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Therese Johnstone is a Senior Lecturer at Örebro University's School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences, affiliated with the Centre for Violence Studies (CVS) and the research groups JuVås and Legal Violence Studies.
Her research centers on child law and children's rights, with specialized focus on legal vulnerability, autonomy dilemmas in coercive care contexts, and child protection frameworks. She investigates tensions between children's evolving capacities for decision-making and societal protection needs, particularly under Sweden's LVU legislation governing support for persons with functional impairments.
Johnstone's scholarly output, exemplified by her 2021 doctoral dissertation, analyzes how legal systems balance children's participation rights against vulnerability concerns. This work anchors interdisciplinary violence studies at Örebro, connecting jurisprudence with social science perspectives on institutional care.
She actively contributes to the JuVås research group and Centre for Violence Studies, which drive collaborative investigations into structural violence, legal interventions, and child welfare systems through empirical and theoretical lenses.
