Kerstin Stenius was born in Gothenburg, Sweden,
where she graduated as a social worker. In the early 1970s
she moved to Helsinki, Finland. During the 1970s she did research
on immigration and mental health. After a shorter period at
the Finnish broadcasting company, she was recruited in 1983
by Kettil Bruun, the legendary alcohol researcher, to become
editor of Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift (Nordic
Studies on Alcohol and Drugs), when it was set up as a peer-reviewed
social science journal in Scandinavian languages.
Her research has centered on the treatment system in the Nordic
countries: division of labour in the system, diffusion of
treatment ideologies, and the local politics of treatment.
Her PhD dissertation, published in 1999, is an historical
analysis of the concept of privatisation within alcohol treatment
and an analysis of the impact of market models in alcohol
and drug treatment in the mid-1990s at the local level in
Sweden.
Kerstin shares her time between the National Research and
Development Centre for Welfare and Health in Helsinki, Finland,
where she has a paid position as Editor-in-chief of the journal,
and Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD)
at Stockholm University, where she works as a researcher.
She is a senior lecturer in social work at the University
of Helsinki.
She is married with three grown up children.
Kerstin Stenius was elected Vice president of ISAJE in the
year 2000 and became President in 2002.
Email: Kerstin.Stenius@sorad.su.se
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