Senior Lecturer
PhD in Sociology
In 2003 I was awarded my PhD in Sociology at Lund University. The research concerned international development and aid, with particular focus on non-government organizations (NGOs), and the concepts of "empowerment" and "participation". I have since done research in development studies (NGOs, primary health care, primary education, poverty alleviation, Water and Sanitation) and in connection with this I have spent extended periods in Bangladesh. Among other things, I have been involved in a six-year project for Sida's behalf with the mandate to evaluate the two national programs for health and primary education (http://www.reality-check-approach.com/bangladesh.html). Since a few years back my research also includes NGOs and civil society organizations in the European context. I have worked as a researcher at the University of Southampton, Third Sector Research Centre (now located at Birmingham University), where focus was on the English context, and since 2012 I am involved in research focusing on the Swedish context.
Teaching
I am course convener of SOPA61 (School of Social Work, term 6) ‘Organization and social work’. I supervise at Master-level. I participate the SOAN42, advanced level, ‘Evaluation and knowledge production in social work’, and contribute to other courses at advanced level with lectures on evaluation and methodological aspects of researching NGOs, NPOs, civil society organizations,
Research
My research interests concern civil society organizations active in social welfare services. My work explores how, or if, such organizations have to compromise their in their business and identity as a result of economic dependence on or closeness to the public welfare sector, privatization and marketization of state welfare services. I also work with evaluation models adapted for non-profit- and value-based organizations which aims to capture generated social value.
I have been involved in "Real Time" a longitudinal research project with the aim to identify and understand changes in civil society organizations over time in English non-profit organizations (http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/generic/tsrc/research/real- times / index.aspx). Together with colleagues in Lund (Håkan Johansson), Gothenburg (Staffan Johansson) and at Ersta Sköndal (Marie Nordfeldt) I am involved in the project "Between voice and service: the voice of citizens or local contractors?" (funded by VR and FAS). My colleague Stig Linde and I work on a research project exploring aspects of how ‘audit society’ affect non-profit organizations (funded by MUCF (National Agency for Youth and civil society issues) and Crafoord).
Publications
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- Malin Arvidson, Stig Linde
(2021) Journal of Organizational Ethnography
Journal article - Stig Linde, Malin Arvidson, Roberto Scaramuzzino
(2020) Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 27 p.113-136
Journal article - Malin Arvidson, Håkan Johansson, Roberto Scaramuzzino
(2018) Voluntas, 29 p.844-856
Journal article - Stig Linde, Malin Arvidson, Roberto Scaramuzzino
(2018) Research Reports in Social Work, 2018
Report - Malin Arvidson, Håkan Johansson, Staffan Johansson, Marie Nordfeldt
(2018) Voluntary Sector Review, 9 p.3-20
Journal article - Malin Arvidson
(2018) Voluntas , p.1-13
Journal article - Malin Arvidson, Roberto Scaramuzzino, Håkan Johansson, Anna Meeuwisse
(2018) Sociologisk Forskning, 55 p.341-364
Journal article - Malin Arvidson, Stig Linde
(2017)
Conference - other - Malin Arvidson, Stig Linde
(2017)
Conference - other - Malin Arvidson, Stig Linde
(2017) Socialt arbete i civilsamhället - aktörer, former och funktioner , p.101-121
Book chapter - Malin Arvidson, Helen Kara
(2016) The Third Sector Delivering Public Services: Developments, Innovations and Challenges , p.149-166
Book chapter - Håkan Johansson, Malin Arvidson, Staffan Johansson
(2015) Voluntas, 26 p.1601-1619
Journal article - Malin Arvidson, Fraser Battye, David Salisbury
(2014) International Journal of Public Sector Management, 27
Journal article - Helen Kara, Malin Arvidson
(2014) Perspectives in Public Health
Journal article - Malin Arvidson
(2014) Research in international development: a critical review
Book chapter - Malin Arvidson
(2014) TSRC Working Paper Series
Working paper - Håkan Johansson, Roberto Scaramuzzino, Malin Arvidson
(2014)
Conference - other - Håkan Johansson, Malin Arvidson
(2014)
Conference - other - Malin Arvidson, Helen Kara
(2014) Working Paper Series
Working paper - Rebecca Taylor, Malin Arvidson, Rob Macmillan, Andri Soteri-Proctor, Simon Teasdale
(2014) Research in international development: a critical review
Book chapter - Malin Arvidson, Fergus Lyon, Steven McKay, Dominico Moro
(2013) Voluntary Sector Review, 4 p.3-18
Journal article - Malin Arvidson
(2013) Progress in Development Studies, 13
Journal article - Malin Arvidson, Fergus Lyon
(2013) Voluntas
Journal article - Malin Arvidson
(2008) Journal of South Asian Development, 3 p.109-134
Journal article - Malin Arvidson
(2003) Lund Dissertation in Sociology, 51
Dissertation