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Erica Righard is a professor of social work. She is assistant head of department with responsibility for research and research education at the Department of Social Work and a research fellow at Malmö Institute for Migration Studies (MIM). She is also a member of Institute for Urban Research (IUR) and of the research milieu Studies in Housing and Welfare (Studier i bostad och välfärd, SBV) at Malmö University. In 2024–2028 she is director of the Swedish Research School for Social Work (SRSW). Her research is multidisciplinary and mainly concerns the intersection of international migration and social work/policy/protection in a broad sense and at varying societal levels.

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Previously registered research projects can be found in the Diva database.

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My research environments

Malmö Institute for Migration Studies (MIM)

Malmö Institute for Migration Studies is an international research centre with a multidisciplinary profile and a strong...

Institute for Urban Research

The Institute for Urban Research is a university-wide interdisciplinary research centre that brings together all urban research...

Studies in Housing and Welfare

Studies in Housing and Welfare (SBV) is a research group and a cross-disciplinary research environment. It deals with housing i...
Research Group

Structural Inequalities and Everyday Lives (SOVV)

Structural Inequality in Everyday Lives is a research environment at Malmö University that investigates how global and local...