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Torbjörn Forkby
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Associate professor in social work
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Participation is one of the major strands when it comes to understand young people’s societal position and links to questions about inclusion, learning in formal and non-formal ways and capacity recognition and enhancement.

In several research projects I have been occupied with questions about youth participation, mainly in respect to youth work and youth centre activities but also in analyses of Swedish policy and legislative formation on youth affairs.

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Publications

Forkby, T., Johansson, H., & Liljeholm Hansson, S. (2008). Främjande pedagogik. Perspektiv och läroprocesser i ungdomsarbetet (pp. 253). Göteborg: FoU i Väst/GR.
Forkby, T. (2010). Delaktighet på den fria tiden. In D. Wolgemuth (Ed.), Fokus 10. En analys av ungas inflytande (pp. 76-95). Stockholm: Ungdomsstyrelsen.
Andersson, J., Agdur, J., Forkby, T., & Lindberg, H. (2010). Inordnande eller utvidgande. Om delaktighetens villkor på fyra fritidsgårdar (pp. 100). Göteborg: Nätverket Keks, FoU i Väst/GR.
Forkby, T. (2010). Ungdomsinflytande i ett historiskt perspektiv. In D. Wolgemuth (Ed.), Fokus 10. En analys av ungas inflytande (pp. 26-37). Stockholm: Ungdomsstyrelsen.
Forkby, T. (2012). Youth Work policy – a Swedish history Revista Pedagogica, LX(1), 125-134.
Forkby, T. (2014). Youth Policy and Participation in Sweden – a historical perspective. In M. Taru (Ed.), The history of youth work in Europe (pp. 45-59). Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
Forkby, T., & Kiilakoski, T. (2014). Building capacity in youth work. Perspectives on, and practice of, youth clubs in Finland and Sweden. Youth & Policy, April, 2014(112), 1-17.