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Linda Arnell

Position: Researcher School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences

Email: linda.arnell@oru.se

Phone: +46 19 303859

Room: L2304

Research subject

Social Work

About Linda Arnell

Linda Arnell is researcher in gender studies and obtained her PhD in Social Work in 2019. She has been working as a researcher since 2019 and is now an affiliated researcher at the School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences.

Research

Linda Arnell's research concerns children's and adolescents’ vulnerability, relationships, and life situations, with a special interest in issues related to sex/gender, violence and emotions.

At present, the focus of her research is on the project “Article 19: What sheltered housing means for abused children.”

Ongoing collaborations and research networks

Member of the steering group for the research network FlickForsk! - Nordic network for Girlhood Studies, alternatively: www.facebook.com/FlickForsk

Active projects

Research groups

Publications

Articles in journals | Articles, reviews/surveys | Chapters in books | Collections (editor) | Conference papers | Doctoral theses, monographs |

Articles in journals

Arnell, L. , Vikander, M. & Strand, S. (2024). Skyddade boenden – En välfärdstjänst i förändring. Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, 100 (6).
Larsson, A. , Arnell, L. & Moberg Stephenson, M. (2024). Våldsamma flickor. Texter om våld (1), 17-24.
Thunberg, S. & Arnell, L. (2023). Arriving at the shelter – mothers’ narratives of their children’s experiences. Nordic Social Work Research.
Arnell, L. & Källström, Å. (2023). Children’s Talk About Fathers’ Regret: Making Sense of Fathers’ Violence Against Mothers. Journal of family Violence.
Arnell, L. & Thunberg, S. (2023). Involving children and young people in research on domestic violence and housing: re-visited. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 45 (2), 104-118.
Arnell, L. & Thunberg, S. (2023). Young Children’s Lives at Domestic Violence Shelters: Mothers’ Perspectives on Their Children’s Experiences. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.
Arnell, L. , Källström, Å. & Gunnarsdottir, H. (2022). Relative Wellbeing of Women Maltreated as Children. Violence against Women, 28 (12-13), 2947-2965.
Valverius, A. , Arnell, L. & Strandh, M. (2021). Egalitarian Values and Sexual Behavior: The Role of Country Level Values in Shaping Individual Level Behaviors in Africa, South America and Asia. International Journal of Sexual Health, 33 (3), 396-409.
Silfver, E. , Jacobsson, M. , Arnell, L. , Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, H. , Härgestam, M. , Sjöberg, M. & Widding, U. (2020). Classroom bodies: Affect, body language, and discourse when schoolchildren encounter national tests in mathematics. Gender and Education, 32 (5), 682-696.
Arnell, L. (2020). Kampf für Gleichheit: Mädchen sprechen darüber, warum und in welcher Weise sie Gewalt anwenden. Betrifft Mädchen, 3, 100-107.
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H. & Arnell, L. (2018). Being a Responsible Violent Girl? Exploring Female Violence, Self-management and ADHD. Girlhood Studies, 11 (2), 111-126.
Arnell, L. (2017). The (Dys)Functionality of Girls' and Young Women's Violence. Affilia, 32 (4), 543-556.

Articles, reviews/surveys

Thunberg, S. , Vikander, M. & Arnell, L. (2022). Children’s Rights and Their Life Situation in Domestic Violence Shelters: An Integrative Review. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.
Thunberg, S. & Arnell, L. (2022). Pioneering the use of technologies in qualitative research – A research review of the use of digital interviews. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25 (6), 757-768.

Chapters in books

Vogel, M. A. & Arnell, L. (2021). (How) Can You Live Like a Girl? Summing up Differences and Similarities. In: Maria A Vogel; Linda Arnell, Living like a girl: Agency, social vulnerability and welfare measures in Europe and beyond (pp. 243-248). New York: Berghahn Books.
Arnell, L. & Vogel, M. A. (2021). Introducing the Lives of Girls in a European Context and Beyond: Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures. In: Maria A Vogel; Linda Arnell, Living like a girl: Agency, social vulnerability and welfare measures in Europe and beyond (pp. 1-12). New York: Berghahn Books.
Arnell, L. (2020). Våldsutsatta barns trygghetsskapande strategier. In: Malin Rönnblom, Ida Linander och Linda Sandberg, (O)tryggt? Texter om makt, plats och motstånd (pp. 196-210). Stockholm: Premiss förlag.
Arnell, L. (2017). Narrating family: Talk about a troublesome girlhood within the Swedish context. In: Bodil Formark, Heta Mulari, Myry Voipio, Nordic girlhoods: new perspectives and outlooks (pp. 161-178). . Palgrave Macmillan.

Collections (editor)

Vogel, M. A. (ed.) & Arnell, L. (ed.) (2021). Living like a girl: Agency, social vulnerability and welfare measures in Europe and beyond. New York: Berghahn Press.

Conference papers

Arnell, L. & Thunberg, S. (2023). Vad vistelse på skyddat boende betyder för våldsutsatta barn. Paper presented at Barnrättsdagarna 2023, Karlstad, Sweden, 18-19 april, 2023.
Arnell, L. , Thunberg, S. & Kreutzfeldt, S. (2022). Barn på skyddat boende: från uppbrott till utflytt. Paper presented at Barn som bevittnat och utsatts för våld, Stockholm, Sweden, June 9, 2022.
Arnell, L. (2020). Skyddade liv: Barns erfarenheter av skyddat boende. Paper presented at Tredje Nationella Barnavårdsvårdskonferensen, Stockholm, Sweden, (digitalt), December 1-2, 2020.
Arnell, L. (2016). Creative methods, sensitive talk and ethical issues : Experiences from a research project on girls’ and young women’s violence. Paper presented at Producing Girlish Knowledge – Nordic summer school on creative methods in girlhood studies and girl work, Helsinki, Finland, August 23-26, 2016.
Formark, B. , Mitchell, C. , Mulari, H. , Smith, A. , Zdravomyslova, O. , Brännström Öhman, A. & Arnell, L. (2016). Girlhood in the Global North : Towards Comparative Dialogues Roundtable. Paper presented at International Girls' Studies Association Inaugural Conference (IGSA 2016), Norwich, England, April 7-9, 2016.
Arnell, L. , Rönnbäck, J. , Andersson Vogel, M. & Milles, K. (2016). Gränslandsflickor: Samhällsvetenskaplig forskning om samtida ung femininitet. Paper presented at g16 - Gränser, mobilitet och mobilisering / g16 - Boundaries, mobility and mobilization, Linköping, Sweden, November 23-25, 2016.
Arnell, L. (2015). Narrating family : Talk about a troublesome girlhood within the Swedish context. Paper presented at Contemporary Youth, Contemporary Risk - Journal of Youth Studies Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 30 - April 1, 2015.
Arnell, L. (2014). Girls’ Violence. Paper presented at g16 conference: Challenging Power – National Conference for Gender Research, Umeå, Sweden, November 26–28, 2014.
Formark, B. , Arnell, L. , Brännström Öhman, A. , Karlsson Sjögren, Å. , Mulari, H. , Strömbäck, M. & Österholm, M. (2014). Nordisk flickforskning: Kunskap och kritik på tröskeln till tweenieåldern. Paper presented at Challenging Power – National Conference for Gender Research, Umeå, Sweden, November 26–28, 2014.

Doctoral theses, monographs

Arnell, L. (2019). Tjejers våld, Våldets tjejer: En diskursanalytisk studie om våld, kön och femininitet. (Doctoral dissertation). Umeå: Umeå universitet.