معرفی
Jenni Repo is a Researcher and Doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Welfare Sciences department at Tampere University. Her work focuses on child welfare, residential care quality assessment, and legal-institutional tensions in social services. She holds a Master's thesis from 2021 analyzing Parliamentary Ombudsman reports on children's residential homes. Her research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to child protection, blending legal frameworks, professional practices, and children's perspectives.
Research Interests:
- Child welfare policy and practice
- Residential care quality evaluation
- Legal and institutional accountability in social services
- Assessment methodologies (e.g., vignette studies)
- Finland's health and social services reforms
Publications (2021–2024) explore inspector perspectives on residential care deficiencies, procedural causality in child welfare assessments, and consistency in family services/child welfare interfaces. She co-edited the 2024 book *Tutkiva sosiaalityö* and contributed to *Child and Family Social Work* and *Qualitative Social Work*.
Funding: Supported by the Foundation for Municipal Development and Olvi Foundation. No formal grants or awards explicitly listed.
