Role: Associate Professor in Social Law, Lund University
Lund, Sweden

  Contact: tti.mattsson@jur.lu.se

  Research Interests:
Social Welfare Law | Child Issues | Juvenile Justice | Disability Studies | Public Health

Titti is an Associate Professor in Social law, also at Lund University working as a researcher and teacher in social welfare law and family law. She received her Degree of Doctor of Social Law (2002) as well as her Master of Laws (1991) from the Faculty of Law at Lund University and received a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from George Washington University (1988). Her main areas of research have been child protection and legal security for children and youth within the social welfare system. Several projects concern family interventions in cases of maltreatment or other harmful circumstances for children. Another project deals with social reactions to youth who have criminal or otherwise destructive behaviour. She focuses on human rights and legal security issues and often undertakes an interdisciplinary or comparative approach. As a legal expert advisor for the National Swedish Child Ombudsman she is involved in current child issues and participates frequently in the Swedish debate on such issues.

Recently, she has also done research in health care, bioethics and electronic services within the health and social services. During 2011 she participated in the EU projectInequalities and Multiple Discrimination in Access to Health. She is the Swedish legal representative of the Nordic Committee on Bioethics and is engaged in arranging and participating in international conferences on different legal topics relevant to bioethics. At the moment she is involved in questions of bioethics and children, such as participation rights for children in healthcare and in research. She has published widely, including five monographs, chapters in anthologies, and articles in Nordic Journals.