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Sara Thunberg

Title: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences

Email: sara.thunberg@oru.se

Phone: +46 19 303824

Room: L2339

Research subject

Social Work

Research environments

CVS - The Centre for Violence Studies

About Sara Thunberg

Sara Thunberg is a trained social worker and PhD in social work. She has been working at Örebro University since 2013.

Teaching

Sara Thunberg mainly teaches on courses within the Social Work Program and other courses within social work. She mainly teaches within the courses Children,Violence and Social Work I, Child-Parent Relationships in Societies and Families, and To Perform Treament in Institutional or Non-Institutional Settings. She also regularly work as a supervisor for bachelor theses in social work.

Research focus

Sara Thunberg's research mainly focus on post-victimization support for youth crime victims, and especially the matching between youths' needs of support after victimization and available support in society. Her research include national aspects as well as international aspects and comparisons.

Together with colleagues, Sara Thunberg was awarded a research grant from Forte to evaluate the model Efter barnförhöret. The model focus on supporting children who has been interviewed by the police due to suspicions of child abuse. The project is ongoing 2022-2026.

Right now Sara Thunberg is working within the research project Article 19: What sheltered housing means for abused children. The project is financed by Brottsoffermyndigheten and Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset.

Previously, Sara Thunberg have been studying post-victimization support in general, but mainly to adults. Specifically, focus has been on collaboration between the public and nongovernmental sectors, and the social services responsibility for post-victimization support. Also, she studies how post-victimization support can be used as a preventive measure.

Collaborations

As of 2019, Sara Thunberg is a member in the Management Commitee for the COST Action CA18121, which focus on cultural victimology. The action aim to strengthen the European Victimology Network, and is financed by the EU, European Cooperation in Science & Technology.

She is also a part of the Working Group on Victimology, which is a European network of researchers studying different aspects of victimization.

Sara Thunberg also collaborates with researchers in Germany, Denmark, Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, and Belgium.

Active projects

Completed projects

Research teams

Children's living conditions and well-being (BLIVA)

Publications

Articles in journals | Articles, reviews/surveys | Chapters in books | Conference papers | Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries | Other | Reports |

Articles in journals

Arnell, L. & Thunberg, S. (2022). Involving Children and Young People in Research on Domestic Violence and Housing: Re-visited. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.
Thunberg, S. (2022). Safeguarding personal integrity while collecting sensitive data using narrative interviews – a research note. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25 (5), 711-715.
Thunberg, S. , Willems, D. , Schmoll, A. & Yngborn, A. (2022). Same, same but different: A comparative study of the Swedish and German support systems for young victims of crime. European Journal of Criminology, 19 (5), 1148-1164.
Thunberg, S. (2022). Victimization and school: Young people’s experiences of receiving support to keep up with their schoolwork. International Review of Victimology.
Petersson, J. & Thunberg, S. (2022). Vulnerability factors among women victimized by intimate partner violence and the presence of children. Journal of family Violence, 37 (7), 1057-1069.
Thunberg, S. & Hellfeldt, K. (2022). Våld i ungas nära relationer. Texter om våld (1), 25-31.
Thunberg, S. (2022). Young people’s narrations of the meaning of support after criminal victimization. Nordic Social Work Research, 12 (4), 552-563.
Thunberg, S. & Andersson Bruck, K. (2020). Young victims’ positioning: Narrations of victimhood and support. International Review of Victimology, 26 (2), 196-211.
Thunberg, S. (2019). Ideas in Action: Some Reflections Concerning Teaching Language Skills to Social Work Students. Social Work Education, 38 (2), 282-286.
Källström, Å. & Thunberg, S. (2019). “Like an Equal, Somehow”: What Young People Exposed to Family Violence Value in Counseling. Journal of family Violence, 34 (6), 553-563.
Glatz, T. , Källström, Å. , Hellfeldt, K. & Thunberg, S. (2019). Physical Violence in Family Sub-Systems: Links to Peer Victimization and Long-Term Emotional and Behavioral Problems. Journal of family Violence, 34 (5), 423-433.
Thunberg, S. & Källström, Å. (2018). Corrigendum: Correction to: Thunberg, S., & Källström, Å. (2017). Does Professional or Social Network Support Meet the Needs of Victimized and Polyvictimized Youths in Sweden? (vol 13, pg 390, 2017). Victims & Offenders, 13 (3), 449-449.
Thunberg, S. & Källström, Å. (2018). Does Professional or Social Network Support Meet the Needs of Victimized and Polyvictimized Youths in Sweden?. Victims & Offenders, 13 (3), 390-408.
Thunberg, S. , Ahonen, L. & Degner, J. (2016). Crime victims in limbo: the importance of collaboration between the municipal social services and victim support organisations. Nordic Social Work Research, 6 (1), 53-68.

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

Thunberg, S. (2023). Barns och ungas rätt till skydd och stöd i händelse av brott. In: Andreas Anderberg; Laura Ervo; Eleonor Kristoffersson, Med unga i fokus: Festskrift till Kerstin Nordlöf (pp. 309-325). Uppsala: Iustus förlag.
Thunberg, S. (2019). Att stödja unga utsatta. In: Björn Johansson & Åsa Källström, Barns och ungas utsatthet: Våld och kränkningar i barns och ungas relationer (pp. 125-138). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Nordlöf, K. & Thunberg, S. (2019). Barn i rättsprocessen med anledning av brott. In: Björn Johansson & Åsa Källström, Barns och ungas utsatthet: Våld och kränkningar i barns och ungas relationer (pp. 169-188). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Hellfeldt, K. , Thunberg, S. & Moberg Stephenson, M. (2019). Barn och unga som brottsoffer. In: Björn Johansson & Åsa Källström, Barns och ungas utsatthet: Våld och kränkningar i barns och ungas relationer (pp. 107-124). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Thunberg, S. & Johansson, B. (2019). Utsatthet på fritiden och i det offentliga. In: Björn Johansson & Åsa Källström, Barns och ungas utsatthet: Våld och kränkningar i barns och ungas relationer (pp. 81-89). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Thunberg, S. (2018). Konsekvenser av kategoriseringar i relationsbaserat stöd – exemplet brottsutsatta ungdomar. In: Anders Bruhn och Åsa Källström, Relationer i socialt arbete: i gränslandet mellan profession och person (pp. 154-167). Stockholm: Liber.
Thunberg, S. (2014). Who cares?: A study of the Social Services’ Responsibility for Crime Victims. In: Brottsoffer i fokus: de vinnande bidragen i Brottsoffermyndighetens uppsatstävling 2014 (pp. 97-142). Umeå: Brottsoffermyndigheten.

Conference papers

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.
Thunberg, S. & Hellfeldt, K. (2021). ”Det är komplicerat” – Om ungas tjejers konstruktioner av offerskap efter utsatthet för våld i nära relation samt deras behov av stöd. Paper presented at Våld i ungas relationer, Musikhögskolan, Örebro universitet, November 25, 2021.
Källström, Å. , Glatz, T. , Hellfeldt, K. & Thunberg, S. (2019). Physical Violence in Family Sub-Systems: Links to Peer Victimization and Long-Term Emotional and Behavioral Problems. Paper presented at 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (EuroCrim 2019), Ghent, Belgium, September 18-21, 2019.
Thunberg, S. (2019). Young Victims Narrate Their Processing of Victimization. Paper presented at 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (EuroCrim 2019), Ghent, Belgium, September 18-21, 2019.
Thunberg, S. (2018). Need and Understanding – Young Victims’ Experiences of Processing Victimization . Paper presented at 6th EFCAP Congress, Venice, Italy, June 20-22, 2018.
Thunberg, S. (2018). Victimization, Positioning, and Support. In: En forskningskonferens kring föräldraskap och föräldra-barnrelationen. Paper presented at En forskningskonferens kring föräldraskap och föräldra-barnrelationen, Örebro, Sweden, 4-5 juli, 2018.
Thunberg, S. (2017). Unga brottsutsattas positionering: Narrationer om offerskap och stöd. Paper presented at Viktimologisk forskarkonferens, Stockholm, Sweden, November 21, 2017.
Thunberg, S. (2017). Ungdomars positionering som brottsoffer och tillgång till stöd. Paper presented at Socionomutbildningen 50 år, Örebro universitet, Örebro, 2017 den 6 maj.
Thunberg, S. & Källström, Å. (2017). Var söker och erhåller ungdomar stöd efter utsatthet för brott?. Paper presented at Socionomutbildningen 50 år, Örebro universitet, Örebro, 6/5 2017.
Thunberg, S. (2017). Youths’ Positioning as Victims and its Consequences for the Receptivity and Availability of Support. Paper presented at 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Cardiff, United Kingdom, September 13-16, 2017.
Thunberg, S. (2017). Youths’ Positioning as Victims and its Consequences for the Receptivity and Availability of Support. Paper presented at Nationell forskningskonferens i socialt arbete, Umeå, Sweden, June 12-13, 2017.
Thunberg, S. & Cater [Källström Cater], Å. (2016). Family and Friends: An Important Resource to Receive Psychosocial Support after Victimization as a Youth. Paper presented at 16th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Münster, Germany, September 21-24, 2016.
Thunberg, S. & Källström Cater, Å. (2015). Post-victimization support in Sweden: from which organizations can young victims of crime expect to receive psychosocial support?. Paper presented at Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, June 8-10, 2015.
Thunberg, S. , Ahonen, L. & Degner, J. (2014). Crime victims in limbo: when collaboration between the municipal social services and victim support fails . Paper presented at Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, June 9-11, 2014.

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Thunberg, S. (2020). Victimization, Positioning, and Support: Young Victims' Experiences of Crime. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University.

Other

Thunberg, S. (2022). Ethics in Practice & Qualitative Interviews with Young Victims of Crime. Sage Publications.

Reports

Petersén, A. & Thunberg, S. (2022). Efter barnförhöret: En programteoretisk analys. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Working Papers and Reports Social work 26).
Thunberg, S. , Källström, Å. & Gallo, C. (2021). Knowledge about and handling of crime victims in Sweden – Report from a national gathering on cultural victimology. Örebro: Örebro University (Working Papers and Reports Social work 22).
Thunberg, S. , Källström, Å. & Gallo, C. (2021). Kunskap om och hantering av brottsoffer i Sverige – Rapport från ett nationellt möte om kulturell viktimologi. Örebro: Örebro University (Working Papers and Reports Social work 21).
Thunberg, S. , Uhnoo, D. & Bruhn, A. (2018). Nationell forskningskonferens i socialt arbete: Abstractsammanställning. Örebro: Örebro university (Working Papers and Reports 13).