Field of work

Malin's research area concerns families with children who are living with severe illness or who have lost a family member (parent/child/sibling). It concerns both the care of severely ill parents and the care of severely ill children and their families. A large part of the research is about developing, evaluating and implementing different types of support for these families or individual family members. The research primarily concerns communication about illness and care, grief, difficult conversations between caregivers and family and within the family. Children as relatives are a central part of Malin's research, where the child's own voice and participation are taken into account. Malin uses mixed methods and conducts both observational studies and intervention research, also with a focus on implementation in clinical practice. All research clinical and is carried out in close collaboration with the clinic and the affected families.

Find out more about the research program FTI - The Family Talk Intervention

Malin has been teaching since the mid-2000s. She teaches at all levels (undergraduate, advanced and postgraduate). Her teaching involves both scientific methods, nursing, and palliative care.

Malin is affiliated to Advanced Pediatric Home Care at Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital. She has/has had many collaborative assignments, e.g. from the Swedish Research Council, Stockholm-Gotland Regional Cancer Center, the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation, etc.