Merja Anis
 Professor Emerita, Senior Advisor

    • Senior Advisor, 
    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 identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4438-5427

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

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.

I supervise doctoral students.

I am also a licentiate social worker. 



Research

My recent and current research projects are:

- Sosial work and religion, SOWREL research project, 2024-2026: https://sites.utu.fi/sowrel/

- 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 

- 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/tutkimus/hankkeet/nepsos-neuropsykiatrisesti-oireilevat-nuoret-palvelujen-pyorteissa/

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



Teaching

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




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