Consortium & Advisory Board Members

Marjo Kuronen

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2. PhD, Senior lecturer in social work at Family Research Centre at the University of Jyvaskyla
3. Seminaarinmäki, (Building Educa, D)
   Jyvaskyla 40014
   Finland
4. +358 (014) 260 3116
   email
   
5. English
6. Dr. Marjo Kuronen is a senior lecturer in social work at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Sciences and Philosophy, but currently on research leave, working as a senior researcher in FAMILYPLATFORM team. She was awarded her PhD at the University of Stirling, UK in 1999.
   
   Her research interests include gendered practices of parenting and post-divorce family relations, feminist issues social work, and qualitative cross-cultural research methodology.
   
   Her recent publications include Feministinen tutkimus ja sosiaalityön tutkimus - kohtaamisia ja kohtaamattomuutta [Feminist research and social work research – encounters and separateness, in M. Mäntysaari, A. Pohjola and T. Pösö (eds.) Sosiaalityö ja teoria, PS-kustannus, 2009. In Finnish] and (together with Pia Lahtinen) Supporting families - The role of family work in Finnish child welfare. In H. Forsberg and T. Kröger (eds.) Social Work and Child Welfare Politics: Through Nordic Lenses, Policy Press 2010. She is currently the chief editor of the Finnish Journal of Social Policy and Social Work Research.