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I am a Social Psychologist working as an Associate Professor at the Section for Health Services Research. 

In 2009 I received my PhD from the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I also hold a BSc from the LSE and an MSc from University College London. After working as a Senior Advisor on impact and evidence at Save the Children UK, I took up my current position in 2014.

I write from a social psychological perspective on a variety of topics relating to community responses to ill health, care and social protection as well as the role of identity and difference in coping with hardship and ill health. More broadly, my work tries to understand how vulnerable children, youth and disenfranchised adults cope with adversity and navigate access to care, health, and social services. 

I use, and conduct research training on, a variety of qualitative research methods and I have a particular interest in furthering research approaches that engage and benefit participants. I currently sit on the editorial boards of Social Science & Medicine, the Health Education Journal, and Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies.

You can follow my work on Twitter: @mskovdal
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Aktuel forskning

The research projects that I am currently working on include:

• A multi-country qualitative study across 7 African Demographic Surveillance System sites, which investigates “bottlenecks” to effective HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa (funded by the Wellcome Trust and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).
• An investigation of how schools in poor resource and high HIV prevalence communities in Kenya respond to the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children (funded by the Norwegian Research Council).
• A mapping of transnational child protection mechanisms between Bangladesh and India (funded by Save the Children UK).

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

I am the co-ordinater of qualitative methods courses at the Department of Public Health. I lead and teach on the two methods courses directed at BSc and MSc public health students. I also run a yearly PhD course on NVivo. I supervise Master students and PhD students in my areas of work.