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Katarina Grim is an Associate Professor in Social Work at Karlstad University, with a PhD in Care Science from Dalarna University (2019). She holds dual roles as Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, focusing on recovery-oriented care and user participation in psychiatric and social psychiatric services. Her work emphasizes strength-based theories, empowerment, and participatory design, often involving both practitioners and service users in research processes.
Research Interests:
- User involvement in mental health service development
- Shared decision-making (SDM) in coordinated care planning
- Ethnic biases in child welfare investigations
- Epistemic justice and user knowledge legitimization
- Peer support systems in mental health services
- Implementation science in healthcare
Her research is funded by Forte (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare) and includes leadership roles in projects like UserInvolve (2022–2028), a six-year program developing sustainable user involvement practices. Notable projects include:
- User-Focused Monitoring: Evaluating service quality through user-led audits
- Shared Decision Making in Coordinated Individual Planning (CIP)
- Epistemic Justice: Addressing barriers to user knowledge integration
Awards & Grants: Multiple Forte grants (e.g., 2021–2024, 2022–2024), Kamprad Foundation collaboration, and interdisciplinary partnerships with user movements and healthcare organizations.
Labs/Teams: Core member of the UserInvolve research program at Umeå University and collaborator with mental health service user organizations. Her work bridges academic research with practical implementation through participatory frameworks.
