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Ingrid Höjer

Professor Emerita

Department of Social Work
Mail
ingrid.hojer@socwork.gu.se
Visiting address
Sprängkullsgatan 25
41123 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 720
40530 Göteborg

About Ingrid Höjer

Roles and affiliations

Networks

  • Member of the International Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood from Care (INTRAC), The networks includes researchers from 16 different countries.
  • Member of then Nordic Research Network on Care Leavers' Transition to Auldthood

Areas of expertice Research on children and families. Child welfare. Foster care. Young people leaving care. Children, families and migration

Completed projects

-The Inner Life of the Foster Family. Financed by Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) 1997-1999.

-Growing up with foster siblings. Financed by Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) 2001 – 2004.

-In the best interest of the child? Enforcement of contact orders (Financed by Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset PL. 2002 - 2005.)

-Transition from care to independent life. Financed by Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset (PL) 2005 - 2006.

-What happened after leaving care? Financed by Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset (PL) 2006 – 2007..

-Parenting While Apart – the experiences of birth parents of children in long –term foster care Financed by Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset (PL) 2006 - 2007..

-Young people from a Public Care Background: pathways to education in Europe (YIPPEE). 2008 – 2011.Financed by the EU Seventh Framework Program. Five participating countries: UK, Denmark, Hungary, Spain and Sweden.

-Life after care. Young people's transition from care to independent life.. Financed by Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) (PL) 2008 – 2011.

-Support to drug/alcohol abusing mothers. Financed by the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN), the Primary Health Care in Gothenburg and the County Council of West Sweden (PL) 2011 – 2012.

-Replacing of custody from parents to foster carers.. Financed by Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset (PL) 2014-2015.

-Educational careers and school achievement of children and young people placed in public care. Financed by Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) (PL) 2013 – 2017.

-Care-giving arrangements in the enlarged Europe: migrants’ parental strategies and the role of institutonal context in Sweden 2015 – 2019. Financed by Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) (PL).

-Early learning for pre-school children placed in out-of-home care 2017 – 2019. Financed by Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset (PL).

- Foster carers’ contact with children and young people after the ending of placements. Financed by Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset (PL) 2019 – 2020.

Current projects

  • Transnational childhoods: building of significant relationships among Polish and Romanian migrant children after reunification with parents in Sweden. 2019 – 2023. Financed by Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) (PL).
  • Coercive decisions in child welfare for young children. PI Elin Hultman. Funder: Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset. 2021 – 2022.
  • Home and (dis)continuity Foster care for children with migrant background (HoMi). Financed by Norges forskningråd: NORCE, Högskolan på Vestlandet, HVL. PI professor Milfrid Tonheim. Project period 2020 – 2025
  • Struggling for independence. Young people leaving care. Financed by Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset. PI Zulmir Becevic. Research period 2022-01-01 – 2022-12-31.