Anna Malmquist

Doctoral student in psychology and clinical psychologist.

Research

My research area is gender psychology, focusing lesbian and gay families.

In my doctoral thesis I explore experiences of family making in Swedish same-sex couples. Since 2003 both partners in a same sex couple can achieve legal status as parents of their children. Additionally, lesbian couples have access to donor insemination/IVF within the Swedish healthcare system since 2005. My aim is to provide knowledge about family making within these new possibilities. Parents in about 80 families, alongside with 12 children, have shared their reflection on family making through interviews.

Teaching

I mainly teach at the Psychologist programme and other courses in psychology and behavioural sciences. My teaching areas are mostly related to my research interests: gender psychology and lgbtq-psychology. I give lectures, lead seminars, assess exams and other student tasks and develop new course tasks. I have also co-supervised several master thesis focusing gender psychology and/or lgbtq-issues. I have finished the course Teaching in Higher Education, step 1.

Other assignments

As an Equal Opportunities Coordinator I work with issues of equality and gender, ethnic and religious diversity, accessibility and participation for people with disabilities and equality of rights and treatment regardless of age or gender identity. I deal with issues concerning both students and employees at Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning. Read more about Equal Opportunities, following this link.

I am also one of the editors for the journal Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics. Confero is an open access journal and welcomes essayistic writing in the area of education, philosophy and politics. Learn more about Confero, following this link.

Examples of publications

Research articles

Malmquist, Anna, Möllerstrand, Anna, Wikström, Maria & Zetterqvist Nelson, Karin (forthcoming) ‘A daddy is almost the same as a mummy’: Children in lesbian households talk about fathers and donors.

Malmquist, Anna & Zetterqvist Nelson, Karin (forthcoming) Efforts to maintain a ’just great’ story: Lesbian parents’ talk about encounters with professionals in fertility clinics and maternal and child healthcare services.

Malmquist, Anna & Zetterqvist Nelson, Karin (forthcoming). Gay and lesbian parents. In: Montgomery, Heather (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. New York: Oxford University Press.

Malmquist, Anna & Zetterqvist Nelson, Karin (2008) Diskursiv diskriminering av regnbågsfamiljer. En analys av argument mot likställande av homo- och heterosexuellas föräldraskap. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 15(3-4), s. 315-331. Avaliable here.

Other publications

Malmquist, Anna (2012) Att möta och bemöta regnbågsfamiljer. Rikshandboken Barnhälsovård. Available here.

Malmquist, Anna, Hydén, Margareta & Zetterqvist Nelson, Karin (2012) Familjeliv hos samkönade par och andra regnbågsfamiljer. In: Bäck Wiklund, Margareta & Johansson, Thomas (eds.) Nätverksfamiljen. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur.

Zetterqvist Nelson, Karin & Malmquist, Anna (2011) Assisterad befruktning för lesbiska par på svenska kliniker – Gayvänligt, heteronormativt eller både och? In: Bergman, Helena, Eriksson, Maria och Roger Klinth (eds.), Föräldraskapets politik (s. 129-150). Stockholm: Dialogos Förlag.

Malmquist, Anna & Zetterqvist Nelson, Karin (2010) Regnbågsfamiljernas etablering i Sverige. Barnbladet, 35(2), s. 12-14. Available here.