Field of work

Carl Göran Svedin’s research focus on children at risk has covered a wide range of areas, including children of psychosocially vulnerable mothers, physical child abuse, children’s sexual behaviours, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, children exploited in child pornography, adolescents’ consumption of pornography, young perpetrators of sexual offences, prostitution, dissociation, polyvictimisation, children and adolescents with self-harming behaviours, and online-related abuse. He has been responsible for four previous Swedish epidemiological studies on adolescents’ sexuality and sexual abuse, Young People, Sex and the Internet, and the fifth study is currently underway.

Carl Göran Svedin is a leading researcher in the longitudinal study The South East Sweden Birth Cohort Study (SESBiC). The study is one of Sweden’s most extensive longitudinal studies of children’s mental health and psychosocial development. It follows 1,723 children born in 1995–1996 in south-eastern Sweden through regular follow-ups, and a 30-year follow-up will be conducted in 2026. Approximately 20 articles have been published to date.

Carl Göran Svedin was responsible for teaching Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and child abuse and other forms of maltreatment within the medical programmes in Lund and Linköping for many years. He initiated the so-called longitudinal curriculum “Patient Contact, Holistic Care and the Art of Communication” in the new medical programme in 1987, as well as the so-called BOSÖ courses (Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse) at Linköping University. He is a frequently invited lecturer for professionals working in social services and healthcare.

Carl Göran Svedin has, among other roles, served as a member and expert of the Council of Europe Focus Group “Social Support for Children at Risk of, or Who Have Been Victims of Abuse, Violence and Exploitation” within the Council of Europe’s Programme for Children. He has undertaken a wide range of expert and governmental inquiry assignments and currently serves as a board member of the Nordic Association Against Child Abuse and Neglect (NFBO) and World Of No Sexual Abuse (WONZA), as well as an expert member of the Scientific Committee of Barnahus Europe.