Ingrid Filling

Ingrid Filling is a Professor at Nord University, specializing in Social Work. Her research focuses on disability studies, educational policy, welfare services, and labor market inclusion, particularly in Nordic contexts. She has contributed extensively to understanding social exclusion, special education, and EU policy frameworks in post-socialist countries.

• Key Research Areas: Social inclusion, disability rights, educational equity, welfare innovation, labor market policies
• Affiliations: Nord University (Department of Social Work), UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Recent publications analyze school absenteeism in Nordic primary education, digital research methods in welfare studies, and intersectional perspectives on Sami people with disabilities. She employs meta-ethnography and institutional ethnography to bridge policy and practice.

Collaborative work includes studies on gender differences in education, Roma labor market barriers, and competence development in welfare services. Her projects often examine tensions between top-down EU policies and local implementation realities.