social Work in Lund, Sweden and argue that this course gives a possibility to move along the road towards widened diversity and integration by challenging the traditional academic base of the education. However, this course also gives the education the chance to play an active role in shaping the society on a broader base rather than simply bringing up new social workers. This paper is divided into four sections. We start by focusing on discourses and problems within social work as a profession and its education. Then we report about initiatives that currently are being taken to put users’ involvement in the education of social workers on the agenda. Thirdly, we inform about an experimental course that we run and especially concentrate on the pedagogy that is used. Lastly, we make implications for the future.
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- Heule, Cecilia, et al.
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Gap-mending niches in institutionalized social work practice and education
- 2018
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The gap-mending concept has been developed within the network of PowerUs(www.powerus.eu). It entails a constant reflection upon what causes and mends gaps between social workers and service users in social work practice, education and research. Within the PowerUs network gap-mending practices have been developed where more reciprocal relationships are aimed for, in joint development projects.The principles of these practices are similar to those found in research about good practice in recovery of mental illness, and in - so called - strength based social work, that emphasizes the importance of enabling niches, rather than an emphasis on categorizing and diagnosing personal problems.In this presentation we want to discuss the result of a study, where 150 former students have been interviewed a few years after having taken an experimental course – the Mobilization course – in the School of Social Work, Lund University. The course has been given since 2005 and gives the opportunity for two student groups, social work students and students recruited in service user organizations to learn from each other and develop projects of good practice together. In the study we wanted to find out how the course had affected them in their future carriers, and what possibilities or obstacles they experienced in developing gap-mending practices.
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- Heule, Cecilia, et al.
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Gapmending strategies: Impact on social workers occupational practice
- 2017
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Gapmending strategies: Impact on social workers occupational practiceGap-mending is a concept, which is used to create reflection and analysis of gaps that exist between different actors in social work. The gaps can be explicit or implicit distinctions between individuals, groups or organisations in Social Work. The gap-mending concept is not a specific model or method, but should be seen as an analytical approach or strategy that can be used in contexts where people meet in common efforts to resolve problems and prevent gaps. Since 2005, the School of Social Work at Lund University has given a social work course whiuch is based on the Gap-mending concept. On the course social work students and people from different service user organisations study together. The course is titled the Mobilising course. Between 2005 and 2016 the Mobilisation course has been given 20 times.
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- Heule, Cecilia, et al.
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Mend the Gap. A Paradigm shift of the Roles in Social Work Practice
- 2015
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The dichotomous roles client/ social worker is often portayed as the client having problems, and the social worker knowing the solutions. Reciprocity is limited in traditional social work practice in Sweden. The organizational framing seldom offer good potentials for common ground, inclusion or co-production.Since 2005 the traditional roles in social work practice have been challenged in an experimental course at the School of Social Work at Lund University. Within this course social work students study together with students that has been recruited in different service user organizations. They learn from each other and develop project ideas together for a better social work practice. Since the start, sixteen six week courses has been held and approximately six houndred students have taken the course.In this presentation we want to present some findings on how trust can replace prejudices and how a heterogenous group can generate creativity and mutual empowerment. To change the framing of how social work should be performed and the roles that goes with it, into a model that is more reciprocal and inclusive, is a process that can take time and that depends on several factors. We will also discuss the need for an alternative role for professionals in social work practice.
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- Heule, Cecilia, et al.
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Mending the gaps in social work education and research : two examples from a Swedish context
- 2017
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In: European Journal of Social Work. - : Routledge. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 20:3, s. 396-408
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The gap-mending concept is an analytical tool that helps teachers and researchers in social work to reflect upon what, in their practice, increases, maintains or mends gaps between professionals and service user groups. The article suggests a theoretical background on how gaps in social work practice can be challenged. This includes theories about power and recognition. It then moves on to describe the development of gap-mending strategies in research and education at the School of Social Work at Lund University. Lund University was one of three partners that took the initiative to the international network PowerUs that has focused on gap-mending strategies in social work education. The authors have been working over 10 years in collaboration with service user participation in the education of social workers and in different research projects. In the article, they give examples of gap-mending practices and of challenges that they have faced. The first example is an experimental course that has been given since 2005 where social work students study together with students from service user organizations in a university course. The second example is an attempt to combat homelessness in several Swedish municipalities. Supported by researchers, the development project has been a collaboration between homeless groups, politicians and social workers.
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- Heule, Cecilia, et al.
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Mending the gaps in social work education and research: two examples from a Swedish context
- 2017
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In: European Journal of Social Work. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 20:3, s. 396-408
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The gap-mending concept is an analytical tool that helps teachers and researchers in social work to reflect upon what, in their practice, increases, maintains or mends gaps between professionals and service user groups. The article suggests a theoretical background on how gaps in social work practice can be challenged. This includes theories about power and recognition. It then moves on to describe the development of gap-mending strategies in research and education at the School of Social Work at Lund University. Lund University was one of three partners that took the initiative to the international network PowerUs that has focused on gap-mending strategies in social work education. The authors have been working over 10 years in collaboration with service user participation in the education of social workers and in different research projects. In the article, they give examples of gap-mending practices and of challenges that they have faced. The first example is an experimental course that has been given since 2005 where social work students study together with students from service user organizations in a university course. The second example is an attempt to combat homelessness in several Swedish municipalities. Supported by researchers, the development project has been a collaboration between homeless groups, politicians and social workers.
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- Heule, Cecilia, et al.
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Socialt arbete som mobilisering
- 2011
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In: Social mobilisering. En utmaning för socialt arbete. - 9789140668219 ; , s. 19-31
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Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Heule, Cecilia, et al.
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The gap-mending concept: theory and practice
- 2021
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In: 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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- Heule, Cecilia, et al.
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Vem är brukare?
- 2018
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In: Alkohol och Narkotika. - 0345-0732. ; 2018:6, s. 17-17
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- Heule, Cecilia, et al.
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Vem är vem i socialt arbete?
- 2016
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In: Social mobilisering. En utmaning för socialt arbete. 2:a upplagan. - 9789140691798 ; , s. 37-48
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Co-production for improving social housing programmes
- 2018
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The city of Helsingborg in Sweden has since 2010 been conducting a development work of its social housing programme. The city has built up a Housing First service, which today comprises 60 tenants, and has good results. Through two pilot projects, the city has also tried to develop the other parts of the social housing programme that previously was built on the staircase model. The ambition was to enhance co-production and service user involvement within the programme. Our aim with this paper is to describe and analyse the development work and discuss drivers and barriers that either facilitates or hinders the development of social housing programmes. The method of the research project was practice research. Theoretically, the project was inspired bytheories that highlight the importance of co-production and trust.The methods used in the development work to stimulate involvement, participation and co-creation include dialogue meetings and future workshops. Our study shows that this kind of methods, where professionals' knowledge and homeless people's own experience can meet on equal terms leads to co-operative processes. Our studies also show that by working for co-production,change processes are initiated that live beyond the initial project's ambitions. Although the development work has sometimes encountered resistance, many social workers have been positive and committed to the development work and expressed appreciation of being able to work relationship-oriented. Another result of the study was the importance of anchoring the objectives of the project not only in the direction of the organisation and at the service users, but equally important is that the staff working in the front line in the housing units are engaged and are participating in the project.
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Action Research on Homelessness Services
- 2019
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In: ; , s. 1-1
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Action research has another objective than dominating concepts in social science research – where the research aspects of the study are emphasized rather than creating change, and where objectivity, neutrality and avoidance of bias are important notions in the research process. The action research approach also means that the researchers will cooperate with various actors, such as social workers and service users. This collaboration poses ethical and methodological challenges that are not as explicitly relevant to conventional social science research. One example of an ethical challenge is the questions about confidentiality in the activities being investigated. Methodological challenges can, for example, entail that researchers, social workers and service users havedifferent expectations and views on how the research should be conducted and how the activities should be developed. Another challenge is that, although it is often the practitioners that take the initiative and invite the researchers into action research projects, the researchers often have greater influence on the research design. The aim of this paper is to examine, analyze and reflect on how social workers and service users view their involvement in a research project to develop homelessness work in the city of Helsingborg in Sweden. A substantial conclusion is that it is of great importance to maintain a continuous dialogue between service users, social workers and researchers, not least to support the service users and the social workers in their role as peer researchers. The project was carried out in 2014 to 2017 and its purpose was to improve the social housing program in Helsingborg byimplementing core principles and core elements from the Housing first philosophy.
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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From Treatment First to Housing First: Managing Competing Professional Logics
- 2017
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In Sweden social work with homeless people is dominated by “Treatment First” (or the staircase model). The Treatment First models weak results in combating homelessness has increased the interest for Housing First. In 2015 we started a participatory design-oriented research project in the City of Helsingborg in Sweden that aims to implement principles of Housing First in a social housing programme which previously was based on the Treatment First model. The programme includes about 500 social housing apartments and about 50 social workers. Treatment First and Housing First is built on two different perspectives on treatment and social work. The Treatment First model housing is based on control and requirements. Housing First is based on an emphasis on the relationship between the social worker and the client. The professional social workers have to manage these competing logics.
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Hemlöshet
- 2020
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In: Forskning i korthet. - 2001-4287. ; :14, s. 1-8
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Homelessness
- 2020
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In: Forskning i korthet. - 2001-4287. ; :14, s. 1-8
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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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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In: Social Inclusion. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-2803. ; 9:3, s. 234-244
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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In: Social Inclusion. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-2803. ; 9:3, s. 234-234
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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Not by the Book: The Emergence and Translation of Housing First in Sweden
- 2013
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In: European Journal of Homelessness. - 2030-2762. ; 7:1, s. 93-115
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The emergence of Housing First in Sweden is described and analysed in the light of the deregulation of the housing market and the existing organisation of service delivery for homeless people. The spread and growth of Housing First in Sweden was promoted by Lund University during 2009. Although widely disseminated, implementation of Housing First has been slow. Only seven of Sweden’s 290 municipalities have started, or decided to start a Housing First project. An important reason for this is that the organisation of service delivery with homeless people in Sweden is characterised by a path dependency, in which the ‘staircase’ model has become an institutionalised practise. None of the Swedish Housing First services has adopted Housing First by the book, but the core elements of the philosophy have been adopted. An evaluation of one of the Swedish Housing First services shows housing stability rates of around 80 per cent and that the tenants feel that their lives have improved in several respects.
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Reception – hospitality and hostility.
- 2022
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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
- 2023
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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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