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Elin Peterson is a Researcher in the Department of Social Work at Stockholm University, specializing in social policy, care work, aging, and gender studies. She is an active member of The Care Research Group, which examines disability, aging, and long-term care in relation to social policy and organizational conditions. Her work bridges academic research and practical applications in social work policy and practice.
Peterson holds a PhD from Complutense University of Madrid, where her thesis examined care policies in Sweden and Spain through a gender perspective. Her research focuses on how welfare states address care needs, with particular attention to gender inequalities, marketization of care services, and the experiences of both care recipients and providers. She has conducted comparative analyses of care systems across European contexts, especially between Nordic and Southern European welfare models.
Her publication record demonstrates consistent engagement with critical issues in care policy, with a trajectory showing increasing focus on intersectional analyses of gender, ethnicity, and professional identity in care work. Peterson's research spans theoretical frameworks including feminist policy analysis, global care chains, and recognition theory, applied to concrete policy debates around domestic work, eldercare, and care entrepreneurship. Her work reveals how policy frames construct care workers and recipients, often obscuring inequalities related to gender, class, and migration status.
Peterson is currently involved in several significant research projects including 'Psychosocial Resilience in Aging Populations: Why Do Some Individuals Experience Decline and Recover While Others Do Not?' (Forte) and previously contributed to 'Sustainable Care in a Customer Choice Model?' and 'Social Inequalities in Aging' (Nordforsk). Her research often examines how market-oriented reforms in care services affect equality outcomes across different social groups.
