Teaching

Research methods (with a focus on quantitative methods), theorizing, professional judgements and argumentation, supervision of Bachelor, Masters and PhD theses. For courses, see homepage in Swedish. 

Research

Professional judgements, Sociology of professions, Knowledge use, Social work, Factorial survey approach (vignette experiments)

Ongoing research projects

1. Exploring knowledge use in professional judgements: The factorial survey approach as a tool in professional education (postdoc project, financed 2011-2013 by Malmö University)
2. Knowledge use in social work: A multi-method study of judgements and rationales in child protection (financed 2015-2019 by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare)
3. "Fat words" or useful definitions? Stakeholders´ usage of the terms “alcohol abuse”, “alcohol dependence”, and “risk drinking” (PI: Jan Blomqvist; financed 2015-2018 by the Swedish Research Council)
4. Work ability - A study of organisational boundaries and street-level bureaucrat's assessments (PI: John Brauer, Örebro University; financed 2024-2026 by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare)
5. EqualAct: Equal chances in active labour market program placements for different ethnic groups? Examining decision-making in the Swedish Public Unemployment Agency (PI: Carolin Schütze, Malmö University; financed 2024-2026 by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare)

Recently completed research projects

1. Use or misuse: Professionals’ conceptions of alcohol and drug consumption (financed 2008-2015 by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare; project located at SoRAD, Stockholm University)
2. (Multi-) professional judgements in collaboration – Project Karin (financed 2012-2014 by The Swedish Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority)
3. HIV and AIDS in Sweden (financed 2009-2015 by the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control)
4. Who is poor, who is rich? A study on the perceptions about poverty (financed 2014-2015 by the Centre for Profession Studies, Malmö University)
5. Prioritizing Health Care: Tensions and Interplay between Legal, Political, Economic and Professional Perspectives (PI: Anne-Mette Magnussen; financed by The Research Council of Norway)

Publications

1. Wallander, L. (2022). Från professionalisering av yrken till professionalisering av yrkespraktiken - introduktion, i A. Angelin & T. Hjort (red), Socialt arbete i förändring - utmaningar och villkor inom utbildning, forskning och praktik (ss. 181-186). Lund: Lunds universitet (Jubileumsbok 2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.37852/oblu.180 
2. Wallander, L. (2022). Socialarbetarens expertis: Kunskap i och om professionella bedömningar, i A. Angelin & T. Hjort (red), Socialt arbete i förändring - utmaningar och villkor inom utbildning, forskning och praktik (ss. 221-250). Lund: Lunds universitet (Jubileumsbok 2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.37852/oblu.180.c472  
3. Wallander, L. (2022). Uncovering social workers' knowledge use: A study of the tacit-explicit dimension of social workers’ professional judgements. Social Work & Social Sciences Review, 22(3), 5-27.
4. Roumeliotis, F., Carlsson, F., Johansson Erkenfelt, L., & Wallander, L. (2021). The constitution of the alcoholic self, communicative processes and administrative practices: On the varied uses of four terms denoting problematic drinking. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 38(1), 3-21.
5. Bjorvatn, A., Magnussen, A-M., & Wallander, L. (2020). Law and medical practice: A comparative vignette survey of cardiologists in Norway and Denmark. SAGE Open Medicine, 8, 1-11.
6. Wallander, L., & Blomqvist, J. (2019). Fat words or useful concepts? Consensus and variation in conceptions of problematic drinking in contemporary Sweden. Contemporary Drug Problems,  46(3), 241-264.
7. Wallander, L. (2019). Fiktiva fall - fast inte som förr. Faktoriella surveymetoden i högre utbildning. Pedagogisk Forskning i Sverige, 24(1), 46-67.
8. Tornberg, J., & Wallander, L. (2018). Vem är fattig, vem är rik? En faktoriell survey av studenters uppfattningar om fattigdom. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 25(1), 23-46.
9. Blomqvist, J., & Wallander, L. (2017). Vad är problemet? Uppfattningar om alkoholens skadeverkningar. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 24(2), 149-164.
10. Plantin, L., Wallander, L., & Mannheimer, L. (2017). Public knowledge and attitudes to HIV: Research from three decades in Sweden. International Journal of Sexual Health, 29(1), 22-31.
11. Wallander, L., & Laanemets, L. (2017). The Factorial Survey in Mixed Methods Research: Modelling Professionals’ Individual Judgments. SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473950146.
12. Wallander, L., & Molander, A. (2016). Learning to Reason: The Factorial Survey as a Teaching Tool in Social Work Education. Nordic Social Work Research, 6(3), 234-250.
13. Wallander, L., Tikkanen, R H., Mannheimer, L., Östergren, P-O., & Plantin, L. (2015). The Problem of Nonresponse in Population Surveys on the Topic of HIV and Sexuality: A Comparative Study. The European Journal of Public Health, 25(1), 172-177.
14. Samuelsson, E., & Wallander, L. (2015). Perceptions of Treatment Needs: A Factorial Survey of Swedish Addiction Care Practitioners. Addiction Research & Theory, 23(6), 469-480.
15. Wallander, L., & Molander, A. (2014). Disentangling professional discretion: A conceptual and methodological approach. Professions & Professionalism, 4(3), 1-19.
16. Samuelsson, E., & Wallander, L. (2014). Disentangling Practitioners’ Perceptions of Substance Use Severity: A Factorial Survey. Addiction Research & Theory, 22(4), 348–360.
17. Plantin, L., Wallander, L., & Månsson, S-A. (2013). Hiv i Sverige: Kunskaper, attityder och beteenden hos allmänheten 1987-2011. Solna: Smittskyddsinstitutet.
18. Wallander, L. (2012). Measuring Social Workers’ Judgements: Why and How to use the Factorial Survey Approach in the Study of Professional Judgements. Journal of Social Work, 12(4), 364-384.
19. Wallander, L. (2009). 25 Years of Factorial Surveys in Sociology: A Review. Social Science Research, 38(3), 505-520.
20. Wallander, L. (2008). Measuring Professional Judgements: An Application of the Factorial Survey Approach to the Field of Social Work. Stockholm: Stockholms universitet (doctoral dissertation).
21. Wallander, L., & Blomqvist, J. (2008). Modeling Ideal Treatment Recommendations: A Factorial Survey of Swedish Social Workers’ Ideal Recommendations of Inpatient or Outpatient Treatment for Problem Substance Users. Journal of Social Service Research, 35(1), 47-64.
22. Blomqvist, J., Cunningham, J., Wallander, L., & Collin, L. (2007). Att förbättra sina alkoholvanor: Om olika mönster för förändring och om vad vården betyder. Stockholms universitet: SoRAD, forskningsrapport nr. 42.
23. Wallander, L., & Blomqvist, J. (2005). Who “Needs” Compulsory Care? A Factorial Survey of Swedish Social Workers’ Assessments of Clients in Relation to the Care of Abusers (Special Provisions) Act. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (English Supplement), 63-85.
24. Wallander, L., & Blomqvist, J (2005). Vad styr vårdvalen? En faktoriell survey av faktorer som predicerar val av insats inom socialtjänstens missbruksvård. FoU-enheten, Stockholm: FoU-rapport 2005:1.
25. Blomqvist, J., & Wallander, L. (2004). Åt var och en vad hon behöver? En vinjettstudie av socialarbetares bedömningar och val av insats vid missbruksproblem. FoU-enheten, Stockholm: FoU-rapport 2004:8.

• Lisa Wallanders research output in the LU Research Portal