Clara Iversen
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Institutionen för socialt arbete; Lärare och forskare
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 15 01
- E-mail:
- clara.iversen@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- Docent
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Short presentation
My background is in social psychology and my research interests concern how participants in social and health care encounters manage shared understanding. I am currently working with research on helpline interaction and interaction between people and social robots.
Biography
Networks
- Oslo Communication in Healthcare Education and Research (OCHER)
- Nordic research on interventions to protect and support children exposed to violence in their family 2008-2011
- Talk, Text and Tools: Scandinavian Interdisciplinary Health Communication Research, 2012-
Research Groups
- Sociology of Childhood and Youth, the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, 2010-2013
- Welfare and Life Course, the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, 2012-
Seminars
- Member of the Discourse Seminar, the department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, 2007-
Awards
- 2013 Top Student Paper Award, The Language and Social Interaction Division at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, London. "Believability: Epistemic stance in interviews with abused children"
Grant awards
- 2011. Short term scientific mission within the COST scientific programme on Bio-objects and their boundaries: Governing matters of the intersection of society, politics, and science.
- 2011. Anna Maria Lundgrens travel grant, Smålands Nation: Visit to SATSU, the University of York, United Kingdom between 3/1-2012 and 20/3-2012.
- 2012. Anna Maria Lundgrens travel grant, Smålands Nations: Visit to DARG, Loughborough University, United Kingdom between 26/5-2013 and 22/6-2013
Teaching
- Introduction to Sociology, the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University
- Introduction to Sociology for Teachers, the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University
- Symbolic Interactionism, the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University
- Exposure in Childhood I and II, the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University
- Discourse Analysis, the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University
- Risk Assessment, the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University
- Children Experiencing Violence in Interpersonal Relations, Borlänge Municipality
- A Contextual Perspective on Support to Children Exposed to Domestic Violence, (Invited Lecturer) National Centre for Knowledge on Men's Violence Against Women
- Power and Resistance in Social Interaction (invited lecturer), Center for Sustainable Development, Uppsala
- Communication, Mälardalen's University
Publications
Recent publications
- Contextualizing empathy (2024)
- The subjective and objective side of helplessness (2024)
- Children’s agency and narrations of fear in child welfare risk and safety interviews (2023)
- Self-disclosures in online crisis counselling (2023)
- Navigating between emotional support and direct help (2023)
All publications
Articles
- The subjective and objective side of helplessness (2024)
- Self-disclosures in online crisis counselling (2023)
- Working with Robotic Animals in Dementia Care (2023)
- Conversation analysis in social work research (2022)
- The uses of small talk in social work (2022)
- Users’ Perspectives on Crisis Helplines in Relation to Professional Mental Health Services (2022)
- Approaching institutional boundaries (2022)
- Caregivers' use of robots and their effect on work environment (2022)
- Making sense of experiences in suicide helpline calls (2021)
- En människa bland andra? (2021)
- Robotisering och arbetslivets omorganisering (2021)
- Respecifying uncertainty in pupil health team collaboration (2020)
- Äldres behov av anonyma relationer under Covid-19-krisen (2020)
- Social närhet i en tid av fysisk distans (2020)
- Beyond accessing information (2019)
- Traffic risk work with sleepy patients (2018)
- Now or never (2017)
- 'No problems when you drive?' nurses balancing conflicting roles as coaches and state agents when they ask sleepy patients about traffic risk (2017)
- Balancing task focus and relationship building (2017)
- "I don't know if I should believe him" (2014)
- Predetermined participation (2014)
- Recordability (2012)
Books
Chapters
- Contextualizing empathy (2024)
- Samtal i socialt arbete (2022)
- Avslutning (2022)
- Att ge ett annat perspektiv (2022)
- Mellan kunskap och förståelse (2022)
- Samtalsanalys (2022)
- Robotic animals in dementia care (2022)
- Kroppen som objekt och resurs för interaktion (2020)
- Utvärderingsintervjuer (2015)
- Hitting ontological rock bottom (2015)
- Judit Butler: Makt och performativitet (2010)
- Barack Obamas dilemma (2008)
Conferences
- Children’s agency and narrations of fear in child welfare risk and safety interviews (2023)
- Navigating between emotional support and direct help (2023)
- Robot Animals and the Emotional Labor of Caregivers (2023)
- Caregivers’ Practical, Social, and Ethical Competence When Using Robotic Animals (2023)
- Negotiating reality and myth about suicide risk (2022)
- Meow! Is it alive? (2022)
- Examining Inclusion in Social Work Interactions (2022)
- Being personal in online suicide helpline counselling (2021)
- Older People’s Approaches to Trust in Adjusting or Re-Evaluating Everyday Life During the Covid Pandemic (2021)
- Crossing over (2021)
- Crossing over (2021)
- How is conversation analysis used in social work research? (2020)
- Being close at a distance (2020)
- “What would you say to a friend in your situation?” (2018)
- Claims of understanding in child social welfare interviews (2018)
- Kroppens dubbla roll i medicinsk interaktion (2018)
- "The hopelessness can be overwhelming" (2018)
- Action and experience recognition (2017)
- Empathic moments in interviews with abused children (2017)
- Safety Last? (2016)
- Expertise and experience in medical traffic risk assessment (2016)
- Patientability (2015)
- Lifestyle discussions in the emergency room (2014)
- Lifestyle discussions in the emergency room: Analysis of interactions between care providers and older patients in Swedish television documentaries (2014)
- No time like the present?: Talking smoke cessation with older patients (2014)
- No time like the present? (2014)
- Normalizing actions in interviews (2014)
- Believability (2013)
- ’Really’ as an Epistemic Resource (2012)
- Resistance and recordability (2012)
- Re-specifying Coherence (2012)
- Recordability (2012)
- Sad, Improved, and Apologetic (2011)
- Children’s Participation in Evidence-Based Practice (2011)
- Epistemic viability (2011)
- Based on Evidence (2010)
- Giving the Child a Voice? (2009)
- Competence, Childishness or Resistance? (2009)
- Moraliska subjekt i polisförhör om sexualbrott mot barn (2008)
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