Anna Siverskog

Anna Siverskog

PhD

Researcher

My primary research interest is LGBTQ ageing, including intersections of age, gender and sexuality; life course; eldercare; dementia.

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Culture and Education

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Anna Siverskog has a PhD in Ageing and Later Life from Linköping University. Her research interests revolve around age, gender, sexuality, power, and the life course with a specific interest in LGBTQ ageing.

Siverskog is working at Gender Studies in the Department of Culture and Education as a project researcher in the following projects:

LGBTQ perspectives on Swedish dementia care in policy and practice, with Linn Sandberg, 2022-2024

Older LGBTI people's encounters with care and social services in the Nordic Countries, with Janne Bromseth, 2022-2023

Mental health, loneliness and social isolation among older LGBTQ people in Sweden, with Richard Bränström and Max Kleijberg, 2024-2026

Anna also works in the project Welfare@home – Challenges with welfare technology for older social service recipients and their home care service staff External link, opens in new window. Lunds universitet (Sofi Fristedt, Samantha Svärdh, Steven Schmidt, Ulli Samuelsson, Susanne Iwarsson, Caroline Fischl) 2021-2025

Siverskog's post doc project at the School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University explored LGBTQ people's experiences of receiving eldercare.

Siverskog's dissertation Queer lines : Living and ageing as an LGBTQ person in a heteronormative world is based on life-course interviews with 20 LGBTQ-identified people, born between 1922 and 1950, 62-88 years old at the time of the interviews. The overarching aim of the study is to explore experiences and meanings of living and ageing as LGBTQ in a changing heteronormative world. The theoretical framework in this study refers to critical gerontology, feminist theory and queer theory. The dissertation (in Swedish) can be found here External link..

 

Publications

Monographs

Siverskog, A. (2016). Queera livslopp. Att leva och åldras som lhbtq-person i en heteronormativ värld. (Akademisk avhandling). Linköping: Linköpings universitet. Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier

Peer-reviewed articles

Siverskog A. (2023). Heteronormative silences and queer resistance in queer people’s experiences of eldercare and home. Sexualities. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607231212810

Siverskog, A., Bromseth, J. (2023). ”Han gick in i garderoben igen”:
Äldre LGBTI-personers möte med vård och omsorg i Norden. TemaNord 2023:547. Köpenhamn: Nordiska ministerrådet

Dybdahl Jakobsen, M., Bromseth, J., Siverskog A., & Sollund Krane, M. (2023) The provision of healthcare services to older LGBT adults in the Nordic countries: a scoping review, Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, DOI: 10.1080/02813432.2023.2242713

Siverskog, A., Jönson, H. (2020) Vart är äldreomsorgen på väg? Argument för och emot förenklad biståndshandläggning. [Where is Swedish eldercare headed? Arguments for and against simplified need assessment processes] Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. 27(1), 91-110

Siverskog, A., Bromseth, J. (2019). Subcultural spaces: LGBTQ aging in a Swedish context. The International Journal of Aging & Human Development, 88(4), 325-340.

Siverskog, A. (2015). Ageing Bodies that Matter: Age, Gender and Embodiment in Older Transgender People's Life Stories. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Studies 23 (1), 4-19

Siverskog, A. (2014). “They just don’t have a clue”: Transgender aging and implications for social work. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 57, 386–406.

Jönson, H., Siverskog, A. (2012). "Turning vinegar into wine": Humorous self-presentations among older GLBTQ online daters. Journal of Aging Studies 26 (1): 55-64

Anthologies, reports and book chapters

Smolle, S., Siverskog, A. (2023). Transgender, Human Rights and Social Work. I Webb, S. A. (Red.) The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work: New Perspectives and Agendas. Oxfordshire: Routledge.

Siverskog, A. (2022). Jack Halberstam: Att queera omvärlden och söka motståndets potential. I Mattsson, T., Andersson, E. (red.) Teorier för socialt arbete. Del 2. Malmö: Gleerups.

Siverskog, A. (2022). Möjligheter och hinder att vara hbtq-person inom äldreomsorgen: Hur påverkar normer för kön och sexualitet? i Sandberg, L. & Larsdotter, S. (red.) Äldres sexualitet: Hälsa, rättigheter och njutning. Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande.

Boström, A., Lindén Åkerlund, N., Lindmark, U., Ludvigsson, M., Saveman, B-I., Simmons, J., Siverskog, A. (2022). Förekomsten av våld i nära relationer bland äldre personer. I Östlund. L (red.) Äldre männniskors utsatthet för våld i nära relationer. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Johansson, L., Lindmark, U. Siverskog, A. (2022). Äldre personer och våldsutsatthet. I Östlund. L (red.) Äldre männniskors utsatthet för våld i nära relationer. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Siverskog A. (2021) Queer äldreomsorg? Att möta äldre lhbtq-personer inom vård och omsorg. Stockholm: RFSL Stockholm.

Siverskog, A. (2021). Health, well-being and life conditions of young LGBTI persons in the Nordic countries. TemaNord 2021:534. Nordic Council of Ministers.

Fabbre, V., Siverskog, A. (2019). Transgender Ageing: Community Resistance and Well-Being in the Life Course. I King, A., Almack K., Jones. R. (eds.) Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities. Multidisciplinary international perspectives. Bristol: Policy Press

Siverskog, A., Bromseth, J. (2018) Queers livsforløb. I An-Margritt Erdal (red.) Gerontologi Kobenhavn: Gads forlag.

Siverskog, A. (2017) “Att åldras som lhbtq-person”. I Stina Johansson (red.) Social omsorg i socialt arbete : grunder och fördjupningar. Malmö: Gleerups

Bromseth, J., Siverskog, A. (red.) (2013). LHBTQ-personer och åldrande: Nordiska perspektiv Lund: Studentlitteratur

Siverskog, A. (2013). "Den internationella forskningen om äldre hbtq-personer" I Bromseth, J., Siverskog, A. (red.) LHBTQ-personer och åldrande: Nordiska perspektiv. Lund: Studentlitteratur

Siverskog, A. (2013). "'För oss blir ju hela livet en teater': Äldre transpersoners erfarenheter av åldrande och könsidentitet" I Bromseth, J., Siverskog, A. (red.) LHBTQ-personer och åldrande: Nordiska perspektiv Lund: Studentlitteratur

Siverskog, A. (2010). ”Expressions of class, (old) age and ableness in the discourse on home and residence in two senior housing contexts” I Abramsson, M., Hagberg, J-E., Nord, C. (red.) Äldres boende – rum för åldrande

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