Emelie Shanks

Roles and Affiliation: Emelie Shanks is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at Stockholm University, affiliated with the Department of Social Work. She serves as Vice Head of Department and co-leads the research group on Marketisation and Competitive Tendering for Social Work.

Research Interests: Her work focuses on the implications of marketisation and privatisation for social work, including:

• Marketisation of municipal social services
• Workforce management and agency workers in public social services
• Residential care for children and youth
• Workplace violence in home-based and non-institutional social work
• Organisational conditions for social work managers

Publication Trends: Recent articles examine client-initiated violence in home care, privatisation of child residential care, and the role of market logic in therapeutic content decisions. Her work spans both empirical studies and theoretical analyses of professional identity under managerialism.

Leadership and Collaborations: Dr. Shanks collaborates with researchers like Tommy Lundström and David Pålsson. She contributes to interdisciplinary projects such as Social services as an arena for crime prevention, which involves the Department of Criminology and the Social Affairs Administration of Stockholm.