Research

My research centres on diversity and discrimination with a focus on racialization in welfare work with migrants as well as possibilities of subversive practices. Methodologically, I work at the intersections of historical-sociological documentary analysis and ethnographic intervention exploring critical storytelling and dissensus in qualitative research as well as socially sustainable and just collaborations between researchers and local communities.

I have recently ended a three-year project on the development of educational tools for the promotion of critical thinking and prevention of radicalization funded by the Danish Ministry of Education. Ongoing projects include a research project on norm-critical evaluation practices in daycare funded by the Danish Union of Social Educators and a Routledge signed book project together with Dr. Trine Øland, in which we investigate racism and relations of postcolonialism in Danish welfare work with refugees. Currently, I am also PI in a large NordForsk-funded comparative research project, Making it Home: An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution to the Study of Migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration (MaHoMe) in which we examine how home and home-making is narrated, articulated and negotiated amidst the complex and divergent politics of integration in three host societies: UK, Denmark and Sweden.