Dr Elin Nilsson
Elin Nilsson is a senior lecturer in Social Work at Linköping University, Sweden. She teaches at the Social Work program, where she is responsible for courses at base and advanced level focusing on institutional interaction and communication for social workers. Elin is a member of the Conversation Analysis and Social Work (CASW) group. By using multimodal conversation analysis, her research focuses on interaction among couples living with dementia as well as needs assessments for elder care services, drawing both on video-recorded interviews and naturally occurring data. Elin is currently leading a longitudinal research project in which she, together with Associate Professor Anna Ekström and Professor Lars-Christer Hydén, examines how couples living with dementia manages changes. Elin has recently finished a postdoctoral project at Uppsala University, Sweden, which focused on how needs assessments between care managers and older couples are carried out, with a specific interest in selfdetermination, alliances, and management of resistance from clients with dementia. Elin is also working in a research project led by Associate Professor Anna Olaison at Linköping University, in which they have conducted focus group interviews with care managers regarding needs assessments with couples. The research findings from these three projects provide a basis for CARM workshops with care managers and potentially other professionals who meet and provide services for persons living with dementia.
Nilsson, E., & Olaison, A. (2023). “I See What You Mean”—A Case Study of the Interactional Foundation of Building a Working Alliance in Care Decisions Involving an Older Couple Living with Cognitive Decline, Healthcare, 11(15), 2124.
Nilsson, E., & Olaison, A. (2022). Persuasion in practice: Managing diverging stances in needs assessment meetings with older couples living with dementia, Qualitative Social Work, 21(6),
1123–1146.
Nilsson, E., & Olaison, A. (2022). Att balansera äldres och anhörigas behov – utredande samtal med par som lever med demenssjukdom. I Samtal i socialt arbete: ett samtalsanalytiskt perspektiv (Red.) C. Iversen & M. Flinkfeldt. Gleerups. Malmö.
