Merja Anis
 Professor

    • Professor
    Social Work (Department of Social Research)

Department of Social Research

merani@utu.fi

+358 29 450 2121

+358 50 570 8673

Assistentinkatu 7

Turku


ORCID identifierhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4438-5427





Areas of expertise
Social work with migrants and ethnic minorities, child protection; child, youth and family social work, social work specialization education

Research community or research topic
Social work and religion, SOWREL project; Adolescents with neuropsychiatric symptoms, NEPSOS project

Biography

My research activities and publications as well as my teaching topics embrace social work with migrants and ethnic minorities, child welfare social work, gender and social work and social work ethics.

My methodological emphasis is on qualitative research.

My current activities contain the specialization education of child, youth and family social work.

I supervise master´s and doctoral students.

My doctoral dissertation defended in 2008, was titled Social Work and Immigrants - Interaction and Interpretations of Child Protection Professionals and Clients.

I am also a licentiate social worker. 



Research

My recent and current research projects are:

- Sosial work and religion, SOWREL research project, 2024-2026

- Child protection expertise in social work with migrant children and families, LAMPE research project, 2021-2023: https://www.chydenius.fi/fi/sosiaalitieteet/tutkimus/lastensuojelun-asiantuntijuus-maahanmuuttajalasten-ja-perheiden-sosiaalityossa-lampe 

- Youth in child protection and adolescent psychiatry services, LANUPS research project, 2021-2022 https://sites.utu.fi/sote/yhteistyo/hankkeet/lanups/ 

- Adolescents with neuropsychiatric symptoms in the turmoil of the service system: The NEPSOS interdisciplinary study of social work, adolescent psychiatry and special,  education, 2022-2024 https://sites.utu.fi/sote/yhteistyo-ja-hankkeet/hankkeet/nepsos-neuropsykiatrisesti-oireilevat-nuoret-palvelujen-pyorteissa/




Teaching

Cultural diversity, immigration and minority issues in social work, social work and gender

Qualitative research methods

Child, youth and family social work specialization education

Guidance of master´s thesis and post graduate studies



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