Who stands up for Alvar
https://doi.org/10.5878/2ryy-k628
Who stands up for Alvar is a 18-minute short movie, a dramedy-comedy based on a three-year research project on moral distress and moral agency in Swedish eldercare.
The narrative draws on interviews with care needs assessors, unit managers, and assistant nurses in Swedish eldercare. The film addresses eldercare as a major contemporary social policy issue and seeks to stimulate reflection on responsibility, relationships, and possibilities for change.
It can be used in Volkbildung, professional development, and participatory research, and represents a concrete example of creative methodology in applied welfare research.
Ongoing research using the film as a projection surface for collective moral reasoning also examines how fiction may foster moral agency.
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Creator/Principal investigator(s):
- Sara Hultqvist – Lund University
- Anna Maria Joakimsdottir-Hutri – University of Gothenburg - HDK-Valand
- Katarina Hollertz – University of Gothenburg - Department of social work
- Magdalena Elmersjo – Södertörn University
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The movie shows people (actors) on camera and sound recordings.
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See the file Verksblad_Vem_ropar_for_Alvar.docx for information on copyright.
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Method and outcome
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As a basis for scriptwriting, empirical material in the form of documented, consented, and validated descriptions of difficult workplace situations for staff in eldercare in Sweden has been used.
In exploring how sociological fiction in the form of film can promote moral agency, the film has been shown to approximately 1,500 people. In the majority of the screenings, the viewing has been combined with an in-depth film discussion. This exploration is ongoing, and the idea is that open access to the film can contribute to new ways of examining the potential of creative methods to promote moral agency.
Thus, used as research output, the film builds on descritions of difficult situations at work as perceived by personnel. Used as data, the film spurs research on how ow sociological fiction can be used.
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School of social work, Lund University
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Citation:
Hultqvist, S., Elmersjö, M., & Hollertz, K. (2026). Moralprojektet: Slutrapport med tonvikt på projektets forskningscirklar. (Research Reports in Social Work; Nr. 2026:2). Social Work Press.
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Jóakimsdóttir Hutri Anna Maria (2024) The paper is too dry. Master Thesis of Fine Arts (MFA) HDK Valand Gothenburg
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