Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Om Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Roles and affilitions Since:
◾1994 Member of the Scientific Com. of the National Board for Public Health ◾2009 Member of the Scientific Advisory Research Board for the National Social Research Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark ◾1996 – 2009 Chairman of the Centre for Public Sector Research University of Göteborg ◾2004 – 2009 Member of the Central Ethical Review Board ◾2005 – 2009 Editor for The Journal of Social Science (Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift) ◾1996- 1999 Member of the Nordic Academy for Advanced Study (NorFA.) ◾1998-2001 Member of the board of the Swedish Social Science Research Council (SFR) ◾2001-2003 Member of the board and vice chairmen of the Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Social Sciences (FAS) ◾2002-2005 Member of the board for Labour Market Evaluation ( IFAU) Areas of expertice Research projects
MBW has long experience of family research and created the research programme Parenting and Childhood in Modern Family Culture. Variations in family forms and childhoods, gender and parental roles in family life, working life as well as everyday life is the core if the research. Among the completed projects in the programme three can be mentioned: Sharing Your Parents with A Foster Sibling. An Investigation of Foster Parents Own Children, Male Role Models in Social Work with Single Mothers and Sons and To start a family and earnings - a comparison between groups with different ethnic background. These are funded by the Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Social Sciences (FAS). MBW has been the Swedish coordinator in two EU funded projects. One eight country comparative project in the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace: Young adults negotiating the work-family boundary is completed, but still under dissemination (www.workliferesearch.org/transitions) and the an eight country EU-funded project within the Sixth Framework Programme Quality of Life in a Changing Europe (www.projectquality.org).
In progress
Both EU projects are still under dissimination such as: Margareta Bäck-Wiklund et.al. (ed) (2012), Quality of life and work in Europe. Theory, policy and practice, Palgrave Macmillan. In Sociologica, Problemas e Practicas, together with Leila Billquist, Stefan Szücs and Maria das Dores Guerreiro, , Leila Billquist Care: a challenge to healthy organizations? Contributing to Nielsen Ann et. al. (ed. 2012) Transition to parenthood in Europe. A comparative life course perspective. Policy Press.
A review-study of literature about children status, theory and practice.
Selected Recent Publications Two edited books with own contributions in Swedish during 2012, Nätverksfamiljen tillsammans med Thomas Johansson (The network Family)(Natur och kultur)och Att fostra familjen tillsammans med Helena Johansson (To govern the Family)(Liber).
Teaching Teaching experience on all levels. Most recent a mastercourse/PhD course on Family and Parenthood. At present involved in developing and teaching in an International Family Master a cooperation between several European Universities with start in Lisboa, Portugal. The international family master has been granted EU-money (MFAMILY.eu) and will start the fall semester 2013.
MB-W has tutored 19 PhD student to graduation and two to licenciate out of which eleven in the programme Parenting and Childhood in Modern Family Culture.
Research fellow at 1983-1984 University of California, San Diego, USA. 1998 Thomas Coram Research Institute, Department of Education, London University. UK. 2006 Instituto Superior de Ciencias de Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon University. Portugal.
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Fathering Practices in Sweden During the COVID-19: Experiences of Syrian Refugee
Fathers
Therese Wissö, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Frontiers in Sociology - 2021 -
Os hospitais são organizações saudáveis? Qualidade de vida no trabalho hospitalar no norte e no sul da
Europa
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Stefan Szücs, Leila Billquist, Margarida Martins Barroso, Eduardo Alexandre Rodrigues
Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas - 2018 -
Nätverksfamiljen
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Are Health Care Organizations Healthy? Quality of Work and Private Life in Northern and Southern
Europe
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Maria das Dores Guerreiro, Stefan Szücs, Leila Billquist
Work and Family Researchers Network Inaugural Conference, June 14-16, 2012, New York City - 2012 -
Väntan, ovisshet och tillit.Välbefinnande hos asylsökande barn och
föräldrar
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Care: A Challenge to Healthy Organizations? A case study of a hospital
department
Leila Billquist, Stefan Szücs, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Sociologia, Problemas e Prácticas - 2012 -
Att fostra familjen - en grundbok om styrning, föräldraskap och
socialtjänst
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Governing the
family
Helena Johansson, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
European Conference on Social Work Research - 2012 -
Perceived work-life conflict among Swedish dual-earner
families
Linda Lane, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Gender And Well-Being The role of institutions - 2011 -
Care – A challenge to Healthy Organization? Case study of a Hospital Ward. Community, Work and
Family.
Leila Billquist, Linda Lane, Stefan Szücs, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
The 4th International Conference. May 19-21, Tampere Finland. - 2011 -
Sociology and Social Work – National and Personal History. Presenterat vid International Seminar Sociology and Social Work 27-28 May 2011 Lisboa Portugal, Instituto Superior de Ciencias Sociais
Politicas.
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Presenterat vid International Seminar Sociology and Social Work 27-28 May 2011 Lisboa Portugal, Instituto Superior de Ciencias Sociais Politicas - 2011 -
Quality of Life and Work in a Changing Europe. A theoretical
Framework
Den Dulk Laura, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Bäck-Wiklund, Margareta et.al. (Ed) (2011) Quality of Life and Work in Europe. Theory, Practice and Policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan - 2011 -
Quality of Life and Work in Europe. Theory, Practice and
Policy.
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Care - A Challenge to Healthy
organization?
Leila Billquist, Linda Lane, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Stefan Szücs
IV International Community, Work and Family Conference: Actors, Structures and Theories, 19-21 May, University of Tampere - 2011 -
Competing Demands: Work and Child
Well-being
Linda Lane, Tanja van der Lippe, Kabaivanov Stanimir, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Quality of Life and Work in Europe, Theory, Practice and Policy - 2011 -
Upplevd konflikt mellan arbete och familjeliv i svenska
tvåförsörjarfamiljer
Linda Lane, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Könsforskning pågår! Konferensrapport - 2010 -
Exploring Work-Life Conflict in Dual Earner Families in a Swedish It
Company
Linda Lane, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Community, Work and Family Conference. Utrecht April 16-18 2009 - 2009 -
Final Report: Quality of life in a changing
Europe
T Van der Lippe, L den Dulk, J Van Doorne-Huiskes, J Schippers, Linda Lane, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
2009 -
Trade Unions, Gender and Work Life reconciliation in UK and Swedish Retail
Organisations
David Etherington, Suzan Lewis, Linda Lane, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
International Community, Work & Family Conference, April 16-18 2009, Utrecht - 2009 -
Social Service as human service. Discretionary work between loyalties – parenthood, colleagues and
clients
Lars Plantin, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
. I Lewis, S. et al Work, Family and Organisations in Transition. London: Policy Press. - 2009 -
Evaluation of SFI – The Danish National Center for Social
Research
R Asplund, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, H-P Blossfeld, B Noan, E Wadensjö
2009 -
The Family Meal and child well-being – comparing welfare regimes. Reasses strand
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Linda Lane, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Paper-presentation, Family change public policies and birth rates. The third Copenhangen workshop 26-27 November 2009. - 2009 -
Exploring Work-Life Conflict in Dual Earner Families in a Swedish It
company
Linda Lane, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Paper-presentation International Conference , The Danish National Center for Social Research (SFI) . Copenhagen. May, 2009. - 2009 -
Familjebildning och försörjning - en jämförelse mellan nyblivna svenska och turkiska föräldrar i ett svenskt
välfärdsperspektiv
Mona Franséhn, Birgitta Jansson, Torun Österberg, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift - 2009 -
Starting a Family. A comparison between families with Turkish and Swedish
background
Mona Franséhn, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
in Talip Kuckculan, & Veyvis Gungor (Ed) Turks in Europe. Culture, Identity and Integration - 2009 -
Sweden: National Report on Emerging Themes. Deliverable 4.1 Rapport EU Sixth framework project Quality of life in a changing
Europe
Linda Lane, Leila Billquist, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Stefan Szücs
2008 -
The presence of the absent father; how lone mothers with sons construct and animate the absent father through
narratives
Mona Franséhn, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
European Journal of Social Work - 2008 -
Sweden: National report on future socio-economic trends. Rapport EU Sixth framework project Quality of life in a changing
Europe
Leila Billquist, Linda Lane, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Ingegerd Franzon
2008 -
National Report Sweden: Perceived satisfaction with work-life balance and overall life satisfaction among Swedish service sector employees. Deliverable 2.3 - March 2008, EU sixth framework programme project
Quality
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Family formation and
earnings
Mona Franséhn, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Paper presented at the Social change and Social Professions conference in Parma in March 15-17, 2007. - 2007 -
The workplace as an arena negotiating the work-family
boundary
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lars Plantin
Crompton, R. et al (eds) Women, Work and the Family in Europe - 2007 -
Perspektiv på humanistisk-samhällsvetenskaplig forskning vid Malmö
Högskola
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, M Fahlgren, L Engwall, I-B Täljedal
2007 -
Work, money and the transition to parenthood. New parents with different ethnic backgrounds reason towards the Swedish welfare
context
Mona Franséhn, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Paper presented at the second International Conference: Community, Work and Family: making the connections in a global context, Lisboa Portugal , 12-14 April 2007. - 2007 -
National Report Sweden - Socio-economic trends and welfare policies. Rapport EU Sixth framework project Quality of life in a changing
Europe
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Dissemination Plan. Rapport EU Sixth framework project Quality of life in a changing
Europe
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contribution to Lewis, S. & Smithson, J. Final Report Executive Summary for the EU Framework 5 funded study ‘Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace. Research Institute for Public Health and Social Change, Metropolitan University
UK
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lars Plantin
2006 -
Being a working mother in context: cross-national biographical
research
J Brannen, M das Dores Gueirreio, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Paper presented at EU-research Research on social science and humanities. Izmir, Turkey June 2006 - 2006 -
På väg mot ett Socialtjänstuniversitet? En uppföljning av Socialstyrelsens stöd till strukturer för kunskapsutveckling inom socialtjänsten
2002-2004
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Mats Börjesson, P-O Forsblad, B Westerberg
2005 -
Att växa upp med fostersyskon. Om att inte blir sedd, om osäkerhet och
omsorg
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Ingrid Höjer, Monica Nordenfors
Socionomen - 2005 -
contribution to Cernigoj Sadar, N. et al Well-being Report for the EU Framework 5 funded study ‘Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace. Research Institute for Public Health and Social Change, Metropolitan University
UK
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lars Plantin
2005 -
contribution to Purcell, C., Lewis, S. & Smithson, J. the Good Practice Report for the EU Framework 5 funded study ‘Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace. Research Institute for Public Health and Social Change, Metropolitan University
UK
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lars Plantin
2005 -
Lewis, S & Smithson, J. Summary of the National Debates of the Reconciliation of Family and Employment. Report for the EU Framework 5 funded study ‘Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace. Research Institute for Public Health and Social Change, Metropolitan University
UK
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lars Plantin
2005 -
The family as a risk calculated project. Young Swedes negotiate the family – work
boundary.
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lars Plantin
Paper presented at the 1st International Conference: Community,Work and Family: Change and Transformation, Manchester UK , 16-18 March 2005 - 2005 -
The Presence of the Absent
Father
Mona Franséhn, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Paper presented at The European Sociological Association Conference, Torun, Poland, 11-13 September 2005. - 2005 -
Parenthood in contrasting contexts: Sweden and Portugal
compared.
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Maria das Dores Guerreiro, Inês Pereira, Lars Plantin
Paper presented at The European Sociological Association Conference, Torun, Poland, 11-13 September 2005. - 2005 -
contribution to Nielsen, A. & Brannen, J. Interview Study, Executive Summary. Report for the EU Framework 5 funded study ‘Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace. Research Institute for Public Health and Social Change, Metropolitan University
UK
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lars Plantin
2004 -
contribution to Maria das Dores Gueierro et al Case Studies, Executive Summary. Report for the EU Framework 5 funded study ‘Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace. Research Institute for Public Health and Social Change, Metropolitan University
UK
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lars Plantin
2004 -
contribution to Fagnani, J. Context Mapping for the EU Framework 5 funded study ‘Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace. Research Institute for Public Health and Social Change, Metropolitan University
UK
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lars Plantin
2004 -
Nye tendenser i tidsfaelden - Sverige som
case
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
Jacobsen, H. V & Tonboe, J. (Red) Arbejdsamfundet. - 2004 -
Den dolda könsdiskursen. Mödrar, söner och frånvarande
fäder
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Mona Franséhn, Thomas Johansson
2003 -
Efterord
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Thomas Johansson
Bäck-Wiklund, M & Johansson, T: Nätverksfamiljen - 2003 -
Nätverksfamiljen
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Den dolda könsdiskursen. Mödrar, söner och frånvarande
fäder.
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Mona Franséhn, Helena Johansson, Thomas Johansson
2003 -
Branden, rättegångarna och staden
Göteborg
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Vetandets villkor – socialt arbete som
kunskapsområde
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lennart Nygren
1998 -
Vetenskap och politik i socialt
arbete
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Kvinnoprojektet
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Arbetets organisering, människans försörjning. Vänbok till Bengt G
Rundblad.
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Hans Lindfors
1990 -
Vägar till och från klientskapet.
Forskningsprogram
Gunnar Bernler, Anders Bjerkman, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Lisbeth Johnsson, Sören Olsson
1989 -
Lokalsamhället som livsform. Idé och
verklighet.
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Hans Lindfors
1974