

Main research areas:
- Gerontology
- Family Research
- Intimacy and care
- Feminist theory
- Childhood
Current Research:
I am part of the project Home Care, Welfare, and Everyday Life, which examines older adults’ perceptions and experiences of home care and transport services. The aim is to expand knowledge about how users of home care navigate and manage these services within their everyday lives, which also include other forms of public services, leisure activities, family life, and the use of commercial services.
I completed my PhD in October 2024 with a dissertation on stepfamily relationships between step-grandchildren and step-grandparents. As individuals of all ages form new partnerships, complex family dynamics emerge across multiple generations. I conducted interviews with children (aged 5–19) and older adults (aged 65–75) who had step-grandchildren or step-grandparents, either as a result of reconstituted relationships or as families of choice.
I am part of the project "Intergenerational care in Sweden. A study of relationsips, commitments, and practices of care in everyday family life" (VR 2018-01053, together with Sara Eldén and Terese Anving). This project analyses narratives of care within intergenerational relationships, focusing on grandparents, their adult children, and grandchildren, through interviews with representatives of all three generations.
Research Environment
FAMIW - Family, Migration and Welfare
Barns röst, rättigheter och utveckling: Morgondagens praktiker för en resilient barndom
Teaching
Sociology, Feminist Perspective on Sociology, Theory of Personal Life, Qualitative Methods, Ethics, Psychology, Social work
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
Förbjud ingripanden mot barn som riskerar utvisning i förskolan
Linn Alenius Wallin, Anna Lundberg, Elia Psouni
(2025) Göteborgs-Posten
Newspaper article‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’. : Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting.
Terese Anving, Sara Eldén, Linn Alenius Wallin, Franciska Dis Brodersen
(2024) Sociology
Journal articleBonusbarnbarn och bonusförföräldrar : Om omsorgsrelationer mellan generationer i ombildade och valda familjer
Linn Alenius Wallin
(2024) Lund Dissertations in Sociology
DissertationGender and Care between Bonus/step-grandparents and bonus/step-grandchildren
Linn Alenius Wallin
(2024) , p.1049-1049
Conference paper: abstractNegotiating care and relationships : Adult children’s experiences of being the link between grandparents and children
Terese Anving, Sara Eldén, Linn Alenius Wallin
(2024)
Conference paper: abstractGrandchildhood : Care and relationality in narratives of three generations in Sweden
Sara Eldén, Terese Anving, Linn Alenius Wallin
(2024) Childhood, 31 p.120-137
Journal articleKollektivt minnesarbete
Linn Alenius Wallin
(2024) Genusvetenskapliga forskningsmetoder , p.291-306
Book chapterFamily display and recognition in bonus relations
Linn Alenius Wallin
(2023)
Conference paper: abstractIntensive grandparenting: Changing ideals and practices in everyday family life
Linn Alenius Wallin, Terese Anving, Sara Eldén
(2023)
Conference - otherIntensive grandparenting : Narratives of changing generational practices and relations.
Linn Alenius Wallin, Terese Anving, Sara Eldén
(2023)
Conference - otherDe unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
Christina Moberg, Hervé Corvellec, Anders Lindroth, Manuela Isacson, Linn Nilsson, et al.
(2022) Aftonbladet
Newspaper articleFörföräldrar – en svensk motsvarighet till grandparents
Linn Alenius Wallin
(2022) Språkbruk
Journal articleIntergenerational care in Sweden : A biographical approach
Terese Anving, Sara Eldén, Linn Alenius Wallin
(2022)
Conference paper: abstractIntergenerational care in corona times: Practices of care in Swedish families during the pandemic
Sara Eldén, Terese Anving, Linn Alenius Wallin
(2022) Journal of Family Research, 34 p.538-562
Journal articleIntergenerational Care in Corona times. : A Study of Relationships, Commitments, and Practices of Care in Swedish Families during a Pandemic
Terese Anving, Sara Eldén, Linn Alenius Wallin
(2021)
Conference paper: abstractReflections of care beyond, around and within in the stellar-family
Linn Alenius Wallin
(2020)
Conference paper: abstractFeeling gender. A generational and psychosocial approach
Linn Alenius Wallin
(2019) Tidskrift för genusvetenskap, 40 p.160-162
ReviewWith a Little Help from my Friends: Gender and Intimacy in Two Friendship Research Projects
Linn Alenius Wallin, Klara Goedecke
(2016) LIR journal, 7:16 p.55-55
Journal article
Background
I have a master's in gender studies and have worked for many years with gender equality, social equality and democracy development in municipalities, schools, social movements and other organizations.