BACKGROUND
This homepage contains information about my research and private agency as a researcher, counsellor and lecturer concerning sexuality and disability. I got a PhD in Science of Social Work and an authorization as a specialist in clinical sexology. Addionally, I am working as an Associate Professor, with sexological alignment, at the Faculty of Health and Society atMalmö University , at the Master program in Sexology, and within the research program: Sexuality, Gender and Social work.

My main profile in the sexology field is in young people with intellectual disabilities (ID). I have worked as a sex-educator and a counsellor at schools for pupils with ID in the age of 7-21. Within my work as a school counsellor I initiated and held groups about sexuality with teenagers and young adults.

In my private agency BRUS- Bureau for Counselling and Education in Sexology I have worked, and still work, as a sexologist with counselling for couples and individuals with ID, and nowadays mostly with lectures and supervising for staff dealing with sexuality and disabilities.

Additionally, I have written several articles and books of both academically and popular science types, mostly in Swedish. (Read an abstract.) During the last years I am also publishing easy-to-read novels for young people.

LEVCTURES, WORKSHOPS AND COURSES
I have conducted approximately 250 lectures and speeches in the field of sexology and ID since 1993 in different occasions for example at Schools of Health Sciences at several universities, FUB (The Swedish National Association for Persons with Intellectual Disability), Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan (a community college), Lafa (Stockholm County Aids Prevention Centre). As a researcher I have conducted speeches both on national and international conferences.

Oral presentations on International Conferences

• The Dutch-Flemish Federation of Sexology: Key-note speaker Antwerp, Belgium, March 2009: “Pornofication of the society”.
• Nordic Association for Clinical Sexology (NACS), Reykjavik, Island, September 2008:”Masterstudents in Sexology”.
• International Academy of Sex Research (IASR), Leuven, Belgien, July 2008: Symposium: “Youth, Gender and Pornography”.
• NACS, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2007: ”Youth, Gender and Pornography”.
• WAS, Sydney, Australia, April 2007 together with Professor Sven-Axel Månsson: ”Youth, Gender and Pornography”.
• Swedish-Finish folk high school, conference in Murmansk, Russia, March 2007: “Sexuality and Disability in Sweden”.
• NACS Gothenburg, September 2006:”Love and Sexuality in Cyberspace”.

RESEARCH
Since 1994 I have conducting research in Social Work and Sexology for my Degrees in Master and PhD in Social Science of Social Work. Except research concerning love and sexuality in the new generation with young people with ID I have also done studies about significances and consequences of Internet use for love and sexual purposes, one specifically concerning young people with ID. Other topics of interest are young people and their experiences of pornography and a current study concerning sexual desire in every day life for men and women in Sweden. Finally, I am conducting a pilot study on sexology as an academic subject and sexologist as a profession.

Scholarships and guest researcher’s and lecturing assignments

• Visiting Scholar at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Bloomington University, Indiana, April-May 2009, contact person Dr Erick Janssen.
• Guest lecturer at New York University, The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, USA, February 2007, visiting Professor Don Kulick.
• Guest Researcher at Pacific Center for Sex and Society at University of Hawaii, Honolulu, visiting Dr. Milton Diamond March 2005.
• Guest lecturer for staff members at institutions for children and youth with disabilities in Lithuanian. Organizer: Stockholm University, three visits during the period of 1999-2000.

National and international Networks

• Member of the Advisory Board of WAS (World Association for Sexual Health) 2009-2012
• Member in International Academy of Sex Research since 2004, attended conferences 1999 New York, 2004 Helsinki, 2006 Amsterdam, 2008 Leuwen
• Member in World Association for Sexual Health since 1989, attended conferences 2001 Paris, 2007 Sydney. Member of the scientific committee for the world conference in Gothenburg 2009.
• Member in Nordic Association for Clinical Sexology since 1989, attended conferences in 1991 Hindås, Sweden. 1993 Örenäs slott, Sweden. 1997 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden. 1998 Rungsted Kyst, Denmark. 1999 Grimstad, Norway. 2001 Visby, Sweden. 2002 Köpenhamn, Denmark. 2003 Pärnu, Estonia. 2006 Göteborg, Sweden. 2007 Köpenhamn, Denmark. 2008 Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Member in Svensk förening för sexologi (Swedish Association for Sexology) since 1989, board member with different assignments since 1996.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
2003 the RFSU prize award. (The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education) for promoting sexual health and rights for young people with intellectual disabilities.